Lost in Time

A random collection of musings and discoveries about the past.

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Scott Eyman to Discuss “Hank & Jim” at the Silver Screen Oasis on 12/16 & 12/17. All are welcome! More here: http://silverscreenoasis.com/oasis3/viewtopic.php?f=132&t=7019

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http://silverscreenoasis.com/oasis3/viewforum.php?f=131

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http://streamline.filmstruck.com/2009/05/06/gilbert-roland-amigo/

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http://silverscreenoasis.com/oasis3/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=7001Biographer Dan Van Neste, the author of “The Magnificent Heel: The Life & Films of Ricardo Cortez” will be answering questions online at The Silver Screen Oasis on August 26th & 27th. All are welcome. More at the link below:

http://silverscreenoasis.com/oasis3/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=7001

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All things Ava will be the topic at The Silver Screen Oasis on 7/29 & 7/30 during a visit with authors Kendra Bean & Anthony Uzarowski discussing their new book, Ava Gardner: A Life in Movies. Please click on the image to visit the message board and post your own comments and questions. All are welcome.

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Are you “out on a quiet spree, fighting vainly the old ennui?” Then you might just be ready to “suddenly turn and see” this “fabulous face.” Join us at The Silver Screen Oasis in the online Q & A about Sylvia Sidney with her biographer, Scott O’Brien. 

http://silverscreenoasis.com/oasis3/viewforum.php?f=124

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Lynn Zook's Gambling on a Dream: The Classic Las Vegas Strip 1930-1955 will be discussed at the Silver Screen Oasis Message Board on 11-12 & 11-13. More at link.  http://silverscreenoasis.com/oasis3/viewforum.php?f=69

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The Q & A for the discussion of Not Just Batman's Butler: The Autobiography of Alan Napier is now open and can be found here: http://silverscreenoasis.com/oasis3/viewtopic.php?f=124&t=6932

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To celebrate classic character actors, James Bigwood will be visiting The SSO for an online Q & A about "Not Just Batman's Butler: The Autobiography of Alan Napier" (McFarland) on Saturday, 12/5 & Sunday, 12/6. All are welcome! More details can be seen at the link below:

http://silverscreenoasis.com/oasis3/viewforum.php?f=69

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The Silver Screen Oasis kicks off the holiday season with an online visit from J.B. Kaufman, film & animation historian this weekend on Nov. 21 & 22. All are welcome to post a question or just enjoy the range of topics that this exceptional guest will offer. More here:

http://silverscreenoasis.com/oasis3/viewforum.php?f=69

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The Silver Screen Oasis is pleased to welcome Carl Rollyson, the author of A Real American Character: The Life of Walter Brennan (Univ. Press of Mississippi) for an online Q & A with us on Saturday, November 7th & Sunday, November 8th. All are welcome to participate here. Walter Brennan, a consummate character actor of the studio era who stole scenes from the iconic likes of Gary Cooper, John Wayne, Spencer Tracy, Jimmy Stewart and Humphrey Bogart, was sought out by masterful directors such as Howard Hawks, John Ford, and Fritz Lang for the versatility and credibility he brought to each film. So, as one reviewer of Mr. Rollyson’s book asked, “How could an actor win three Oscars in five years yet be all but forgotten?” The possible answer to this lies in his the actor's career, in our cultural memory, and in the human being examined in the pages of our guest author's book. In the first, full length biography of this now overlooked character actor, the author drew from archival material and with the full cooperation of the Brennan family to create a portrait of an authoritative actor as he journeyed from a Massachusetts town to the harrowing battlefields of World War One to journeyman actor and ultimately to a remarkable career spanning six decades. Able to play endearing bums, brutal fathers, veteran military men, struggling con artists, gentle musicians or courageous college professors believably, Rollyson presents the reader with Brennan as a human being whose talent, work ethic and foibles make him a worthy subject for this engrossing life story.

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“But you have gone now, all you who were so beautiful when you were quick with life. Yet not gone, for you are a living truth inside my mind.”

- Richard Llewellyn in “How Green Was My Valley.”

R.I.P. Maureen O'Hara

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Jeffrey Spivak, the author of "Buzz: The Life and Art of Busby Berkeley,"  will be our guest for an online Q & A at The Silver Screen Oasis on Aug. 22nd and 23rd. Drawing on personal letters, interviews, studio memoranda, and Berkeley’s private memoirs, our visiting author created a nuanced portrait of this natural talent, whose development of the kinetic aspects of film continues to influence filmmakers to this day. Please join us at the link below to post your own question or read the exchanges this weekend. All are welcome:

http://silverscreenoasis.com/oasis3/viewforum.php?f=69&sid=aa35ad8137439d08985140f9860ec24f

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The Silver Screen Oasis welcomes David Meuel, the author of the new book, The Noir Western: Darkness on the Range 1943-1962 (McFarland, 2015) for an online discussion of this intriguing development in film during the mid-20th Century on 7/24 & 7/25. (Incidentally, July 25th has also been designated the 11th Annual Day of the Cowboy). I am particularly pleased to see David making this guest appearance, since, as a former guest blogger in 2012 on this site, he celebrated and analyzed the power ofShirley Temple, this month's Star of the Month at TCM, drawing on his insights into John Ford's women in his previous book,Women in the Films of John Ford (McFarland, 2014). You can post your own questions and read the Q & A with our Guest Author at the Silver Screen Oasis at this link this weekend: http://silverscreenoasis.com/oasis3/viewforum.php?f=69

More about the author can be seen here too:

http://moirasthread.blogspot.com/2015/07/david-meuel-to-visit-silver-screen.html

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The is online Q & A with J.R. Jones discussing his recent biography, "The Lives of Robert Ryan" (Wesleyan Film) at The Silver Screen Oasis has begun and can be seen a the link below today, July 10th and tomorrow, July 11th. All are welcome to participate there this weekend: http://silverscreenoasis.com/oasis3/viewforum.php?f=118 

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J. R. Jones, the author of the new essential biography, The Lives of Robert Ryan (Wesleyan Film) will be conducting an online Q & A at The Silver Screen Oasis on Friday, July 10th and Saturday, July 11th. All are welcome to visit the link below and share in the discussion.

http://silverscreenoasis.com/oasis3/viewforum.php?f=118

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Ann Blyth biographer Jacqueline T. Lynch to visit The Silver Screen Oasis on 6/19 & 6/20 for an online Q & A with the public. More here:

http://silverscreenoasis.com/oasis3/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=6878