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Megan McGurk @meganmcgurk.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Sass Mouth Dames Film Club returns! I’m introducing a sultry pre-Code and a sparkling screwball comedy: www.eventbrite.ie/e/sass-mouth...

Poster of Tallulah Bankhead and Gary Cooper in Devil in the Deep (1932)

Poster of Joan Blondell and Melvyn Douglas in There’s Always a Woman (1938).

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Megan McGurk @meganmcgurk.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I don’t know who needs to hear this but The Vampire Lestat is finally coming to BBC2 at the end of July.

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Megan McGurk @meganmcgurk.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The Goblin Market: Chicago May’s Story is now available on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1xx...

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The Goblin Market: Chicago May's Story

YouTube video by Sass Mouth Dames Productions

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Megan McGurk @meganmcgurk.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

When Margaret Kies couldn’t get a break on Broadway, she noticed British players were in demand. She sailed to England, developed an accent and faked a bio as Margaret Lindsay. She launched herself in Hollywood and kept the ruse up for a year before she was discovered.

Newspaper story about Walter Winchell’s scoop about Margaret Lindsay being American, not British

Newspaper articles celebrated Margaret Lindsay’s Hollywood hoax.

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Megan McGurk @meganmcgurk.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Behind the scenes of The Goblin Market: @saorlarodger in costume as Emily Skinner! She's dressed up like a doll! (With @byclarabelaire @oisinnolan and @adamoshea.official). The play premieres on Friday.

Saorla Rodgers in costume for her role as Emily Skinner in The Goblin Market

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Megan McGurk @meganmcgurk.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Behind the scenes of The Goblin Market: Chicago May’s Story. @grace_keelin in costume fitting for her role as Chicago May. She’s a stunner. Our play opens Friday. Get your tickets. www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-goblin...

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Megan McGurk @meganmcgurk.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Watching a dreadful Navy picture for a few minutes of Joyce Compton.

George O’Brien, William Janney, and Joyce Compton in Salute (1928).

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Megan McGurk @meganmcgurk.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

We have playbills and merch for The Goblin Market, a two-act play which runs for three nights in June. Get your tickets at Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-goblin...

Playbills for The Goblin Market, featuring Chicago May styled as a peacock.

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Megan McGurk @meganmcgurk.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Joan Crawford, 1934, in her Ford roadster.

Joan Crawford in her Ford Roadster, looking like a boss.

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Farran Smith Nehme 🇱🇧 @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I was thrilled to write the @sightsoundmag.bsky.social cover story for the 100th birthday of the incomparable Marilyn Monroe.

Cover of the June 2026 Sight and Sound Magazine, featuring "Marilyn Monroe: The Actor at 100"

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Megan McGurk @meganmcgurk.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Tickets are now available for The Goblin Market: Chicago May’s Story, in The Dot Theatre, Dublin, 12,13,14 June. The summer is coming up con artists! www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-goblin...

Poster for The Goblin Market: Chicago May’s Story, a two-act play, depicting Chicago May banked by peacock feathers.

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Megan McGurk @meganmcgurk.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Clara Higgins, my co-author, designed this fabulous poster for The Goblin Market: Chicago May’s Story, the two-act play we wrote and are producing in The Dot Theatre, Dublin, 12-14 June. Tickets are available from 7 May on Eventbrite. It has con artistry, cocaine, cannibalism & Countess Markievicz!

Poster for The Goblin Market: Chicago May’s Story, featuring Chicago May (May Duignan) banked by peacock feathers. Poster designed by Clara Higgins

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Megan McGurk @meganmcgurk.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Did you know that an Irish woman was the real-life inspiration for Mae West’s Diamond Lil? Mary Ann Duignan was born in County Longford, before she emigrated and became Chicago May. Clara Higgins and I are now casting the two-act play we wrote. Get in touch: sassmouthdames.com/2026/04/08/c...

Newspaper article from 1928 where Mae West credits Chicago May’s life story with helping create her stage hit Diamond Lil.

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Megan McGurk @meganmcgurk.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

The Goblin Market: Chicago May’s Story is a new play written by me and Clara Higgins. We are putting out a casting call for the stage production in June.

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Megan McGurk @meganmcgurk.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Joan Crawford, Fur Fashion Woman of 1954.

Al Tietelbaum gives Joan Crawford the award for fur fashion in 1954.

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Megan McGurk @meganmcgurk.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

See you tomorrow night in the Brooks Hotel for Woman’s World (1954). Sass Mouth Dames Film Club rolls on!

French poster of Woman’s World (1954) with the stars (June Allyson, Lauren Bacall, and Arlene Dahl) holding puppets made in the likeness of their husbands (Cornel Wilde, Fred MacMurray, Van Heflin).

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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Incredibly honored to be receiving the David Shepard Career Achievement Award at the Denver Silent Film Festival next month. (And guess which film I’ll be introducing! 😉)

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Megan McGurk @meganmcgurk.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Tickets are now available for Sass Mouth Dames Film Club series 38! The glamour is off the charts! www.eventbrite.ie/e/sass-mouth...

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Megan McGurk @meganmcgurk.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

How am I supposed to pack for a trip to Philly when the temperature ranges from 24C to -2C? FFS!

