Category Archives: Vintage Mid-Century

Saturday Showtime: The Great Gatsby

Posted on September 15, 2012 by misterdibbles

The classic American story, and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most famous book, The Great Gatsby  is set in the year 1922, just 2 years after the American Prohibition against alcohol created fortunes and made rich men out of paupers. Hence the term the … Continue reading →

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Dead Hollywood: Actors Who Died Young (documentary-video)

Posted on April 22, 2012 by misterdibbles

There has been a slew of Hollywood personalities dying young in recent few years: Heath  Ledger, Brittany Murphy, Anna Nicole Smith,  Princess Diana, John F. Kennedy Jr., Kurt Cobain, Chris Farley, River Pheonix, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, Tupac Shapur, Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston to name some of … Continue reading →

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Dick Tracy: The Original Detective Movie, Black and White,1945

Posted on April 21, 2012 by misterdibbles

                     Dick Tracy  , arguably the most famous detective of all time, a “hard-hitting, fast-talking and intelligent police detective” (according to Wikipedia) began his life in October 1931 in the Detroit Mirror as a comic strip, and his character developed into feature film … Continue reading →

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Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days (documentary)

Posted on April 18, 2012 by misterdibbles

I just located this documentary today about Marilyn’s final period. From all of the searching I have done in the past, to just be finding this now seems like a diamond hunt that came up well. Or Trout fishing that suddenly … Continue reading →

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Saturday Showtime: Shirley Booth & Burt Lancaster in ‘Come Back, Little Sheba

Posted on March 10, 2012 by misterdibbles

It’s barely dawn. Doc Delaney’s brutality enters the room before he does. Lola is roused from her sleep on the sofa, still wearing the printed dress that she’d cheerfully worn the night before, when her husband disappeared and left her to put on her little … Continue reading →

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Saturday Showtime: Liz Taylor in ‘A Place in the Sun’

Posted on February 18, 2012 by misterdibbles

It’s another stay-at-home Saturday night for you, eh? No problem 😀 We here at The Daily Dibbler love keeping you entertained – and saving you the high cost of theater movies. Tonight’s tragic feature is a 1951 American Classic, and stars Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery … Continue reading →

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Saturday Showtime: Niagara, starring Marilyn Monroe

Posted on February 11, 2012 by misterdibbles

  1953. Marilyn was 29 years old when she did this film, and the role, though a departure from her usual light and airy characters, was right up her alley. She was emotionally a very vulnerable woman, and she uses that … Continue reading →

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Monday Movie: The Glass Menagerie (1950)

Posted on February 6, 2012 by misterdibbles

Based on the stage play by Tennessee Williams, this film, released by Warner Brothers in 1950, tells the tale of an aging Southern Belle (Jane Wyman) and her retreatingly shy daughter, Amanda (Gertrude Lawrence), who lives her life lost in a world … Continue reading →

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Monday Movie: And Then There Were None (1945)

Posted on January 30, 2012 by misterdibbles

In this 1945 film, based on the Agatha Christie novel by the same name, ten strangers are summoned to an island by a mysterious note. Their illusive host, a Mr. Owens, fails to show for dinner, but suddenly a voice played on a … Continue reading →

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Good Mom – Bad Mom; The Mating Season (1951)

Posted on January 23, 2012 by misterdibbles

The real Star of this film is Thelma Ritter (1902 – 1969), whose first movie role was an uncredited part in Miracle on 34th Street (1947). She won an Oscar for her performance as ‘Birdie’ in the film ‘All About Eve’ in 1950 with … Continue reading →

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