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Have you met Gwen of Movies, Silently?  She's a grand gal - knowledgeable, bright and with a great sense of humour.  A couple of weeks back Gwen graciously awarded this blog the coveted Liebster Award.  In such cases I would like to be read more

Dell Publishing put Carole Lombard on the cover of its Screen Album publication for summer 1938. But the publication previously was an annual, as shown by its title, Screen Album for 1937, with Lombard pal Myrna Loy and former co-star Warner Baxter ( read more

Silent stars were beautiful people… or were they? This 1925 Photoplay article asks cameramen just what makes an on-camera beauty– and then learns just how many stars break the rules! Valentino’s ears! Negri’s jaw! Bebe Daniel read more

Stoker, the latest offering from critically acclaimed filmmaker Park Chan-wook, director of the now classic Oldboy, features one of cinema’s favorite tropes – a Lolita. Named for Vladimir Nabovkov’s title characer, Lolita has becom read more

While reading Steve Massa’s fantastic Lame Brains and Lunatics: The Good, The Bad, and The Forgotten of Silent Comedy, I started to feel like film’s silent comedians were clowns packed into a tiny circus car. Just when I thought there co read more

Man of Steel is good. It’s really good. Not only is it really good, I like it enough for a 500 word special. There’s always a moment in a good action movie when it eventually runs out of steam and one has to give it some thought. There&# read more

Beecham and Evans are a couple of petty thieves who decide to target a wealthy old woman named Sybil who is attending a swanky party in the heart of Chicago. Their boss, Arthur (Ray Collins), lures Sybil onto the patio where his two minions can attac read more

Silent film fanatics know all about the Holy Trinity of Slapstick Comedy, an entity I like to call Chaplinkeatonlloyd. Hell, even the casual silent movie observer has at least a glancing knowledge of Chaplinkeatonlloyd. But in the earliest years of read more

Stoker, from acclaimed filmmaker Park Chan-wook (Oldboy), hits the shelves on Blu-Ray on June 18, 2013. But you can enter to win a copy of this darkly wicked movie today, courtesy of Pretty Clever Films and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment! read more

  Bette Davis: Queen of Strength Bette Davis was strong, stubborn and fiercely independent. For this, she will forever be a beloved Gay Icon. Bette Davis at her sassy best in All About Eve (1950, Joseph. L. Mankiewicz) Bette Davis lived in a dif read more

Surely, I'm involved with this quiz! For this quiz, we've shorted the movie descriptions to three words or less. Your mission--should you decide to accept it--is to name the films. Each answer is a spy flick made prior to 1970. A few of them are eas read more

Ralph Bellamy (June 17, 1904 – November 29, 1991). During his career, he played leading roles as well as supporting roles and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in, The Awful Truth (1937) and p read more

If Lifetime had made movies during World War II, they might have resembled WOMEN IN BONDAGE (1943), a heavy-handed hybrid of soap opera, war movie, and women-in-prison picture from Poverty Row powerhouse Monogram. This rarely seen programmer recently read more

Our pic today takes another look at Professor Petro, who confounds his students with a lecture on “Dali and the Power of the Fart” in The Devil’s Gas (1990), the short film directed by Timothy’s son Romeo. It was Tim’s l read more

With Tempest and Miss Mend, this week has had a rather Russian flavor. I happen to love Russian film and music so why not make it a complete Russo-fest and post a marvelous bit of footage from 1909? This is Moscow Clad in Snow. You want the Kremlin? read more

Classic Films in Context: “Apartment for Peggy” Of all the movies made about returning World War II veterans and their struggles, Apartment for Peggy (1948) probably isn’t the first one that comes to mind. Directed by George Se read more

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Fuss and Feathers (1918) Status: Missing and presumed lost Enid Bennett is not well-remembered today but she was a popular actress who reached the height of her fame during the late teens and early twenties. Married to director Fred Niblo, the pair read more

Wishing all you dads out there a wonderful Father’s Day! Among the many virtues of this day is the opportunity I get to post this great pic once again. It’s Timothy, his wife Doris and their six young’uns, from the early 1970s. It a read more

ANOTHER Peter Cushing book?? Well, why not? Would you rather read about the Kardashians or the Duck People? PETER CUSHING: THE COMPLETE MEMOIRS is actually a special edition of Cushing's two volumes of autobiography, written in the 1980s. The books read more

The line in the Spider-Man mythos goes like this: “With great power comes great responsibility.” But Spider-Man isn’t Superman.  Superman is the ultimate.  Superman is the superhero’s superhero.  Superman has been a symbol read more

by Christie Collins I was not a childhood friend of Ludwig van Beethoven. I grew up in the rural mountains of North Carolina on a farm–about as different as it could have been from eighteenth-century Germany. Looking back on those North Carolin read more

Buddy’s noise keeps Rob and Laura awake for so long that they decide to play cards to pass the time. (Screen capture by Lindsey for TMP) SEASON 1, EPISODE 21: “THE BOARDER INCIDENT” DIR. JOHN RICH WRITTEN BY NORM LIEBMANN AND ED H read more

Billie Burke (August 7, 1884 – May 14, 1970), she toured the United States and Europe with her father, the singer and clown Billy Burke. Billy Burke She returned to America to perform on Broadway: Mrs. Dot, Suzanne, The Runaway, The " read more

Today is when we celebrate fatherhood in all shapes and forms. Carole Lombard's relationship with her own real-life father, Fred C. Peters, was rather complex (when he died in 1935, she declined to attend his funeral, saying she didn't want to make a read more

The minute Disney decided to adapt the Pocahontas tale for the big-screen, they had to expect problems.  The story has become a romanticized examination of early intolerance and love transcending all that’s been critiqued ever since.  Disney read more

Practically every movie ever made had a father figure of some sort hiding somewhere among its characters, but in spite of the sheer number of fatherly roles the movies ( and television ) offered, relatively few of these characters were remarkable.&nb read more

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Silent comedy never really died. It lived on in Tom and Jerry and the Roadrunner cartoons. But what about live-action silent comedy? If you wanted to make one today, where would you start? Comedy producer, director and writer Al Christie shared his read more

Today we are highlighting an entertaining movie memory courtesy of R.A. Kerr from the wonderful classic film blog Silver Screenings. In her post, R.A. looks back at the Planet of the Apes series of films, explaining why she “just couldn’t read more