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Happy birthday wishes to film historian Jeanine Basinger!
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Happy birthday wishes to film historian Jeanine Basinger!
The Buffy creator, once an icon of Hollywood feminism, is now an outcast accused of misogyny. How did he get here?
“And now, tales of horror and woe.”
“God made me a singer, and I just sang.”
Deanna Durbin performing 'You Wanna Keep Your Baby Lookin’ Right’ in SOMETHING IN THE WIND (dir. Irving Pichel, Universal Pictures 1947), also starring Donald O’Connor and John Dahl.
Happy Birthday Deanna! ♥ December 4, 1921 - April 17, 2013
“Deanna Durbin’s movies are about innocence and sweetness. They’re from a different time and a different place. Outside the movie house, there was Depression, poverty, war, death, and loss. Audiences then were willing to pretend, to enter into a game of escape. No one really thought that the world was like a Deanna Durbin movie, they just wanted to pretend it was for about an hour and a half.” © Jeanine Basinger, “The Star Machine” Vintage Books - Random House, Inc., 2007
A glorious new magnus opus from critic and historian Jeanine Basinger, The Movie Musical! It’s out now from Knopf.
Jeanine Basinger’s “The Movie Musical!” is an encyclopedic tribute to musicals past and present.
The Movie Musical! by Jeanine Basinger https://amzn.to/2QoQsAw
The transition to sound revealed that the peculiar quality of the stars of silent film-- no voice-- was really an asset that had lifted them up into a godlike status. Sound brought them down to earth. It was not that silent film stars didn't seem realistic or approachable in their own era; on the contrary, many projected that kind of intimacy. But the illusion that silent film presents is removed from the everyday-- even when it's about everyday things-- because audiences supply sound in a world without voices.
Jeanine Basinger, Silent Stars
Happy birthday to film scholar/historian Jeanine Basinger
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