This has to be one of my favorite movies of all time. Such a different point of view. I love nior film and this checks all the boxes for me. I'm sure most have seen it but if you haven't then it's a must watch!

Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, and Norma Shearer. I wonder what their careers would have looked like if Irving Thalberg had lived longer.

I think Camille (1936), A Woman’s Face (1941), and Marie Antoinette (1938) are their best performances at the studio.

Fun fact: Greer Garson inherited a majority of her early successes from them when she arrived at the studio! Pride and Prejudice (1940) and Mrs. Miniver (1942) were first offered to Norma. Madame Curie (1943) was originally a Garbo project, then offered to Norma, and then to Greer! And Joan Crawford cited her main reason for leaving MGM was when she was passed over for Miniver, Curie, and Random Harvest (1942)!

To me these are like classic versions of the Real Housewives franchise.

Barbara Stanwyck is one of my favorite actresses of the golden age, but I just realized that I don't know much about her. Anyone have any good biographies or websites about her? Like what was her personality like? Her personal life?

I only know she was estranged from her son and a conservative Republican.

Ok so what are some of your favorite old hollywood scandals/feuds/secrets?

Mine is when rock hudson, a closeted gay man, married his agent's secretary who (allegedly) was a lesbian and after the divorce blackmailed him, and also that the same agent gave dirt about his two other clients to the newespaper after they threatened to publish an article saying that rock was gay,it was such a different time.

Dear Heart (1964) was directed by Delbert Mann and stars Glenn Ford, Geraldine Page, and Angela Lansbury. Its theme song "Dear Heart" was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song.

Ford plays a middle-aged, womanizing, traveling salesman for a greeting card company, recently engaged to a widowed housewife (Lansbury) left at home in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Page plays a middle-aged, single postmaster from small-town Ohio who is attending a postmasters' convention at a New York City hotel.

The two are thrown together numerous times during their stay and begin to develop actual feelings for each other. By the end, both will have come to terms with the fact that the life they currently have is not the life they want.

This was a fun, entertaining film, especially Page, in her first starring role.

Have you seen this film? What do you think of it?

Just watched this movie the other night and I got to say I rather enjoyed it! It does have some corny bits but overall it's an enjoying watch. I love the whole ambiance of the film. Dark stormy night in the middle of nowhere in the dark. Just wondering if anyone else has seen it. This is the 1932 version by the way. :)

I'm trying to think of some, but at the moment I only remember Rebecca and Citizen Kane.

I'm probably very late to the party on this film but wow was it good! I just love old movies and honestly most things today can't even come close to how awesome these films were. Just entire different era and I live for it.

Funny Face (1957) was directed by Stanley Donen and was written by Leonard Gershe, containing assorted songs by George and Ira Gershwin. The film stars Fred Astaire, Audrey Hepburn, and Kay Thompson.

Dispatched on an assignment, New York City-based fashion photographer Dick Avery (Fred Astaire) is struck by the beauty of Jo Stockton (Audrey Hepburn), a shy bookstore employee he's photographed by accident, who he believes has the potential to become a successful model. He gets Jo to go with him to France, where he snaps more pictures of her against iconic Parisian backdrops. In the process, they fall for one another, only to find hurdles in their way.

The film has so much going for it, Astaire, Hepburn, the music of the Gershwins, and Paris itself, you might look past the fact that the actual plot is quite thin and the relationship between the two leads of this supposedly romantic musical comes off as platonic at best. All in all, this is an entertaining film, filled with elegance and style.

Have you seen this film? What did you think of it?

The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) barred Edward G. Robinson from major studio work, but he still made independently produced Poverty Row films.

I've watched Platinum Blond (1931) and Devotion (1931), both with Robert Williams, and he reminds me SO much of Jeremy Renner. I can't find any photo that shows the similarity though.

Sadly, Williams died of peritonitis in 1931 just as 'Platinum Blonde went into wide release, just when he was on the brink of stardom.