TCM Fest: Good god! Peggy Cummins heats up “Gun Crazy”

15 April 2012

TCM Fest: Good god! Peggy Cummins heats up “Gun Crazy”

Category: Film | Tags: film noir, gun crazy, hollywood history, john dall, peggy cummins, tcm fest, turner classic movies

An in-person appearance by Peggy Cummins, the British-born star of “Gun Crazy” a cult film noir classic, at TCM Fest. [...]

2 April 2012

Noir City: Hollywood, 14th annual festival of film noir opens soon @ Egyptian Theatre

Category: Film | Tags: alan ladd, egyptian theatre, f. scott fitzgerald, film noir, film noir city, hollywood history, the great gatsby

Anticipates with a tingling spine the annual film noir festival at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. [...]

20 July 2010

As a dad, Alan Ladd walked tall

Category: Film | Tags: academy of motion picture arts & sciences, alan ladd, david ladd, film noir, hollywood history, veronica lake

“The Blue Dahlia” a hard-boiled crime film written as an original screenplay by novelist Raymond Chandler had a marvelous screening at the Academy, with a curtain talk by star Alan Ladd’s second son, David Ladd.

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29 June 2010

Lizabeth Scott @ the Academy

Category: Film | Tags: film noir, hollywood history, lizabeth scott

87-year-old film noir femme fatale Lizabeth Scott in an in-person appearance at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences in Los Angeles in tandem with a screening of “The Strange Loves of Martha Ivers” during the Academy’s summer 2010 film noir festival. [...]