An Ideal Mentor: Buster Keaton?s Apprenticeship With Roscoe Arbuckle
Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton
If you?re a fan of classic comedy, you?ve
likely heard of Buster Keaton?s earliest film appearances in Roscoe ?Fatty?
Arbuckle?s slapstick comedies, many of which are considered classics today......
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Top 1910’s Movies (see all)
- The Birth of a Nation (1915)
- Shoulder Arms (1918)
- The Immigrant (1917)
- His Wedding Night (1917)
- The Flirt (1917)
- The Pawnshop (1916)
- Broken Blossoms (1919)
- An Ozark Romance (1918)
- One A.M. (1916)
- The Rounders (1914)
Fan Top Mystery Movies (see all)
- Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
- After the Thin Man (1936)
- North by Northwest (1959)
- The Thin Man (1934)
- Rear Window (1954)
- Another Thin Man (1939)
- The Big Sleep (1946)
- Charade (1963)
- Vertigo (1958)
- The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
Fan Top Animals Movies (see all)
- Bringing up Baby (1938)
- Bambi (1942)
- The Birds (1963)
- Dumbo (1941)
- Cat People (1942)
- The Wolf Man (1941)
- The Black Cat (1941)
- King Kong (1933)
- National Velvet (1944)
- Bedtime for Bonzo (1951)
Today's Classic Movie Birthdays:
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Walter Pidgeon
Sep 23, 1897
Mickey Rooney
Sep 23, 1920
Paul Petersen
Sep 23, 1945
Colin Blakely
Sep 23, 1930
Silents are Golden
Monsters and Matinees
In today?s on-demand world of streaming services, we feel
like we can watch any movie with a click of a button. But that?s not true.
There are always films that elude us despite our best efforts to find them.
For me, that?s Beginning of the End (1957). I was a kid when I first saw the awesomely t......
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Noir Nook
Anthony Mann at the Helm
Several years
ago, when I was a guest on a podcast, the hostess asked me to name my favorite
film noir directors. I don?t know why, but I felt like a deer caught in the
headlights, and my mind went completely blank ? the only director I could even
think of was Alfred Hitc......
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Silver Screen Standards
Angel Face (1953)
Classic
film has no shortage of mean girls, but Angel Face (1953) offers a
particularly dangerous teenage femme fatale in its title character,
played with unhinged intensity by English actress Jean Simmons. The plot of
this riveting story of obsession and murder has a lot in com......
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Western RoundUp
Lone Pine Film Festival 2026 Preview
It?s hard to believe it, but it?s time for a preview of the
36th Lone Pine Film Festival!
This year?s festival takes place in Lone Pine, California, from
October 8th through 11th, 2026.
Countless movies were filmed in the Alabama Hills outside
Lone ......
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Monsters and Matinees
The Long Hair of Death is a movie title that sparks
the imagination.
How will it fulfill the glorious promise of its title? Perhaps
as a variation of Medusa with exceedingly long snakes for hair? Or a darker
version of Rapunzel where lethal tresses wrap so tightly around a person, they squeeze
th......
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Classic Movie Travels
Classic Movie Travels: Grace Kelly
Grace Kelly
Grace Patricia Kelly was born on November
12, 1929, to Margaret Majer Kelly and John Kelly Sr. in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, and was the third of their four children. Her father owned a
brickwork contracting company and won three Olympic gold med......
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Legend Tribute: Mickey Rooney
Happy Birthday to Classic Movie Legend, Mickey Rooney, born September 23, 1920! Even though it?s a cliche phrase, I?m going to say it anyway: What can possibly be said about Mickey Rooney that hasn?t already been said? The man has won two different kinds of Academy Award (Juvenile and Honorary), two... Read more...
Mini Tribute Paul Petersen
Born September 23, 1945 Child Actor Paul Petersen Child star Paul Petersen started his acting career at age 10 as a Mouseketeer on the Mickey Mouse Club.?His most notable film roles include playing Cary Grant’s son David in Houseboat (1958) and, much later (at age 22), playing Fred MacMurray’s... Read more...
5 Fun Facts About Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
5 Fun Facts About Arsenic and Old Lace
Frank Capra?s Arsenic and Old Lace is a wonderfully madcap tale of murder, mayhem ? and one very eccentric family. Starring Cary Grant as drama critic Mortimer Brewster, the film follows his increasingly frantic attempts to deal with the discovery that his ......Read more
5 Fascinating Facts About Sophia Loren
5 Fascinating Facts About Sophia Loren
From a childhood marked by poverty and war to becoming one of the world’s most glamorous and celebrated movie stars, Sophia Loren’s life has been quite a journey.
Born in Rome on September 20, 1934, and raised in Pozzuoli near Naples, Loren we......Read more
3 Fun Facts about The Big Sleep (1946)
3 Fun Facts about The Big Sleep
Released on August 31, 1946, The Big Sleep stars Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in one of classic Hollywood’s most famous film noirs.
Murder, mystery ? and one famously complicated plot! Here are three fun facts about The Big Sleep…
1. Even......Read more
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Classic Movie Events
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Classic Movie Travel Sites
Did you know that there is a Fairmount Historical Museum in Fairmount, IN?
The Fairmount Historical Museum houses artifacts related to the town plus many pieces related to, an... .. read more
National Film Registry
Frankenstein, directed by the legendary James Whale, was released in 1931. In 1991, 60 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
Diana Wynyard's, Footprints & Handprints were "set in stone" in Grauman's famous forecourt in 1933. So were Jean Harlow, Jean Harlow, The Marx Brothers... see more