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In the final episode of the first season of AMC’s Mad Men, set in 1960, advertising wunderkind Don Draper pitches his creative concept to Kodak for its latest product, a slide projector called the Carousel. He speaks of the power of nostalgia and describes the device as a time machine with the read more

In the final episode of the first season of AMC’s Mad Men, set in 1960, advertising wunderkind Don Draper pitches his creative concept to Kodak for its latest product, a slide projector called the Carousel. He speaks of the power of nostalgia and describes the device as a time machine with the read more

Irene Dunne and Cary Grant: Making It All Look So Easy This post is part of the Dynamic Duos in Classic Film blogathon hosted by fellow classic movie bloggers Once Upon a Screen and Classic Movie Hub. Irene Dunne and Cary Grant starred in three films together during Hollywood’s Golden Ag read more

Irene Dunne and Cary Grant: Making It All Look So Easy This post is part of the Dynamic Duos in Classic Film blogathon hosted by fellow classic movie bloggers Once Upon a Screen and Classic Movie Hub. Irene Dunne and Cary Grant starred in three films together during Hollywood’s Golden Ag read more

The new management at Universal knew it had a winner on its hands when Carole Lombard's latest movie, "My Man Godfrey," rolled out into theaters in September 1936. And evidently exhibitors felt likewise, as the front page of this program from the Roth Park Theater in Morristown, N.J., is indicative: read more

Just what was, or still is, "it"? According to British novelist Elinor Glyn, who coined the term, at least as far as it's referred to here, the phenomenon can mean various things: "a strange magnetism that attracts both sexes," for example. Well, whatever "it" is, Clara Bow had it, and that's wh read more

Stealing food from a date or a spouse is a risky move. Relationship columns solemnly advise against such theft on dates 1-5 (and to be cautious on dates 6-15). Ossi Oswalda demonstrates how one can indulge in food theft and get away with it– literally have your cake and eat it too! The GIF i read more

Clara Bow, was often cast as a waitress, a manicurist, or a salesgirl. Armed with only her humor and her charm, Clara's character would always rise above her lowly place in life and win over her man. It was her performance as a salesgirl in the film "It" that brought the nickname "The It Gir read more

Screwballs weren’t just smart about women and feminism, they were pretty smart about life too. In You Can’t Take It With You, it’s right there in the title. The heavy-handedness is to be expected, and the film is still enjoyable. Jean Arthur receives top billing in You Can’t Take It With You read more

Surely, I'm involved with this quiz! For this quiz, we've shorted the movie descriptions to three words or less. Your mission--should you decide to accept it--is to name the films. Each answer is a spy flick made prior to 1970. A few of them are easy, but  three of them are pretty difficult. P read more

Larry is forced to take a deal with the man who ruined his position on the force. (Screen capture by Lindsey for TMP) Larry Evans (Richard Talmadge) is a motorcycle-driving police officer. He’s on the case and tracking down Connie Banning (Lois Wilde), the daughter of the man who runs the loca read more

My Rating —Almost Decent—  Your Bogie Fix:  out of 5 Bogies! Director:  – Chester Erskine The Lowdown A jury foreman (O.P. Heggie) questions his responsibility in sentencing a woman to death for murdering her husband after a crime of passion.  In a wild coincidence, on the night of read more

Monkey Business (1952), a comedy film directed by Howard Hawks. Cast: Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn and Marilyn Monroe. It is a story about a chemist, who's life is turned upside down after one of  the chimpanzees, mixes some chemicals together and pours the mix into the water read more

Bullitt was not the film that established the Steve McQueen "cool quotient." Steve was displaying coolness earlier in the 1960s in movies such as The Great Escape (1963), The Cincinnati Kid (1965), and The Thomas Crown Affair (1968). Heck, his character was even known as The Cooler King in read more

The rules are the same as the movie edition of this game: Name each TV series below based on our vague description. Be sure to include the question number with your response. Please don't answer all the questions so others can play, too. There is one TV show that is the single, best answer read more

You know when you are going along minding your own business, thinking of cake or butterflies or something, and someone tells you this: It takes more muscles to frown than to smile. This annoys me. I’m sorry but I don’t like my emotions and facial expressions dictated by strangers. And, read more

 Miss Fatty’s Seaside Lovers was released on May 15, 1915 but you can watch it right now. Miss Fatty’s Seaside Lovers features a lot of Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle and a little bit of Harold Lloyd. I give it four stars for that fact alone and one more for Fatty in drag.   read more

Joseph Cotten I have two huge classic Hollywood crushes, both highly underrated: Joseph Cotten and Joel McCrea. But it is Cotten who we celebrate today at Comet, born on this day in 1905 in Virginia, making Mr. Cotten even more appealing to your southern writer. But if his smooth voice, wavy hair a read more

Starring Al St. John, Ford Serling, and Mina Durfee Our Dare-Devil Chief (also know as Our Daredevil Chief) was released by the Keystone Studios on May 10, 1915. Our Dare-Devil Chief is 27 minutes or so classic Keystone Kopism, with yuks to spare. A gang of thieves, led by St. John, is constantly read more

Starring Al St. John, Ford Serling, and Mina Durfee Our Dare-Devil Chief (also know as Our Daredevil Chief) was released by the Keystone Studios on May 10, 1915. Our Dare-Devil Chief is 27 minutes or so classic Keystone Kopism, with yuks to spare. A gang of thieves, led by St. John, is constantly read more