Announcing the Kirk Douglas 100th Birthday Blogathon!
Intense. Manly. Powerful. Talented.
And let’s not forget that distinctive cleft chin!
I’m talking about none other than Kirk Douglas, who will be celebrating his 100th birthday on December 9, 2016!
In his honor, Shadows and Satin is pleased to host a one-day blogathon focusing on all things Kirk. If you share my fondness for Mr. Douglas and his films, you’re cordially invited to join in!
To take part, please leave a comment below, including the name of your blog, your blog URL, and the film or topic you’d like to write about. Films from any era of Mr. Douglas’s career are welcome, and duplicates are allowed!
Our participants so far are as follows:
| MOVIE/TOPIC | BLOG |
| The Hook (1963) | Speakeasy |
| The Kirk Douglas Recipe | Silver Screenings |
| The Vikings (1958) | Back to Golden Days |
| Ace in the Hole/The Big Carnival (1951) | Once Upon a Screen |
| Detective Story (1951) | Film Noir Archive |
| The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) | Micro-Brewed Reviews |
| Posse (1975) | Mike’s Take on the Movies |
| Profile of Kirk Douglas | In the Good Old Days of Hollywood |
| I Walk Alone (1948) | Cinemaven’s Essays From the Couch |
| Paths of Glory (1957) | Defiant Success |
| Champion (1949) | The Stop Button |
| Gunfight at the OK Corral (1957) | Twenty Four Frames |
| Young Man With a Horn (1950) | Outspoken and Freckled |
| Seven Days in May (1964) | goodolthisanthat.blogspot.com/ |
| Lust for Life (1956) | Old Hollywood Films |
| A Letter to Three Wives (1949) | Caftan Woman |
| The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) | Critica Retro |
| The Simpsons: The Day the Violence Died | The Filmatelist |
| Out of the Past (1947) | Paula’s Cinema Club |
| The Final Countdown (1980) | The Midnite Drive-In |
| Seven Days in May (1964) | The Wonderful World of Cinema |
| The Fury (1978) | Classic Film and TV Cafe |
| Lust for Life (1956) | Wide Screen World |
| Seven Days in May (1964) | Vienna’s Classic Hollywood |
Help yourself to one of the banners below to advertise the event on your blog! I look forward to your joining our celebration of this first-rate star!!!
shadowsandsatin 
Hi! I’d like to write about “The Vikings” (1958), if that’s okay.
My blog: Back to Golden Days (http://back-to-golden-days.blogspot.pt)
-Cátia. xo
Sounds great! Welcome aboard!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY KIRK, TO ONE OF THE GREATEST ACTORS..I WONDER IF HE KNEW MY PARENTS HIGH SCHOOL FRIEND JOHN HODIAK FROM HAMTRAMCK MICH SUCH GREAT TALENT FROM THESE OLD ACTORS FROM THE PAST JUST LOVE THE CLASSIC MOVIES ON TCM..I WONDER IF THEY WILL HAVE A MARATHON IN DECEMBER..MY FRIEND JUST TURNED 100 ON 10-19-16 HE WORKED OUT WITH ME IN THE GYM 30 YRS AG0 HERE IN GAYLORD MICH BEFORE HIS WORKOUT HE DID 100 PUSHUPS IN HIS EIGHTIES NOW HE ONLY COULD DO 30 EACH DAY BEFORE HIS WORKOUT GOD BLESS THESE TWO PEOPLE MAY THEY CONTINUE TO ENJOY LIFE..DICK SHAVINSKI CSA LUTCF GAYLORD MICH..
What a great idea to have a marathon! I’ll bet they do!!
Timely and warranted!! Of course I want in on this with ACE IN THE HOLE if it’s available. Terrific idea and I look forward to reading the entries.
Aurora
Once Upon a Screen
@CitizenScreen
Hi, Aurora — perfect choice! I look forward to reading your write-up!
Can’t go wrong with Kirk! I’d like to write about Detective Story (1951). My blog is at http://www.filmnoirarchive.com
Oooh, I LOVE Detective Story!!! Great choice — welcome aboard!
I’d love to join but have signed up for way too many Blogathons in the next two months over and above my normal work. Have a wonderful Blogathon! Next time.
I know the feeling — I’ll be looking for you next time! 🙂
I’ll do my best to be there next time. So many blogathons, so many movies, so many books….aaaaaaahhhhh 😉
If not taken, I would love to do The Bad and the Beautiful (1952). If that’s taken, sign me up for A Letter to Three Wives (1949).
Sorry. At http://microbrewreviews.blogspot.com/
I was thinking of doing a week long Kirk binge and probably will but how about I dedicate 1975’s Posse to the fest.
Sounds great! And this is a new one to me — I look forward to your write-up!
I picked this one as it’s not only quite good but Kirk directed it as well. Thanks for putting this together!
I Karen. I will like to write a profile on his life, if that’s okay?
My blog is: In The Good Old Days Of Classic Hollywood
I would also like to invite you to participate in my latest blogathon. The link is below with more details.
https://crystalkalyana.wordpress.com/2016/09/05/announcing-the-agnes-moorehead-blogathon/
That’s perfect! Welcome aboard! And thanks for the Agnes Moorehead invite — I will definitely pop over to your blog and see if I can come up with something.
