All about DarkPages noir mag

DARK PAGES is a bi-monthly print publication established 2005 and dedicated to all things Noir: indepth biographies of actors, actresses, directors, pulp writers, comparisons of novels to films, reader letters and suggestions, trivia quotes, a Noir on TV and DVD viewing calendar full of interesting bios and information.  DP does an annual giant issue, out at year’s end, focusing on all the angles of one special noir (2010: Out of the Past , 2011: Double Indemnity,   2012: Nightmare Alley )

I am such a regular contributor at DP, or so hard to get rid of, that they have been kind enough to bestow upon me the title of Senior Writer, and let me run the printing press sometimes. Then I run to this blog and gossip about everything that’s in the new issues. 

for Dark Pages Double Indemnity special issue 2011, I wrote on Edith Head, Wally Westmore, cinematographer John Seitz, designers/art dept. Hans Dreier, Hal Pereira & Bert Granger. for Dark Pages Out of the Past special issue 2010, I wrote on the people behind the scenes, including stories from the set, bios of director Jacques Tourneur, DP Nick Musuraca, Producer Warren Duff, editor Sam Beetley, set decorator Darrell Silvera, costumer Ed Stevenson, composer Roy Webb. I also wrote bios of pioneering black actress Theresa Harris and OOTP poster artist William Rose. For the 2012 Nightmare Alley issue I had the honor of choosing the spotlight movie, and wrote all about Tyrone Power’s performance & director Edmund Goulding. 

DARK PAGES’s editor and creator is Noir expert extraordinaire Karen Hannsberry,

author of encyclopedic books about noir actors BAD BOYS and actresses FEMME NOIR. she also blogs on noir and pre-code  at Shadows & Satin

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some of my DARK PAGES articles, with a link if posted here:

Carolyn Jones   /  my top 10 Noirs (as of Fall 2011)   /  Ella Raines  /  Wanda Hendrix   /  Donald Buka  /  Jane Russell  /  Farley Granger /  John Payne  /  Virginia Mayo  /  Joan Caulfield  /  Craig Stevens  /  Kent Smith  /  Gene Evans  /  Steve Brodie  /  John Derek  /  Joan Leslie  /  Martha Vickers  /  Richard Todd  /  the writers behind noir  /  Johnny Eager  /  Shockproof   /  Nowhere To Go /  Wendell Corey  /  Faith Domergue  /  June Vincent  /  Phil Carey  /  Van Johnson  /  Nightfall   /  Nina Foch  /  Don Galloway  /  Ricardo Montalban  /  Ann Savage  /  Marshall Thompson /  Phyllis Thaxter  /  Lola   Albright /  Richard Rober  /  Derailed, neo-noir   /  10 Great Portraits from films Noir  /  Naked City: From Page to Screen  /  Richard Widmark  /  Laraine Day  /  10 Musical Stars who made it big and changed their images by doing Noir  /  Jean Gillie  /  Lois Maxwell  /  Beverley Michaels /  Darryl Zanuck’s influence & Fox Noir  /  Mala Powers  /  Bruce Bennett  /  Janis Carter  /  Undercurrent  /  Gun Crazy  /  Side Street  /  Mona Freeman  /  Road House  /  Glenn Ford  /  Marc Lawrence / the Unsuspected

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