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BELL BOOK AND CANDLE (1958) James Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs
Dir.: Richard Quine 8:30 PM PT

A beautiful witch puts a love spell on an unsuspecting publisher.

1h 43m | Comedy | TV-PG

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"I am a camera, with its shutter open, quite passive. Some day all of this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed." ("I am a Camera")

🎭 #JohnVanDruten, English playwright and #theatre director, #DOTD 19 December 1957. #Literature

Today in Bookish and Literary History, December 8

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#OnThisDay #ThisDayinHistory #OTD #December8 #JohnMcCrae #MaxwellAnderson #AbeBurrows #GustavFreytag #JohnVanDruten #booksky

Today in Bookish and Literary History, December 8

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Today in Bookish and Literary History, November 28

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Today in Bookish and Literary History, November 28

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This is one of those days when I come across an item by chance in newspaper archives, and then I think immediately: "Oooh, I know somebody who will LOVE this. . . "

Turns out, #Philadelphia saw Viveca Lindfors' debut on the American stage, in a #johnvandruten play.
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4 frames from a film I love. George Cukor's "Gaslight". #movies #films #gaslight #ingridbergman #charlesboyer #angelalansbury #josephcotten #maywhitty #JohnVanDruten #WalterReisch #JohnLBalderston #JosephRuttenberg #BronisławKaper #barbaraeverest

English playwright John van Druten, best known for his 1951 play “I Am a Camera”, based on #ChristopherIsherwood’s Berlin diaries, was BOTD in 1901. #johnvandruten #bornonthisday #iamacamera #supergays

“I am a camera, with its shutter open, quite passive. Some day all of this will have to be will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed.”

✒️ #JohnVanDruten, English playwright (I am a Camera), was #BOTD 1 June 1901. #Theatre

4 frames from a film I love. George Cukor's "Gaslight". #movies #films #gaslight #georgecukor #gaslight #charlesboyer #ingridbergman #angelalansbury #josephcotten #josephruttenberg #bronislawkaper #johnvandruten #walterreisch #johnlbalderston

I think if I were a woman I'd wear coffee as a perfume.
– John Van Druten

#coffeequote #JohnVanDruten #coffeesky

"I am a camera, with its shutter open, quite passive. Some day all of this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed." ("I am a Camera")

🎭 #JohnVanDruten, English playwright and #theatre director, #DOTD 19 December 1957. #Literature