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THE GOLDEN AGE OF GOSSIP What Legendary Movie Stars Said about Each Other Part Three of a Four-Part Series Melvyn Douglas, who first co-starred with Greta Garbo in As You Desire Me [1932], remembered her as “icy and distant.” He also said she had no flair for comedy and believes it was her “humorles read more

THE GOLDEN AGE OF GOSSIP What Legendary Movie Stars Said about Each Other Part Two of a Four-Part Series Though two-time Oscar winner Spencer Tracy is widely regarded as one of the acting greats of the “golden age,” not all of his co-stars were so keen on him. For instance, Melvyn Douglas complain read more

THE GOLDEN AGE OF GOSSIP What Legendary Movie Stars Said about Each Other Part One of a Four-Part Series Most movie fans who love the classic films of Hollywood’s “golden age,” probably have a pretty good idea what film scholars and movie critics think of the great stars of that era because read more

“Conversations with Classic Film Stars: Interviews from Hollywood’s Golden Era”  Book Giveaway via Facebook and this Blog Okay, now it’s time for the Facebook/Blog version of our  “Conversations with Classic Film Stars: Interviews from Hollywood’s Golden Era” Giveaway Contest! This read more

I recently gave another presentation on iconic 1940s fashion in film, and every time I do this talk I declare 1946 to be the second greatest year in film history. Of course 1939 has long been regarded the best - completely justified with movie premieres that included Gone with the Wind, The Wiz read more

Halloween is right around the corner and I want your input on which ghosts and ghouls we’ll be looking at. I’ve included a poll at the bottom but don’t hesitate to include other suggestions. Take Our Poll Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commentin read more

Book Review: "LIFE Film Noir: 75 Years of the Greatest Crime Films" When someone tweeted the cover of LIFE Film Noir: 75 Years of the Greatest Crime Films, I had to go out and buy it. After all it had Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney on the cover! What it is is a 96-page glorified magazine with ne read more

“Conversations with Classic Film Stars: Interviews from Hollywood’s Golden Era”  Book Giveaway via Twitter Okay, it’s time for our next book giveaway! CMH will be giving away FOUR COPIES of  “Conversations with Classic Film Stars: Interviews from Hollywood’s Golden read more

Vaudeville 101 in Club TCM. Now that TCM has announced its dates for the 2017 Turner Classic Movies Film Festival (April 6-9, 2017), I thought this was an ideal time to offer up another installment in my year-long look at the 2016 event. (What – I didn’t mention that I was plan to write about the read more

2017 Turner Classic Movies Film Festival date set: April 6 – 9, 2017 The dates for the Turner Classic Movies Film Festival have been set for April 6 – 9, 2017. Tickets will go on sale sometime in November. Held over four days in the heart of Hollywood, the TCM Classic Film Festival read more

Greetings, blog people. I am considering attending the TCM Film Festival next April and I would welcome any/all knowledge/hints/weird experiences to help guide me. Hotel or Airbnb? Spotlight Festival Pass or Essential Festival Pass? Many thanks. read more

Greetings, blog people. I am considering attending the TCM Film Festival next April and I would welcome any/all knowledge/hints/weird experiences to help guide me. Hotel or Airbnb? Spotlight Festival Pass or Essential Festival Pass? Many thanks. read more

“Some cases, like this one, kind of creep up on you on their hands and knees and the first thing you know, you’re in it up to your neck.” First person perspective was a trick that film noir flirted with throughout the 1940s. Delmer Daves spent the first half of Dark Passage (1947) hiding Humph read more

Picture this. It’s the dead of night, three miles outside of Desert Springs, Arizona. We know this because the signpost announcing the location is briefly illuminated by the glaring headlights from a speeding car. When the car stops in the middle of the desert, we see three men in the front seat. read more

The Film Noir Blogathon is hosted by The Midnite Drive-In from August 12-14.  Click HERE for all the dangerous dames and dirty dogs.  I can't resist those mean streets and am thrilled to contribute a look at 1955s New York Confidential. Newspaper journalists Jack Lait and Lee Morti read more

For some reason, I’ve only just learned about this. Although it’s official start date is Saturday, already a number of great contributions to it have been posted. Click on the flyer to be taken to the blogathon’s home page. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: Y read more

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Film Clip Find posts - a place to archive discoveries while going down the rabbit hole of research Description: a collection of film shorts featuring African-American singers of the 1940s Why I like this clip: beautiful singing from many artists I have not been exposed to; African-American pe read more

Tuesday, August 2 THE STYLE ESSENTIALS: HISTORY OF FASHION IN FILM 1940s 6:30 pm - 8:00 pmGuest speakerAnnenberg Beach House Santa Monica, CA If you love style in the movies, you are invited to learn all about THE STYLE ESSENTIALS: HISTORY OF FASHION IN FILM in an extensive 6-part serie read more

Talented poet and screenwriter, martial artist, and classics enthusiast Brian Wilkins agreed to guest post for me as part of The Sword and Sandal blogathon, hosted by Moon in Gemini. Check out his wonderful tribute to fight scenes below. Sometime in 1998, I sit on the floor in my living room watchi read more