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> <channel><title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Matthew Kennedy</title> <atom:link href="http://www.altfg.com/blog/tag/matthew-kennedy/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog</link> <description>The Oscars, film awards, new releases, Los Angeles screenings, movie classics, gay movies, film festivals, box office, foreign and independent films</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:29:41 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>Joan Fontaine-Charles Boyer in Rare THE CONSTANT NYMPH on TCM</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/joan-fontaine-charles-boyer-the-constant-nymph/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/joan-fontaine-charles-boyer-the-constant-nymph/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:58:57 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35261</guid> <description><![CDATA[Edmund Goulding's The Constant Nymph, a 1943 romantic drama starring Oscar nominee Joan Fontaine, Charles Boyer, and Alexis Smith, will be shown tonight on Turner Classic Movies at 5 p.m. PT as part of TCM's tribute to the Library of Congress Film Archive. Tied up in legal complications for decades, The Constant Nymph will have its TCM premiere tonight. [In August 2010, The Constant Nymph [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/joan-fontaine-charles-boyer-the-constant-nymph/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Joan Blondell Q&amp;A Pt.4: John Cassavetes&#039; OPENING NIGHT, Transsexualism in THE WOMAN INSIDE</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/joan-blondell-opening-night-the-woman-inside/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/joan-blondell-opening-night-the-woman-inside/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 02:37:57 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27628</guid> <description><![CDATA[Joan Blondell Q&#038;A Pt.3: A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN, Condoms and Censorship Though I know that Joan Blondell and Ann Sothern were quite different as performers, they often played no-nonsense, wisecracking dames in lots of programmers &#8212; Blondell at WB, Sothern at RKO and then MGM. Now, Sothern became an A-list player at MGM in the late 1940s, after having been around for more than [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/joan-blondell-opening-night-the-woman-inside/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Joan Blondell Q&amp;A Pt.3: A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN, Condoms and Censorship</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/joan-blondell-qa-pt-3-a-tree-grows-in-brooklyn-condoms-and-censorship/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/joan-blondell-qa-pt-3-a-tree-grows-in-brooklyn-condoms-and-censorship/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 02:34:56 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27627</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ted Donaldson, Joan Blondell, Peggy Ann Garner, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Joan Blondell Q&#038;A Pt.2: Joan Blondell-Dick Powell-June Allyson Triangle, Lost Raunchy Pre-Coder CONVENTION CITY My favorite Joan Blondell performance is her Aunt Sissy in Elia Kazan's 20th Century-Fox drama A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945). How did she get that role? What was it like for her to work with Kazan, Peggy Ann [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/joan-blondell-qa-pt-3-a-tree-grows-in-brooklyn-condoms-and-censorship/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Joan Blondell Q&amp;A Pt.2: Joan Blondell-Dick Powell-June Allyson Triangle, Lost Raunchy Pre-Coder CONVENTION CITY</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/joan-blondell-dick-powell-june-allyson-convention-city/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/joan-blondell-dick-powell-june-allyson-convention-city/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 02:31:23 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27626</guid> <description><![CDATA[Joan Blondell: Q&#038;A with Biographer Matthew Kennedy Pt.1 What did Joan Blondell have to say about the musicals she made for Busby Berkeley? What about Ruby Keeler, James Cagney, and her other fellow contract players? Did she get along with them? [Photo: Joan Blondell in Mervyn LeRoy's Gold Diggers of 1933.] Joan said, not surprisingly, that those musicals were tough. There was extra rehearsal needed [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/joan-blondell-dick-powell-june-allyson-convention-city/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Joan Blondell Q&amp;A with Biographer Matthew Kennedy: Warner Bros. Years, Rare THE BLUE VEIL</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/joan-blondell-warner-bros-the-blue-veil/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/joan-blondell-warner-bros-the-blue-veil/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 02:22:30 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27625</guid> <description><![CDATA[JOAN BLONDELL: A LIFE BETWEEN TAKES: Introduction to Q&#038;A with Joan Blondell biographer Matthew Kennedy Why Joan Blondell? Actually, this book idea originally came from Joan's son, Norman Powell, who is a director and producer. I was writing a biography of the director Edmund Goulding a few years back, and Norman interviewed me for a documentary he was making on Old Hollywood. When we were [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/joan-blondell-warner-bros-the-blue-veil/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>JOAN BLONDELL: A LIFE BETWEEN TAKES</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/joan-blondell-matthew-kennedy/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/joan-blondell-matthew-kennedy/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 02:20:25 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/joan-blondell-matthew-kennedy/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Joan Blondell. Those who have heard the name will most likely picture either a blowsy, older woman playing the worldwise but warm-hearted saloon owner in the late 1960s television series Here Come the Brides, or a lively, fast-talking, no-nonsense, and unconventionally sexy gold digger in numerous Pre-Code Warner Bros. comedies and musicals of the early 1930s. Matthew Kennedy's Joan Blondell: A Life Between Takes (University [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/joan-blondell-matthew-kennedy/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>11</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Joan Blondell on TCM: DAMES, WILL SUCCESS SPOIL ROCK HUNTER?