Flasback 1996: Lizabeth Scott Talks
Super-fabulous Lizabeth Scott, one of my all-time favorite film noir dames, talks in this 1996 interview about breaking into show business, and comes off as an endearing combination of Sylvia Miles...
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Bogart and the Bird: The Maltese Falcon Falcon for Sale
The hefty statuette featured in the 1941 noir The Maltese Falcon is being put on the block. Bonhams auction house in New York City says the bird is the highlight of the auction set for November 25. No...
View ArticleRecently Dead: Joan Fontaine, Audrey Totter, Peter O’Toole
Oh Joan, oh Joan! My darling Joan! Gone too soon! Only 96 years old! Poor thing. How I’ll miss that little lopsided bitch face. She was one of my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE Old Hollywood stars, of course. I...
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Katya Is a Crazed Cactus Thief in the Lesbian Film Noir Parody “Redmond Hand,...
There’s a hard-boiled lesbian private eye, a hot dame in peril, a nutty drag queen who is the ring-leader of a bizarre underground cactus scene, and a baby who shoots laser out of his eyes… and that’s...
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#BornThisDay: Actor, Claire Trevor
Via Wikimedia Commons March 8, 1910 – Claire Trevor She had top billing for Stagecoach (1939); her popularity was higher than John Wayne at the time. Stagecoach is my favorite Western. It was the...
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#BornThisDay: Smoky-Voiced Actor, Lizabeth Scott
September 29, 1922 – Lizabeth Scott: “The world will knock you down plenty. You don’t need to be doing it to yourself.” In September 1954, a front-page story in Confidential magazine claimed that...
View ArticleNoir Lobster
A Dangerous Minds reader created a classical cover version of the B-52’s hit “Rock Lobster” and it reminded him of the kind of music Bernard Herrmann might have composed for a suspense film. We think...
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