Adrian Garvey
@adriangarv.bsky.social
Film Historian, Counter Jumper, Dog Lover. Interests include: film performance, stardom, melodrama, noir, musicals, Hitchcock, British cinema, James Mason, and any combination of the above. Favourite film: LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN (1945).
RIP Maria Riva (1924-2025).
October 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
RIP Maria Riva (1924-2025).
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Mantrap (USA, 1926). It is a comedy film based on the novel of the same name by Sinclair Lewis. It stars Clara Bow, Percy Marmont, Ernest Torrence, Ford Sterling, and Eugene Pallette, and was directed by Victor Fleming.
Wikipedia link: en.wikipedia.org/wik...
#silentfilm #movie
Wikipedia link: en.wikipedia.org/wik...
#silentfilm #movie
October 28, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Mantrap (USA, 1926). It is a comedy film based on the novel of the same name by Sinclair Lewis. It stars Clara Bow, Percy Marmont, Ernest Torrence, Ford Sterling, and Eugene Pallette, and was directed by Victor Fleming.
Wikipedia link: en.wikipedia.org/wik...
#silentfilm #movie
Wikipedia link: en.wikipedia.org/wik...
#silentfilm #movie
In 1978 Diane Keaton received her Oscar from Janet Gaynor, 50 years after Gaynor won the first Best Actress award. #dianekeaton #janetgaynor #oscars #academyawards
October 21, 2025 at 10:13 AM
In 1978 Diane Keaton received her Oscar from Janet Gaynor, 50 years after Gaynor won the first Best Actress award. #dianekeaton #janetgaynor #oscars #academyawards
Some of the great credit sequence for PORTRAIT IN BLACK (Michael Gordon, 1960).
October 16, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Some of the great credit sequence for PORTRAIT IN BLACK (Michael Gordon, 1960).
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I finally got a chance to write one of my dream assignments, an in depth evaluation of Daniel Day-Lewis, an actor whose achievements and methods cast a long shadow over the field, and whose work is often misunderstood.
slate.com/culture/2025...
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Only One Performer Has Won Three Best Actor Oscars. Is It Fair That He’s Also a Joke?
He might be the greatest actor of all time—and the most misunderstood.
slate.com
October 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I finally got a chance to write one of my dream assignments, an in depth evaluation of Daniel Day-Lewis, an actor whose achievements and methods cast a long shadow over the field, and whose work is often misunderstood.
slate.com/culture/2025...
slate.com/culture/2025...
RIP Robert Redford. Seen here on London’s South Bank by the BFI in the 1970s.
September 16, 2025 at 2:11 PM
RIP Robert Redford. Seen here on London’s South Bank by the BFI in the 1970s.
New York Times, 14 August, 1947.
May 22, 2025 at 8:24 AM
New York Times, 14 August, 1947.
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What was the first movie screened in the White House of the US president?
The short answer is that we don't know exact titles but we do know some details.
The year was 1908, the president was Roosevelt (Teddy) and the subject was birdlife of the Yorkshire dales.
The short answer is that we don't know exact titles but we do know some details.
The year was 1908, the president was Roosevelt (Teddy) and the subject was birdlife of the Yorkshire dales.
February 17, 2025 at 7:16 PM
What was the first movie screened in the White House of the US president?
The short answer is that we don't know exact titles but we do know some details.
The year was 1908, the president was Roosevelt (Teddy) and the subject was birdlife of the Yorkshire dales.
The short answer is that we don't know exact titles but we do know some details.
The year was 1908, the president was Roosevelt (Teddy) and the subject was birdlife of the Yorkshire dales.
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The Guardian asked me to choose a comfort watch for bleak days. Not a difficult decision. www.theguardian.com/film/2024/no...
‘Makes my heart beat faster’: why I Know Where I’m Going! is my feelgood movie
In the first of a new series in which writers explain their favourite mood-lifting watch, an ode to a charming 40s romance
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2024 at 11:45 AM
The Guardian asked me to choose a comfort watch for bleak days. Not a difficult decision. www.theguardian.com/film/2024/no...
