Final Resting Places: More Western Filmmakers
This
month we’ll be taking another of our unique tours through Western film history,
paying tribute to a variety of actors as we visit their final resting places.
We begin
with longtime “B” Western star Johnny Mack Brown. I was gl......
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Top 1930’s Movies (see all)
- Bringing up Baby (1938)
- It Happened One Night (1934)
- Top Hat (1935)
- After the Thin Man (1936)
- The Thin Man (1934)
- The Gay Divorcee (1934)
- Swing Time (1936)
- The Awful Truth (1937)
- Gone with the Wind (1939)
- The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Fan Top Crime Movies (see all)
- Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
- Double Indemnity (1944)
- The Lady Eve (1941)
- Ball of Fire (1941)
- After the Thin Man (1936)
- The Thin Man (1934)
- The Big Sleep (1946)
- Another Thin Man (1939)
- The Maltese Falcon (1941)
- Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
Fan Top Royalty Movies (see all)
- Roman Holiday (1953)
- Anna and the King of Siam (1946)
- The Merry Widow (1934)
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949)
- The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
- Hamlet (1948)
- The Lion in Winter (1968)
- Marie Antoinette (1938)
- The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
- Café Metropole (1937)
Today's Classic Movie Birthdays:
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Freddie Bartholomew
Mar 28, 1924
Flora Robson
Mar 28, 1902
Pandro S. Berman
Mar 28, 1905
Dirk Bogarde
Mar 28, 1921
Western RoundUp
Silver Screen Standards
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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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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Legend Tribute: Gloria Swanson
Happy Birthday to Classic Movie Legend, Gloria Swanson, born March 27th, 1899! There is a common myth in classic movie folklore. Well, there?s many myths in classic movie folklore actually, but I plan to focus on just one for now… Sunset Boulevard (1950, Billy Wilder) In 1950, a movie you might... Read more...
Mini Tribute Producer Pandro S. Berman
Born March 28, 1905 Legendary Producer Pandro S. Berman! Before I start, I must add a quick ‘disclaimer’ –? this post is only labeled a ‘Mini’ tribute because it is ‘mini’ in ‘written’ content — but given that Pandro S. Berman produced some... Read more...
Noir Noir: Oscar Omission – Barbara Stanwyck
Noir Noir: Oscar Omission ? Barbara Stanwyck
It?s about that time
again ? awards season! My favorite time of year. As I write this, I?m in the
midst of my annual quest to see as many Oscar-nominated films and peformances
as possible. (Luckily, with streaming, I?m now able to see all of the entrie......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
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Classic Movie Travel Sites
Did you know that there is a Bing Crosby Collection in Spokane, WA?Gonzaga University's Crosby Student Center houses the Crosbyana Room, where about 200 pieces of the ... .. read more
National Film Registry
The Big Heat, directed by the legendary Fritz Lang, was released in 1953. In 2011, 58 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
Cary Grant's, Footprints & Handprints were "set in stone" in Grauman's famous forecourt in 1951. So were Susan Hayward, Hildegard Knef, Oskar Werner... see more