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Fred Astaire and Lucille Bremer for “Yolanda and the Thief” (1946)

Astaire sits next to Bremer on a studio set with arms partially outstretched. Bremer holds prop bags with large $ signs and a large stack of bills on her lap. More prop bags and cash and coins are scattered on floor around them.

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Ida Lupino with Director Nicholas Ray and Ward Bond, behind the scenes of “On Dangerous Ground” (1951).

Ray at center seated in director’s chair. Lupino and Bond lean on the arms of the chair on either side of him looking at each other with big smiles

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Fascinating discussion on Nicholas Ray 👇

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Fred Astaire and Lucille Bremer for “Yolanda and the Thief” (1946)

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Ida Lupino with Director Nicholas Ray and Ward Bond, behind the scenes of “On Dangerous Ground” (1951).

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Marci @marcikay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Enjoyed listening to this! I’m not at all familiar with Ray’s later films so this was mostly new territory for me. Fascinating discussion.

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THIS WEDNESDAY at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT You never know who’s walking the rain-slicked streets of #FilmNoir. Join #TheNoirCollective watch party for THE GUILTY (1947), a Poverty Row gem featuring Bonita Granville and Don Castle. Link to watch: archive.org/details/the-...

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A.C. Miller @acmillerauthor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Joan Blondell in a publicity photo for GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933 ('33).

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Kim Britt Knits 🧶 @kphbritt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I remember this as a regular show, so I doubt this that was the pilot for Hollywood Squares. Maybe it morphed into that later or maybe it’s b/c Paul Lynde is on this episode. Anyway, Ida Lupino & Howard Duff have some marital issues and Fabian is fricking adorable! youtu.be/ZsVuf1ZVMMc?...

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Carl Reiner hosts The Celebrity Game (the pilot for Hollywood Squares, 1964)

YouTube video by MEDIA ICONS TV

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P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com · 28/09/2026

Love this and had never seen it before! I know Ida made quite a few game show appearances on TV as far back as 1953 (Juke Box Jury). But they are extremely rare to see, at least in my experience. Also a reminder to me that Paul Lynde is hilarious.

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National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) @protectparks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Like the plan to give a private developer special access to Yosemite, the proposal for a baseball stadium in Grand Teton should have been immediately rejected. www.npca.org/articles/115...

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No Baseball Stadium in Grand Teton, Now or Ever.

It’s long past time for this administration to start treating our national parks with the respect they deserve

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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Somebody asked me if I know of any online silent film clubs. Unfortunately I don't, so I thought I'd ask Old Hollywood Bluesky if anyone knows of any. Any suggestions welcome.

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The Tinseltown Twins @tinseltowntwins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ann Sothern and Melvyn Douglas in Three Hearts for Julia (1943) 💝

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P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com · 27/09/2026

Ida Lupino in her first and (next to) last feature films: “Her First Affaire” (1933) and “Food of the Gods” (1976)

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The Brattle Theatre @brattletheatre.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Free Screening and Discussion! Join us Monday at 6:00 for Elements of Cinema, featuring Claudette Colbert and Don Ameche in MIDNIGHT. Learn more & watch the trailer at brattlefilm.org/movies/elements-of-cinema-midnight/

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P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com · 27/09/2026

Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby, likely while working on “Blue Skies” (1946) — Modern Screen, Feb. 1947

Original caption: “Helping Bing pick a winner in the Racing Form is Fred Astaire, no amateur with horses either. Fred's deserting his stables to establish the Fred Astaire Dance Studios. First one's scheduled to open January in New York.”

Astaire and Crosby seated next to each other. Crosby holds a newspaper open while Astaire appears to inspect it and gesture at something in it.

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John Turturro's Sweater @craigsimpson70.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I've been asked the best place to purchase my new book, TELEVISION IS WHERE YOU FIND IT; and without hesitation I would say my publisher, because you can follow the link below, download the leaflet, and get 30% off. www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/television-i...

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Television Is Where You Find It

Television is Where You Find It is an illuminating critical study of ten feature filmmakers (Alfred Hitchcock and David Lynch, Orson Welles and George Cukor, Ida Lupino and Melvin Van Peebles, Budd Bo...

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"JAMES STEWART and his Wife GLORIA circa 1954 looking at a portrait painting of Mrs. Stewart by actress Claudette Colbert."

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DVDBeaver @dvdbeaver.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Claudette Colbert, artist "Claudette Colbert, known to her friends as Madame Rembrandt, is another member of Hollywood colony who finds painting a relaxing hobby. She's already put Mrs. Jimmy Stewart and Mary Livingstone on canvas." — Los Angeles Times, July 8, 1951

Newspaper photo of Colbert standing at an easel on which is an incomplete portrait of a woman

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Charles Vidor's "Ladies in Retirement" Blu-ray - Ida Lupino, Elsa Lanchester @imprint_films US: link.amazon/B0eHodGKr CAN: amzn.to/4AyD5Be UK: www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/... BONUS CAPTURES: www.patreon.com/dvdbeaver/po... OUR COMPARISON: www.dvdbeaver.com/subsite/film...

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Tipping My Fedora @tippingmyfedora.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison in “The Ghost and Mrs. Muir” (1947). I finally watched this and unexpectedly loved it. The scenes with the two leads were electric and funny and thoroughly enjoyable. Lost some steam towards the end when Tierney’s character was on her own.

