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Articles by Jill Blake

About Jill Blake
Jill Blake is a writer and researcher based in Atlanta, GA. She is the co-editor of The Retro Set and the co-host of the podcast DWT: Drinking While Talking. Jill has written for various outlets including Indicator, Netflix Film, Turner Classic Movies, and FilmStruck. She is currently writing a book on stage and screen actors Fredric March and Florence Eldridge.
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Freeing the Soul: Dr. Jekyll’s First Transformation in DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (1931) 

Oct 31, 2018 Jill Blake 0

Rouben Mamoulian’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) is the definitive film version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novella Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. It’s also a stunning piece of cinema featuring innovative […]

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Directed by Nicholas Ray: On Dangerous Ground (’51)

Jun 10, 2017 Jill Blake 0

  Three years after Nicholas Ray made his directorial debut with 1948’s They Live by Night (which I wrote about here), he made On Dangerous Ground (1951), starring Robert Ryan and Ida Lupino. Written by Gerald […]

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Nicholas Ray’s Directorial Debut: They Live By Night (1949)

Jun 3, 2017 Jill Blake 0

  FilmStruck has just added programming dedicated to director Nicholas Ray, including six films he made throughout his thirty-year career and one documentary feature directed by his widow Susan Ray. One of the films included […]

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The Delightfully Perfect Blithe Spirit (1945)

May 20, 2017 Jill Blake 2

  There are countless great movies, but so few are truly perfect. Some of the movies that I consider worthy of the “perfect” designation include Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious (1946), William Wyler’s The Best Years of […]

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Don’t Watch M (1931) on Your Anniversary, and Other Unsolicited Romantic Advice

May 13, 2017 Jill Blake 0

  Today, my husband and I are celebrating our anniversary. When we were married, the two of us were young, broke and stupid. We had no earthly idea what we were doing, or what was […]

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In Spite of Myself, I Think I Might Like Stewart Granger

May 6, 2017 Jill Blake 0

  I’ll admit that I’ve always been fairly ambivalent toward actor Stewart Granger (or “the other Jimmy Stewart,” as I like to call him). I’ve never found him, or his films, particularly entertaining. Every once […]

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