Marilyn Monroe photographed to promote the Pacific Coast Antiques Show (1949)

Lawrence Olivier as Hamlet in "Hamlet" (1948) Rank Film Distributors Ltd/Everett Collection

María Montez publicity photos for her films and a photo with Jean-Pierre Aumont that come from Tina Aumont's personal collection and were published in 2002 Cine Zine Zone number 134 magazine.

Very special thanks to @74paris for sending me the whole magazine (that I will be publishing little by little).

Duniya (1949) // dir. S. F. Hasnain // film poster featuring Suraiya

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Now watching...

SHADOWS ON THE STAIRS (Warner Brothers, 1941)

An American thriller / murder mystery film with a (mostly) British cast that was set in London. Started watching this and realised I'd already seen it 4 or5 years ago but couldn't remember much about the plot. For a film melodrama that was clearly based on a stage play (much running in and out of rooms, up and down stairs, etc, like a murderous Brian Rix farce) this is a surprisingly enjoyable and engrossing film. There are far worse ways of spending wet November tea-times!

Boris Karloff in ‘Lured’.

Watching Shock (1946) with Vincent Price. Haven't seen it for years and really enjoying it.

The Nicholas Brothers (Fayard and Harold Nicholas) Stormy Weather (1943) dir. Andrew L. Stone

Marilyn Monroe at the rockefeller Center to inaugurate the construction of the new Time-Life Building (1957)

Note: this list references the 1961 version of West Side Story and the 1954 version of A Star Is Born.

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Bill Burnside (1948)

Theater display for “Cat People” (1942).

This was the movie that invented the “jump scare,” created not by the director, but by editor Mark Robson.

Continuing movement in one direction, a through line in a direction between cuts, and then had something come in parallel to the continuing movement. This resulted in a jarring sense shock and fear. The jump scare was extremely rare prior to the 1980s.

Originally posted by Kim Dallesandro's page on FB.

Trying another Old Hollywood recipe! It first appeared in “It Came From the Kitchen: Monstrously Delicious Celebrity Recipes from 'Dracula', 'Frankenstein', 'The Wolf Man', Assorted Aliens and Beyond!” by Geoff Isaac and Gordon Reid (2006). The recipe is from Evelyn Ankers, who played Gwen in the 1941 classic "The Wolf Man", and it's for a big pot of warm, yummy oatmeal flavored with peanut butter and coconut. Enjoy!

Leela Chitnis and Ashok Kumar in Jhoola (1941)

Rebecca | Alfred Hitchcock | 1940

Modern Screen Magazine, September 1942.