Myrna Loy knows how to make an entrance. Donβt miss the Sass Mouth Dames Film Club Christmas screening of The Thin Man (1934).
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Queen of classic Hollywood woman's pictures. Writes essays and vintage radio plays. Host of Sass Mouth Dames podcast and film club. Wrote and directed the short film Sex Pirates of 1931.
Myrna Loy knows how to make an entrance. Donβt miss the Sass Mouth Dames Film Club Christmas screening of The Thin Man (1934).
Get your tickets: sassmouthdames.com/2025/11/17/s...
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29.11.2025 00:26 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Screaming
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26.11.2025 18:50 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Lillian Burns and Jane Powell with the shooting script for Anchors Aweigh.
Stay tuned for a new podcast episode in December.
I'm looking at the most powerful woman in Hollywood: Lillian Burns, dramatic coach in MGM.
Easy to be obsessed with Frances Farmer.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-de...
Heavy going!
I just mentioned Mama Farmer the other week in film club as the worst stage momster in the biz.
Life magazine photograph on the set of Madame Curie (1943), featuring Greer Garson, director Mervyn LeRoy, and camera man Joseph Ruttenberg.
Director Mervyn LeRoy and cinematographer Joseph Ruttenberg watch Greer Garson perform in Madame Curie (1943).
25.11.2025 19:40 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Five-minute gasp.
23.11.2025 09:50 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Itβs super spicy, isnβt it? Jean wants to keep both husbands (and who could blame her with those two swoon merchants).
21.11.2025 11:00 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Getting ready to introduce Too Many Husbands (1940) in The Dot Theatre.
20.11.2025 18:13 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Donβt miss screwball queen Jean Arthur in a three-cornered romance with swoon merchants Mel Douglas and Fred MacMurray. Sass Mouth Dames Film Club screens Too Many Husbands (1940) tomorrow night in the Dot Theatre. Tickets available at Eventbrite.
19.11.2025 13:40 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Miriam Hopkins, 1934.
18.11.2025 08:00 β π 56 π 8 π¬ 1 π 0Get your tickets now for the Sass Mouth Dames Film Club Christmas screening of The Thin Man (1934) at The Dot Theatre.
www.eventbrite.ie/e/sass-mouth...
Now watching Jean Arthur and Mae Busch in Husband Hunters (1927).
16.11.2025 16:52 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Listen back to the Sass Mouth Dames podcast ep on Born to Kill (1947). I talk about screenwriter Eve Greene, who started as a secretary in MGM and climbed the studio ladder. Zelda Sears taught her how to write scripts. Together they wrote two hits for Marie Dressler on.soundcloud.com/tKcH7ISGdxPZ...
14.11.2025 16:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Getting ready to introduce Alice Faye and Gypsy Rose Lee in Ypu Canβt Have Everything (1937) in the glamorous Dot Theatre!
13.11.2025 18:47 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Tonight in Brooklyn-- NIGHT NURSE in 35mm! Kim and I will introduce and sign books afterward. Hope to see you there! -- nitehawkcinema.com/prospectpark...
11.11.2025 15:03 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Edward Stevenson designed a studded purse that serves as a modern-day gladiator shield for Claire Trevor when she carries it to divorce court. It must be the inspiration for Valentinoβs rockstud line. Catch up with the new podcast episode on Born to Kill (1947). on.soundcloud.com/tSi79jPI6eHX...
10.11.2025 15:46 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Excerpt from the Sunday Times on Taylor Sheridanβs billion dollar deal with NBC.
Taylor Sheridan profile in the Sunday Times
*Blood curdling SCREAM*
A billion dollars.
βCry βHavoc!β and let slip the dogs of showbizβ and article by Megan McGurk in Garageland magazine, December 2022.
The cover of Garageland magazine, December 2022, edited by Cathy Lomax.
Sharing this article I wrote on June Havoc (born on this day) for Garageland magazine back in December 2022. Iβve never posted it before. Thanks to editor Cathy Lomax for inviting me to contribute.
08.11.2025 19:30 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0June Havoc as Lily Sabina in The Skin of Our Teeth.
Happy June Havoc's birthday!
08.11.2025 16:44 β π 105 π 4 π¬ 8 π 0Alice Faye
Gypsy Rose Lee
Alice Faye and Don Ameche
See you Thursday next for You Canβt Have Everything (1937), starring Alice Faye, Gypsy Rose Lee, and Don Ameche. Sass Mouth Dames Film Club series 36 rolls on! Get your tickets at Eventbrite. Weβre back in the glamorous The Dot Theatre.
06.11.2025 09:28 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Poster for Bachelor Girls (1946) starring Gail Russell, Claire Trevor, and Ann Dvorak.
'Half the time they're working girls!'
'Half the time they're working men!'
We used to know how to write tag lines.
Crows today.
04.11.2025 15:56 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I canβt wait to read it!
It looks like a honey.
Well done!
Yessssss!
My copy of Pre-Code Essentials by Kim Luperi and Danny Reid @pre-code.com has finally arrived!
Not in my film club!
03.11.2025 13:27 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Claire Trevor in Born to Kill (1947).
Stay tuned for a new podcast episode next week.
03.11.2025 12:12 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht sit under a sign that says: 'What is the audience doing all that time?'
Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht under their filmmaker's credo in Paramount's New York studio during production of Crime Without Passion (1934).
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