By Movie StarAlfred HitchcockAudrey HepburnAva GardnerBarbara StanwyckBasil RathboneBette DavisBilly WilderBob HopeBoris KarloffBurt LancasterBuster KeatonCarole LombardCary GrantCharlie ChaplinClara BowClark GableClaudette ColbertDana AndrewsDeanna DurbinDebbie ReynoldsDoris DayEleanor ParkerElizabeth TaylorErnst LubitschErrol FlynnEsther WilliamsFranchot ToneFred AstaireFred MacMurrayGary CooperGene KellyGinger RogersGloria SwansonGrace KellyGreer GarsonGregory PeckGreta GarboHarold LloydHedy LamarrHenry FondaHoward HawksHumphrey BogartIda LupinoIngrid BergmanIrene DunneJack BennyJack LemmonJames CagneyJames StewartJane RussellJean ArthurJean HarlowJeanette MacDonaldJeanne CrainJoan CrawfordJoan FontaineJohn FordJohn WayneJudy GarlandKatharine HepburnKay FrancisKirk DouglasLana TurnerLauren BacallLillian GishLon ChaneyLoretta YoungLouise BrooksMae WestMarilyn MonroeMarion DaviesMarlene DietrichMary AstorMary PickfordMickey RooneyMiriam HopkinsMyrna LoyNatalie WoodNorma ShearerOlivia de HavillandOrson WellesPaul NewmanPaulette GoddardPreston SturgesRichard WidmarkRita HayworthRobert MitchumRudolph ValentinoShirley TempleSidney PoitierSpencer TracySteve McQueenTeresa WrightTyrone PowerVincent PriceVivien LeighWilliam HoldenWilliam PowellWilliam WylerWoody Allen By HolidayNew Year's DayPresident's DayValentine's DayEasterMother's DayFather's DayMemorial DayJuly 4thLabor DayColumbus DayHalloweenThanksgivingChristmasBlack History MonthWomen's History Month All Blogs4 Star Films (3493)50 Most Influential Disney Animators (58)A Person in the Dark (367)All Good Things (815)Backlots (412)Caf? Muscato (572)Caftan Woman (904)Carole & Co. (3081)Cary Grant Won't Eat You (489)Cinema Crossroads (42)Cinematic Catharsis (921)Cinematically Insane (268)CineMaven's Essays from the Couch (152)Classic Cinema Gold (319)Classic Film & TV Cafe (1278)Classic Film Review (14)Classic Movie Hub Blog (1945)Classic Movie Man (960)Classic Movies (3247)Classic Reel Girl (95)Comet Over Hollywood (1323)Creme de la Creme (32)Criterion Blues (770)Critica Retro (1454)Curtains (58)Durnmoose Movie Musings (1105)Film Reviews and Anything Else I Get Inspired by (27)Finding Franchot: Exploring the Life and Career of Franchot Tone (161)Flickers in Time (2221)GlamAmor (587)Hitchcock Master (140)Hollywood Revue (532)Hometowns to Hollywood (847)How Sweet It Was (86)In The Good Old Days Of Classic Hollywood (154)Lady Eve's Reel Life (733)Le Mot du Cinephiliaque (945)Love Letters to Old Hollywood (150)MacGuffin Movies (362)Movies Silently (1029)Noir and Chick Flicks (1998)Noirish (1273)Once Upon a Screen (420)Outspoken and Freckled (140)Phantom Empires (60)Pop Culture ImagineMDD (103)Serendipitous Anachronisms (82)Shadows and Satin (990)Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers (1912)Smum County (115)Stardust and Shadows (120)Studies in Cinema (118)The Baz (161)The Blonde At The Film (329)The Bogie Film Blog (147)The Cinema Dilettante (110)The Giddy Blog (152)The Great Katharine Hepburn (240)The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog (1736)The Jeanette MacDonald Blog (94)The Man on the Flying Trapeze (643)The Old Hollywood Garden (460)The Timothy Carey Experience (1181)The Vintage Cameo (134)The Wonderful World of Cinema (607)Timeless Hollywood (73)True Classics (573)Virtual Virago (1633)Where Danger Lives (136)Wolffianclassicmoviesdigest (639)

This just in from Hollywood Heaven, as we break in on a conversation between Carole Lombard and Ginger Rogers:Lombard: Hey, Ginger, did you just get the news? We're super at the box office! Well, not us specifically, but--Rogers: Just what are you talking about? I mean, I'm glad UCLA restored your " read more

Tim Considine was one of Disney’s most popular television actors and was in fact one of the very first of TV’s teen idols in 1955. Born Dec. 31, 1940 in Los Angeles, California, Tim grew up not very much unlike his first screen roles – the restless son from a wealthy family. His read more

Opening Wednesday at a Theater or Drive-In Near You: The Shadow Cinema of the American '70s Charles Taylor Bloomsbury, 2017 From the moment I heard of it, I looked forward to reading Opening Wednesday at a Theater or Drive-In Near You: The Shadow Cinema of the American '70s. I both love and abhor read more

