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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 musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: Love Me Forever (1935) – read more

There are many photos from Carole Lombard's 1934 drama "Now And Forever" with Gary Cooper, but the above pic is new to me. It's vintage, as information on the rear makes evident:While neither Shirley Temple nor Sir Guy Standing are in the photo, both are listed.This 8" x 10" sells for $249.99, thoug read more

Singing sensation Dick Powell and dancer Ruby Keeler were a match made in musical heaven and they had great success in the early 1930s as an on-screen duo. In 1934, Warner Brothers teamed them up in Flirtation Walk, a light-hearted musical set at the West Point Military Academy. The studio reeled in read more

"Even bedridden, she was the most beautiful old lady I'd ever seen. There she was with no makeup but still beautiful skin, big blue eyes and little hands fluttering like small birds in the air. She smelled beautiful, too, like roses." - Sacha Briquet Marlene Dietrich lived her final years in an apa read more

Some films have a way of drawing you into the story within the first ten minutes. Perhaps it is a practice that screenwriters learned from newspaper journalists who know how to "hook" the audience with the first lead line. Hollywood productions had this act down pat. German productions were not so g read more

"You can't separate us! We love each other!" Lonely upper-class English schoolgirl Janette Grant ( Janette Scott ) falls in love with handsome Mike Pritchard ( Vernon Gray ), a poor mechanic from the local village. Janette's mother believes the courtship to be unsuitable and puts a stop to it by read more

Forever My Love Directed by Ernst Marischka Written by Ernst Marischka 1962/Austria Erma-Film First viewing/Netflix rental This is a compilation of three films starring Romy Schneider and Karl Boehm about the romance between Emperor Franz Joseph and “Sissi”, who became his empress.  W read more

It’s October which means it’s all about Halloween at Ticklish Biz HQ. In the first of four special Halloween episodes I talk to Karie Bible, author and tour guide at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Karie talks about the cemetery’s storied history, the graves, and maybe some ghostly read more

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 500. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: Stars and Stripes Forever read more

Agora e Sempre / Now and Forever (1934) A maioria dos filmes para a família, comédias românticas e filmes com estrelas mirins são bastante previsíveis. À primeira vista, “Agora e Sempre” (1934) parecia também bastante previsível. Mas aqueles eram outros tempos, quando o código read more

Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever? (Hunde, wollt ihr ewig leben) Directed by Frank Wisbar Written by Frank Dimen, Heinz Schröter, and Frank Wisbar from a novel by Fritz Wöss 1959/West Germany Deutsche Film Hansa First viewing/YouTube   This is the story of the German 6th ArmyR read more

In honor of the anniversary of Franchot's birth on February 27th, I'm posting daily this week instead of my usual twice-a-week posts. Today, I want to highlight Franchot's final film, Nobody Runs Forever. Nobody Runs Forever (also known as The High Commissioner) is a late Sixties political thriller read more

A kiss is just a kiss. True, but it depends on whether you are the kisser or the kissee or - as are we movie-goers, an observer. Now, kisser and kissee could be steamy and passionate... Or, they could be innocent and chaste. As a kisser (or kissee) I shall keep my preferences to my s read more

Celeste (Rashida Jones) and Jesse (Andy Samberg) were high school sweethearts who began as best friends and married after graduation. But flash forward six years, and they’ve decided to get a divorce. Despite the end of their marriage, they hope to maintain their friendship. They don’t s read more

Let’s say you were the chairman of the third largest multichannel video programming distributor in the United States, and your customers were entering the third week of a blackout of some of their favorite TV channels, due to an inscrutable squabble between corporate behemoths. How would you discuss read more

Toni Day ( Carole Lombard ) is married to Jerry Day ( Gary Cooper ). The couple are in a state of disparity with their lifestyle. While Toni yearns for a settled life and children, Jerry can’t accept that responsibility and feels that that sort of lifestyle would be a burden on him. When Jerry read more

It’s fitting that Halloween is a holiday that celebrates the dead because the day can symbolize something of a dead zone in a person’s life. As kids, we are encouraged at Halloween to dress in costume and go trick-or-treating.  As adults, we are encouraged to dress in costume and go read more

Evil terrorist organization SPECTRE is planning to steal a Lektor, a cipher machine, from the Russians. Rosa Klebb (Lotte Lenya), aka #3, a member of SMERSH who defected from Russia, gives an assignment to agent Tatiana Romanova (Daniela Bianchi), who is unaware that Klebb is a member of SPECTRE read more

Not a bad place to spend eternity, eh? It was the best of times, it was the best of times. As if the Turner Classic Movies film festival of 2014 weren’t already a mind-blowingly awesome experience on its own, I topped off this year’s now-annual visit to Los Angeles with a super-cool tour of the read more

Did you know that regular Pretty Clever Films contributor Toyiah Murray also has her blog, The Cinephiliac? It’s true! While Pretty Clever Films has been covering Godard Forever: Part One, the lavish Godard retro screening at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, Toyiah has been covering Godard’s read more