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Something about the episode having three credited writers (Sam Johnson, Stefani Robinson, Paul Simms) foretold it being a grandiose season finale. I can’t remember there being another episode with three writers. It’s got to be big. And it’s big. It just takes a while to get there. The episode read more

Idyllic imagery with dogs barking, chickens clucking, and trees rustling in the wind introduce the setting. Judy Garland can be found singing in the shower or helping in the kitchen, alongside the faithful Esme (Marjorie Main). After their hired help pulls out expectantly, the brunt of the work fal read more

This Carole Lombard image looks new to me. It's a postcard measuring 3.5" x 5.5". It's in mint condition, but not vintage, as it's said to have been printed in 2000.The seller is from Spain, and bidding starts at $2.98 US. The auction ends at 4:17 p.m. (Eastern) Saturday.If you collect Lombard postc read more

"They Knew What They Wanted," Carole Lombard's last excursion into drama, was an adaptation of Sidney Howard's Pulitzer Prize-winning play that drew reasonably good reviews. While it received a videocassette release in the 1980s, It's hard to track down these days, largely due to rights issues with read more

“That’s the trouble with you readers,” Joe Gillis says to Betty Schaefer in Sunset Boulevard, “you know all the plots.” For hundreds of years, we have seen the same plots play out in our criminal justice system, as the intrinsic systems of oppression in this country do read more

Bill Travers as the adult Geordie. Young Geordie MacTaggert doesn't like to be called "wee' by the other lads in his rural Scottish community. Yet, it's accurate to say that he's decidedly short for his age. It's a sore point, though, and comes to a head when he and childhood playmate Jean visit an read more

The film version of Kiss Me Kate, helmed by MGM’s perennial musical director George Sidney, is a translation of Cole Porter’s rousing Broadway success. We must play a game of two degrees of separation because the stage smash was itself a comical backstage adaptation of Shakespeare’ read more

It's been a few years (nearly 7 1/2) since we've run the above Carole Lombard image, Paramount p1202-870 from 1934. The good news is that a vintage version of the photo has surfaced, and you probably can buy it for a relatively inexpensive price.The 8" x 10" is up for auction at eBay, with bids open read more

It's still hard to believe a book was dedicated to me, but it happened some years ago when Michelle Morgan wrote "Carole Lombard: Twentieth-Century Star." (I assisted her with research at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences' Margaret Herrick Library.)Since becoming a Lombard fan three and read more

Carole Lombard knew she had struck gold by playing Lily Garland in "Twentieth Century" (shown away from the set with director Howard Hawks and co-star John Barrymore). No longer was she an actress with a meandering, ill-defined career. Here, she blends the comedic chops she learned as a Mack Sennett read more

I know I'm largely preaching to the converted here ("Carole Lombard one of the greatest comediennes ever in film"?, some of you are probably thinking), but I didn't write the following piece; it's from a TV writer who knows his comedy, and learning his backstory gives me an affinity with him.His nam read more

It's a Carole Lombard film, if only partly so. Nevertheless, fans of World War I aviation epics have a lot to look forward to on Aug. 18, when "The Eagle And The Hawk" appears on Blu-ray.Why do I refer to it as a quasi-Carole movie? While she's third-billed, she frankly doesn't do very much. (It was read more

It's been nearly eight decades since the world lost Carole Lombard, but the entertainment industry still fondly remembers her. That was made evident this morning when Variety magazine ran this about her (https://variety.com/2020/film/news/carole-lombard-plane-crash-memorial-day-world-war-ii-12346151 read more

If you’ve ever started watching To Live and Die in L.A. and turned it off because it’s terrible or just heard of it and thought you should see it, let me say… there’s no reason to see it. Or sit through it. Not even morbid curiosity. Or unless you want to see John Pankow’s butt. Director Friedkin read more

There’s something about Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower that transcends the teen romantic drama genre into something adults can appreciate. Maybe it’s the story of artsy outsiders befriending a vulnerable freshman. Maybe it’s that the stories of young love aren’t so airy read more

One year and thirteen days since the last episode… here’s the second episode of “Visual Reflux.” We didn’t mean to take over a year off. But, hey, at least we’re back? Anyway; this week we discuss a whole bunch: We’ll be back in… well, hopefully 3 wee read more

Ninety years ago this week, Carole Lombard's first film for Paramount, the Charles "Buddy" Rogers musical vehicle "Safety In Numbers" (Lombard is second from left) had the distinction of being the first film shown at a venue that architecturally held its own with any movie palace of the time.It was read more

“Nightmare Alley”—a pet project becomes a film noir classic Nightmare Alley (1947) is a film noir directed by Edmund Goulding, produced by George Jessel and starring Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, and Helen Walker. The plot surrounds Stanton “Stan” Carl read more

Carole Lombard needs your help, and she needs it now.She's battling Claudette Colbert for a berth in the 2020 edition of Turner Classic Movies' annual August extravaganza, "Summer Under The Stars"......but as of the last count, she trails 52 to 48 percent. (That's the same percentage S.Z. "Cuddles" read more

Meet Paramount p1202-1068, an original Carole Lombard portrait from 1935 that's new to me. The seller admits it has a "few minor flaws" (several of which you can see), but otherwise is in fine condition. And, of course, Carole looks stylish.Four bids have been made as of this writing, topping out at read more