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Cruel, Cruel Love has a lot of possibilities. Sadly, director Nichols doesn’t realize any of them. He’s interested in broad physical humor–wrestling, actually–and having Charlie Chaplin mug for the camera. Chaplin does a fine enough job mugging, but it goes on forever. Love read more

The Classic Movie Blog Association is sponsoring the Gene Kelly Centennial Blogathon from August 20 - 25 and this is my contribution to the event. Please click here for links to the other participating blogs. ~ 1960 was the year that Echo I an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over Russia read more

The Classic Movie Blog Association is sponsoring the Gene Kelly Centennial Blogathon from August 20 - 25 and this is my contribution to the event. Please click here for links to the other participating blogs. ~ 1960 was the year that Echo I an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over Russia read more

My apologies for slacking on the blog postings recently. It is due in part to this: A Story of Our Hero – To 1930 & Beyond! (which also partly answers the question posed above).  Believe it or not, I’m not very good at the whole self-promotion thing, and so I simply ask that you plea read more

This is yet another post that has been inspired by Bob Freelander and his wonderful blog Rupert Pupkin Speaks. Check it out, if you haven’t already. I’ve ruminated on this list long enough I believe. In the spirit of my recent post about lists not really being finished, I’ll just go with what read more

This is yet another post that has been inspired by Bob Freelander and his wonderful blog Rupert Pupkin Speaks. Check it out, if you haven’t already. I’ve ruminated on this list long enough I believe. In the spirit of my recent post about lists not really being finished, I’ll just go with what read more

Monster Memories by Dominic O’Brien It seems that with this weekend (August 11th) fast approaching, the lovely gents here at Classic Horror Campaign are gearing up for their Frighten Brighton Festival. All of this talk about classic horror has begun to make one reminisce about first Hammer read more

Watching a most apt double bill of 60's era situation comedies about marriage relationships. First up will be A Guide For The Married Man (1967) with Walter Matthau has a husband, who happens to be married to the gorgeous Inger Stevens, but listens to his co-worker on how to get away with foolin read more

(Image via wrongsideoftheart.com) Doctor Gogol (Peter Lorre) is a famous surgeon who falls in love with and becomes obsessed with a stage actress named Yvonne Orlac (Frances Drake), buying a seat to see her perform every single night. But when he discovers that she’s already married to a conce read more

"Altogether she was turbulent, sensible and friendly, and as such she became so agreeable that a number of indifferent or downright poor films couldn't hurt her. She was lightly symbolic of an American type, unspoiled and sporty." -- Ethan Mordden on Carole Lombard The 1932 film "Virtue" is only a read more

"Altogether she was turbulent, sensible and friendly, and as such she became so agreeable that a number of indifferent or downright poor films couldn't hurt her. She was lightly symbolic of an American type, unspoiled and sporty." -- Ethan Mordden on Carole Lombard The 1932 film "Virtue" is only a read more

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Ruby Stevens was born in Brooklyn, New York on July 16, 1907 and didn’t exactly have the perfect childhood. Her mother died when she was only two years old, struck by a trolley after being pushed in front of it. Her father was a boozer and womanizer who cared little about his children and even read more

"I thought you said you were watching a silent movie!"  My husband likes to shout that to me in the TV room when I'm raucously enjoying a comedy from the 1920s.  While he is a fellow that likes to laugh, my sweetie isn't a huge fan of slapstick, and that is his prevailing image of silent c read more

(Image via historywillabsolvemike.blogspot) Mark Thackeray (Sidney Poitier) is an out of work engineer who decides to take a job as a teacher at an East End school full of rough-and-tumble London kids. Mark’s new colleagues warn him about the class. Other teachers have been driven away! The ki read more

Basil Underwood (Leslie Howard) and Joyce Arden (Bette Davis) are two actors known for their chemistry together on stage.  Off-stage, the two of them are in love with each other, but have quite a volatile relationship.  They’ve  been wanting to get married and have planned to do so plenty of read more

In Celebration of Father’s Day, what we love about our Dads!  ….. For being a role model of integrity: Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch (with Mary Badham as daughter Scout) in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962, directed by Robert Mulligan). ….. For being ever-patient and understanding: Sp read more

Hometown Glory: A Love Letter to "Meet Me In St. Louis" Margaret O'Brien & Judy Garland My love affair with Meet Me In St. Louis began when I was in my early teens and still playing with Barbie dolls and colouring books (I still have a fond appreciation for the latter). I had always read more

A new month means a new classic movie goddess. And it's Jean Arthur. And here is my favorite things that I love about her. 1. One of my favorite screwball comediennes. She starred in some of the best of the screwball genre like Easy Living (1937), The Devil and Miss Jones (1941), The More The M read more