JE Smyth

studio photo of Bette Davis wearing a white shirt, short dark tie and jacket. She is a white woman with light hair.

#OnTheDay, 2 Mar 1977, Bette Davis receives the American Film Institute's lifetime achievement award. She is the first woman to win it.

Of the 51 recipients to date, 11 have been women.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #WHM #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInHollywood 🗃️

David holding Hobo the dog, his costar in ‘Please Don’t Eat the Daisies’.

´I make two movies a year to take care of the butcher and the baker and the school fees. Then I try to write, but it’s not that easy. Acting is what’s easy.’
—David Niven #BOTD 💖 🎥 🎂#FilmSky #writers

Petition · Stop the Proposed #TrumpTower Development on the #GoldCoast - Australia 🇦🇺
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Kino Lorber and Eureka have released it. Maybe Criterion doesn’t think he’s commercial enough. 🤣

‘KPop Demon Hunters,’ Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ Joining Criterion Collection (EXCLUSIVE) 'KPop Demon Hunters' and Guillermo del Toro’s 'Frankenstein' are two of Netflix's award season films that are joining the Criterion Collection.

Used to be irritated the Criterion Collection snubbed Fred Zinnemann’s films (the only one of his they’ve reproed is REDES and he’s only got a codirector cred for that). But this 👇 makes me think he’d be fine with not being part of the ‘brand’…

#Zinnemann #FilmCanons

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🧑‍🎨🎂“Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.”

Happy Birthday, Edward Gorey, who was never boring.

Reviewing the BBC's Charter - British Broadcasting Challenge The government's BBC Charter consultation closes 10 March 2026. Download our guides to help you respond.

Some great, clear and accessible guidance is now available on how you can respond to the Government's open consultation on the BBC Charter Review. If the BBC matters to you then please get involved. The closing date is 10 March. britishbroadcastingchallenge.com

If you can see ALL MY SONS at Wyndham’s in London, go. It closes on Bryan Cranston’s 70th birthday.

He, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, and the rest of the cast are phenomenal.

Frederick Wiseman showed us the world and its institutions in all their cruelty and humanity. A prolific and essential documentarian, he will be missed.

RIP, 1930-2026

Young Dirk Bogarde.

I’ve seen two TikTok’s this week with authors saying “I have to promote my book or no one buys it, sorry for being annoying” and I feel like it’s a good day to echo that sentiment.

You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).

Investigation launched after Golden Eagle found with shotgun injuries in Scottish Borders A police investigation is underway after a four-year-old Golden Eagle was found shot in the Scottish Borders last month.

When does this madness end?!

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Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why

“The abolition of gender studies is a way of further guaranteeing impunity to the elite men whose contempt for and exploitation of women and girls apparently knew no bounds, whether they actually slept with the women on offer or simply shared Epstein’s fantasies in order to gain influence.”

‘A different set of rules’: thermal drone footage shows Musk’s AI power plant flouting clean air regulations Images confirm xAI is continuing to defy EPA regulations in Mississippi to power its flagship datacenters

So-called AI - not up in "the cloud", but very much down to earth and causing massive damage to #PublicHealth and environmental damage

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Woman holding a flower

Remembering Jean Muir, actress and educator, #BOTD in 1911. Blacklisted because of her support for feminist and civil rights groups…

Here she is as Helena in ´A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ (1935), adapted by her friend Mary McCall Jr.

Too many people underestimate how evil Google is and how impactful its evil is. Yeah, the company that struck down its "don't be evil" maxim a while ago, because I guess it felt too constraining.

It would be embarrassing under any circumstances to spend a year on this reactionary horseshit, but to have spent the year in which graduate students were sent to concentration camps for op-eds and the federal govt launched a no hold barred attack on academic freedom is just beyond

Agents Who Shot Marimar Martinez Caught On Video Saying 'Do Something, Bitch' Newly released body camera footage shows Border Patrol agents swerving their car into the Chicago woman before shooting her five times.

The Border Patrol agents lied. They always lie. And they lie to destroy other people's lives for fun.

www.huffpost.com/entry/border...

The misogyny in that diseased, rotten country knows no bounds. 👇

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We Can Make an Impact. Save the cockerel

Save the Colonel. He’s been served with an ASBO/ Noise Abatement Order for crowing— thanks to a neighbour’s anonymous complaint. Consider signing this petition to stop
South Norfolk Council persecuting him and his owner.

👇👇

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How to describe this portrait of RC? ‘A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.’

What when drunk, one sees in other men, one sees in Ronald Colman sober.

#FilmSky 🎂

Very pleased to share details of a new permanent academic job opportunity in Creative & Cultural Industries at University College Dublin. We are seeking candidates with a PhD whose work engages with the commercial creative industries. Deadline: 6 March 2026 universityvacancies.com/university-c....

Every Sunday evening.

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Alla Demidova as Laura Lyons in the Soviet (Lenfilm) Hound of the Baskervilles (Igor Maslennikov, 1981).
Probably the coolest Mrs Lyons in any filmed version of Sherlock Holmes' most well-known novel.

A man cuddles his dog. The dog looks at the camera.

‘Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world.’ — James Dean

Except when the actor is with his dog.

Dean and Tuck, 1955.

Sonia Fraser obituary Other lives: Actor, director, writer, drama teacher and psychotherapist

If this is the Birmingham rep production, the woman in the photo is Sonia Fraser:

www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/d...

I’m introducing another generation of students to JULIA (1977) today…

I love you, Vanessa! Happy birthday!

🥳 #Redgrave #Fonda #Zinnemann #AlvinSargent #LillianHellman #Julia