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Until the tacked on finish, Die Hard with a Vengeance can do little wrong. It doesn’t aim particularly high, just high enough–it’s a symphony of action movie action (and violence) set in New York City; the city’s geography (at least movie familiar geography) plays less and less of a part as read more

Carole Lombard's film "Sinners In The Sun" premiered in the U.S. in May 1932, but much of the rest of the world didn't see it until 1933, according to the Internet Movie Database. For example, its premieres in Sweden and Turkey weren't until the final week of May 1933.As movies often do, its title w read more

Ah, Jo, Joseph, Joseph Cotten… What a man! Perhaps one of the most underrated actors in Hollywood, he surely deserves his own tribute. And his own blogathon! Crystal from In The Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood and Maddy from Maddy Loves Her Classic Films are back to take care of that! Of c read more

MacMurray in the lab. Following the success of 1959's The Shaggy Dog, Walt Disney re-teamed Fred MacMurray and Tommy Kirk for The Absent-Minded Professor (1961). This time around, Fred got most of the screen time with Tommy in a supporting role as the villain's son. Fred plays Ned Brainard, a bril read more

Jack Oakie made two films with Carole Lombard, "From Hell To Heaven" (from which a publicity still is shown) and "The Eagle And The Hawk" (like Cary Grant, he had no scenes with Carole). If Oakie's remembered today, it's for his turn as a Benito Mussolini type in Charlie Chaplin's 1940 classic "The read more

Carole Lombard rose to movie fame through the screwball comedy. "Twentieth Century" (above, 1934), among the earliest examples of the genre, revitalized her heretofore aimless career; two years later, she starred in "My Man Godfrey," for many the finest screwball ever made.Hallmarks of the genre inc read more

It still blows the mind of many film fans that Carole Lombard was a lead in an Alfred Hitchcock movie -- "Mr. & Mrs. Smith," made in the fall of 1940 and released in early 1941. Heck, it remains a title relatively few associate with the master of suspense.But Lombard, who always appreciated good fil read more

In 1933, Carole Lombard took part in an oceanside Paramount photo session where, on board a yacht, she adopted a nautical look. Sometimes she wore full sailor attire, including bell-bottoms......while other session pics had her in an abbreviated version of the outfit, the better to show off those st read more

Carole Lombard served as "guest editor" for Screen Book magazine's April 1936 issue. One can never be certain whether the stars who took these roles had any genuine influence over said issue, but Lombard had a keen sense of publicity and probably was fascinated to see just how "the other half" lives read more

Carole Lombard had all sorts of God-given gifts that led her to stardom -- beauty, intelligence, sex appeal and comedic sense to name but a few. But one talent she possessed that often gets overlooked was her voice.It helped Carole secure a career during perhaps the most volatile period in Hollywood read more

Carole Lombard loved tennis, and this pic of her on the court, Paramount p1202-1195, apparently ran in a 1936 edition of William Randolph Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner. In December 1938, it announced Clark Gable was filing for divorce from Ria Langham so he could marry her:The Examiner's offices, wh read more

There are many things to like about "Hands Across The Table," arguably Carole Lombard's best Paramount vehicle, but did you know this sardonic, legendary lady of letters contributed to its dialogue?She's Dorothy Parker, born 125 years ago today, who didn't get credit for it. Nor was she credited for read more

Vitaphone View: THIS IS NOT A MUSICAL! From Edison’s earliest experiments to add sound to film, the overwhelming majority of pre-1920 talkie efforts included musical performances. In 1894, barely one year after Thomas Edison built his “Black Maria” studio at his Orange, NJ laboratory and began read more

Although only one Carole Lombard film separates them chronologically ("Fools For Scandal"), one normally doesn't link "True Confession" with "Made For Each Other." The former was Carole's final film for Paramount, a raucous comedy; the latter, her first purely dramatic work in several years.But they read more

A Brief Look at Obscure Silent Film Comedians Since I touched upon the history of silent comedy a couple months ago, I thought I’d do a follow-up post exploring that history in a little more detail. Hope you enjoy! If you ask anyone with a bit of film history knowledge under their belt to name some read more

I don’t tend to be drawn to sports films, but when they star Preston Foster as a football coach, my interest increases. Now available on DVD from Warner Archive, The Band Plays On (1934) benefits from this happy casting. It also stars an early career Robert Young and a pleasing young cast. In read more

Danny Kaye as Hobart Frisbee. A musical remake of Ball of Fire must have been one of the easiest pitches of all time. After all, the original 1941 comedy--penned by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett--was about a bunch of academics writing an encyclopedia about music. Ball of Fire starred Gary Coope read more

In the latter half of the 1930s, Carole Lombard's image became decidedly more rustic. It may have been tied into her romance with Clark Gable, an emigre from small-town Ohio who discovered the hunting and fishing life MGM publicists suggested he pursue worked for him.Anyway, Lombard rented a ranch read more

Have you ever wanted to tour a historic movie palace? One of those elaborately ornate monuments to cinema constructed during the Golden Age of American movie theaters, back in the ‘20s and ‘30s? Well, I have, and luckily for me I live not very far from one of the most spectacular of them read more

Lucille Ball -- born 107 years ago today -- was a good friend of Carole Lombard while both were at RKO in 1939 and 1940. (Ball honored her with this reference on an episode of "Here's Lucy.") I sense they would be thrilled that Lucy's hometown of Jamestown, N.Y., is paying tribute to what bolstered read more