Showing posts with label Montgomery Clift. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Montgomery Clift. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Birthday | Rita Hayworth

I don't normally highlight a particular star's birthday, but I couldn't help it. Monday would have been Rita Hayworth's 93rd birthday! Rita is one of my favorite actors of all time [up there with Bette Davis and Joan Crawford] and hell... one of her films inspired this blog. Her humor and dancing always make for a great movie viewing experience. So...

Happy Birthday Rita!


Here is one of my favorite Rita scenes... "Zip" from Pal Joey.



And as a side note... yesterday was also Jean Arthur and Monty Clift's birthdays as well!

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Film | Suddenly, Last Summer

I had heard of the film Suddenly, Last Summer before, but it wasn't until the movie poster at my work sparked my interest, that I learned what this film was about. The picture of Elizabeth Taylor in the white swimsuit are famous, and are everywhere on the web, but they don't really get you excited to see the film.



It was just a few days ago, after seeing the movie poster that I looked the film up on IMDB to read reviews and watch the trailer. Well... I was hooked. I needed to get this film and it would have taken too long to get it from Netflix because I have a film at home already, so I went in search of buying the DVD. Thank goodness, Barnes and Noble had the movie and on top of that... it was only $9.99. It isn't often they have a movie in store I am looking for specifically.


A Classic Hollywood film about murder, homosexuality, lobotomy, pedophilia, incest, greed... count me in. I know that sounds sick, but I am always up for a movie with a juicy plot. I have also only seen Taylor, Hepburn, and Clift in one... maybe two other movies, so I was glad to see them in dramatic roles like this.

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Reel Life | Suddenly, Last Summer Poster

I work in a camera/photo shop and today the framer was putting together a frame for a very large movie poster. It wound up being the french movie poster for the 1959 film Suddenly, Last Summer starring Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, and Katharine Hepburn. 

Hipstamatic art of the poster