Rosemarie Keenan's guest appearances

Rosemarie Keenan

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Marie Antoinette

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Sara Smith

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"Rear Window" starring James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter and Raymond Burr. James Stewart stars as a wheelchair bound photographer who believes he’s witness to a murder out of his back window.Director: Alfred HitchcockCostume Designer: Edith HeadStudio: Paramount PicturesYear: 1954

"Rear Window" starring James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter and Raymond Burr. James Stewart stars as a wheelchair bound photographer who believes he’s witness to a murder out of his back window. Director: Alfred Hitchcock Costume Designer: Edith Head Studio: Paramount Pictures Year: 1954

Episode 83 - Rear Window with Special Guest: Vince and Rosemarie Keenan

The co-authors of the classic Hollywood mysteries "Design For Dying" and "Dangerous To Know" join us to talk noir, costume design, and mystery writing. We start with their appearance at NOIR CITY Hollywood to introduce This Gun For Hire (2:30), as well as some of this year's movies at their hometown festival of NOIR CITY Seattle, including The Taking Of Pelham 123 and The Ladykillers (4:00). We also discuss the editing and production of the Film Noir Foundation's NOIR CITY e-magazine, where Vince is the co-managing editor (13:20), plus Vince's long-running "Cocktails And Crime" e-magazine column (17:45).Then it's on to legendary costume designer Edith Head. We talk about the Keenans' e-magazine article exploring her career and her work on film noir (21:00), her partnerships with Alfred Hitchcock and Grace Kelly (28:20), plus her work designing clothes for the Academy Awards and for Bette Davis (32:10). Edith Head co-stars in the Keenans' books written under the pseudonym Renee Patrick. We discuss the origins of writing mystery novels centered around costume design in classic Hollywood, plus Edith's partner in fighting crime, Lillian Frost (37:40). Then we talk about the mechanics of mystery writing (where Vince explains the term "pantser") (43:50), choosing the books' titles (46:50), some of the amazing true Hollywood stories and real-life people who appear throughout the novels (51:00), inventing names for a fictional movie studio and some particularly entertaining fake movie titles (1:05:40), and what's next for Lillian and Edith in more novels to come (1:12:55).Contribute to the FNF to receive a year-long subscription to the quarterly NOIR CITY e-magazine: http://www.filmnoirfoundation.org/noircityemag.htmlMore information on the Renee Patrick novels at their website reneepatrickbooks.com, including the origin of the pseudonym here: http://reneepatrickbooks.com/blog/faq-3Design For Dying: https://www.amazon.com/Design-Dying-Lillian-Frost-Edith/dp/0765381842/Dangerous To Know: https://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Know-Lillian-Frost-Edith/dp/0765381869/Vince's classic cocktail book "Down The Hatch" is available on Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/Down-Hatch-Odyssey-Through-Cocktail-ebook/dp/B00FIU1IQC/Please send us feedback on the podcast at podcast@filmnoirfoundation.org.Music: Themes from The Sniper (by George Antheil), Double Indemnity (Miklos Rozsa), The Ladykillers (Tristram Cary), and Rear Window (Franz Waxman).Edith Head's narration from the Motion Picture Academy short film "The Costume Designer": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCmXDnneSlg

The co-authors of the classic Hollywood mysteries "Design For Dying" and "Dangerous To Know" join us to talk noir, costume design, and mystery writing. We start with their appearance at NOIR CITY Hollywood to introduce This Gun For Hire (2:30), as well as some of this year's movies at their hometown festival of NOIR CITY Seattle, including The Taking Of Pelham 123 and The Ladykillers (4:00). We also discuss the editing and production of the Film Noir Foundation's NOIR CITY e-magazine, where Vince is the co-managing editor (13:20), plus Vince's long-running "Cocktails And Crime" e-magazine column (17:45). Then it's on to legendary costume designer Edith Head. We talk about the Keenans' e-magazine article exploring her career and her work on film noir (21:00), her partnerships with Alfred Hitchcock and Grace Kelly (28:20), plus her work designing clothes for the Academy Awards and for Bette Davis (32:10). Edith Head co-stars in the Keenans' books written under the pseudonym Renee Patrick. We discuss the origins of writing mystery novels centered around costume design in classic Hollywood, plus Edith's partner in fighting crime, Lillian Frost (37:40). Then we talk about the mechanics of mystery writing (where Vince explains the term "pantser") (43:50), choosing the books' titles (46:50), some of the amazing true Hollywood stories and real-life people who appear throughout the novels (51:00), inventing names for a fictional movie studio and some particularly entertaining fake movie titles (1:05:40), and what's next for Lillian and Edith in more novels to come (1:12:55). Contribute to the FNF to receive a year-long subscription to the quarterly NOIR CITY e-magazine: <a href="http://www.filmnoirfoundation.org/noircityemag.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.filmnoirfoundation.org/noircityemag.html</a> More information on the Renee Patrick novels at their website <a href="http://reneepatrickbooks.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">reneepatrickbooks.com</a>, including the origin of the pseudonym here: <a href="http://reneepatrickbooks.com/blog/faq-3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://reneepatrickbooks.com/blog/faq-3</a> Design For Dying: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Design-Dying-Lillian-Frost-Edith/dp/0765381842/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/Design-Dying-Lillian-Frost-Edith/dp/0765381842/</a> Dangerous To Know: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Know-Lillian-Frost-Edith/dp/0765381869/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Know-Lillian-Frost-Edith/dp/0765381869/</a> Vince's classic cocktail book "Down The Hatch" is available on Kindle: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Down-Hatch-Odyssey-Through-Cocktail-ebook/dp/B00FIU1IQC/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/Down-Hatch-Odyssey-Through-Cocktail-ebook/dp/B00FIU1IQC/</a> Please send us feedback on the podcast at podcast@filmnoirfoundation.org. Music: Themes from The Sniper (by George Antheil), Double Indemnity (Miklos Rozsa), The Ladykillers (Tristram Cary), and Rear Window (Franz Waxman). Edith Head's narration from the Motion Picture Academy short film "The Costume Designer": <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCmXDnneSlg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCmXDnneSlg</a>

Ep 4: Edith Head - When Facts Become Fiction, with Vince and Rosemarie Keenan