It’s Koda’s ‘Gotcha’ Day again, eight years since we brought him home from Battersea Dogs Home. He’s now 11, but ageing gracefully as you see. Also shown posing with an iPad back then, we were trying to show someone how big how he was.
November 16, 2024 at 9:44 AM
It’s Koda’s ‘Gotcha’ Day again, eight years since we brought him home from Battersea Dogs Home. He’s now 11, but ageing gracefully as you see. Also shown posing with an iPad back then, we were trying to show someone how big how he was.
Charing Cross Station tonight
🎼 The Supremes ‘Children’s Christmas Song’
🎼 The Supremes ‘Children’s Christmas Song’
November 15, 2024 at 9:03 PM
Charing Cross Station tonight
🎼 The Supremes ‘Children’s Christmas Song’
🎼 The Supremes ‘Children’s Christmas Song’
Alec: I do love you, so very much. I love you with all my heart and soul.
Laura: I want to die. If only I could die...
Alec: If you died you'd forget me. I want to be remembered.
Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard in BRIEF ENCOUNTER (David Lean, 1945).
Laura: I want to die. If only I could die...
Alec: If you died you'd forget me. I want to be remembered.
Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard in BRIEF ENCOUNTER (David Lean, 1945).
November 13, 2024 at 1:53 PM
Alec: I do love you, so very much. I love you with all my heart and soul.
Laura: I want to die. If only I could die...
Alec: If you died you'd forget me. I want to be remembered.
Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard in BRIEF ENCOUNTER (David Lean, 1945).
Laura: I want to die. If only I could die...
Alec: If you died you'd forget me. I want to be remembered.
Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard in BRIEF ENCOUNTER (David Lean, 1945).
BRIEF ENCOUNTER premiered on this day in 1945. It was directed by David Lean of course, but Noël Coward is, understandably, given prominence. This was their fourth and final collaboration, after IN WHICH WE SERVE, THIS HAPPY BREED and BLITHE SPIRIT.
November 13, 2024 at 1:37 PM
BRIEF ENCOUNTER premiered on this day in 1945. It was directed by David Lean of course, but Noël Coward is, understandably, given prominence. This was their fourth and final collaboration, after IN WHICH WE SERVE, THIS HAPPY BREED and BLITHE SPIRIT.
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Van Heflin, Marlene Dietrich, and Claude Rains rehearsing for a CBS Radio Production of ‘Madame Bovary’ in 1948.
November 11, 2024 at 9:10 PM
Van Heflin, Marlene Dietrich, and Claude Rains rehearsing for a CBS Radio Production of ‘Madame Bovary’ in 1948.
KNEECAP (2024) Streamed this last night and loved it. It’s the Gaelic hip-hop group’s own story, they play themselves, and is outrageously funny and sharp about Northern Ireland's 'ceasefire generation'. Stylistically, it borrows from TRAINSPOTTING et al, but it has a humour and energy of its own.
November 11, 2024 at 12:57 PM
KNEECAP (2024) Streamed this last night and loved it. It’s the Gaelic hip-hop group’s own story, they play themselves, and is outrageously funny and sharp about Northern Ireland's 'ceasefire generation'. Stylistically, it borrows from TRAINSPOTTING et al, but it has a humour and energy of its own.
My first post. For Remembrance Sunday, here's the great Claude Rains, an upcoming stage actor when he joined up in 1916. An injury to his vocal chords from a severe shell attack in 1917 gave him his distinctive ‘honey with gravel' voice. He stayed in the Army, only resuming his career in 1919.
November 10, 2024 at 2:34 PM
My first post. For Remembrance Sunday, here's the great Claude Rains, an upcoming stage actor when he joined up in 1916. An injury to his vocal chords from a severe shell attack in 1917 gave him his distinctive ‘honey with gravel' voice. He stayed in the Army, only resuming his career in 1919.