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Feeling physically inadequate & blaming classic film for it! Ginger Rogers in SHALL WE DANCE (1937) If you're a woman - or a man for that matter - and you've read the title of this post and have rolled your eyes and are about to click away, WAIT! Hear me out because chances are you've fel read more

Rainy days are great. Nothing beats sitting in a cozy chair under a blanket, drinking something hot, and watching a classic film. Unfortunately, college discourages that. They'd rather you go to class and basically have no fun. But once class is over, all bets are off. Unless you have pressing homew read more

It Happened on 5th Avenue Directed by Roy Del Ruth Written by Everett Freeman and Vick Knight; original story by Herbert Clyde Lewis and Frederick Stephani 1947/USA Roy Del Ruth Productions Repeat viewing/Netflix Rental 1947 was the year for Christmas movies and here is another one.  The many hea read more

We've run this photo before -- or so we think -- as Carole Lombard (second from left), poses with Josephine Dunn, Buddy Rogers, Kathryn Crawford and Virginia Bruce in a publicity pic. I used the qualifier because I came across a slightly different image (note the variance in Rogers' appearance):I'm read more

The site where Carole Lombard honed her comedy chops while making "The Bicycle Flirt" and other shorts for Mack Sennett -- following in the footsteps of numerous legends -- today received its accurate recognition in film history, more than sixty years after a mistake regarding the proper location of read more

Pre-Internet Classic Film Research. How'd You Do It? Ansley Grove Library in Woodbridge, Ontario (SOURCE) In the days before the Internet, life was pretty bleak. Those of us who craved social interaction either had to pick up the phone - a land line, mind you - and dial a friend or we neede read more

Minnie Hamilton, a librarian working in the public library of a Michigan resort town, is followed home by a cat one day. Unable to get rid of her little shadow, she decides to take him in, and she names him Eddie. Eddie’s got an adventurous spirit, and on the first day that Minnie is set to op read more

  The look of Hollywood has always been one of the alluring aspects of what makes up the legend of the Golden Age.   Although the exact start of the Golden Age is debatable, many agree that style influences in American film making were between the years 1927 to 1963.  In broad terms, the look read more

I'm not precisely certain when Carole Lombard received this inscribed autographed picture from John Barrymore, but if it was given to her at the wrap party for 1934's "Twentieth Century," she may well have floated home that night. Getting approval from Barrymore, one of the industry's most distingui read more

One of my favorite stars from the Silent Era is Clara Bow. She appeared in 46 silent films and in 11 talkies during her career, but the film “It” gave her global fame and also gave her the nickname that fit her perfectly, “The It Girl”. According to Wikipedia, her final film, read more

See that hat Carole Lombard is wearing, from the film "Now And Forever"? It's still around, and is available.To be sure, I initially had my doubts, especially as this was part of the eBay ad for it -- and the only image from the movie doesn't appear to show Carole in a hat, while the two pics of her read more

Many thanks to everyone whose visits and comments through 2014 have made it seem worth my while continuing with Noirish. The year has seen a steady growth in the site’s traffic; golly, but I felt as if I was channeling Mitt Romney when I typed that. It’s not a feeling I much wish to revi read more

We're celebrating the season with some of our favorite Christmas movies. This week's selection is It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947). It Happened on 5th Avenue is a delightful holiday comedy that was forgotten for decades but has made a resurgence in recent years. The film begins with hobo Aloysius read more

Here are the rules to this quiz: Name each film below based on our vague description. All these movies either take place around Christmas or feature a key scene during the yuletide season. Be sure to include the question number with your response. Please don't answer more than three questions daily read more

By Fritzi Kramer on December 11, 2014 in Blog, Humor, Silent Movie Rules Douglas Fairbanks had a lot of fun with Zorro’s dual identity in The Mark of Zorro. No one believed that the sleepy Don Diego was really the fearless Zorro. Robert McKim’s villain certainly had no idea who he was d read more

Dec 8 Posted by aaronwest In the interest of full disclosure, I’ll come clean that I’m not a Capra fanatic. That’s not to say that I don’t have tremendous respectful for him as a talented and influential filmmaker, and I like most of his films, even if I do not love them. My first exposure read more

With each viewing of The Fountainhead rather than growing tired of the 65 year old picture, I admire it more and more. Raymond Massey was never more sleazy (in the first two-thirds of the movie), Cooper, strong, silent, never more Cooperesque than in The Fountainhead and Patricia Neal, never more be read more

With each viewing of The Fountainhead rather than growing tired of the 65 year old picture, I admire it more and more. Raymond Massey was never more sleazy (in the first two-thirds of the movie), Cooper, strong, silent, never more Cooperesque than in The Fountainhead and Patricia Neal, never more be read more

Dec 8 Posted by aaronwest In the interest of full disclosure, I’ll come clean that I’m not a Capra fanatic. That’s not to say that I don’t have tremendous respectful for him as a talented and influential filmmaker, and I like most of his films, even if I do not love them. My first exposure read more

With each viewing of The Fountainhead rather than growing tired of the 65 year old picture, I admire it more and more. Raymond Massey was never more sleazy (in the first two-thirds of the movie), Cooper, strong, silent, never more Cooperesque than in The Fountainhead and Patricia Neal, never more be read more