Top Ten Movie Screamers
Doctor X directed by Michael Curtiz (top); Janet Leigh in Psycho (bottom)
Halloween Time. So, here’s my list of the Top Ten Movie Screamers of All Time.
Well, at least the Top Ten Movie Screamers of All Time That I Can Think of Right Now.
You won’t find any new movies here because I tend to avoid most recent horror movies — partly because most of the recent ones I’ve seen are total crap; partly because there’s enough horror in the world out there and I see no need for me to go looking for more at the movies.
Also, most of the screaming newcomers don’t have the vocal flair of their predecessors. Even Naomi Watts, a really good actress, pales next to [...]
by Andre Soares | October 30, 2009
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Tags: Claire Bloom, Classic Movies, Denise Cheshire, Horror Movies, Jane Wyman, Jaws, Johnny Belinda, Julie Harris, Mary Philbin, Patricia Owens, The Phantom of the Opera
Lon Chaney’s THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Halloween Screening
The 1925 silent classic The Phantom of the Opera, starring Lon Chaney (above) in the title role, will be screened on Sunday, Oct. 25, at 2:30 pm at the San Gabriel Mission Playhouse. This Halloween Special presentation by the Los Angeles Theatre Organ Society will feature live musical accompaniment on a Wurlitzer theatre organ restored with the support of the Peter Lloyd Crotty Charitable Fund.
Directed by Rupert Julian, The Phantom of the Opera is perhaps Lon Chaney’s best-known movie role. At about that time, Chaney became a contract player at MGM, where he would star in a number of highly successful productions, some of which have popped up on Turner Classic Movies.
Based on Gaston [...]
by Andre Soares | October 22, 2009
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Tags: Classic Movies, Lon Chaney, Los Angeles Screenings, Mary Philbin, Rupert Julian, San Gabriel Mission Playhouse, Silent Films, The Phantom of the Opera
Susanna Foster
Turhan Bey, Susanna Foster, Boris Karloff in The Climax
Actress-singer Susanna Foster, who was featured in The Phantom of the Opera and several other 1940s Universal productions and whose adult life was plagued by alcoholism and mental illness, died of heart failure at the Lillian Booth Actors Home in Englewood, N.J., on Jan. 17. She was 84.
Born in Chicago (on Dec. 6, 1924), Foster came to Hollywood in the 1930s. According to reports, MGM signed her when she was 12, but dropped her not long thereafter. (Reports also claim that MGM offered her the lead in National Velvet, but Foster refused the role because there would be no singing. If the story is true, MGM took forever [...]
by Andre Soares | January 20, 2009
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Tags: Classic Movies, Susanna Foster, The Climax, The Phantom of the Opera
