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Announcing our Happy Halloween “Young Frankenstein” DVD Giveaway! We decided to do something a little special this year for Halloween — so this will be the first of two Halloween-themed DVD giveaways we’ll be doing this month. That said, we will be paying tribute to the late read more

Buster Keaton Birthday Celebration DVD/Blu-Ray Giveaway! Qualifying Entry Task for Twitter Comic Legend Buster Keaton was born on October 4th, way back in 1895 (over 120 years ago!) – and yet we still laugh and marvel at his work today! That said, in celebration of Buster Keaton’s birthd read more

Announcing The CMH “Hitchcock Halloween” DVD Giveaway! I am very happy to announce the second of our very special Halloween Contests this month! And this time, it is in honor of the Master of Suspense! That said, from Monday September 25 through Saturday, October 29, Classic Movie Hub w read more

The Many Sides of Eddie Cantor… Eddie making his trademark pop-eyed expression According to writer H.L. Mencken, Eddie Cantor’s work in the 1930s did more to pull America out of the Great Depression than all government measures combined. He was appropriately nicknamed the Apostle of Pep. More read more

THE GOLDEN AGE OF GOSSIP What Legendary Movie Stars Said about Each Other Part One of a Four-Part Series Most movie fans who love the classic films of Hollywood’s “golden age,” probably have a pretty good idea what film scholars and movie critics think of the great stars of that era because read more

The 27th ‘Mayberry Days’ Festival, September 21-25…  Twenty-six years ago, on the thirtieth anniversary of The Andy Griffith Show’s televised debut, the citizens of Mount Airy, North Carolina, gathered for the first Mayberry Day. A couple hundred people turned out at City Hall read more

  Happy Birthday to Classic Movie Legend, Claudette Colbert, born on September 13th, 1903! The realm of Classic Hollywood sometimes gets a bad rap for being a place rife with misogyny. And, of course, these criticisms are not without merit. I think we can all agree that the seats of power in al read more

“Conversations with Classic Film Stars: Interviews from Hollywood’s Golden Era”  Book Giveaway via Facebook and this Blog Okay, now it’s time for the Facebook/Blog version of our  “Conversations with Classic Film Stars: Interviews from Hollywood’s Golden Era” Giveaway Contest! This read more

“Conversations with Classic Film Stars: Interviews from Hollywood’s Golden Era”  Book Giveaway via Twitter Okay, it’s time for our next book giveaway! CMH will be giving away FOUR COPIES of  “Conversations with Classic Film Stars: Interviews from Hollywood’s Golden read more

“Cagney” Ticket Giveaway Contest (Autographed Playbill too!) The Musical About Hollywood’s Tough Guy In Tap Shoes “SHOWSTOPPING! Pure hallelujah moments..” – Variety Do you live near, or expect to be in, the New York City area before the end of October? If so, we have the read more

Win Tickets to see “Dr. Strangelove” on the Big Screen! in Select Cinemas Nationwide September 18 & September 21! CMH is thrilled to announce the next of our fabulous monthly movie ticket giveaways this year, courtesy of Fathom Events! That said, this month, we’ll be giving away SIX PAIRS read more

Celebrating the Anniversary of The Wizard of Oz on August 25, 1939 with a Classic Movie Anecdote! The Wizard of Oz was released nationally in the US on this day in 1939. That said, I just wanted to share this fun little anecdote told by Meredith Ponedel, niece of Dottie Ponedel who was Judy Garland& read more

“Some cases, like this one, kind of creep up on you on their hands and knees and the first thing you know, you’re in it up to your neck.” First person perspective was a trick that film noir flirted with throughout the 1940s. Delmer Daves spent the first half of Dark Passage (1947) hiding Humph read more

 “Yabba Dabba Doo!” Five Fun Facts about ‘Fred Flintstone’… Well, perhaps the title of this post is a little misleading, in that our facts are not so much about Fred Flintstone ‘himself,’ but rather about Alan Reed, who was the actor who ‘voiced’ Fred read more

Win Tickets to see “The King and I” on the Big Screen! in Select Cinemas Nationwide August 28 & August 31! CMH is thrilled to announce the next of our monthly movie ticket giveaways this year, courtesy of Fathom Events! That said, this month, we’ll be giving away SIX PAIRS of tickets to see read more

“W.C. Fields by Himself” Book Giveaway! Entry Task for Facebook/Blog Contest Okay, now it’s time for the Facebook/Blog version of our “W.C. Fields by Himself: His Intended Autobiography with Hitherto Unpublished Letters, Notes, Scripts, and Articles” Giveaway contest! This time we’ll read more

“W.C. Fields by Himself” Book Giveaway! Entry Task for Twitter Contest It’s time for our next giveaway! And I am happy to say that, this time, CMH will be giving away TEN COPIES of “W.C. Fields by Himself: His Intended Autobiography with Hitherto Unpublished Letters, Notes, Scripts, and read more

Born July 29, 1885 Theda Bara “I have the face of a vampire, but the heart of a feminist.” Silent Screen Siren, Theda Bara, made over 40 films from 1914 through 1926 (all but three from 1914-1919), becoming one of cinema’s earliest sex symbols. With her exotic looks and femme fatal read more

“So I’m no good, but I’m no worse than anybody else.” Film gris, noir’s politically apt little brother, typically goes undiscussed within the genre’s wider worldview. Granted, it’s far less sexy than a private eye picture or a femme fatale flick, but gris, a term coined read more

Paying Tribute to the Vital Works of America’s First African-American Filmmakers… As you probably already know, CMH is giving away five copies of “Pioneers of African-American Cinema” this month (through July 30), courtesy of Kino Lorber.  This historic 5-disc set features si read more