BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: FILM #30

“A movie imprisons your eyes. It acts on you , and you on it. Hence, you don’t ‘see’ or ‘look at’ a movie. You watch it the way a cat watches a bird until the cat strikes, kills, eats.” Leonard Michaelsquoted in Lifelines: A Commonplace Book by Charles Cherry**THE MINIDRESS SHOWN IN FORBIDDEN PLANETThe minidressContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: FILM #30”

BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: FILM #28

THE QUEEN OF POVERTY ROW According to Richard Lamparski, in his seventh Whatever Became of Series…, “Poverty Row was a group of studios on and around Gower Street in Hollywood that produced low budget movies . Columbia Pictures, where Ms. (DOROTHY) Revier was under contract,was considered a ‘poverty Row’ studio until the mid-thirties. ” DorothyContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: FILM #28”