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 1950’s Movies (see all)
- The Band Wagon (1953)
- North by Northwest (1959)
- Some Like It Hot (1959)
- Alice in Wonderland (1951)
- The African Queen (1951)
- Rear Window (1954)
- All About Eve (1950)
- Born Yesterday (1950)
- Ben-Hur (1959)
- Bus Stop (1956)
Fan Top Short Films (see all)
- Another Fine Mess (1930)
- The Music Box (1932)
- Big Business (1929)
- Brave Little Tailor (1938)
- Towed in a Hole (1932)
- The Firefly (1937)
- Mother Goose Goes Hollywood (1938)
- The Idle Class (1921)
- The Tortoise and the Hare (1935)
- Berth Marks (1929)
Fan Top Disney Movies (see all)
- Alice in Wonderland (1951)
- Bambi (1942)
- Mary Poppins (1964)
- Pinocchio (1940)
- The Absent-Minded Professor (1961)
- Cinderella (1950)
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
- The Parent Trap (1961)
- Dumbo (1941)
- The Jungle Book (1967)
Today's Classic Movie Birthdays:
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Paul Muni
Sep 22, 1895
Martha Scott
Sep 22, 1912
Erich von Stroheim
Sep 22, 1885
John Houseman
Sep 22, 1902
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: Erich Von Stroheim
Happy Birthday to Classic Movie Legend, Erich Von Stroheim, born September 22, 1885! To quote Sunset Blvd, ?There were three young directors who showed promise in those days: D. W. Griffith, Cecil B. DeMille, and Max Von Mayerling.? If you?re familiar with the film, which I’m sure you are, you... 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 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
Boldly Going to Garland: It Came From Texas Film Festival Celebrates 60 Years of Star Trek
Calling all Star Trek fans!
It?s hard to believe that it?s been 60 years since Star Trek first
invited television audiences to boldly go where no one had gone before. Six
decades, countless strange new worlds and one enormous pop-culture legacy
later, the It Came From Texas Film Festival is celeb......Read more
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Classic Movie Events
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Classic Movie Travel Sites
Did you know that there is a Charlie Chaplin Studios (former) in Hollywood, CA?
Chaplin built this English cottage-style studio in three months beginning in November 1917. Chaplin ... .. read more
National Film Registry
Regeneration, directed by the legendary Raoul Walsh, was released in 1915. In 2000, 85 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
Danny Thomas's, Footprints & Handprints were "set in stone" in Grauman's famous forecourt in 1954. So were James Mason, Alan Ladd, Edmund Purdom, Van Heflin... see more