Halloween Treats

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAxwlzA8oK8wf0VYIaqBupsZEjT3OLbVnO2kYYDguCeZT6x1onHqUFchaQVX-gUoFBut6xZwtIHZJA0LyEZMmCs6RVx353lI2dyID_GeG9wcVp9qRVZczUKO8dGiX0d_X3KgUnqSIumO4/s1600/meet+me+in+st+louis.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAxwlzA8oK8wf0VYIaqBupsZEjT3OLbVnO2kYYDguCeZT6x1onHqUFchaQVX-gUoFBut6xZwtIHZJA0LyEZMmCs6RVx353lI2dyID_GeG9wcVp9qRVZczUKO8dGiX0d_X3KgUnqSIumO4/s400/meet+me+in+st+louis.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Joan Carroll and Margaret O'Brien in <i>Meet Me in St. Louis</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The origins of Halloween go back to the ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain (pronounced sow<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ˊ</span>-in)</span>.<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Samhain began on the eve of October 31 and heralded the Celtic New Year on November 1. The Celts believed that during Samhain the divide between the living and the dead vanished, allowing spirits of the departed to briefly visit the world of the living. With the advent of Christianity, the Celtic New Year was</span><br /><a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> refashioned as All-Saints Day (November 1) and October 31, now known as All Hallows Eve, ushered in a festival called All Hallows.</span><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjovGAj-VERPwhuvuEijlT6CZI7WCZ26HS-6641oN_1gyjwrJhc58DHBfwwUUGTUwaNwmPMUK_8jT5mKvoCBQRG9lzGzY94SM4VQ7EugVp65ROhMKXe652Ri71pzOPWIVIfSa1VerK-OX0/s1600/innocents.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjovGAj-VERPwhuvuEijlT6CZI7WCZ26HS-6641oN_1gyjwrJhc58DHBfwwUUGTUwaNwmPMUK_8jT5mKvoCBQRG9lzGzY94SM4VQ7EugVp65ROhMKXe652Ri71pzOPWIVIfSa1VerK-OX0/s400/innocents.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Innocence</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today, October 31st is celebrated as Halloween, a night of costumed revelry and, if we're young or young at heart, "trick or treating." We classic film buffs usually include classic ghost or horror films as part of the holiday's festivities. This October, Turner Classic Movies has been offering "spooktacular" "fright films" with 'Classic Horror' every Wednesday though Halloween. Among the films featured so far was one of my own eerie favorites, Jack Clayton's <i><a href="http://eves-reel-life.blogspot.com/2011/09/nuanced-terror-jack-claytons-innocents.html"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">The Innocents</span></b></a> </i>(1961), based on a stage play of the same name that was an adaptation of the Henry James novella <u>The Turn of the Screw</u>. Deborah Kerr starred and considered her performance as the distressed governess of two precocious children the best of her career.</span><br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSXvzxFor2xSg2soRUJvFdTxRBRHv9S4at3yMSKnlhXUsIiij8OPr1T_YkUlrtfdTUHQAkXrXLKQ9oRRzNE1Jwup5L_REoa3EM7TZlkBsR-ZW2VyIxKN8rMu7IpUCnYWDK4wGugSN8DDg/s1600/Uninvited.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSXvzxFor2xSg2soRUJvFdTxRBRHv9S4at3yMSKnlhXUsIiij8OPr1T_YkUlrtfdTUHQAkXrXLKQ9oRRzNE1Jwup5L_REoa3EM7TZlkBsR-ZW2VyIxKN8rMu7IpUCnYWDK4wGugSN8DDg/s320/Uninvited.jpg" width="309" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...uninvited</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">TCM also aired the 1944 ghost classic <i>The Uninvited </i>as part of this month's "scarefest." Lighter but reminiscent in some ways of the Hitchcock's <i>Rebecca</i> (1940), it stars Ray Milland, features the film debut of Gail Russell and introduced Victor Young's classic song "<a href="http://eves-reel-life.blogspot.com/2011/10/haunting-melody-of-uninvited-1944.html"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Stella by Starlight</b></span></a>." I took a closer look at both <i>The Uninvited </i>and <i>Rebecca</i> last November with <a href="http://eves-reel-life.blogspot.com/2011/11/chill-in-air-part-i.html"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>A Chill in the Air Part I</i></span></b></a> and <a href="http://eves-reel-life.blogspot.com/2011/11/chill-in-air-part-ii.html"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>Part II</i></span></b></a>.</span><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn8koTCQAukMVQ5JD49HhgxuGNCPHDHo8tY-2UbyLdzp8iWDbf6Njp_nWNf7dBp3U6yQoA8sE8gi73VHXnlYcwJ4j9_Jp-q_HVkzZEHaoVFyxZAntPhXmZ5y22IB-S-cx033Hjl9aVc5Q/s1600/a+witch.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn8koTCQAukMVQ5JD49HhgxuGNCPHDHo8tY-2UbyLdzp8iWDbf6Njp_nWNf7dBp3U6yQoA8sE8gi73VHXnlYcwJ4j9_Jp-q_HVkzZEHaoVFyxZAntPhXmZ5y22IB-S-cx033Hjl9aVc5Q/s320/a+witch.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...a witch</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Also spotlighted on TCM this month, though as part of its political series rather than a lead-in to Halloween, was Rene Clair's <i>I Married a Witch</i> (1942), starring Veronica Lake as a 300 year old witch and Fredric March as a rising politician. <a href="http://anotheroldmovieblog.blogspot.com/2012/10/i-married-witch-1942.html"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Click here</span></b></a> for Jacqueline T. Lynch's thoroughly entertaining review at <i>Another Old Movie Blog</i>.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tonight, All Hallows Eve has finally arrived and Turner Classic Movies is featuring Universal horror classics: <i>Frankenstein </i>(1931), <i>Son of Frankenstein </i>(1939), <i>The Wolf Man </i>(1941), <i>The Mummy </i>(1932), <i>The Mummy's Hand </i>(1940) and <i>Island of Lost Souls </i>(1933).</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And my costume choice this year:  </span><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK4whrqnLb-Mup_LrqE4lTdSUvf2CFmT_wnjJ_vqS6NrpfNJXpN7cvhR_uj5nwi5u4d4QChHGKhlwaaG9hw85LPZDyUlqGOMW9vzKCk68wHJdXYhND1hTc_AxSHmiS-RwFpbz48ZvZehg/s1600/Breakfast-at-Tiffanys_Audrey-Hepburn-cat-mask.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK4whrqnLb-Mup_LrqE4lTdSUvf2CFmT_wnjJ_vqS6NrpfNJXpN7cvhR_uj5nwi5u4d4QChHGKhlwaaG9hw85LPZDyUlqGOMW9vzKCk68wHJdXYhND1hTc_AxSHmiS-RwFpbz48ZvZehg/s400/Breakfast-at-Tiffanys_Audrey-Hepburn-cat-mask.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Audrey Hepburn in <i>Breakfast at Tiffany's</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>

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