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What is a musical? A New Answer Comes with Each Decade. When you can’t express how you feel in words … belt out a song or break out into a lively dance number. That is typically how musicals have been defined: Singing or dancing when the emotion builds up too high to express feelings with speech, read more

Top 10 Slapsticks in the Ring – Comedies That Pack a Punch There are plenty of serious films that have taken on the drama of boxing. Often they play up the angle of the unknown, struggling underdog who works hard, and defies the naysayers to beat all odds and make it as a champion. Some have focused read more

Add one more city to the list of places graced by the presence of Carole Lombard.It's Shreveport, La., in the north-central part of the state, some distance geographically -- and culturally -- from New Orleans. It's where Carole stopped for a spell on Feb. 1, 1935 while flying home to Los Angeles af read more

A Little Tour Through The History Of Silent Comedy When it comes to the genre of silent comedy, everyone’s familiar with the great Charlie Chaplin– perhaps the single most famous figure in cinema– and the solemn-faced Buster Keaton has a large and devoted following as well. And even if you haven’t read more

I hate rating movies. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a necessary evil, I suppose. It’s what you’re supposed to do when you review films, right? It’s a thumbnail sketch of my opinion, in easy-to-digest, minimal thought-inducing form. It’s all you’d ever need to kno read more

We've noted many a time that Lucille Ball cited Carole Lombard as an influence, as this pic of Ball holding an actual cover of a fan magazine with Carole on the cover makes clear (https://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/828139.html). But did you know Lucy once portrayed Lombard?Don't worry. I didn't, read more

Someone is knocking off belly dancers and other fit young women in the city of Seattle, and draining a small quantity of blood from their brains. Investigative reporter Carl Kolchak, freshly arrived after having been run out of Las Vegas at the end of The Night Stalker, does what he does best: anno read more

It's mid-1939, and for Carole Lombard and Clark Gable, life is good.Why shouldn't it be? He's Hollywood's number-one box office attraction, with an Academy Award on his resume and the lead in an iconic film set for release in December. She's among the industry's best-loved personalities and a talent read more

Since Sunday tends to be a day of quiet and reflection for many people, it seems an appropriate day to celebrate silent movies. But in keeping with the “day of rest” theme, I’m just going to post this without any commentary and just sit back and let you enjoy. read more

A Gata dos meus Sonhos / Gay Purr-ee (1962) Eu AMO animação. E esta é a razão pela qual eu não escrevo críticas de filmes de animação com frequência: eu fico tão maravilhada, impressionada e imersa neste tipo de filme que eu seria capaz de apenas elogiar quase todas as animações que read more

It's no secret that Carole Lombard enjoyed drinking Coca-Cola, back in the day when the soda came in the ubiquitous 6 1/2 ounce bottles with a greenish tint. (It always was fun to examine the bottom of the bottle when through to see the location of the Coke bottler that originally produced it.) Here read more

Carole Lombard and Russ Columbo enjoy an evening out in 1934 at a place with plenty of history for both. Nearly a decade earlier, a teenaged Lombard regularly danced in contests there against the likes of Joan Crawford; a few years later, musician and singer Columbo performed there as part of Gus Ar read more

Did Carole Lombard have plenty of sex appeal? That photo of her in a swimsuit, from the June 1932 issue of Modern Screen, supplies an obvious answer (https://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/817111.html). Half a decade later, Carole still possessed the power to make men melt.Don't believe me? I'll give read more

A Canção da Liberdade / Song of Freedom (1936) Um conhecedor de filmes, quando ouve “Hammer Films”, pensará em filmes de horror, como os da série do Drácula com Peter Cushing e Christopher Lee. Eles não estão errados. Entretanto, a Hammer Films engloba muito mais que isso: read more

  George Stevens is only one among a plethora of filmmakers who came back from WWII changed. He had seen a great deal of the world’s ugliness — Dachau Concentration Camp for instance — and as a result, the films he made thereafter were more mature ruminations on humanity at l read more

Made between the second and third seasons of The Patty Duke Show, the teen comedy Billie (1965) is a best-forgotten stain on the resumes of its star and her veteran supporting cast. Indeed, the only reason to watch this ill-conceived adaptation of the 1952 Broadway play Time Out for Ginger  read more

A Love Letter to Danny Kaye “Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.” – Danny Kaye According to my baby book, my first crush was Donny Osmond. Don’t judge – it was a different time. I think it was a combination of “Puppy Love” and assuredly read more

On this Memorial Day, we think of all those who lost their lives in service to this country, from the American Revolution on. Carole Lombard was one of them, dying in a plane crash while returning from a war bond rally Jan. 16, 1942. Among the other casualties were 15 Air Corps pilots.In her memory, read more

Here we go with another tourney. This time all about classical movie musicals. 14 Friends. 14 Films. First round action begins now.. Which musical film do you like more? Which musical film do you like more? Which musical film do you like more? Which musical film do you like more? read more

Let’s consider the reasons Joan Crawford is a terrible choice to star in Dancing Lady (1933), one of those films about an aspiring hoofer, Janie, who is willing to do anything but trade sexual favors to get on the stage, and who is so talented she actually makes it. 1. So talented at dancing? read more