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Just over two years ago I attended – and was astounded by - “Casablanca with the San Francisco Symphony” at Davies Hall. Conductor Michael Francis led the orchestra in accompanying the beyond-iconic classic with Max Steiner’s unforgettable score. What an experience it was (cl read more

Just over two years ago I attended – and was astounded by - “Casablanca with the San Francisco Symphony” at Davies Hall. Conductor Michael Francis led the orchestra in accompanying the beyond-iconic classic with Max Steiner’s unforgettable score. What an experience it was (cl read more

Love Clara Bow’s tough girl roles! The film, Parisian Love, is no masterpiece but Clara is completely splendid. Admit it, you’ve wanted to do this to someone at some time or another. read more

Chances are that when you juxtapose the name "Carole Lombard" with the phrase "newspaper film," this is what comes to mind -- "Nothing Sacred," the classic 1937 Technicolor comedy about a journalistic scoop that turns out to be a hoax, and how all parties concerned try to cover up the matter. There, read more

I hear a lot of people say that they don’t read classic film related books or don’t read enough of them because they don’t have time. This is an issue for all of us really. We lead busy lives and it’s difficult to get a movie in sometimes let alone a whole book! As you can t read more

More from photographer Edwin Bower Hesser: Louise Brooks:   Dolores del Rio   Anita Page:   Leila Hyams   Jean Harlow: Jeannette McDonald:     Myrna Loy:   Marie Prevost:       read more

More from photographer Edwin Bower Hesser: Louise Brooks:   Dolores del Rio   Anita Page:   Leila Hyams   Jean Harlow: Jeannette McDonald:     Myrna Loy:   Marie Prevost:       read more

Hello, my dearest movie-loving friends! I’m glad to announce that I’ve finally returned home from my camping adventure, and I managed not to miss a single day of blog posting despite having very little cell service since August 15. It turns out that with a bit of patience (read as: willi read more

Film Studies for Free is a great resource for those interested in learning more about films and movies. In this post, they highlight some great listening opportunities and sites to download podcasts focusing on the history and study of film. Personally, I’ve listened to a few episodes of ̶ read more

Film Studies for Free is a great resource for those interested in learning more about films and movies. In this post, they highlight some great listening opportunities and sites to download podcasts focusing on the history and study of film. Personally, I’ve listened to a few episodes of ̶ read more

The other day, we alerted you to several Carole Lombard items on eBay that were available for immediate purchases. Today, we examine a few more being sold through the site's traditional auction format -- in fact, all four are from the same seller -- beginning with the photo above, Paramount p1202-78 read more

This publicity portrait of Carole Lombard from her first Paramount movie, 1930's "Safety In Numbers," an 8" x 10" reprint, is on sale for $10, down from its original price of $13.50. If you're interested, visit http://www.ebay.com/itm/Carole-Lombard-B-W-8x10-Photo-02-/271255313015?pt=LH_DefaultDomai read more

Nearly a month and a half ago, we provided segments of an upcoming book on recorded conversations with one of Carole Lombard's friends at RKO, Orson Welles (http://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/610122.html). Comments Orson made regarding Carole and other Hollywood notables, issued in advance of the read more

Reblogged from Chaplin-Keaton-Lloyd film locations (and more): As reported in Variety, and in my prior post, film historian Fernando Pena has topped his discovery of a complete version of the Fritz Lang 1927 epic Metropolis with a 9.5 mm print of Buster Keaton’s 1922 short The Blacksmith that contai read more

It's nice to remember every now and then that we're not infalliable. My latest lesson in learning humility comes from the Carole Lombard cover above, from Modern Screen magazine. I have seen this attractive portrait of Lombard in the past, listed as coming from its January 1931 issue (as it is by th read more

Memorabilia from a pair of 1932 Carole Lombard movies -- "No More Orchids" and "No One Man" -- are up for auction at eBay.From "Orchids" (with Lyle Talbot, above left) is a pressbook...but something is odd here. "Orchids" was the second of Lombard's five Columbia films, but this hails from something read more

If there is anything you can accuse Hollywood of doing TOO well, it’s exploiting something popular to the point that it becomes a scourge.  When the public gets a taste for a certain flavor, Tinseltown senses it, whets the public’s appetite with more offerings, then force-feeds the mark read more

Okay, let me just get it out of the way and say up front that I was not a fan of last year’s Dredd. Maybe it’s because I’d already been spoiled by the outrageous humor of Attack the Block and the incredible over-the-top action of The Raid: Redemption, but by the time the adaptation read more

A few days ago I wrote about three different movies whose titles all began with “Bring me the Head of…”. Purely by coincidence, just a day later I ran across this post from Cinephilia and Beyond concerning Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia that I thought I’d share with you read more

Heard and seen in Club TCM.. David from Seattle, just back from his epic Route 66 journey to the TCMFF 2013, and Harry Scott Knyrim enjoy the fun at Club TCM on Thursday evening at the Passholder Meet-and-Greet. TCM staffer Shannon Clute, whose stellar introduction to Night of The Hunter wowed the read more