A portal, perhaps, attempting to bring the distant near. A reminiscence of films and players seen during 70 years. First seen in dark buildings surrounded by strangers and now watched again and again on diminished screens. Herewith some random thoughts on that flickering past. Remember when the lights went on and we had to leave the theatre? From Rick’s Café Americain to Lexington Avenue? Laszlo's on Lex.
"The only way men can respond to a star is to gaze at it from their remote planet. And even when a star passes out of our sight in the sequence of orbits; we believe that it exists still and feel the gravitational pull it exerts" ............ David Thomson in The New Biographical Dictionary of Film.
A Personal Pantheon
Bette Davis
Ethel Barrymore
Fay Bainter
Ella Raines
Marlene Dietrich
Katharine Hepburn
Kim Novak Julie Harris Aline MacMahon
Ida Lupino
Ann Dvorak
Barbara Stanwyck
Gloria Grahame
Jeanette MacDonald
Jessica Tandy
Jean Arthur Thelma Ritter Helen Walker Jan Sterling
Barbara Bel Geddes
Marie Windsor ** Rebecca Pidgeon (by Papal dispensation)
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