It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: Up in Central Park (1948) read more
CENTRAL PARK, from 1932, is one of those Warner Bros. films from the early thirties that is short on running time but stuffed with plot. Despite being just short of an hour, there's enough situations to fill about three different movies.
What makes this film stand out is that it is entirely set in read more
Why did I pick Central Park (1932) for my Pre-code Crazy selection of the month? Because, for gosh sakes, it’s got everything in it but the kitchen sink – resulting in an economical 57 minutes of sheer entertainment! (Plus, it stars Joan Blondell. I actually should have said that first!) Central read more
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Dot (Joan Blondell) and Rick (Wallace Ford) are both unemployed transplants, having moved to New York from small, fly-over towns. They meet in Central Park one day, when they share a meal of two stolen hot dogs from a lunch stand in the park. Both quite lonely in the city, t read more
