Jennifer Kellow Fiorini
The Shop Around the Corner - A Holiday Classic 80 Years in the Making.
* This story has been re-printed from an article for Current Everyone knows “It’s a Wonderful Life,” but a growing number of movie lovers...
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Jennifer Kellow Fiorini
Dec 3, 20223 min read
Vincent Price - The Master of Menace Pt 1
Last October we covered Bella Lugosi and Boris Karloff — both foreign actors who found their way to Hollywood in the late 20s and early...
Jennifer Kellow Fiorini
Oct 2, 20224 min read
Lana Turner - The Ultimate Movie Star pt 2
Lana Turner, 1948. Photo from Dr. Marco's Annex. When her relationship with Tyrone Power ended, Turner attempted to quickly move on. MGM...
Jennifer Kellow Fiorini
Aug 28, 20224 min read
Lana Turner - The Ultimate Movie Star
Lana Turner’s greatest performance was the role of the movie star, and she was so good at it that no one could think of her as anything...
Jennifer Kellow Fiorini
Aug 9, 20223 min read
When Bogey Met Bacall - Humphrey Bogart pt 2
Bogart was married three times before he met and married Lauren Bacall. His second marriage was to stage actress Mary Philips who came to...
Jennifer Kellow Fiorini
May 16, 20224 min read
Bogart - Before he was Bogey Pt 1
A young Bogart arrives in Hollywood circa 1930. Humphrey Bogart wasn’t always “Bogey.” His journey to legendary superstar was longer and...
Jennifer Kellow Fiorini
Apr 18, 20224 min read
Rita Hayworth - The Girl Behind the Goddess Pt 2
The Life Magazine portrait, August 11, 1941, that became one of the most popular pin-ups for American soldiers fighting World War II....
Jennifer Kellow Fiorini
Mar 6, 20224 min read
Rita Hayworth —The Girl Behind the Goddess, Part 1
Rita Hayworth famously said, “Men go to bed with Gilda, and wake up with me.” Who was the me behind “Gilda” and “The Lady from Shanghai?”...
Jennifer Kellow Fiorini
Jan 25, 20225 min read
Maurice Chevalier – The French lover and the modern movie musical.
Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald in The Merry Widow, 1934. Valentine’s Day is almost here, and we wrap our series on pre-Code men...
Jennifer Kellow Fiorini
Jan 8, 20223 min read
Kay Francis is Star of the Month on TCM in January.
Happy 2022! Birthday girl Kay Francis is TCM’s Star of the Month. Francis was featured in Women of pre-Code last year, this is a great...
Jennifer Kellow Fiorini
Nov 12, 20215 min read
Bela and Boris - the Birth of Modern Monsters pt 2
By Jennifer Kellow-Fiorini Boris Karloff in the 1930's Boris Karloff was born William Henry Pratt November 23, 1887, in London England....
Jennifer Kellow Fiorini
Oct 26, 20214 min read
Boris & Bela – The Birth of Modern Monsters pt 1
Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi in The Raven, 1935. Both Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff were foreigners in their 40s when they became famous...
Jennifer Kellow Fiorini
Sep 22, 20214 min read
Clark Gable - Ohio Born King of Hollywood
Gable is easily the most famous of any actor we’ve talked about from the pre-Code era. But the “King of Hollywood,” who is mostly...
Jennifer Kellow Fiorini
Aug 28, 20214 min read
Richard Barthelmess - A Modern Hero
In the silent era, Lillian Gish proclaimed him the most beautiful man in movies. But by the time talkies arrived, Richard Barthelmess was...
Jennifer Kellow Fiorini
Jul 23, 20214 min read
Edward G. Robinson - The Unlikely Star
Edward G. Robinson in the early 1930's. In the pre-Code era audiences loved personality types we would now call character actors. In the...
Jennifer Kellow Fiorini
Jun 26, 20214 min read
Lee Tracy - The Guy with all the Angles
America in the early 1930’s required a different mindset to survive and thrive than the generation before. Young men lamented that their...
Jennifer Kellow Fiorini
May 13, 20215 min read
William Powell - From Ladies Man to Debonair Detective
Urbane implies high cultivation and poise coming from wide social experience — debonair, suave, smooth, sophisticated. Urbane is a word...
Jennifer Kellow Fiorini
Apr 23, 20214 min read
Warren William - The Wolf in Wolf's Clothing
Often referred to as “the King of pre-Code” and “The Magnificent Scoundrel,” Warren William made 20 films between 1931 and the...
Jennifer Kellow Fiorini
Mar 17, 20214 min read
Jame Cagney - Sensitive Artist and Public Enemy
James Cagney worked on stage as a dancer/actor before becoming part of a new group of stars who, in 1931, were experimenting and refining...
Jennifer Kellow Fiorini
Feb 23, 20214 min read
The Making of the Modern Man in Pre-Code Cinema.
Left to right, Richard Barthelmess, James Cagney, and Clark Gable Although societal shifts for women from the teens through the 1920s and...
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