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Top 1940’s Movies (see all)

  1. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
  2. Double Indemnity (1944)
  3. The Lady Eve (1941)
  4. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
  5. Ball of Fire (1941)
  6. The Bishop's Wife (1947)
  7. Adam's Rib (1949)
  8. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
  9. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
  10. Casablanca (1942)




Fan Top Film Adaptation (see all)

  1. Gone with the Wind (1939)
  2. The African Queen (1951)
  3. Alice in Wonderland (1951)
  4. The Big Sleep (1946)
  5. Bambi (1942)
  6. Ben-Hur (1959)
  7. Another Thin Man (1939)
  8. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
  9. Psycho (1960)
  10. Vertigo (1958)

Fan Top Father Daughter Movies (see all)

  1. It Happened One Night (1934)
  2. Mary Poppins (1964)
  3. Houseboat (1958)
  4. Father of the Bride (1950)
  5. Father's Little Dividend (1951)
  6. Now, Voyager (1942)
  7. Hobson's Choice (1954)
  8. Baby Take a Bow (1934)
  9. Poor Little Rich Girl (1936)
  10. Bonjour tristesse (1958)






Monsters and Matinees

In a quaint English village, people are sitting in a parlor by the fire doing what proper Brits do: elegantly smoking and drinking tea. It?s all so genteel inside, yet outside the situation is dire as ?The Earth Dies Screaming.? That?s the excellent name of a 1964 film that is much quieter than t......
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Silver Screen Standards

Silver Screen Standards: The Big Clock (1948) Time looms over us all, but not as literally as it does over Ray Milland in director John Farrow?s fascinating noir, The Big Clock (1948), which features Milland as a magazine editor framed for murder by his powerful tycoon boss. With its emphasis on ......
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Classic Movie Travels June

?Classic Movie Travels June: Helen Chandler Helen Chandler Helen Chandler was born on February 1, 1909, in New York, New York, to Leland and Frances Chandler. Across different census records and documents, her year of birth, however, has been widely disputed, documented as 1906, 1909, and 1911......
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Western RoundUp

Pioneertown As longtime readers of this column will be aware, one of my favorite pastimes is to visit Western film locations. I recently had the opportunity to visit Pioneertown, located in California’s Yucca Valley, roughly 16 miles from Joshua Tree National Park. Pioneertown is ......
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Silents Are Golden

Silent Superstars: The Enigmatic Greta Garbo Greta Garbo Of the many talented and charismatic 1920s female stars, there were perhaps few who inspired such rapturous fan magazine articles as Greta Garbo. Motion Picture Magazine once declared: “Everyone feels, without being able to explain......
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Noir Nook

13 Things You May Not Know About The Killers (1946) Ask any noir fan for a list of their favorite films from the classic era, and The Killers (1946) is likely to appear. It?s a stellar example of this shadowy period of filmmaking, featuring such noir tropes as the femme fatale, the hapless fallen......
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Monsters and Matinees

Thoughts of flying saucers and alien invasions make me nervous. Though intrigued by the concept enough as a kid to watch movies and read books on the topic, the fact that flying saucers could be real freak me out. (I remember reading War of the Worlds when I was about 10 and pulling the shade dow......
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Legend Tribute: Stan Laurel

Happy Birthday to Classic Movie Comedy Legend, Stan Laurel, born today, June 16 in 1890! Three ‘Signature’ Faces of Stan Laurel ….. A ‘thinking’ Stan Laurel, with his ‘signature’ head scratch!?Stan Laurel as Stanley in the comedy short, Thicker Than Water (1931...  Read more...

Mini Tribute Cliff Edwards Disney Legend

Born June 14, 1895 Cliff Edwards! Cliff Edwards was a popular Vaudeville, Broadway and singing star, better known as “Ukelele Ike” in his heyday during the 1920s and 1930s. ?In 1929, while playing at the Orpheum Theater in LA, Edwards caught the eye of MGM producer/director Irving Thalberg,...  Read more...


Caught in the silly grasp of ‘The Giant Claw’

Monsters, by their very name, are supposed to be monstrous. Perhaps hideous like The Hideous Sun Demon, or beastly like Beast from 20,000 Fathoms. ?Just throw an exclamation point on the title like Them! or Tarantula! so we know something terrible is coming. Just give us a monster – it?s why w......Read more

Meet these obscure werewolves from classic film

A werewolf walks into a bar and ?. No, that?s not a joke. It?s the opening scene of a 1956 low-budget film with the straightforward and generic title of The Werewolf. And if you?ve seen other werewolf films, you?ll guess right away that the disheveled and anxious man who stumbles into a small-to......Read more

Mysteries of Oz Documentary Celebrates 85th Anniversary of The Wizard of Oz

Hollywood’s crowning achievement is its greatest enigma Here’s some exciting news for The Wizard of Oz fans (and who isn’t :)) Coming Soon! Mysteries of Oz: 85 Questions Answered is a new documentary from AMS Pictures that explores the magic, music, and myths surrounding the ......Read more

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National Film Registry

Bonnie and Clyde, starring the legendary Warren Beatty, was released in 1967. In 1992, 25 years later, it was inducted into The National Film Registry. Thank you National Film Registry!
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Grauman's Chinese Theater

Yul Brynner's, Footprints & Handprints were "set in stone" in Grauman's famous forecourt in 1956. So were Deborah Kerr, Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, George Stevens...  see more