Will Straw
@wstraw.bsky.social
James McGill Emeritus Professor of Urban Media Studies at McGill University. Scholar of cities, media, night Follow news of night culture at https://theurbannight.com/ or visit my research site at https://willstraw.com/
Bess Flowers, Queen of the Dress Extras, in Something in the Wind (1947), one of Deanna Durbin's last films.
June 29, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Bess Flowers, Queen of the Dress Extras, in Something in the Wind (1947), one of Deanna Durbin's last films.
Magazine history: The opening of Slander (1957), one of a handful of Hollywood films responding to the post-Confidential boom in celebrity scandal magazines .
June 16, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Magazine history: The opening of Slander (1957), one of a handful of Hollywood films responding to the post-Confidential boom in celebrity scandal magazines .
I watched this because one of the writers was Gordon Kahn, a reporter for Broadway Brevities (the focus of a lot of my researcher) and the blacklisted author of Hollywood on Trial. But it also has Bess Flowers dancing in the background of a nightclub sequence . . .
February 4, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I watched this because one of the writers was Gordon Kahn, a reporter for Broadway Brevities (the focus of a lot of my researcher) and the blacklisted author of Hollywood on Trial. But it also has Bess Flowers dancing in the background of a nightclub sequence . . .
Bess Flowers, Queen of the Extras, slumming on Poverty Row (but with more lines) in His Sister's Secret (1946).
January 27, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Bess Flowers, Queen of the Extras, slumming on Poverty Row (but with more lines) in His Sister's Secret (1946).