Tribe.net. Local Connections wild♦apache http://ClassicFilmFans.tribe.net/thread/4ba8f87c-dc78-453e-8173-ad8bc559cf26#c27d45fe-98b8-43a8-a2df-c519367c7823 2009-05-18T16:36:40Z 2009-05-18T16:36:40Z

Passion http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084481/

wild♦apache 2009-05-18T16:36:40Z Babesodelicious http://ClassicFilmFans.tribe.net/thread/4ba8f87c-dc78-453e-8173-ad8bc559cf26#cf9e8148-6438-4023-9539-ff9401319def 2009-01-06T00:01:21Z 2009-01-06T00:01:21Z

"A Star Is Born" -- could that have been the first about movies making movie? At least for talkies. Made in 1937, then remade in 1954, and again in 1976. I liked the 1937 and 1954 productions. Haven't seen the 1976 version. Then "The Perils Of Pauline" (1947) was a movie about making silent movies. Then of course there's "The Man Of A Thousand Faces" (1957), with Jimmy Cagney portraying the great Lon Chaney Sr. Regarding silent movies, must be a ton of movies about movies making movies. This site -- http://lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/moviesaboutmovies.html -- lists some of them, one having been made in 1913. Didn't look at the whole list.

Babesodelicious 2009-01-06T00:01:21Z wild♦apache http://ClassicFilmFans.tribe.net/thread/4ba8f87c-dc78-453e-8173-ad8bc559cf26#24c8d6f0-aa87-4bf7-a28f-97f9f1e436f1 2008-12-30T04:19:44Z 2008-12-30T04:19:44Z

The Bad and the Beautiful http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044391/

wild♦apache 2008-12-30T04:19:44Z Elspeth http://ClassicFilmFans.tribe.net/thread/4ba8f87c-dc78-453e-8173-ad8bc559cf26#b0e961d8-6029-4b2f-bc14-2d5a9061d103 2008-11-29T00:05:40Z 2008-11-29T00:05:40Z

Paris - When It Sizzles is pretty good fun.

Elspeth 2008-11-29T00:05:40Z The Baron http://ClassicFilmFans.tribe.net/thread/4ba8f87c-dc78-453e-8173-ad8bc559cf26#379db536-dcb6-4964-9857-1bf20b08dbb4 2008-11-28T22:41:19Z 2008-11-28T22:41:19Z

Sullivan's Travels is a personal favorite.

The Baron 2008-11-28T22:41:19Z Shannon http://ClassicFilmFans.tribe.net/thread/4ba8f87c-dc78-453e-8173-ad8bc559cf26#a9213991-0fc4-4de1-9d61-d30eb7f08055 2008-11-28T22:19:33Z 2008-11-28T22:19:33Z

It's a trend that seems to have started somewhere in the early 1950s--self-reflexive movies, that are either about the movie industry, or call attention to their movie-ness in some way. I just saw Singin' in the Rain for the first time, which blew me away--it's so much stranger than I ever assumed it would be. Then there's Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, and Sunset Boulevard, from roughly the same era. What other mid-century movies about movies are there?

Shannon 2008-11-28T22:19:33Z