The Human Condition III: A Soldier’s Prayer (Ningen no jôken) Directed by Masaki Kobayashi Written by Zenzu Matsuyama, Koichi Inagaki, and Masaki Kobayashi from a novel by Junpei Gomikawa 1961/Japan Ningin Club/Shochiku Eiga First viewing/Netflix rental A reluctant soldier’s war gets read more

TCM is airing a day of movies from director Howard Hawks, including the noir The Big Sleep (1945), starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Every Tuesday and Wednesday in May, TCM is airing films from iconic leading man Clark Gable. This week features some of his best later roles, including Mo read more

Carole Lombard's final film, the Ernst Lubitsch dark comedy "To Be or Not To Be," long has been a subject for serious criticism -- even soon after its initial release in the spring of 1942, when New York Times critic Bosley Crowther wrote some less-than-complimentary comments about it (http://www.ny read more

Carole Lombard's final film, the Ernst Lubitsch dark comedy "To Be or Not To Be," long has been a subject for serious criticism -- even soon after its initial release in the spring of 1942, when New York Times critic Bosley Crowther wrote some less-than-complimentary comments about it (http://www.ny read more

Last night at the SIFF Egyptian Theater, I was presented with a dizzying mix of glamour, glitter, bare buns and sobering reality.The 43rd Seattle International Film Festival presented a screening of Cabaret (1972) with a real cabaret before it, just like those live shows they used to have before mov read more

Tippi Hedren says in the introduction to her autobiography that so much has been written about her that it’s high time she set the record straight. Tippi is as succinct a title and encapsulation of the writer behind it as the name implies, for good and ill. It’s unclear whether Hedren ke read more

Gone With the Wind (1939) is one of the classic movies airing on TCM this week. It stars Clark Gable as Rhett Butler and Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara. Every Tuesday and Wednesday in May, TCM is airing films from iconic leading man Clark Gable. This week features his starring role as Rhett Butl read more

Underworld U.S.A. Directed by Samuel Fuller Written by Samuel Fuller 1961/USA Globe Enterprises First viewing/FilmStruck   This is Sam Fuller at his lurid best aided by the performance of Cliff Robertson and the cinematography of Hal Mohr. Tolley Devlin had a terrible childhood.  He was rais read more

I have a sophisticated theory about why the Irene Dunne vehicle Together Again (1944) is never on any best-of, favorites, or romantic comedy lists despite the many joys of viewing it: the title sucks. And when I say it sucks, I mean it’s the WORST TITLE I CAN IMAGINE. It’s so forgettabl read more

I have a sophisticated theory about why the Irene Dunne vehicle Together Again (1944) is never on any best-of, favorites, or romantic comedy lists despite the many joys of viewing it: the title sucks. And when I say it sucks, I mean it’s the WORST TITLE I CAN IMAGINE. It’s so forgettabl read more

TCM is showing a night of films starring Myrna Loy (left), Clark Gable, and Jean Harlow this week. Every Tuesday and Wednesday in May, TCM is airing films from iconic leading man Clark Gable. This week features some of his best films with frequent costars Myrna Loy and/or Jean Harlow, including W read more

Debbie Vega of Moon in Gemini is hosting a blogathon devoted to those films that touch our hearts so deeply that tears spring from our eyes. She is calling it The No, YOU'RE Crying! Blogathon and it runs from May 12th to the 14th.  Day 1   Day 2   Day 3 I love the trailers of t read more

A Cruz dos Anos / Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) Eu tenho uma confissão a fazer: eu quase nunca choro em casamentos vendo filmes. Em geral eu consigo separar a experiência fílmica das minhas emoções, e assim sou capaz de analisar um filme criticamente. Mas eu também tenho um calcanhar de read more

Debbie Vega of Moon in Gemini is hosting a blogathon devoted to those films that touch our hearts so deeply that tears spring from our eyes. She is calling it The No, YOU'RE Crying! Blogathon and it runs from May 12th to the 14th. Grab a box of tissues and click here. I love the trailers of the cl read more

Kirk and Anne: Letters of Love, Laughter and a Lifetime in Hollywood Kirk and Anne Douglas with Marcia Newberger TCM/Running Press, 2017 When I received Kirk and Anne: Letters of Love, Laughter and a Lifetime in Hollywood in my media swag bag for TCM Classic Film Festival, I didn't pay the book muc read more

I am excited to once again participate in a giveaway with Flicker Alley. This time you have the opportunity to win the absolutely amazing Early Women Filmmakers Anthology on DVD/Blu-ray. From the avant garde to the mainstream and including filmmakers from around the world, this is a delightfull read more

Irene Dunne in I Remember Mama (1948) is one of the classic movie moms featured on TCM this week. Every Tuesday and Wednesday in May, TCM is airing films from iconic leading man Clark Gable. This week features some of his best films with frequent costar Joan Crawford, including Possessed (1931), read more