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Did you enjoy seeing Carole Lombard in "Twentieth Century" on Turner Classic Movies last night? Good, because you won't be seeing her on the channel for a while. The reason?TCM's "31 Days of Oscar," its annual celebration of the Academy Awards. (The event began when the ceremony took place in March, read more

Dock Ellis (1945-2008) was a baseball player who pitched in the Major Leagues from 1968 to 1979. Ellis was the National League's starting pitcher in the 1971 All-Star Game, and that same year he started the first game of the World Series for the Pittsburgh Pirates. He also pitched in the 1976 World read more

Harold Lloyd Biography Giveaway! Entry Task for this week’s Twitter Contest. Time for our fabulous February Classic Movie Book Giveaway, courtesy of Bear Manor Media! To kick things off, we’ll be giving away a copy of  Harold Lloyd: Magic in a Pair of Horn-Rimmed Glasses this week — the first read more

Dock Ellis (1945-2008) was a baseball player who pitched in the Major Leagues from 1968 to 1979. Ellis was the National League's starting pitcher in the 1971 All-Star Game, and that same year he started the first game of the World Series for the Pittsburgh Pirates. He also pitched in the 1976 World read more

Damaged Goods: I Want A Boyfriend Like Monty Clift Montgomery Clift & Elizabeth Taylor "Monty represented a new kind of man in the bleak 1950s, a guy who was poetic and vulnerable and disturbed and not afraid to show it." -Rosemary Santini, a personal friend of Montgomery Clift's pri read more

Minnie Hamilton, a librarian working in the public library of a Michigan resort town, is followed home by a cat one day. Unable to get rid of her little shadow, she decides to take him in, and she names him Eddie. Eddie’s got an adventurous spirit, and on the first day that Minnie is set to op read more

The Romance of Celluloid (1937) was a promotional short film made by MGM. The short features a behind-the-scenes look at the MGM back lot and the movies in production for 1937-1938, featuring stars like Clark Gable, Rosalind Russell and Gladys George.  read more

I finally watched GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY last night. I know I was a bit late to the party, but...oh well. Seeing a smash-hit movie for the very first time, after it has already become a smash hit, is a peculiar experience. What makes it peculiar is that one looks at it from a perspective of "Why wa read more

Godflesh – A World Lit Only By Fire (2014) As an metalhead since almost twenty years I am often asked by people what is the heaviest band in the world. If I had a dollar each time people have asked me the same question I could only do things I like and not work anymore. Seriously, the comm read more

I finally watched GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY last night. I know I was a bit late to the party, but...oh well. Seeing a smash-hit movie for the very first time, after it has already become a smash hit, is a peculiar experience. What makes it peculiar is that one looks at it from a perspective of "Why wa read more

Today, on January 27, we celebrate the 94rd anniversary of the late Donna Reed. Even if I have seen only 3 of her films (It’s a Wonderful Life, From Here to Eternity and Eyes in the Night), Donna Reed is one of my very favourite actresses. Well, for those who have seen my top 10, she is exact read more

Unless I'm placed in a functional time machine or am zapped by magic, I'll never meet Carole Lombard, one of the great Howard Hawks heroines (seen with him above on the set of "Twentieth Century"). However, this weekend I was blessed to meet two legendary actresses who also worked with the great dir read more

Yesterday, I had the chance to see The Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin, 1925) on big screen at The Cinémathèque Québécoise which is a film conservatory based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada where I live. I have seen The Gold Rush many times before, but seeing it on big screen was a completely new a wonderfu read more

Today's entry largely comes courtesy of a longtime friend of mine in the blogosphere, Kristina Dijan of the blog Speakeasy (https://hqofk.wordpress.com/). She recently participated in an event this weekend called the Randolph Scott Blogathon, run by the site http://www.fiftieswesterns.com:Scott, of read more

A Lei da Fronteira / Frontier Marshal (1939) 1939 foi um grande ano para o gênero western. Durante a década de 1930, os filmes ambientados no Velho Oeste estavam quase sempre relegados à categoria B: eram curtos (por volta de uma hora de duração), feitos sem grande orçamento e destinados read more

A Lei da Fronteira / Frontier Marshal (1939) 1939 foi um grande ano para o gênero western. Durante a década de 1930, os filmes ambientados no Velho Oeste estavam quase sempre relegados à categoria B: eram curtos (por volta de uma hora de duração), feitos sem grande orçamento e destinados read more

Uncovering a previously unseen (at least to current fans and collectors) Carole Lombard Paramount p1202 image is always cause for celebration. And while we've known of the above pic, p1202-1430, for quite some time, today an eBay seller has one that looks to be from the same session, if the jacket s read more

Miriam Hopkins is just the sort of intellectual east coast actress I find most interesting. She was born in Savannah and raised in Bainbridge, Georgia where her mother’s twin brother was mayor. After her parents divorced, she moved with her mother to Vermont, where she attended the prestigious read more

  Chariot Races and Copyright Infringement: A Tale of Ben Hur In 1907, the state of the American film industry was rather poor and was still, largely, in its infancy. D.W. Griffith had just joined the industry as an actor, but he wouldn’t make his directorial debut until 1908. The Essanay compa read more

Lee Grant certainly proves that she said yes to everything during her time on and off the Hollywood screen. It’s the trouble explaining and contextualizing where the “yes'” came from that’s the problem. Make no mistake, Grant’s candid memoirs sees her naming names, iron read more