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Movie Profiles & Premiums
Volume 4, Number 3. March 15, 2006
These changes, and some similar ones coming soon, were made because it occurred to me that the site was beginning to stray from it's original intention -- this site is for vintage movie collectibles, especially the oddball stuff, and the profile pages were meant from the start to be material that delivered you to the collectibles. I got the feeling that the stars, collectibles, and even the films that I'm writing up myself in my Classic DVD section were becoming three separate areas of the site. I want to change that -- there are plenty of sites about classic movie stars, plenty of sites about classic movies, and a few about the classic collectibles, though I like to think I touch upon some different items. The plan is to make these three separate portions of the site come together. Of course this will all take awhile, but on the bright side, the Profile pages are all done, the DVD review pages are all done (since most of those pages are still to come anyway!) and now I have to start working on the collectibles. I did complete a couple of pages of collectibles, so if you're curious:
1936 R95 8x10 Linen Premium
Photos Visiting those pages you'll see that any highlighted name will deliver you to that star's profile page. Once on the profile page you can jump to another profile page if there's a star's name hyperlinked on that page, or to a DVD review page if it's a film title. You'll also see select collectibles highlighted by blue boxes, that will bring you to a Photo ID Guide. While doing this I'll be able to fix a lot of old faulty sales links as well, I know those must be a pain! Tammy Stone returns this issue and places Gloria Swanson into her Silent Collection. There is no accompanying slide show for Swanson, as my images are limited to those appearing on the profile page on the site. I had a lot more images at one time, but when I left my old image host last summer I deleted an awful lot of good stuff. Oh well, there are still some interesting images on the page. In lieu of the slide show I have written up a little review of Sunset Boulevard as part of Cliff's Classic DVD List. After Tammy submitted her piece I figured, what the heck, I was due to watch Sunset again anyway, may as well do it right and get it on the site. Hope you enjoy it. That list has been an ongoing project of mine for a few months now and if you follow it you'll know I changed format a few times. Some of my mini-reviews were getting too long to be displayed the way I had originally presented this section, so I decided to give each film it's own page. A lot of them were too short for their own page, or I hadn't watched the movie in awhile, so I ended up deleting a lot of what I had originally written. Now some of the entries that I carried over from the original list seem to be lacking, but each one that I've written seems to get longer and longer with Sunset Boulevard setting the new record. Other recent additions have been Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941), Shane (1953), and Captains Courageous (1937). If you're still buying VHS yourself I've put another big lot of movies from my personal collection up at auction on eBay. I have a broken VCR hooked up to my TV, because I'm scared to play with the connection and screw up what works, so I haven't watched any VHS in quite awhile now. I'm still clinging to a few of my tougher titles, but this lot includes about a dozen that I've picked up on DVD since the last time I auctioned videos (including a lot of Errol Flynn and Humphrey Bogart), plus some rarer titles that I've decided I won't be watching again until they're out on DVD anyway, such as Malaya and So Proudly We Hail. If you're interested in bidding, the auction ends next Sunday afternoon and can be found here on eBay. $9.99 minimum bid with no reserve. Some other quick notes before we get to the profile: I put up a new page that's meant as a companion to my Classic DVD Page, for lack of a better title it's called, Cliff's Movie Book List. I haven't had a chance to cover them yet, basically it's a page of links to Amazon for movie related books that are up on my shelf and in plain sight right now. You may have most of them, or possibly all of them, but I always like coming upon these types of lists myself to find items that I don't have or haven't heard of. In the future I'll try to write a little something about each title on this list. Gina LoBiondo, who has contributed her excellent Janet Gaynor piece to this site, has updated her Janet Gaynor memoir to 28-pages and adjust the price to $25. More information is available on the Janet Gaynor page of things-and-other-stuff.com. I added a link that I really liked and you may like too: Jolly Roger Pirate Journal - Home of Redbeard Bob. If you are interested in Pirate movies (or pirates in general) this is the place to go, here's what I wrote on my links page: Okay, this one is not really a movie-star related site, it's a Pirate site (!), but it fits in this link category best. When you get to Redbeard Bob's home page, scroll down and click on the "Libertine Pirate" to reach his main index. Then take a look at the menu on the left side of that page and scroll down until you reach "Hollywood Pirates" and then under that click on "Redbeard" Bob's Pirate Filmology. It's billed as the largest index of pirate films on the net, and it's certainly pretty long and very interesting. You can also purchase Redbeard Bob L'Aloge's book, "Matinee at the Bijou" as advertised on his home page (one of several titles he has authored). It's a fun site in general, enjoy! When you come back feel free to once again explore some of the swashbuckler profiles on things-and-other-stuff.com, such as Errol Flynn and Basil Rathbone. Of course don't forget to visit my eBay Auctions and the blog. And now, here is our main feature:
Gloria Swanson in The Silent
Collection by Tammy Stone And that's it this time around. The
next issue of The Movie Profiles and Premiums Newsletter is scheduled for
April 15 -- note that date and then note that the next issue may be either a
couple of days late or a couple of days early...I'll be spending my time
crunching numbers for the tax man. Thanks, and have a great month!
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