Thanks. I look forward to participating. I was actually wondering why nobody had announced a blogathon for Kirk’s centennial, so I was happy to come across your announcement. Let me know if you want to participate in the Agnes blogathon?
I sure will — thanks!
How about CHAMPION for http://www.thestopbutton.com ? 🙂
Sounds perfect, Andrew — Champion is a favorite of mine! Welcome aboard!
Hi there Karen. Please put me down for the Kirk Douglas film: “I WALK ALONE.” My blog is CineMaven’s Essays from the Couch, which can be found here: https://cinemavensessaysfromthecouch.wordpress.com/
NOW I get a chance to tell my great Kirk Douglas story. C’ya in December.
Great choice, Theresa — thanks for joining us!
Well…I’d better get started. Thanks again.
Thank you! 😉
I’ll grab Lust for Life it is still available.
Amanda from Old Hollywood Films
You got it, Amanda! Thanks so much for joining us!
Put me down for A Letter to Three Wives, please. Love this celebration of Kirk!
Have you seen this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izy2ittIe7A
Hiya, Paddy — I love this movie — and not just because it’s the one where Kirk teaches us the correct use of the word ‘badly’!! Welcome aboard and thanks! 🙂
Omigosh — this is the greatest!
It cracks me up every time. So KIRK.
Put me down for gunfight at the ok corral
https://twentyfourframes.wordpress.com/category/1970s/page/7/
Great! Thanks so much — I look forward to reading your write-up, John! Welcome aboard…
Young Man With A Horn 1950, pretty please? Kellee of Outspoken & Freckled at http://kelleepratt.com @IrishJayhawk66 …Thanks!!!
Hi, Kellee — you got it! Thanks so much for joining us. 🙂
I’d like to write on Seven Days In May.
Thanks, Michael — I’ve got you down! What’s the name of your blog?
Wut? No one chose The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) yet? Gimme, gimme!
Le from critica Retro 😉
Hi, Le — it’s yours! Thanks so much for joining us!
I don’t have the time., dammit. Why do you people persist in tempting me with these blogathons so that I’m way overbooked…? I mean, I’m running my own John Wayne blogathon that same weekend, for crying out loud… It’s not fair, I tell you…
And yet, how can I possibly pass up a chance to open up people’s eyes to a great and often overlooked sci-fi time travel movie? Ah well, put me down for “The Final Countdown”. But I’m doing it under extreme protest… (OK, so I really do want to do it…)
Thanks so much for joining us, Quiggy! I look forward to your write-up — I’ve never heard of this one!
Oh that’s a great idea! 🙂 I’d like to do Seven Days in May.
My blog is The Wonderful World of Cinema
https://thewonderfulworldofcinema.wordpress.com
Great choice, Virginie — thanks so much for joining us!
I’ll review THE FURY at the Classic Film & TV Cafe http://www.classicfilmtvcafe.com.
I’m so glad you’ll be joining us, Rick — welcome aboard! 🙂
Lust For Life for now, though I might change my mind later.
http://widescreenworld.blogspot.com
Thanks for joining us, Rich! If you change your mind, just give me a holler! 🙂
Hi Karen. I just thought I would drop by to invite you to join in on the Carole Lombard Blogathon that I am co-hosting. The link is below with more details.
https://crystalkalyana.wordpress.com/2016/11/21/announcing-the-carole-lombard-the-profane-angel-blogathon/
I’ll be doing “The Day the Violence Died” episode of THE SIMPSONS (featuring Kirk as a Hollywood cartoon pioneer), which includes lots of terrific movie references.
I have you down for Champion — are you doing The Day the Violence Died in addition — or in place of?
In place of (trying to avoid overlap and I think it’s a fun topic).
I’m so excited about this, I posted my contribution two weeks early! https://silverscreenings.org/2016/12/01/the-kirk-douglas-recipe-or-how-to-make-a-hollywood-legend/
I mentioned I have my own John Wayne Blogaton scheduled to begin tomorrow, so I’ll be pretty busy. Thus said, I hope you don’t mind but I posted this a day early.
http://midnitedrive-in.blogspot.com/2016/12/time-and-tide.html
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The Bad and the Beautiful is a go. And it goes and goes and goes as I got a little long-winded.
http://microbrewreviews.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-kirk-douglas-100th-birthday.html
Hi Karen…my contribution to Kirk’s birthday blogathon ( “I Walk Alone” ) can be found at this specific link. Thanks for including me in today’s birthday fun. He really is a legend:
https://cinemavensessaysfromthecouch.wordpress.com/2016/12/09/i-walk-alone/
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hi Karen! here’s my post https://hqofk.wordpress.com/2016/12/09/the-hook-1963/ thanks for hosting!
Addie’s left a letter for you: http://www.caftanwoman.com/2016/12/kirk-douglas-100th-birthday-blogathon.html
My article on Lust for Life for Old Hollywood Films is ready to go:
http://www.oldhollywoodfilms.com/2016/12/lust-for-life.html
Thanks for hosting!
My article for Detective Story is up and ready at http://www.filmnoirarchive.com/2016/12/09/detective-story-1951/
Thanks!
My post is live now. Direct link: http://filmatelist.blogspot.com/2016/12/one-kool-kat.html.
Also, in the description, can you amend it to say “The Simpsons: The Day the Violence Died” (1996). I think that will help for clarity. Thanks! Looking forward to reading the other participants.