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Megan McGurk @meganmcgurk.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Claire Trevor was born on this day in 1910. Listen back to my podcast episode on Born to Kill (1947). on.soundcloud.com/wibeIEWTtRNZ...

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Megan McGurk @meganmcgurk.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Remembering MGM designer Adrian, born on this day in 1903. He made scores of showstopper gowns for Joan Crawford, including ‘The Bounty,’ inspired by ship sails, featured in I Live My Life (1935).

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Megan McGurk @meganmcgurk.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

We don’t talk enough about Metrocolor.

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Megan McGurk @meganmcgurk.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I love the smell of Irish wolfhounds in the afternoon ♥️

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Megan McGurk @meganmcgurk.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

A statue of Diana/Artemis, goddess of the hunt, looms in the background of the nightclub during The Great Stanton's mentalist act, foreshadowing his fatal flaw, hubris. Tyrone Power in Nightmare Alley (1947).

Tyrone Power, blindfolded, playing a con artist in Nightmare Alley (1947).

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Megan McGurk @meganmcgurk.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

AA Gill is rolling in his grave.

Camilla Long on the cover of The Sunday Times magazine.

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Megan McGurk @meganmcgurk.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Tickets are available for the Sass Mouth Dames Film Club screening of I Wake Up Screaming (1941) tonight in Dublin! sassmouthdames.com/2026/01/05/s...

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Danny (aka Pre-Code.Com) @pre-code.com · 02/01/2026

ICYMI Have you ever wanted to watch a film from 1930 but couldn’t find it? They’re now in the public domain, so I put together a database of every feature film released that year and where to find them. Enjoy! pre-code.com/how-to-find-...

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Where to Watch the Pre-Code Films of 1930

January 1st, 2026 means that American movies released in 1930 are now in the public domain. As part of my commitment to trying to advocate for this era as much as possible, I spent my down time thi…

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Megan McGurk @meganmcgurk.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Barbara Britton, Joan Crawford, Eleanor Roosevelt, Faye Emerson, Hugh Downs, Helen Hayes, Hildegarde Loretta Sell, and Fanny Hurst gather in support of the Kennedy campaign.

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Megan McGurk @meganmcgurk.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

February is coming up Betty and Judy in Sass Mouth Dames Film Club. Get your tickets now: www.eventbrite.ie/e/sass-mouth...

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Megan McGurk @meganmcgurk.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Now watching Rich Man, Poor Man (1976). Sweet lord, Nick Nolte.

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Megan McGurk @meganmcgurk.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Cecil Beaton portrait of Joan Crawford.

Ink and watercolour portrait of Joan Crawford by Cecil Beaton.

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Megan McGurk @meganmcgurk.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Joan Crawford wore Adrian's stunning gown with white fox sleeves from Letty Lynton (1932) to Doug's premiere (and of course she grabs Gable).

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Megan McGurk @meganmcgurk.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

When Lillian Burns arrived at Republic Pictures in 1935, a studio executive asked her if she was there to sign up for the new talent school. Miss Burns replied that she was there to run it. Catch up with the new Sass Mouth Dames podcast episode on Lillian Burns. soundcloud.com/sassmouthdam...

Republic Pictures established a talent school headed by Lillian Burns in 1935. Miss Burns is pictured with contract players Christine Mapel, Mary Russell, and Grace Durkin.

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Megan McGurk @meganmcgurk.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Before the Stanislavski Method overtook Hollywood, studios had drama schools that were run by women. Miss Burns in Metro inspired a generation of actors, including Lana Turner, Donna Reed, Janet Leigh, and Debbie Reynolds. Catch up with a new podcast ep soundcloud.com/sassmouthdam...

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Ep 154: Lillian Burns, The Most Powerful Woman in Hollywood

Before the Stanislavski 'Method' overtook Hollywood in the 1950s, each studio had their own in-house drama coach to develop talent. The drama coaches were women: Phyllis Loughton Seaton (Paramount), L

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Megan McGurk @meganmcgurk.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Spotted: Aline MacMahon in archive footage featured in The New Yorker at 100 doc on Netflix.

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Megan McGurk @meganmcgurk.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Let it never be said that a prop man fell down on the job. From the memoir The Irish Peacock: The Confessions of a Legendary Talent Agent by Billy Grady, longtime casting director in MGM (and later a producer).

Story from Billy Grady's memoir about stolen ice.

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Megan McGurk @meganmcgurk.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Myrna Loy knows how to make an entrance. Don’t 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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Megan McGurk @meganmcgurk.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

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.

Lillian Burns and Jane Powell with the shooting script for Anchors Aweigh.

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Megan McGurk @meganmcgurk.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Director Mervyn LeRoy and cinematographer Joseph Ruttenberg watch Greer Garson perform in Madame Curie (1943).

Life magazine photograph on the set of Madame Curie (1943), featuring Greer Garson, director Mervyn LeRoy, and camera man Joseph Ruttenberg.

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Megan McGurk @meganmcgurk.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Getting ready to introduce Too Many Husbands (1940) in The Dot Theatre.

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Megan McGurk @meganmcgurk.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Don’t 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.

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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Miriam Hopkins, 1934.

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Megan McGurk @meganmcgurk.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Get 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...

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Megan McGurk @meganmcgurk.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Now watching Jean Arthur and Mae Busch in Husband Hunters (1927).

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