Around the Blogosphere This Week

Miscellaneous bits of news and fun stuff from around the internet...

...There were new TCM Classic Film Festival guest announcements last week, including Henry Thomas and Drew Barrymore attending the opening night screening of E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (1982) and Margaret O'Brien appearing at LITTLE WOMEN (1949). The complete list of guests is at the festival site, and links to all my 2022 festival coverage to date may be found at the end of this post. Please note that the TCM website indicates that Frank Marshall, listed as a guest in the accompanying graphic, will no longer be appearing.

...Sterling Hayden was born March 26, 1916. Please enjoy my centennial tribute of a few years ago, which is filled with photos and viewing suggestions.

...Here's cover art for Kino Lorber's The Dark Side of Cinema VII collection, due out on June 7th.

...The Hollywood Forever Cemetery was just designated as a Los Angeles historic and cultural monument. I've shared photos from visits here and here.

...I was curious about CRY OF THE HUNTED (1953) when I saw it listed on an upcoming TCM schedule. Barry Sullivan and Vittorio Gassman star, with William Conrad in support. Colin has just written about it at Riding the High Country.

...Victoria Mature has created a cabaret act which combines her singing talents with film clips of her father. Thanks to technological magic there are even some movie moments where Victoria appears to talk to her father onscreen.

...Donna Hill of Strictly Vintage Hollywood reviews BEVERLY OF GRAUSTARK (1926), a new Marion Davies release from Ben Model's Undercrank Productions. Last month Undercrank also released Davies' ZANDER THE GREAT (1925).

...Out this week from Angel City Press: GOOGIE MODERN: ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS OF ARMET DAVIS NEWLOVE by Michael Murphy and Alan Hess.

...Toby Roan reports at 50 Westerns From the 50s that Explosive Media, a German company, will be releasing a Blu-ray of HELL BENT FOR LEATHER (1960) starring Audie Murphy. It's a very good film which I wrote about for Classic Movie Hub earlier this year. It's great to hear that it will have a Blu-ray release!

...When I first visited the Academy Museum last fall, I expressed surprise at the absence of anything regarding the film industry's "founding fathers," studio moguls such as Louis B. Mayer, Carl Laemmle, and more. The erasure was curious, to say the least, especially at a time when anti-Semitism has been rearing its head anew. I previously linked to a Forward article by Sharon Rosen Leib questioning why Hollywood's Jewish history did not appear in the museum. The Academy has previously announced there will be a temporary exhibit on the studio heads opening in 2023, but it's now been announced the exhibit will instead be permanent. Jonathan Greenbatt and Bill Kramer discuss the issue for the Hollywood Reporter.

...Glenn Erickson has reviewed a new Viavision region-free Blu-ray of Ida Lupino's OUTRAGE (1950). I very much appreciate that Glenn included a link to my 2018 review of the film, seen at the UCLA Film & Television Archive, at the end of his review.

...Glenn also reviewed Kino Lorber's new release of SHAKEDOWN (1950), which I was fortunate to see at the 2019 Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival. I'll be reviewing the new Blu-ray here soon.

...Marc Myers has some great George Chakiris dance clips in his latest JazzWax column.

...My friend Aurora lost her beloved mother last December; she shares memories of her mother and the films they loved watching together at her blog Once Upon a Screen. Her tribute is both funny and touching.

...For additional recent links of interest to classic film fans, please check out my March 19th roundup.

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