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Quote: Silent Film Can Become An Addiction

“Silent cinema can become like an hypnotic experience. I think you can get entranced. It’s almost like a voodoo experience. At least it has happened to me, and I really believe that some of film viewers, they have to give a chance to silent cinema because they have to be brave, because I have a…

Accents & Sally’s Diction Lessons from Radio Days (1987)

Beth Ann Gallagher
Comedies, Directors, Judy Holliday, Mia Farrow, Old Time Radio, Woody Allen
Sep 8, 2012
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My husband told me he heard a young actress being interviewed who pronounces her Gs the same why I do. More specifically, she uses a hard G when saying words ending in -ing. That means walking would be pronounced as walk-ing-guh. The last syllable is more of a half-syllable and softer in the throat than…

For the Love of Film Blogathon: Rear Window’s Just a Little Dog

Since Hitchcock was so invested in his dogs, it’s easy to see that his relationships with them inform the presence of his film dogs and sometimes give them pivotal roles to play. Others have tracked dogs featured in his films even back to his British filmmaking days. I’m going to focus on one of my…

For the Love of Film Blogathon: Alfred Hitchcock & His Terriers

Beth Ann Gallagher
Alfred Hitchcock, Blogathons, Film Preservation
May 16, 2012
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Alfred Hitchcock’s visage has been compared to the bulldog’s, but he preferred terriers. He was a fancier and owner of Sealyham Terriers. The Sealyham faces extinction today and has been called “rarer than a tiger,” but it was once favored by royalty, authors, and Hollywood stars. Princess Margaret, Dorothy Parker, Maurice Sendak, Humphrey Bogart, Elizabeth…

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Quote: Silent Film Can Become An Addiction

Accents & Sally’s Diction Lessons from Radio Days (1987)

For the Love of Film Blogathon: Rear Window’s Just a Little Dog

For the Love of Film Blogathon: Alfred Hitchcock & His Terriers