Jennifer Kellow Fiorini
Lana Turner - The Ultimate Movie Star pt 2
Lana Turner, 1948. Photo from Dr. Marco's Annex. When her relationship with Tyrone Power ended, Turner attempted to quickly move on. MGM...
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Jennifer Kellow Fiorini
- Aug 28
- 4 min
Lana Turner - The Ultimate Movie Star
Lana Turner’s greatest performance was the role of the movie star, and she was so good at it that no one could think of her as anything...
Jennifer Kellow Fiorini
- Aug 9
- 3 min
When Bogey Met Bacall - Humphrey Bogart pt 2
Bogart was married three times before he met and married Lauren Bacall. His second marriage was to stage actress Mary Philips who came to...
Jennifer Kellow Fiorini
- May 16
- 4 min
Bogart - Before he was Bogey Pt 1
A young Bogart arrives in Hollywood circa 1930. Humphrey Bogart wasn’t always “Bogey.” His journey to legendary superstar was longer and...
Jennifer Kellow Fiorini
- Apr 18
- 4 min
Rita Hayworth - The Girl Behind the Goddess Pt 2
The Life Magazine portrait, August 11, 1941, that became one of the most popular pin-ups for American soldiers fighting World War II....
Jennifer Kellow Fiorini
- Mar 6
- 4 min
Rita Hayworth —The Girl Behind the Goddess, Part 1
Rita Hayworth famously said, “Men go to bed with Gilda, and wake up with me.” Who was the me behind “Gilda” and “The Lady from Shanghai?”...
Jennifer Kellow Fiorini
- Jan 25
- 5 min
Maurice Chevalier – The French lover and the modern movie musical.
Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald in The Merry Widow, 1934. Valentine’s Day is almost here, and we wrap our series on pre-Code men...
Jennifer Kellow Fiorini
- Jan 8
- 3 min
Kay Francis is Star of the Month on TCM in January.
Happy 2022! Birthday girl Kay Francis is TCM’s Star of the Month. Francis was featured in Women of pre-Code last year, this is a great...
Jennifer Kellow Fiorini
- Nov 12, 2021
- 5 min
Bela and Boris - the Birth of Modern Monsters pt 2
By Jennifer Kellow-Fiorini Boris Karloff in the 1930's Boris Karloff was born William Henry Pratt November 23, 1887, in London England....
Jennifer Kellow Fiorini
- Oct 26, 2021
- 4 min
Boris & Bela – The Birth of Modern Monsters pt 1
Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi in The Raven, 1935. Both Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff were foreigners in their 40s when they became famous...
Jennifer Kellow Fiorini
- Sep 22, 2021
- 4 min
Clark Gable - Ohio Born King of Hollywood
Gable is easily the most famous of any actor we’ve talked about from the pre-Code era. But the “King of Hollywood,” who is mostly...
Jennifer Kellow Fiorini
- Aug 28, 2021
- 4 min
Richard Barthelmess - A Modern Hero
In the silent era, Lillian Gish proclaimed him the most beautiful man in movies. But by the time talkies arrived, Richard Barthelmess was...
Jennifer Kellow Fiorini
- Jul 23, 2021
- 4 min
Edward G. Robinson - The Unlikely Star
Edward G. Robinson in the early 1930's. In the pre-Code era audiences loved personality types we would now call character actors. In the...
Jennifer Kellow Fiorini
- Jun 26, 2021
- 4 min
Lee Tracy - The Guy with all the Angles
America in the early 1930’s required a different mindset to survive and thrive than the generation before. Young men lamented that their...
Jennifer Kellow Fiorini
- May 13, 2021
- 5 min
William Powell - From Ladies Man to Debonair Detective
Urbane implies high cultivation and poise coming from wide social experience — debonair, suave, smooth, sophisticated. Urbane is a word...
Jennifer Kellow Fiorini
- Apr 23, 2021
- 4 min
Warren William - The Wolf in Wolf's Clothing
Often referred to as “the King of pre-Code” and “The Magnificent Scoundrel,” Warren William made 20 films between 1931 and the...
Jennifer Kellow Fiorini
- Mar 17, 2021
- 4 min
Jame Cagney - Sensitive Artist and Public Enemy
James Cagney worked on stage as a dancer/actor before becoming part of a new group of stars who, in 1931, were experimenting and refining...
Jennifer Kellow Fiorini
- Feb 23, 2021
- 4 min
The Making of the Modern Man in Pre-Code Cinema.
Left to right, Richard Barthelmess, James Cagney, and Clark Gable Although societal shifts for women from the teens through the 1920s and...
Jennifer Kellow Fiorini
- Jan 22, 2021
- 5 min
Ladies They Talk About - The end of an era
Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable in It Happened One Night, 1934. In selecting a handful to write about, there were so many wonderful...
Jennifer Kellow Fiorini
- Dec 31, 2020
- 5 min
Barbara Stanwyck - The Tough Cookie
Barbara Stanwyck at the height of her career in the 1940's Barbara Stanwyck is easily the best-known actress of pre-Code in this series....