Harrison, in black, looms behind Tierney, in white, in a scene from “The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.”

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This year's Film Noir Fest (30 Oct to 1 Nov 2026) continues its tribute to Ida Lupino, focusing on her career as a writer-director-producer. YouTube: shorturl.at/Cj5rC Apple: buff.ly/wDl4xnB Podbean: buff.ly/wk2LnPK Spotify: buff.ly/34bRrLu Full schedule: ti.to/film-noir-uk...

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I bought a gray market dvd a decade back. Looks like it’s now on YouTube/Internet Archive/Tubi and perhaps other places with pretty much the same rough copy. archive.org/details/youn...

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Young Man of Manhattan

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Josephine Hutchinson, Glenda Farrell, Mervyn LeRoy, Joan Blondell and Anita Louise at Warner Brothers, 1935

The five stand outdoors facing camera and smiling.

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Ken Paxton keeps dodging debates. So I called his cell to invite him to a debate on Fox News. He didn’t pick up.

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“Young Man of Manhattan” (1930) is an early Claudette Colbert film that also happens to be Ginger Rogers’ first film. Colbert starred with then-husband Norman Foster. The only copies available I’ve seen are pretty rough.

Standing Colbert embraces seated Foster in a scene from “Young Man of Manhattan” (1930).

Claudette Colbert playing a piano in a scene from “Young Man of Manhattan” (1930)

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Ida Lupino, 1944. Portrait by Bert Six for Warner Bros.

Studio glamour portrait of Lupino in sleeveless gown, large flower at her neck.

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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Rita Hayworth in Modern Screen, June 1947

Color magazine portrait of Hayworth in dark green outfit, holding a medium sized dog.

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Joan Bennett by William Walling, Jr., 1936.

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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ginger Rogers with cat, and with husband, William Marshall. Photo by Nina Leen for LIFE magazine, 1961. In summer stock performing Bell Book And Candle. LIFE reported, as soon as the photos were done, "the cat jumped out of Ginger's arm and sank sharp teeth right into her husband's neck."

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P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com · 23/09/2026

“Director Vincent Sherman (right) rehearses his stars, Ida Lupino and William Prince, in a bit of dialog between scenes of the forthcoming Warner Bros. production, ‘Pillow to Post.’” Showmen’s Trade Review, March 24, 1945

Prince and Lupino attentively listen to Sherman. All are seated facing each other.

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P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com · 22/09/2026

Extremely normal, alas!

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A bit after “The Hard Way” tomorrow morning, TCM is airing another Vincent Sherman-directed film starring Ida Lupino: the zany wartime farce, PILLOW TO POST (1945). Bonus appearing by Louis Armstrong and Dorothy Dandridge.

Poster for “Pillow to Post” (1945) starring Ida Lupino, Sydney Greenstreet and William Prince. With Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra. Directed by Vincent Sherman.

Ida Lupino in a scene from “Pillow to Post” (1945). She is seated on a suitcase,another suitcase in her lap. She is holding a bare foot in her hands with corresponding shoe on the ground below it. She looks dejected. A crowd is visible behind her.

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Unfortunately it doesn’t appear to be streaming at the moment. TCM airs it once a year or so and I believe it has been on HBOMax at some point recently. Warner Archive released a great blu-ray a couple years ago.

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TCM appears to be having a Vincent Sherman day tomorrow. For some reason they are burying the best of the bunch at 5am CDT: THE HARD WAY (1943) Featuring one of the most intense, hard-boiled roles of Ida Lupino’s career, plus great supporting turns from Jack Carson and Gladys George.

Poster for “The Hard Way” (1943) starring Ida Lupino, Dennis Morgan and Joan Leslie with Jack Carson and Gladys George. Directed by Vincent Sherman.

Gladys George and Ida Lupino in a pivotal scene from “The Hard Way” (1943)

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Tommy Krasker @tommykrasker.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Ann Sothern in Modern Screen, April 1936

Sothern in dark dress, sitting in an oversized wicker chair. Her name written in script across the bottom

Caption: Brief holidays are all that a capable and popular actress like Ann con hope for. With two pictures just completed, the Sothem hurried into still a third, "Don't Gamble with Love," in which Bruce Cabot is her teammate. The dashing, young Roger Pryor is still her constant interest.

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Friends here loathed THE GAY DESPERADO when it aired Tuesday on TCM. We finally watched – and loved it. We started laughing at the start and never stopped. We loved the mashup and sendup of genres. The look – incl. shots of huge cacti spoofing Eisenstein’s Mexican footage – had us in stitches. (1/2)

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LithiumChaser @lithiumchaser.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Oh no! Hoping you heal up soon.

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Ida Lupino for Paramount Pictures (1934)

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A thread with the photos from this event: bsky.app/profile/pmbr...

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Pete Baran @pb14.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Ida Lupino in the Red Sox jacket during this Arizona photo shoot

Lupino, Glenn Ford and Governor Dan Garvey (seated) next to a movie camera on a rocky landscape

Crop of Lupino in the photo from the prior post.

Lupino and Governor Garvey next to a movie camera on a desert landscape.

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Watching The Gay Desperado Why wasn't this part of the Ritrovato Rouben Mamoulian season. A Mexican operatic musical gangster parody where the Mexican gang boss loves gangster films and wants to be more like them, plus opera loving. Daft as a brush, light as a feather and with a dazzling Ida Lupino

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