Miscellaneous bits of news and fun stuff from around the Internet...
...I was greatly saddened this week to learn of the passing of the marvelous Ann Blyth. She could truly do it all, from drama to comedy to musicals. She was one of the last living links to my beloved MGM musicals; the most notable MGM star still with us is probably Leslie Caron. Blyth was just short of turning 99 in August; I noted that this week her birth year was updated on many sites, from 1928 to 1927. Ann is now reunited with her husband, Dr. James T. McNulty, who passed on in 2007 at the age of 89; they are survived by their five children and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren. What a life!
...Please visit my 2012
birthday tribute to Ann Blyth for photos along with links to all of her films which I've reviewed. (And note that at that time I listed her birth year as 1928.) I also recommend my
review of Jacqueline T. Lynch's wonderful
book on Ann; my account of seeing Ann at the 2013 TCM Classic Film Festival screening of
KISMET (1955); and the post where I wrote about seeing her at the 2013 TCM Classic Film Festival screening of
MILDRED PIERCE (1945). Rest in peace, dear Ann.
...In other news, Kino Lorber's annual Summer Sale has begun. And for anyone who missed it, here's my post on the annual half-price Criterion Collection sale at Barnes & Noble.
...I missed Glenn Erickson's November
mention of a new book by film historian Joseph McBride,
I LOVED MOVIES BUT...; the book was published in November by
Sticking Place Books and consists of conversations between McBride and Danny Peary. Glenn posted a
little more on the book this week. I've been reading McBride's books since I was a teenaged classic film fan and was fortunate to meet him briefly at UCLA's 2018
Ernst Lubitsch retrospective.
...Mark Harmon and Leon Carroll Jr. have followed up their 2023 book GHOSTS OF HONOLULU with GHOSTS OF SICILY, about Naval intelligence and the Mafia during WWII. Barnes & Noble is currently selling a signed edition of the new book, which was published in April.
...Thanks to
Keith Buczak for making me aware of the book STITCHED TOGETHER: A HISTORY OF THE NORWICH KNITTING COMPANY AND WALT DISNEY. It was published by the
Chenango County Historical Society of New York. Author Christian L. Vischi wrote a bit on the book last summer for
Colgate University. The interesting "nooks and crannies" of Disney history seem endless; other examples of books on relatively obscure Disney history include
KEM WEBER: MID-CENTURY FURNITURE DESIGNS FOR THE DISNEY STUDIOS and
A SPOONFUL OF SUGAR: THE STORY OF THE UPJOHN PHARMACY IN DISNEYLAND.
...Here's an
article by Brady MacDonald on the restoration of Walt Disney's private plane, which I was fortunate to see at the
2022 D23 Expo. I hope to see it again the next time we visit the
Palm Springs Air Museum, which I previously visited that same year.
...Notable Passing: Soap opera actress Ellen Weston has died at 87.
...For additional recent links of interest to classic film fans, please visit my June 20th column.
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