Lucky Seven

<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCBTzpGJFj4Ka_zJ3CfmvdYXMaBsQCkNT_AlV_-tvs8YiAXWNvtnLIaMhBREYk3Nd9EhhfIEnsxXCtkZDsrY1cqGnGhispefysq5gBCiLVq9ZaEMOp9tYm70ofLnXfcmvPNJF9RVZFlcAX/s1600/Warhol.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCBTzpGJFj4Ka_zJ3CfmvdYXMaBsQCkNT_AlV_-tvs8YiAXWNvtnLIaMhBREYk3Nd9EhhfIEnsxXCtkZDsrY1cqGnGhispefysq5gBCiLVq9ZaEMOp9tYm70ofLnXfcmvPNJF9RVZFlcAX/s1600/Warhol.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Over the past few weeks the <i>7x7 Link Award</i> has been making its way across the classic film blogosphere. I’ve been kindly honored with this award by three of my favorite bloggers:  Ivan G. Shreve, Jr., of <a href="http://thrillingdaysofyesteryear.blogspot.com/" style="color: red;"><i>Thrilling Days of Yesteryear</i></a>, FlickChick of <a href="http://flickchick1953.blogspot.com/" style="color: red;"><i>A Person in the Dark</i></a> and Whistlingypsy of <a href="http://distant-voicesandflickering-shadows.blogspot.com/"><i><span style="color: red;">Distant Voices and Flickering Shadows</span></i></a>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /><a name='more'></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Recipients of the <i>7x7</i> are obliged to do these things:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCy2IOXhs2kmMJQDg84ALHB4npGa0Px0OU-IBq5tBg8QfrMMEVnaeifmb5kG0pdMet1Q0tdDyjYNdvq3hLttsCdYDKU8OsjXZdQ1fy36adPhAaooqHu0qenV-xkVb2XIFbdFPkpAcgN4mA/s1600/don+and+sally+draper.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCy2IOXhs2kmMJQDg84ALHB4npGa0Px0OU-IBq5tBg8QfrMMEVnaeifmb5kG0pdMet1Q0tdDyjYNdvq3hLttsCdYDKU8OsjXZdQ1fy36adPhAaooqHu0qenV-xkVb2XIFbdFPkpAcgN4mA/s320/don+and+sally+draper.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Mad Men</i>'s Don and Sally Draper</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Reveal an unknown aspect of ourselves</u>. With my current blog event, <a href="http://eves-reel-life.blogspot.com/2012/02/sunday-night-is-mad-men-nighta-blog.html" style="color: red;">a tribute to <i>Mad Men</i></a>, in mind, I’m disclosing that, in my distant youth I was a quintessential child of the ‘60s/’70s. To wit…my brother and I were taken with our parents to hear JFK deliver a speech during his presidential candidacy –I managed to grab and shake his hand by standing on an abandoned papier-mâché donkey in front of the podium. There's more, but that's enough for now. In other words, I think I have a pretty good idea where Sally Draper is headed…</span><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Single out those posts we consider our</u>:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1. <b>Most beautiful piece</b> – Possibly, <a href="http://eves-reel-life.blogspot.com/2011/05/cmba-movies-of-1939-blogathon-private.html"><i><span style="color: red;">The Private Lives of Elizabeth & Essex</span></i></a><span style="color: red;"> </span>– my entry in CMBA’s Movies of 1939 blogathon last year. Though <i>E&E</i> isn’t a favorite film of mine, I was fascinated by its history and tried to tell the story of what turned out to be one of the lesser films of that storied year in an interesting way.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih4sHAxIWP8a_JyGmPjRucxYY-qDRTafpGvARV9aLxZXqYtZu-ocsw3IcVahwcqdOB0R040VPZnPl0MSIEMyI_bfkaxYzQ0PhqZyjU5_nK89CPA5wSJER4xQNO8qrpbYG9FOXjNx-TA_UD/s1600/Edna+and+Hitch+2+resized+small+cropped.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih4sHAxIWP8a_JyGmPjRucxYY-qDRTafpGvARV9aLxZXqYtZu-ocsw3IcVahwcqdOB0R040VPZnPl0MSIEMyI_bfkaxYzQ0PhqZyjU5_nK89CPA5wSJER4xQNO8qrpbYG9FOXjNx-TA_UD/s320/Edna+and+Hitch+2+resized+small+cropped.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Edna May Wonacott on the set </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">with Alfred Hitchcock</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2. <b>Most helpful piece</b> – My pieces on child actress <a href="http://eves-reel-life.blogspot.com/2011/08/akaann-newton-of-shadow-of-doubt.html"><i><span style="color: red;">Edna May Wonacott</span></i></a><span style="color: red;"> </span>(<i>Shadow of a Doubt</i>, <i>The Bells of St. Mary’s</i>) have had a positive impact on her life. When our first interview appeared - online, in her local paper and in a classic movie journal - she began hearing from fans from all over the world. She has since received invitations to speak about her movie-making experiences at local clubs and organizations. Earlier this month a British professor of film studies/ Hitchcock authority contacted me with an interest in interviewing Edna for an upcoming book; Edna has since responded to her questions.