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May 25, 2013 by smumcounty Spoiler alert.I’ve loved old movies for as long as I can remember. When I was a kid one of the local TV stations would show an afternoon movie. I think they called it the “early” movie as opposed to the “late” movie they would show just before going off the air for read more

May 25, 2013 by smumcounty Spoiler alert.I’ve loved old movies for as long as I can remember. When I was a kid one of the local TV stations would show an afternoon movie. I think they called it the “early” movie as opposed to the “late” movie they would show just before going off the air for read more

Regis Toomey (1898 - 1991) "The High and the Mighty" "And there is the one and only - Regis Toomey.  We all love Regis Toomey.  Wonderful actor.  A favourite of many directors, not just your father.  Your father liked him just fine, but he worked a lot for Capra - he worked read more

Kay Colby (Carole Lombard) is a rich New Yorker torn between two men. Bill Wadsworth (Cesar Romero) is Kay’s fiance, but Scott Miller (Preston Foster) also has a thing for her. (Image: vargklo.com) In order to eliminate the competition, Scott decides to buy out the company that Bill works for read more

While some may have had a quiet, relaxing Mother’s Day weekend, ours had a jam-packed schedule that included everything from room-decluttering (fun, right?) to a family outing to the gym.  (I opted for an hour on the recumbent bike because you get to sit down the whole time and if my legs tur read more

I loved musicals as a kid, that much was obvious. In fact, I actually spent an entire holiday watching our entire musical collection again and again; literally it was Wizard of Oz, Singin’ in the Rain, The King and I  [insert pretty much every other singing- dancing -Technicolor extravaganza] read more

Mad Love Directed by Karl Freund 1935/USA Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Repeat viewing     Brilliant surgeon Dr. Gogol (Peter Lorre) has become obsessed with love for grand guignol actress Yvonne Orlac (Frances Drake).  Her husband is great concert pianist Stephen Orlac (Colin Clive).  When Steven&# read more

Deanna Durbin in “I’ll Be Yours” (1947) The first time saw Deanna Durbin was on the front of a DVD case. The DVDs that introduced me to Deanna I was 14 and gazed at this pretty, young lady happily looking back at me on the front of the “Deanna Durbin: Sweetheart Pack.” Though I read more

This week’s video is a delightful change of pace. It’s a music video for the tune “Love Jam” by LA band Mt. Ossa. It has several aspects that make it appropriate for the blog. It recreates the audition scene from John Cassavetes‘ The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976), read more

(Image: Wikimedia Commons) Alison Courtland wakes up on a train in the middle of the night. She has no idea where she is, why she’s there or how she got there. The train is headed to Boston, and she has no recollection of getting on it. Panicking, Alison calls her husband back in New York and read more

Ask a question, get an answer. The blog "A Mythical Monkey Writes About The Movies" (http://mythicalmonkey.blogspot.com/) recently received the Liebster Blog Award, and as part of the process, you're supposed to divulge random facts about yourself, answer questions and ask some. I'm in the last cate read more

Bessie Love and Anita Page duet in the song Boy Friend from Broadway Melody. Bessie takes the lead. Download: BessieLoveAnitaPage-TheBoyFriend1929.mp3 Popular Tags1920 1921 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 About Silent Movies Action Adventure Actor Article Biography Book Ce read more

David Hedison (photo courtesy of Diane Kachmar). Although best known as Captain Lee Crane on the classic TV series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, actor David Hedison has enjoyed a long, successful career in stage, film, and television. Now 85 (but not looking it!), he remains active making person read more

By the time she appeared in the 1930 film "Min and Bill," Marie Dressler was in her early 60s and had been performing for 38 years. Along the way she had befriended a powerful ally in screenwriter Frances Marion, who had adapted "Min and Bill" from a book written by her friend, Lorna Moon. The final read more

By the time she appeared in the 1930 film "Min and Bill," Marie Dressler was in her early 60s and had been performing for 38 years. Along the way she had befriended a powerful ally in screenwriter Frances Marion, who had adapted "Min and Bill" from a book written by her friend, Lorna Moon. The final read more

Love is a many splendored thing, but in cinema, we are never quite content with only the splendid parts. For that reason, I bring you my top 5 bittersweet love movies. So let’s just say – love is many things, period. Enjoy and don’t forget to comment below on your favorite bitters read more

Sure, everyone knows Buster Keaton and The General, Charlie Chaplin and – well, all of ‘em. The people love Harold Lloyd hanging off that clock face in Safety Last. Everyone knows the controversy surrounding D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation. Angsty teenagers still flock to th read more

When Carley, headmistress of The Kitty Packard Pictorial, announced the “I Totally F***ing Love This Movie” blogathon, it occurred to me that I have several personal favorites that could fit this bill. Most of them are classics, to be sure (I mean, DUH–remember where you are, folks read more

To read part 1, click here. If not keep reading for part 2 in the tragic love story between Jeanette Macdonald and Nelson Eddy and the lengths MGM boss, Louis B. Mayer would go to cover up the adulterous affair.    In the 1930’s, the powerful and egotistical Louis B. Mayer ruled read more

To read part 1, click here. If not keep reading for part 2 in the tragic love story between Jeanette Macdonald and Nelson Eddy and the lengths MGM boss, Louis B. Mayer would go to cover up the adulterous affair.    In the 1930’s, the powerful and egotistical Louis B. Mayer ruled read more