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I came to the realization recently that a lot of the films on Four Star Film are rather dramatic and heavy. I figured a change of pace would be good and I wanted to lighten up some. So in the near future I wanted to highlight some great comedy films from the Marx Brothers, Laurel Hardy, Mel Brooks, read more

I came to the realization recently that a lot of the films on Four Star Film are rather dramatic and heavy. I figured a change of pace would be good and I wanted to lighten up some. So in the near future I wanted to highlight some great comedy films from the Marx Brothers, Laurel Hardy, Mel Brooks, read more

Best known for the controversial Straw Dogs (1971) and the drive-in classic Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry (1974), Susan George has acted in film and television for six decades. She met fellow British actor Simon MacCorkindale (Death on the Nile) at a charity event in 1977 and the two became best friends. read more

John Goodman as Woolsey/William Castle being awesome As a movie lover, I love watching films that were made by fellow movie lovers with “our people” (all of the film-crazed beings of the world) in mind. Matinee by Joe Dante is one of those films. Released in 1993 and set in 1962, Matinee read more

Recently, I was honored to hear I was awarded with the "One Lovely Blog Award" by the lovely "Movies Silently" blog. I'm a big fan of this silent film centric blog so I was all the more delighted hear the feeling was mutual! Fritzi Kramer (aka @MoviesSilently) is the tea-sipping, book-reading a read more

Recently, I was honored to hear I was awarded with the "One Lovely Blog Award" by the lovely "Movies Silently" blog. I'm a big fan of this silent film centric blog so I was all the more delighted hear the feeling was mutual! Fritzi Kramer (aka @MoviesSilently) is the tea-sipping, book-reading a read more

Hitchcock thought of James Stewart as a cinematic image of the best possible version of his own self; he saw in Jimmy his greatest qualities, and related enormously to the American actor, so the story goes. But Cary Grant, the man whom the words urbane and debonair could’ve been invented to ca read more

This was another hard one. I hesitate to really tear down a silent film. After all, it’s not like they haven’t been knocked around enough. (By the way, I am putting on a helmet and elbow pads because this film does have a following.) My choice is the second and last collaboration of Ma read more

(IMDB) I’m going to come right out and say it: I am not a fan of the Pepe le Pew-style silent film romances. You know the “oh my darling, how beautiful you are, it is love at first sight, no? I love you, I love you, I love you!” (insert slow motion kisses, etc.) sort of thing. I t read more

I was, at first, a little reluctant to write a piece on Chaplin’s talents as an actor. We do, after all, see him as the the director too, as well as the producer, the writer, the editor, and even the composer, all rolled up into this other-worldly smidge of genius. The more I thought about it read more

Source To Sir, With Love (1967) is one of several movies in the good-teacher-vs-tough-students sub-genre. It stars Sidney Poitier as the well-intentioned Mr. Thackeray who winds up at a school in a rough part of London.  Only 12 years earlier, Poitier had a supporting role as a tough stu read more

Living on Love (1937). Is a film released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film is a remake of the RKO film, Rafter Romance (1933). Cast: James Dunn and Whitney Bourne. When Eli West, rents a room to Russian acrobats Ivan and Nicolai Ghonoff, he has Mary Wilson, who is late on her rent, become the "i read more

A sample of Norma Talmadge’s itsy-bitsy costumes (stanford.edu) The Song of Love (1923) Status: 35mm prints held by The Library of Congress and the Czech Film Archive. The Song of Love is one of those films that is more famous for what went on behind the camera. First, there was drama on the read more

(kinopoisk.ru) It’s time to give a little attention to one of my favorite screen teams, a couple so famous in the talkies that most people do not even realize that they started in the silents: William Powell and Myrna Loy. I initially planned to write about The Thin Man but then I decided to read more

Ronald Reagan is credited with a great line about his days of making B-movies: "They didn't want them good, they wanted them Thursday." And that's the standard rap -- they were projector fodder destined to belong at the bottom of double features with forgettable actors, mediocre scripts, blah blah read more

Ronald Reagan is credited with a great line about his days of making B-movies: "They didn't want them good, they wanted them Thursday." And that's the standard rap -- they were projector fodder destined to belong at the bottom of double features with forgettable actors, mediocre scripts, blah blah read more

Love Crazy(1941). Comedy. Everyone knows that William Powell, always wore a mustache, but did you know he shaved it off when dressed as a woman for this film? The tenth of fourteen films pairing William Powell and Myrna Loy. Architect, Steve Ireland and his wife Susan, are looking forward to read more

I think Jean Arthur is just great. She’s always smart, cute, funny, and stubborn. She manages to be attractive without playing a prostitute (Jean Harlow in Red Dust is what I’m thinking of), and she manages to keep up with the man without becoming, how shall I say this, mannish (His Girl Friday). read more

Being a movie star means you're issued invitations to all sorts of things, so Carole Lombard was used to being asked to attend a party. This one, however, wasn't the type of party she normally was sought for, and so she sent a letter expressing her regrets:Yes, Lombard was invited to a children's bi read more

D.W. Griffith offers adventure, romance, exotic climes, a leering camera and Carol Dempster to the viewing public. The viewing public says: “Thanks but no thanks.” Carol is a zany teen determined to save her father from a murder charge in the kitchen sink (as in everything but) caper. read more