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Visual Entertainment Inc. has been releasing a number of rare television shows of the 1970s on DVD and they are currently running a great sale on these discs. You can pick up the complete series of The Protectors or The Persuaders for only $2.50, the complete collection of Angie for $5, or grab Henr read more

From out of the blue of the western sky comes ... Screen Capture Theatre! Today's entry: the 1952 film ...  "Scandal Sheet" takes place in a mythical world where people read newspapers. Rush Limbaugh -- I mean Broderick Crawford -- plays Mark Chapman, hard-driving newspaper edit read more

If you love browsing antique stores and tend to stop and pick up old Dell or Golden Key comics just to admire their cover art ( especially the Movie/TV themed issues ), then you'll have to check out Tony's Trading Site of TV/Film Annuals and Comics. This great site is run by Tony ( natch ) and featu read more

 Yesterday was the 80th anniversary of the plane crash that took the lives of Carole Lombard and 21 others. Last night I watched one of Lombard's earliest films that she starred in while under contract to Paramount--the 1931 comedy IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE. Norman Foster plays Rodney Martin, t read more

The lovely and leggy Chita Rivera made a marvelous guest appearance on The Hollywood Palace in November 1965 performing a peppy showstopper titled "Blue". I wasn't able to find out who wrote this piece but it certainly sounds like something penned from the hands of Jules Styne. Just a few months ear read more

On October 24, a rare and ferocious union of “atmospheric river” and “bomb cyclone” generated a savage storm that pummeled Northern California, dumping more than a foot of rain in some areas. As high winds blew and heavy rains fell, streets and roads flooded, power lines and read more

“Jayne Mansfield: The Girl Couldn’t Help It”We have Four Books to Giveaway this Month! CMH is happy to announce our next Classic Movie Book Giveaway as part of our partnership with University Press of Kentucky! This time, we’ll be giving away FOUR COPIES of “Jayne read more

Are you a "Murder, She Wrote" fan? If you're not yet, then a visit to the website The Definitive Guide to "Murder, She Wrote" will make you one! The highly addictive mystery series premiered in 1984 with a star-studded pilot episode and went on to become one of the longest-running drama series read more

“How Sweet It Is: The Jackie Gleason Story”We have FOUR Books to Give Away this month! “How Sweet It Is adds new luster, dimension anddepth to an American original”– Paul Newman It’s time for our next book giveaway contest! CMH will be giving away FOUR COPIES of How read more

Casablanca and the Battle over “As Time Goes By”(Exclusive by Author Steven C. Smith) By mid-1941, Max Steiner had already scored over thirty films at Warner Bros. since becoming that studio’s highest paid staff composer in 1937. Many of his projects had been prestigious and highly profitable. read more

For over ten years on this site I have been banging the drum every holiday season about It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947), Holiday Affair (1949), and The Shop Around the Corner (1940). I never felt like they got enough love, though awareness of these charming films appears to have grown at a steady p read more

I often wonder how Carole Lombard would fare an actress in 2020 (in our hypothetical Hollywood of today, there's no such thing as coronavirus). While technological advances have arguably removed much of the soul from moviemaking, other leaps forward have made the process of creating a film infinitel read more

This is my post in The 120 “Screwball” Years of Jean Arthur Blogathon put on by the Wonderful World of Cinema! Mr. Kirby (Edward Arnold), or A.P. as his deferential colleagues call him, is a business magnate with innumerable successful endeavors. He has the full pockets to go along with a career read more

Olympia Kiriakou's book "Becoming Carole Lombard" is the literary equivalent of a Maserati you see passing a luxury import automotive showroom in the heart of Beverly Hills -- you recognize how good it is, but chances are it's likely out of your league.As we've stated before,"Becoming" takes the Lom read more

It seems as if independent filmmakers/distributors of the 1970s and early ‘80s were obsessed with including “Don’t” in their movie titles. But wait a minute… This wasn’t simply a cheap way of riding the exploitation bandwagon, but a public service to warn us about read more

Would Carole Lombard -- an avid baseball fan -- be thrilled Opening Day is today, nearly four months behind schedule? Perhaps. But I sense that like me, she'd also say fine, but we have bigger figurative fish to fry. Or something to that effect.Nearly nine months ago, Opening Day 2020 was something read more

Hey movie lover - haven't you often heard behind the scenes conversations in your head? You know, the ones between Clark Gable and Carole Lombard? Or Garbo and Gilbert? Or maybe, just maybe, Irving Thalberg and Norma Shearer? Or better  yet, all those mop up men at the Harlow home discussing ho read more

It. Two simple letters that form the most innocuous of words, one that we use hundreds of times a day without thinking. And that’s the point of the word that is defined as “easily identified.” Not so in the world of classic horror films where “it” is used as a way to not identity read more

So, funny thing about this season. The cops seem to have forgotten anyone hit Christina Applegate’s husband with a car and drove away. Like. When Diana Maria Riva is recapping her involvement with Applegate and Linda Cardellini for Natalie Morales? Doesn’t come up. It’s very strange. Though, I read more

Thank you HOLLYWOOD GENES for having me in the Ziegfeld Blogathon! Few would claim Ziegfeld Girl to be anything close to a landmark masterpiece, but it’s got star power in spades thanks to MGMs robust lineup during the war years and that alone, followed up with a few spunky numbers, backstage read more