By Movie StarAlfred HitchcockAudrey HepburnAva GardnerBarbara StanwyckBasil RathboneBette DavisBilly WilderBob HopeBoris KarloffBurt LancasterBuster KeatonCarole LombardCary GrantCharlie ChaplinClara BowClark GableClaudette ColbertDana AndrewsDeanna DurbinDebbie ReynoldsDoris DayElizabeth TaylorErnst LubitschErrol FlynnEsther WilliamsFranchot ToneFred AstaireFred MacMurrayGary CooperGene KellyGeorge CukorGinger 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 (3514)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 (495)Cinema Crossroads (42)Cinematic Catharsis (940)Cinematically Insane (268)CineMaven's Essays from the Couch (152)Classic Cinema Gold (319)Classic Film & TV Cafe (1294)Classic Film Review (14)Classic Movie Hub Blog (1988)Classic Movie Man (995)Classic Movies (3247)Classic Reel Girl (95)Comet Over Hollywood (1357)Creme de la Creme (32)Criterion Blues (770)Critica Retro (1480)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 (147)Hollywood Revue (532)Hometowns to Hollywood (878)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 (1025)Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers (1957)Smum County (115)Stardust and Shadows (120)Studies in Cinema (118)The Baz (165)The Blonde At The Film (333)The Bogie Film Blog (147)The Cinema Dilettante (110)The Giddy Blog (152)The Great Katharine Hepburn (240)The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog (1803)The Jeanette MacDonald Blog (94)The Man on the Flying Trapeze (643)The Old Hollywood Garden (467)The Timothy Carey Experience (1181)The Vintage Cameo (134)The Wonderful World of Cinema (642)Timeless Hollywood (73)True Classics (573)Virtual Virago (1636)Where Danger Lives (136)Wolffianclassicmoviesdigest (642)

Book Review: "Ava: A Life in Movies" This new biography of screen legend Ava Gardner is one pretty package. Authors Kendra Bean and Anthony Uzarowski, while focusing on Gardner’s “life in movies,” also smoothly weave in pertinent information on the star’s personal life read more

Errol Flynn is in the bedroom, of course. As part of an ongoing effort to make our house a more interesting and personally relevant space (as opposed to a collection of things other people chose for us or handed down), I finally got frames for the posters I bought at Larry Edmunds Bookshop in Los A read more

Errol Flynn is in the bedroom, of course. As part of an ongoing effort to make our house a more interesting and personally relevant space (as opposed to a collection of things other people chose for us or handed down), I finally got frames for the posters I bought at Larry Edmunds Bookshop in Los A read more

Rear Window (1954) is one of the Alfred Hitchcock-directed films airing on TCM this week. It stars Grace Kelly and James Stewart as a couple who spy a murder through an apartment window. Every Wednesday and Friday in July, TCM is airing a marathon of movies from English director Alfred Hitchcock read more

As one of the greatest B-films of its day, D.O.A. is framed by a crackerjack gimmick that actually pays heavy dividends. We watch a man making his way down a long corridor as the typically stringent score of Dimitri Tiomkin pounds away behind the credits. In this initial moment, our protagonist Fran read more

As one of the greatest B-films of its day, D.O.A. is framed by a crackerjack gimmick that actually pays heavy dividends. We watch a man making his way down a long corridor as the typically stringent score of Dimitri Tiomkin pounds away behind the credits. In this initial moment, our protagonist Fran read more

Rebecca (1940) is one of the Alfred Hitchcock-directed movies airing on TCM this week. It stars Joan Fontaine (left) as a newlywed who is tormented by the devoted servant (Judith Anderson) of her husband's first wife. Every Wednesday and Friday in July, TCM is airing a marathon of movies from Eng read more

I'm sure most of you are aware of the so-called "Dark Universe"--the attempt by Universal Studios to have their own Marvel-like multi-feature storyline featuring legendary classic monsters instead of comic book characters. I don't have too much confidence in this idea--but if Universal was smart, th read more

TCM is celebrating the Fourth of July with Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942). The patriotic musical stars James Cagney as legendary Broadway showman, George M. Cohan. Every Wednesday and Friday in July, TCM is airing a marathon of movies from English director Alfred Hitchcock (there's an indepth guide b read more

Six years ago, that's how Turner Classic Movies in the U.S. promoted Carole Lombard's day in its Summer Under the Stars schedule. She's not in the rotation this year (Lombard last appeared in 2014), but here's who is:1 Marilyn Monroe2 Ray Milland3 Lon Chaney Sr.4 Claire Trevor (TCM Backlot m read more

Six years ago, that's how Turner Classic Movies in the U.S. promoted Carole Lombard's day in its Summer Under the Stars schedule. She's not in the rotation this year (Lombard last appeared in 2014), but here's who is:1 Marilyn Monroe2 Ray Milland3 Lon Chaney Sr.4 Claire Trevor (TCM Backlot m read more

Things I’ve said as a Classic Hollywood buff… On June 30, 2017 By CarolIn Uncategorized These are all things I’ve said either to myself (!) or to other people. They all true and I sometimes wish they weren’t… ‘Alright, Carol, yo read more

From March 2015 to April 2017, I was writing the monthly Teen Scene column for the website ClassicFlix. My objective was to promote classic films among teenagers and young adults. Due to the establishing of a new version of the website, it’s now more difficult to access to the old version and read read more

The Loved One takes a look at the superficial rot in society and gleefully flashes a pair of fangs. This satire of Hollywood, the funeral industry and grand gestures hiding devious acts jabs at corruption and greed. It's full of cameos, some performed by actors who for the most part have glossy, unc read more

Werewolf in a Girls Dormitory (Lycanthropus) Directed by Paolo Heusch Written by Ernesto Gastaldi 1961/Italy/Austria Royal Film First viewing/Amazon Instant This Italian/Austrian production doesn’t live up to its awesome American title and poster. The story is set in a reformatory for waywa read more

Trog watches children at a playground. Joan Crawford probably didn't envision her film career ending with a notoriously bad, low-budget drive-in picture about the Missing Link. Yet, Trog (1970) was the cinematic swan song for the actress that graced the silver screen in classics like Mildred P read more

Trog watches children at a playground. Joan Crawford probably didn't envision her film career ending with a notoriously bad, low-budget drive-in picture about the Missing Link. Yet, Trog (1970) was the cinematic swan song for the actress that graced the silver screen in classics like Mildred P read more

TCM is airing a night of epic Westerns this week that includes How the West Was Won (1962). This movie features several big-name stars, including Debbie Reynolds and Gregory Peck. Every Monday in June, TCM is airing the films of actress and fashion icon Audrey Hepburn. This week features two of h read more

Are you a mod or a rocker? ~ reporter Um, no, I’m a mocker ~ Ringo As a 4 or 5-year-old I didn’t know who the Marx Brothers were and no one had told me yet about Cinema Verite and what that meant. But I loved the Beatles. Also, I didn’t find out until years later that Richard Leste read more

Are you a mod or a rocker? ~ reporter Um, no, I’m a mocker ~ Ringo As a 4 or 5-year-old, I didn’t know who the Marx Brothers were and no one had told me yet about Cinema Verite and what that meant. But I loved the Beatles. Also, I didn’t find out until years later that Richard Lest read more