Sister Celluloid
@sistercelluloid
Writer, editor and founder of the classic film website sistercelluloid.com. In love with old movies and those who made them. Do you share this love affair?
I think I've found the sign-off for my work emails. (Sterling Hayden, The Asphalt Jungle)
Happy Heavenly Birthday Billie Burke! She may look angelic but the last sucker who crossed her wound up under a house.
Carole Lombard and William Powell, who had the most successful divorce in Hollywood history, dancing at Ciro's in 1940. They never stopped adoring each other.
#TCMParty More than twenty films together but more importantly, friends forever.
How I imagine I look during a heat wave versus how I actually look.
#TCMParty Hitchcock had such a miserable time during his years in contract with David O. Selznick that he made Raymond Burr's character in Rear Window look as much like him as humanly possible...
Hey kids, I've got 3 copies of James Curtis's fabulous new book on the making of IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD, with a cast spanning from the early days of movies to modern comedy. To enter to win a copy, drop an actor/actress into comments & I'll try to connect them by 6 degrees to a cast member!
Get in the car, kids, we're heading over to Doris's place in Beverly Hills. Jack's on piano and they're taking requests...
Happy Heavenly Birthday Daphne du Maurier! Three of her novels were adapted for Hitchcock (The Birds, Rebecca and Jamaica Inn) and one of her short stories was adapted for Nicolas Roeg. What a glorious imagination this woman had!
Not only a brilliant actor and criminally underrated hottie but damn could Van Heflin cut a fabulous figure in clothes. #NoirAlley
Happy William Holden's Birthday to all who celebrate! (And Lucy Ricardo was a model of self-control compared to the way I would've been.)
Happy Heavenly Birthday Billie Holiday, here with her beloved dog Mister.
Happy Heavenly Birthday to my movie husband, Walter Huston! In my dreams, I'm Edith Cortwright, perched on the floor of my open-air Italian villa in my cotton shirtdress with rolled-up sleeves, my giant horse-dog at my side, ready to go through life on one suitcase with Sam Dodsworth.
Happy Heavenly Anniversary to Carole and Clark, who eloped to Arizona eighty-seven years ago today.
Happy St. Patrick's Day to all my Skymates! Flashback to 1999 when Maureen O'Hara was the best Grand Marshall of the parade ever.
Betty and Veronica Keds, thrift store find. I couldn't resist.
Happy Heavenly Birthday George Brent, here on his yacht, The Southwind, in 1941.
Joan and Franchot on the day they were wed. Their pairing reportedly played a large role in the Bette/Joan feud, as Bette had become smitten with him when they filmed DANGEROUS. So silly and such a waste of energy from two fabulous women who could and should have been friends.
So happy to see Vera Miles, 95, still killing it, out and about in Palm Springs. Such a fabulous and underrated actress...
Norma Jeane at the opening night of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, March 1955.
If I have to see one more fecking snowstorm this winter it better bring James Mason. #OddManOut