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Win Tickets to see “On the Waterfront” on the Big Screen! in Select Cinemas Nationwide April 24 & April 27! Okay, here we go… our next round of monthly movie ticket giveaways, courtesy of Fathom Events! That said, this month, we’ll be giving away SIX PAIRS of tickets to see “TCM read more

“The Life and Times of Mickey Rooney” Book Giveaway! Qualifying Entry Task for Facebook/Blog Contest Okay, now it’s time for the Facebook/Blog version of our The Life and Times of Mickey Rooney Giveaway contest! This time we’ll be giving away TWO copies of the book courtesy of Gallery read more

“The Life and Times of Mickey Rooney” Book Giveaway! Qualifying Entry Task for Twitter Contest Happy to say it’s time for our next giveaway! CMH will be giving away TEN copies of The Life and Times of Mickey Rooney via TWITTER, courtesy of Gallery Books, from March 28 through April 30. (plus TWO mor read more

Born March 23, 1893 Cedric Gibbons Over the course of his 32-year film career, Cedric Gibbons served as Supervising Art Director for over 1500 MGM films (his contract specified that he receive an art director credit for every MGM film released in the US) – with direct responsibility for about read more

Born March 21, 1889 Director W.S. Van Dyke! Woody Strong Van Dyke started his film career working as an assistant to the legendary D. W. Griffith. In 1917, he directed his first film, The Land of Long Shadows for Essanay Studios, followed by five more films that year. Over the course of the next read more

“Classic Movies and More” YouTube Show: Episode 3 We are very pleased to share our next “Classic Movies and More” episode today! An episode that makes me smile every time I see it — an interview with bona fide Classic Movie Fan, 6-year old Rob Medaska! ….. –Annmarie Gatti read more

“GOG” Sci-Fi 3D Restoriation DVD/Blu-Ray Giveaway Qualifying Entry Task Earlier this month, we launched our “Classic Movies and More” YouTube Show via an interview with Bob Furmanek, CEO and Director of the 3-D Film Archive, about his latest film restoration, GOG (1954). Well, we read more

Born March 13, 1898 Director Henry Hathaway! Henry Hathaway learned his directorial craft during the Silent Era working as an assistant to notable directors including Victor Fleming, Josef von Sternberg and Fred Niblo. He made his credited directorial debut in 1932 with Heritage of the Desert, starr read more

Five Character Actors Who Were Once Ziegfeld Stars We, as classic film fans, have likely all experienced feelings of déjà vu after seeing the same supporting actors and actresses enough, seemingly doing the same things each time we see them. And yet, sometimes we don’t know their names. We find read more

Max Fleischer Universe: A Clean Shaven Man The Max Fleischer universe is something I felt strangely at home in from my very first glimpse of his pioneering animation work, as a little shaver watching local Syracuse tv personality Salty Sam’s Saturday morning cartoon show, where each week he un read more

Win Tickets to see “The Ten Commandments” on the Big Screen! in Select Cinemas Nationwide March 20 & March 23! CMH is thrilled to announce our next monthly movie ticket giveaway this year, courtesy of Fathom Events! That said, this month, we’ll be giving away SIX PAIRS of tickets read more

“Classic Movies and More” YouTube Show Launch: Interview with Bob Fermanek about 3-D Film Restoration of GOG (1954) We are very pleased to be launching our “Classic Movies and More” YouTube Show today! Our debut episode features an interview with Bob Fermanek, CEO and Directo read more

“Pass the Popcorn Please” and “When Is That Bald-Headed #$%^&* Going To Call Lunch?” Book Giveaway Qualifying Entry Task Yes, it’s time for our 2nd contest this month! This time we’ll be giving away TWO COPIES EACH of J. M. Harrison’s Pass the Popcorn Please: 87 Watchable Movies read more

“FLEISCHEREI: Music From Max Fleischer Cartoons” CD Giveaway Qualifying Entry Task Time for our next contest! That said, CMH is happy to announce that we’ll be giving away FOUR copies of FLEISCHEREI: Music From Max Fleischer Cartoons by, and courtesy of, Gary Lucas. In order to qualify to read more

Lights… Camera… Action… A few months ago I mentioned that I was working on a project with friends and fellow film fans Aurora Bugallo of Once Upon a Screen and Rob Medaska of Rob Medaska.com. Well, I am happy to say that we are now ready to share the details… Our YouTube read more

Andy Griffith and Don Knotts: A Manhattan Walking Tour Though Andy Griffith and Don Knotts were creatures of Hollywood, best remembered as stars of The Andy Griffith Show, both men spent their formative years in New York. Don first journeyed there in 1942, right out of high school, in a failed bid t read more

Not Just a Story, but a Lesson…  Families sit down to watch The Andy Griffith Show expecting not just a story but a lesson. The best Griffith episodes teach something – - about family, or friendship, or loyalty, or living well. It almost seems as if producers of the classic CBS sitcom se read more

Born February 11, in 1909, Director/Producer/Screenwriter Joseph L. Mankiewicz! During his long Hollywood career, Joseph L. Mankiewicz directed, produced and/or wrote screenplays for some of the most beloved classic movies, among them The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (producer), A Letter to Three Wives (dire read more

“Print the Legend: The Life and Times of John Ford” Book Giveaway – Qualifying Entry Task for Facebook/Blog Contest “My name is John Ford and I make Westerns.” To continue our celebration of John Ford’s birthday this month (born February 1 in 1894), CMH is very happy to say that we will read more

Some Credit, Please, for Aunt Bee… A reader named Larry posed an interesting question by e-mail the other day: Why wasn’t Frances Bavier‘s name listed on the opening credits of The Andy Griffith Show? Why not, indeed? Frances was one of only three Griffith Show regulars who stuck read more