B Movies
How It's Used
“As a boy, Mr. Schwarzenegger found escape in the movie house and became a fan of Reg Park, a body builder who starred in B Hercules movies. Mr. Schwarzenegger would model his life after Mr. Park's. In his 1977 biography, ‘Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder,’ Mr. Schwarzenegger said that Mr. Park became his fantasy ‘father figure.’”
—Bernard Weinraub and Charlie LeDuff, “Schwarzenegger’s Next Goal on Dogged, Ambitious Path,” The New York Times, 17 Aug 03.
“The collection includes a remastered edition of “Stagecoach,” the 1939 film that put Wayne on the road to stardom after a decade in B westerns…”
—Dave Kehr, “Top DVDs of 2006,” The New York Times, 22 Dec 06, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/22/movies/22dvd.html.
“Hudson Valley's deliberately informal productions are a model of cultural populism at its most engaging and effective, and Kurt Rhoads's uproariously loony staging of 'As You Like It,' performed in the shoot-'em-up style of a bottom-of-the-bill B western, is one of the cleverest updatings of the Bard to have come my way.”
—Terry Teachout, “Whoopee Ti Yi Yo! Shakespeare With a Western Twang,” The Wall Street Journal, 27 Jul 07, p. W5.
“Viewers may find themselves on the cusp of a whole new universe, all of Germany’s decadence crammed onto a B-picture soundstage.”
—Joshua Rothkopf, “Mean Street: Moving Image celebrates the gloriously unbowed American period of Fritz Lang,” Time Out New York, 6-12 Sep 07, p. 159.
“From 1948 to 1957 Cooley hosted a syndicated variety show called The Hoffman Hayride, broadcast live Saturday nights from a ballroom on Santa Monica Pier. Cooley was also a B-movie actor in Westerns.”
—Timothy Noah, “Spector's Forgotten Precursors: John Wilkes Booth was not, it turns out, the last celebrity to take a murder rap,” Slate, 16 Apr 09, http://www.slate.com/id/2216317.
Links Beyond eAlmanac
"B Movies" article on Wikipedia.
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