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">3. <b>Most popular piece</b> –Hands down, <i><a href="http://eves-reel-life.blogspot.com/2011/02/marlene-dietrichadding-another-facet-to.html"><span style="color: red;">Marlene Dietrich: another facet of her legend</span></a>, </i>about the less glamorous side of the legendary goddess of screen and stage.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">4. <b>Most controversial piece</b> – I can’t think of one, but I’ll choose my pieces about <a href="http://eves-reel-life.blogspot.com/2011/08/father-and-mother-were-movie-stars.html"><span style="color: red;">Leatrice Gilbert Fountain</span></a> if only because of the controversy surrounding the career of her father, John Gilbert.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">5. <b>Most surprisingly successful piece</b> – <a href="http://eves-reel-life.blogspot.com/2011/06/location-location-location-catalina.html"><i><span style="color: red;">Location, Location Location</span></i></a>, about the movie history of Southern California’s Catalina Island. View #s for this post are through the roof. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrJCV6uung4pq9RLvTV1dR4qZdt0aHvx8T58copFattg6nlJcQ3xx06hYvOPrnWZFiYJ5DyyLZCEka4TpeqDY6Z3RrpjWji2YtEA8z9Lp4PqHIMp8o-4s-xiykFIRZZ9tOhD0zlmxmlfdj/s1600/dietrich+and+von+sternberg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrJCV6uung4pq9RLvTV1dR4qZdt0aHvx8T58copFattg6nlJcQ3xx06hYvOPrnWZFiYJ5DyyLZCEka4TpeqDY6Z3RrpjWji2YtEA8z9Lp4PqHIMp8o-4s-xiykFIRZZ9tOhD0zlmxmlfdj/s320/dietrich+and+von+sternberg.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Marlene Dietrich and Josef von Sternberg</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">6. <b>Most underrated piece</b> –<a href="http://eves-reel-life.blogspot.com/search/label/Light%20Shadow%20and%20Synergy"><i><span style="color: red;">Light, Shadow and Synergy</span></i></a> a 3-part series on the collaboration of Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich that I posted very early in this blog’s life.  I suspect it would have been more popular had it appeared later.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">7. <b>Most pride-worthy piece</b> – It's not a piece but an event, this January’s <a href="http://eves-reel-life.blogspot.com/p/month-of-vertigo-schedule-of-bloggers.html"><i><span style="color: red;">A Month of Vertigo</span></i></a><span style="color: red;"> </span>which was successful beyond my wildest dreams.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Bestow the award upon seven bloggers we follow:</u></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fellow CMBA members Allen Hefner of <a href="http://bitactors.blogspot.com/"><i><span style="color: red;">Bit Part Actor</span></i></a>, John Greco of <a href="http://twentyfourframes.wordpress.com/"><i><span style="color: red;">Twenty Four Frames</span></i></a>, Kevin Deany of <a href="http://kevinsmoviecorner.blogspot.com/"><i><span style="color: red;">Kevin’s Movie Corner</span></i></a> and Jill of <i><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://sittinonabackyardfence.com/"><span style="color: red;">Sittin’ on a Backyard</span> </a>Fence</span></i><span style="color: red;"> </span>who is hosting the fantastic tribute to Fredric March, <i>March-in-March</i> this month -along with these classic film bloggers from other corners of the blogosphere: Yvette of <a href="http://yvettecandraw.blogspot.com/"><i><span style="color: red;">…in so many words</span></i></a>, prolific blogger on art, literature and film…Kay of the entertaining and canny <a href="http://moviestarmakeover.com/"><i><span style="color: red;">Movie Star Makeover</span></i></a> who I met on Twitter…and<i> <a href="http://vintagefilmpropsandcostumes.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: red;">The Vintage Film Costume Collector</span></a></i>, who I discovered through Chistian’s blog roll on <a href="http://www.silverscreenmodiste.com/"><i style="color: red;">Silver Screen Modiste</i></a>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5sXIE1L5JLtPkkXNQcp2rtQuyiXhvIBS_bMihS-ZigWBMwbMWlX33_xzEssSvQ_z3Bh8nU_crib3S2_dnf1kHzZ91HJxVB9n3cHlJLI7VK_wjNZg1tbMyUL_y9UGi3PNwuqglBsLT6r5W/s1600/7x7+Link+Award.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5sXIE1L5JLtPkkXNQcp2rtQuyiXhvIBS_bMihS-ZigWBMwbMWlX33_xzEssSvQ_z3Bh8nU_crib3S2_dnf1kHzZ91HJxVB9n3cHlJLI7VK_wjNZg1tbMyUL_y9UGi3PNwuqglBsLT6r5W/s320/7x7+Link+Award.jpg" width="224" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div>

7x7 Link Award Lucky Seven

Over the past few weeks the 7x7 Link Award has been making its way across the classic film blogosphere. I’ve been kindly honored with this ...

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