The Girl with the White Parasol

Happy Halloween, everyone! It seems only fitting that on the night that dead things walk again, I come back and breathe a tiny bit of ...

Test Pilot (1938) directed by Victor Fleming, starring Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy (Note: This is my entry in the Build-...

 She's a real Joe. You'll fall in love with her like everybody else. Lauren Bacall (1924-2014)

The Queen of Spades (1949) directed by Thorold Dickinson, starring Anton Walbrook, Yvonne Mitchell, Edith Evans (Note: This is my ent...

I want you to remember that the last time you saw me, I was unregenerately eating a Hershey bar. James Garner (1928-2014)

Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) directed by John Ford, starring Henry Fonda, Alice Brady (Note: This is my entry in the John Ford Blogathon...

I've talked before on this blog about miscasting . It's one of my eternal fascinations. Not just the plainly ludicrous decisions ...