Silver Screen Standards: Heaven Can Wait (1943)
While you might expect a movie about the balance of a
man?s life being judged at the gates of Hell to be heavy existential stuff, Ernst
Lubitsch?s Heaven Can Wait (1943) serves it up as a sparkling romantic
comedy in the director?s quintessential st......
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Top 1900’s Movies (see all)
- The Great Train Robbery (1903)
- Lady Helen's Escapade (1909)
- Those Awful Hats (1909)
- Resurrection (1909)
- After Many Years (1908)
- The Hessian Renegades (1909)
- A Drunkard's Reformation (1909)
- Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1905)
- The Country Doctor (1909)
- Bill Sharkey's Last Game (1909)
Fan Top Adventure Movies (see all)
- The African Queen (1951)
- North by Northwest (1959)
- The Wizard of Oz (1939)
- The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
- Ben-Hur (1959)
- The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
- Father Goose (1964)
- Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Fan Top Prison Movies (see all)
- Brute Force (1947)
- Cool Hand Luke (1967)
- Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
- I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
- Johnny Apollo (1940)
- Ladies They Talk About (1933)
- San Quentin (1937)
- Caged (1950)
- A Man Escaped (1956)
- Castle on the Hudson (1940)
Today's Classic Movie Birthdays:
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Kent Smith
Mar 19, 1907
Louis Hayward
Mar 19, 1909
Arthur Hoyt
Mar 19, 1873
Fred Clark
Mar 19, 1914
Silver Screen Standards
Classic Movie Travels
Classic Movie Travels: Bobby Hutchins
Bobby Hutchins
Robert
Eugene Hutchins was born on March 29, 1925, in Tacoma, Washington, to James and
Olga Constance Hutchins. As a child, Hutchins was extremely outgoing and family
friends persuaded his parents to take him to Hollywood to be photographed.......
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Monsters and Matinees
Louise Mandore was just a child when she
wandered off during a family funeral and accidentally locked herself in a
burial chamber. The experience left her haunted by nightmares and with a
lifelong fear of being buried alive.
She made sure that would never happen.
Her will mandated the followin......
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Western RoundUp
Western RoundUp: Joe Kidd
It may be hard to believe, given my love for Westerns, but up to this point the only Clint Eastwood Western I’d seen was his early film Ambush at Cimarron Pass (1958), which I reviewed here close to two years ago.
I watch relatively few post ......
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Classic Movie Travels
Classic Movie Travels: Jean Darling
Jean Darling
Dorothy Jean LeVake was born on August
23, 1922, in Santa Monica, California, to Rollin Darling and Dorothy Hamilton. Her
name was changed to Jean Darling at five months old when her mother and father
separated. By the next month, she began appe......
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Silents are Golden
Buster Keaton Joins The Movies
Even compared to his fellow stars, Buster
Keaton?s early life was uniquely colorful. Born to medicine show performers in
1895 and first appearing onstage when he was barely old enough to walk, he
became the star of his family?s vaudeville act when he was a child, ma......
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Noir Nook
Noir Nook: 75th Anniversary Noir ? 2024 Edition
It has become my
tradition around these parts each year to celebrate the 75th anniversary
release of some of film noir?s many first-rate offerings. And this year is no different!
There were a number of
outstanding noirs released in 1949, includin......
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Read Karen’s article
Legend Tribute: Jerry Lewis
Happy Birthday to Classic Movie Legend, Jerry Lewis, born March 16, 1926! Jerry Lewis: Comedian, Actor, Singer, Producer, Director, Screenwriter — and if that’s not enough — the National Chairman of the Muscular Dystrophy Association (1950-2011) and a Nobel Peace Prize Nominee (for... Read more...
Mini Tribute Christian Roberts
Born March 17, 1944 Actor Christian Roberts! Christian Roberts appeared in about 20 films and tv shows through the 1960s and 1970s — but he is probably best known for his role as Denham in his 1967 Feature Film Debut, To Sir with Love. Christian Roberts as Denham in To Sir with Love (1967,?James... Read more...
Revisiting the shades of fear in ‘The Leopard Man’
We?ve
all been there.
There’s a noise behind us.
A rustling of bushes.
Or a movement in a dark street corner.
Is someone there? We casually walk a little faster while telling ourselves it?s just our imagination ? or is it?
Yes,
we?ve all been there (admit it, guys) and that?s wh......Read more
A killer gaze: Richard Burton and his ‘Medusa Touch’
A severely beaten man who has survived a heinous assault is
unconscious in a London hospital.
His head and face are wrapped in bandages with only his eyes (a key thing) and mouth visible. The heart monitor near his bed is flatlined, but inexplicably there is a small blip of brain activity. He isn......Read more
Western Round Up: “B” Movie Sampler – Vol.2
Western Round Up: “B” Movie Sampler – Vol.2
Last summer I
shared a series of short reviews of ?B? Westerns I watched while traveling.
I went on another road trip earlier this month and again
watched several short Westerns in the evenings, thanks to my portable DVD
player......Read more
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Classic Movie Travel Sites
Did you know that there is a Jack Benny Home (1910) in Waukegan, IL?Designate a city landmark in 2006, the house at 518 Clayton Street in Waukegan, IL is where Jack Ben... .. read more
National Film Registry
The Sex Life of the Polyp, directed by the legendary Thomas Chalmers, was released in 1928. In 2007, 79 years later, it was inducted into The National Film Registry. Thank you National Film Registry!see more National Film Registry inductees
Grauman's Chinese Theater
Gene Tierney's, Footprints & Handprints were "set in stone" in Grauman's famous forecourt in 1946. So were Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, Margaret O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart... see more