</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/joan-blondell-dames-will-success-spoil-rock-hunter/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/joan-blondell-dames-will-success-spoil-rock-hunter/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:12:34 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27622</guid> <description><![CDATA[Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, Dames Joan Blondell has always been a favorite of mine, much like fellow wisecracking 1930s Warner Bros. players Aline MacMahon and Glenda Farrell. The fact that Blondell never became a top star says more about audiences &#8212; who preferred, say, Shirley Temple and Mickey Rooney &#8212; than about Blondell's screen presence and acting abilities. As part of its &#34;Summer Under the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/joan-blondell-dames-will-success-spoil-rock-hunter/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Tyrone Power V: Sexual Orientation Rumors</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/tyrone-power-sexual-orientation-rumors-240/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/tyrone-power-sexual-orientation-rumors-240/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 08:51:45 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=19149</guid> <description><![CDATA[Mai Zetterling, Tyrone Power. Two two co-starred in the 1957 drama Seven Waves Away / Abandon Ship. Tyrone Power IV: Bisexuality, Cesar Romero Rumors [Right: Tyrone Power in Jesse James.] The other thing that cracks me up &#8212; and I've done a study of this &#8212; if someone is outed as gay in a book, the next tell-all that comes out lists that person as [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/tyrone-power-sexual-orientation-rumors-240/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Marie Dressler V: Lesbian Rumors, Film Possibilities</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/marie-dressler-lesbian-claire-du-brey/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/marie-dressler-lesbian-claire-du-brey/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 08:41:36 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=18681</guid> <description><![CDATA[Marie Dressler in Dinner at 8 Marie Dressler IV: DINNER AT 8, THE LATE CHRISTOPHER BEAN Marie Dressler and Claire Du Brey. Were they really lovers? Did you go through Du Brey's papers? (I believe actor John Phillip Law is in possession of them.) Ah, the lesbian love question! I talked with Mr. Law, and met with the actress Sierra Pecheur, who knew Du Brey [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/marie-dressler-lesbian-claire-du-brey/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Marie Dressler IV: DINNER AT 8, THE LATE CHRISTOPHER BEAN</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/marie-dressler-dinner-at-8-the-late-christopher-bean/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/marie-dressler-dinner-at-8-the-late-christopher-bean/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 08:40:41 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=18678</guid> <description><![CDATA[Marie Dressler, Jean Harlow in Dinner at 8 Marie Dressler III: Wallace Beery, Polly Moran Comedies Some reviewers have complained that Marie Dressler didn't act. They say she overacted. What do you think? Writing about her as an actress was tough, because there is no one remotely like her anymore. If you watch her performances today, you can see that she was a true-blue ham. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/marie-dressler-dinner-at-8-the-late-christopher-bean/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Marie Dressler III: Wallace Beery, Polly Moran Comedies</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/interviews/marie-dressler-wallace-beery-polly-moran/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/interviews/marie-dressler-wallace-beery-polly-moran/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 08:39:38 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=18669</guid> <description><![CDATA[Wallace Beery, Marie Dressler in Min and Bill Marie Dressler II: Silent Films, Movie Stardom How did Marie Dressler react to her newfound stardom? Marie basked in her success. She had been through enough trials in life &#8212; points when she couldn't get a job &#8212; and so she was more than ready for fame and adoration. I think audiences loved that they could give [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/interviews/marie-dressler-wallace-beery-polly-moran/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Marie Dressler II: Silent Films, Movie Stardom</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/marie-dressler-movie-stardom/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/marie-dressler-movie-stardom/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 08:38:34 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=18655</guid> <description><![CDATA[Marie Dressler Interview: Part I Marie Dressler was very popular in vaudeville at the turn of the 20th century. Did she try to become a silent-film star? She was in Tillie's Punctured Romance with Charles Chaplin and Mabel Normand in 1914, but she doesn't seem to have quite caught on. Why not? As told in the book, Marie was a huge star when Mack Sennett [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/marie-dressler-movie-stardom/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Marie Dressler: Q&amp;A with Author Matthew Kennedy</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie-books/marie-dressler/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie-books/marie-dressler/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 08:37:31 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=18654</guid> <description><![CDATA[Marie Dressler: Introduction First of all, what made you decide to write a book on Marie Dressler, a performer who died in 1934? Well, she does seem to be a member of the obscurati, doesn't she? But once I started looking at her life, I was hooked. In the early 1990s, some friends and I saw Dinner at Eight at the Crest Theater, an old [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie-books/marie-dressler/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Marie Dressler</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/marie-dressler-matthew-kennedy/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/marie-dressler-matthew-kennedy/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:06:55 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
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