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Jessica Pickens @hollywoodcomet.bsky.social · 4h

Now Watching
SLAUGHTER (1972)

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Jessica Pickens @hollywoodcomet.bsky.social · 5h

Dancer, actress Cyd Charisse in a Halloween publicity photo

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Jessica Pickens @hollywoodcomet.bsky.social · 5h

Just one year but yes 😁

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Jessica Pickens @hollywoodcomet.bsky.social · 7h

Jungle Red 💅

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Jessica Pickens @hollywoodcomet.bsky.social · 1d

Photo of me slaying in a navy blue ann Taylor jump suit

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Jessica Pickens @hollywoodcomet.bsky.social · 4d

This week's Musical Monday was the first movie musical filmed in 3D.
It was also the first and only film to feature singer Teresa Brewer, who turned down a contract; preferring to stay on the East Coast with her family. Full review here:
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Musical Monday: Those Redheads from Seattle (1953)

It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this mu…

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Jessica Pickens @hollywoodcomet.bsky.social · 5d

Musical Monday: Those Redheads from Seattle (1953)
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Musical Monday: Those Redheads from Seattle (1953)

It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this mu…

cometoverhollywood.com

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Jessica Pickens @hollywoodcomet.bsky.social · 7d

Now Watching
The Spy with My Face (1965)

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Jessica Pickens @hollywoodcomet.bsky.social · 8d

Remembering actress Samantha Eggar, who has passed away at age 86.

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Actress with red hair and in a blue and white striped shirt.

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Jessica Pickens @hollywoodcomet.bsky.social · 10d

Painter and sculptor George Peters making Halloween masks in Hollywood in 1932.

A sculptor is standing before 5 huge spooky masks that are hanging in a wall, ranging from a pirate to other creepy faces

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Jessica Pickens @hollywoodcomet.bsky.social · 12d

The underrated Tommy Sands makes his feature film debut in this week's Musical Monday. The story features a young rock star with a controlling and isolating manager - it's so similar to Elvis that I'm shocked there wasn't a law suit.
Full review here:
cometoverhollywood.com/2025/10/13/m...

Tommy Sands standing behind a microphone and singing while playing the guitar. A quartet of male singers are behind him on a stage.

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Jessica Pickens @hollywoodcomet.bsky.social · 12d

The underrated Tommy Sands makes his feature film debut in this week's Musical Monday. The story features a young rock star with a controlling and isolating manager - it's so similar to Elvis that I'm shocked there wasn't a law suit.
Full review here:
cometoverhollywood.com/2025/10/13/m...

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Jessica Pickens @hollywoodcomet.bsky.social · 12d

Musical Monday: Sing Boy Sing (1958)
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Musical Monday: Sing Boy Sing (1958)

It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals.In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this mus…

cometoverhollywood.com

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Jessica Pickens @hollywoodcomet.bsky.social · 13d

I agree! So much fun

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Jessica Pickens @hollywoodcomet.bsky.social · 13d

Revisiting
Strangers May Kiss (1931)

Poster for Strangers May Kiss featuring Norma Shearer

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Jessica Pickens @hollywoodcomet.bsky.social · 13d

Revisiting a favorite
The Affairs of Martha (1942)

Poster for The Affairs of Martha (1942) with Richard Carlson and Martha Hunt

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jax ☘️ @jaxbra.bsky.social · 14d

Publicity photo of Diane Keaton, Barry McGuire, and Steve Curry in the stage production Hair (1968)

The New York Public Library Digital Collections.

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Jessica Pickens @hollywoodcomet.bsky.social · 14d

Revisiting
Private Lives (1931)

Poster for Private Lives with Norma Sheaerer and Robert Montgomery

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Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 14d

"She is the dream actress that every director should have." —Gillian Armstrong

Rest in peace to the great Diane Keaton, fearless and unique, a dream actress indeed. 📷 Norman Seeff, Los Angeles, 1975

Black and white shot of Diane Keaton in a tank top with her hands behind her head. I like this photo for its simplicity; you can feel her personality.

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Bernard Herrmann Archive @bernardherrmann.bsky.social · 16d

Hayley Mills and Hywel Bennett photographed for Sidney Gilliat‘s ENDLESS NIGHT (1972), which was based on Agatha Christie’s 1967 novel.

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Bernard Herrmann Archive @bernardherrmann.bsky.social · 18d

Publicity still for Alfred Hitchcock’s THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY (1955), featuring: Mildred Natwick, Edmund Gwenn, Jerry Mathers, Shirley MacLaine, John Forsythe and “Harry.”

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Jessica Pickens @hollywoodcomet.bsky.social · 18d

This October, I'm continuing my tradition of stars at costume parties:
English actress Margaret Lockwood wearing period fashion to the Theatrical Garden Party at the Chelsea Royal Hospital, London, part of the Chelsea Festival, June 19, 1951.
Photo by Don Price

Margaret Lockwood in 1800s/early 1900s fashion with a large hat, gown and parasol

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Jessica Pickens @hollywoodcomet.bsky.social · 19d

This week's Musical Monday features a singing sister quartet. The film introduced a song that Betty Hutton became associated with for the remainder of her career. Critics like Bosley Crowther, note Hutton as the bright spot of this film. Full review here:
cometoverhollywood.com/2025/10/06/m...

Diana Lynn, Betty Hutton, Dorothy Lamour, Mimi Chandler sing around a piano while Fred MacMurray smiles in the background.

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Jessica Pickens @hollywoodcomet.bsky.social · 19d

Musical Monday: And the Angels Sing (1944)
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Musical Monday: And the Angels Sing (1944)

It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals.In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this mus…

cometoverhollywood.com

Jessica Pickens @hollywoodcomet.bsky.social · 19d

Now Watching
Once Upon a Dream (1949)

Poster for Once Upon a Dream (1949) featuring Googie Wither and Griffith Jones

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