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Remember the Night,a Christmas gems review https://www.facebook.com/Wolffianclassicmoviesdigest Moved to pity by the Christmas season, New York District Attorney John Sargent (Fred MacMurray) lets pretty shoplifter Lee Leander (Barbara Stanwyck) out on bail and offers her a ride home to Indiana. Al read more

We did it for Halloween, we did it for Thanksgiving, so there’s no reason not to do it for Christmas, too. Here’s a roundup of classic television specials and special episodes to help you get into the holiday spirit. (BTW, I should go ahead and note that since Christmas actually falls on read more

 the bishop’s wife  review,a Christmas gems review https://www.facebook.com/Wolffianclassicmoviesdigest Dejected by his efforts to raise money to build a cathedral, Bishop Henry Brougham (David Niven) beseeches heaven for guidance, and is visited immediately by Dudley (Cary Grant), who claims read more

At the time Carole Lombard was filming "To Be Or Not To Be" in the final few months of 1941, she probably knew it was going to be controversial; after all, it was a dark comedy set in Poland, during a war against an enemy that at the time seemed to hold the upper hand. And this was before Pearl Harb read more

By Fritzi Kramer on December 17, 2014 in Blog, Humor, Silent Movie Rules Cesare had one job: Kill Jane. But nooooo, he has to drag her off and carry her over hill and dale (or the painted approximation). It’s Dr. Caligari’s fault, really. Mind controlling a somnambulist is all fun and g read more

This holiday season, we want to show our appreciation to all the classic film and TV fans that have visited this blog over the last five years. As our gift to you, we are offering the free e-book Eat, Drink, and Watch Movies. This 446-page volume consists of 200 film reviews and essays written by th read more

Y’know, we’ve seen the trend toward an at least semi-official “winter break”for television shows developing and evolving for a while now, but it seems to have really taken on shape this year. In a way it really reminds me of the antediluvian years when I was growing up and we read more

By Fritzi Kramer on December 16, 2014 in Blog, Feature, Silent Movie Review Harold Lloyd heads out west and he takes co-star Bebe Daniels with him. Lloyd plays a wastrel jazz pianist who, through a photo mix-up, ends up with the reputation of being the most dangerous man in a small western town. Wi read more

Miracle on 34th Street,a Christmas gems review https://www.facebook.com/Wolffianclassicmoviesdigest   In this Christmas classic, an old man going by the name of Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn) fills in for an intoxicated Santa in Macy’s annual Thanksgiving Day parade. Kringle proves to be such read more

Thomas Lorrento Sawyer Storey   Thomas Storey, if we stay with the story provided by the Internet Movie Data Base, then our tale of Mr. Storey is over. Because the aforementioned outlet and other current authorities on film state that he acquired only six credits as director, during what appear read more

Miracle on 34th Street,a Christmas gems review https://www.facebook.com/Wolffianclassicmoviesdigest   In this Christmas classic, an old man going by the name of Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn) fills in for an intoxicated Santa in Macy’s annual Thanksgiving Day parade. Kringle proves to be such read more

Thomas Lorrento Sawyer Storey   Thomas Storey, if we stay with the story provided by the Internet Movie Data Base, then our tale of Mr. Storey is over. Because the aforementioned outlet and other current authorities on film state that he acquired only six credits as director, during what appear read more

Book Giveaway: “Charlie Chaplin: A Brief Life” by Peter Ackroyd Well, we had six lucky winners so far, so that means we still have THREE MORE BOOKS to give away via our Twitter contest. That said, we’re going to try something a little different this time… Rather then have three separate read more

Thomas Lorrento Sawyer Storey   Thomas Storey, if we stay with the story provided by the Internet Movie Data Base, then our tale of Mr. Storey is over. Because the aforementioned outlet and other current authorities on film state that he acquired only six credits as director, during what appear read more

That's a photo from 75 years ago tonight -- Dec. 15, 1939 in Atlanta, as Carole Lombard joins husband Clark Gable, author Margaret Mitchell, producer David O. Selznick and Olivia de Havilland (the only one of the five still with us) for a post-premiere party after the world premiere of the adaptatio read more

We continue our series honoring old Hollywood stars who passed away in 2014 with the remarkable Shirley Temple.  Shirley Temple's bright smile and sunny optimism brought joy to millions of Americans during the the Great Depression. Temple was the biggest movie star in the world throughout read more

I have no regrets in my life.  None.  While there are times I think a different decision in my past may have resulted in a better outcome, that view is 20/20, and I have always believed the decision I went with at the time was the best one I could have gone with given the knowledge I had.  This read more

The write stuff. I seem to have inadvertently caused some confusion. About a week ago, I announced that I was stepping down from a blogathon gig and was taking a hiatus from videos due to health issues. However, the daily posts kept right on coming. How is that possible? I have a reserve of posts a read more

I come from a long line of bad cooks. My mother was way ahead of her peers with the natural foods craze, but, like a new vegan, she never learned to substitute anything for the bacon grease she’d been raised with; everything she made was bland. When we visited my maternal grandmother’s, all of our read more

I’ve already mentioned on more than one occasion that it was Thomas Edison’s studio that brought many a classic piece of literature to the screen for, if not the first, one of the first times. Here’s a very brief and very early filmic rendition of one of my favorite all-time storie read more