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This movie just lent itself to screen caps. I had several "WTF", "OMG" and "FTW" moments while watching the film and there were just way too many choice images I wanted to capture. And here they are! Enjoy. Naked. I fully expect to get traffic from "George Raft Naked" and "Humphrey Bogart read more

Classic Film Dress at the MFA - Recently I went to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and in the Contemporary Art wing I saw this: The piece is called "Hollywood Stars Paper Dress" and it's from 1968. It's a paper dress which were popular in the late '60s. This one was made by Universal Stud read more

This post is sponsored by DVD Netflix. How do you capture the look and feel of Spain without having ever been there? This was the challenge director Rouben Mamoulian had working on Twentieth Century Fox's new big budget movie about a Spanish bullfighter. He had to make Mexico City and sta read more

Rafael Matos (1928-2015) My father passed away on Saturday after a long illness. I was with him for several days up until the day he died and was able to tell him many times how much I loved him. I'll be forever grateful for those opportunities. I inherited many of my dad's traits: his curios read more

Elizabeth Taylor: A Passion for Life The Wit and Wisdom of a Legend by Joseph Papa Harper Design April 2011 9780062008398 Hardcover $16.99 My motto has always been to be true to myself, whether it pleases others or not. - Elizabeth Taylor Compiled by Richmond native and NYC publicist and writer Jo read more

Source So This is College (1929) is fun collegiate romp and comes to us from the early talkie era. Eddie (Elliott Nugent) and Biff (Robert Montgomery) are college roommates at a USC fraternity and best buddies. Their bromance has carried them through until their senior year. They compete and r read more

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the cultural phenomenon that is The Graduate (1967). Prior to this month I had never watched the film in its entirety. Key scenes are so ingrained in our collective pop culture knowledge that there's no escaping them. And no one could spoil the movie for me be read more

The winner of the Out of the Past ~ A Classic Film Blog 5th Anniversary Giveaway is... CONNIE Congratulations Connie and thank you to everyone who entered. Here is Connie's entry for the contest (the prompt was to either tell me about your favorite classic Hollywood couple or your favorite wedd read more

A recent business trip took me to New York City for Book Expo America, the largest and most well-known book industry convention. Although my work schedule was packed, I was lucky enough to have some time to meet two very wonderful ladies. On the first day of the show, I headed over to The Ove read more

Timing is everything. My father passed away in August and since that time I have been in charge of his settling his affairs. Recently I took a day off to get a few errands done including delivering my parents' tax forms and paperwork to their lawyer. He's been in the business for 52 years and still read more

Today I got to spend the day in Hollywood. This is the very first time I have visited Hollywood and it was a real treat. First stop was our hotel. It's a wonderful little hotel filled with lots of great Hollywood memorabilia. (thank you to Jill of Sittin' on a Backyard Fence for recommending this ho read more

1967 was a rough year for Sandra Dee. She was in her mid-twenties and had outgrown the youthful persona that made her famous. Her contract with Universal, the last of the studio era, had ended a couple of years ago and now was the time to transition into a new phase of her career. However, the cutes read more

James Dean, Bongo & Conga Drums "When I can't sleep at night I like to get up and beat the skins. It drives away the blues." - James Dean Playing the bongo and conga drums was meditative for James Dean. He lived hard and died young but even during his short life he found something that sooth read more

Thank you to the good folks at TCM for hosting another fantastic festival and for allowing me media access for the fifth year in a row. I feel so privileged to have been to this festival so many times and to share the love of classic film with my fellow movie lovers. TCM Classic Film Festival is mag read more

Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures Several months ago I watched the documentary Gore Vidal: United States of Amnesia (2013). Then I watched it again. And again. And again. I was mesmerized by this brilliant documentary as well its fascinating subject. It was timely, filmed shortly before Vidal read more

Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke in The Miracle Worker (1962) It seemed like an impossible task. How does one teach a young girl who is blind, deaf, and mute how to communicate with the world? It would take a teacher of great strength who would persist against all odds. It would take a miracle worker. read more

Writer's block is demoralizing for any artist. It can last days, months, years and sometimes stall a brilliant writing career forever. And there is nothing like the feeling when a bit of inspiration comes along and breaks through the barrier between you and your words. In the film Hotel Paradiso (1 read more

On the surface Tom Garrett (Dana Andrews) has everything going for him. He's a successful novelist and engaged to the beautiful and wealthy Susan Spencer (Joan Fontaine). But the restless Tom keeps postponing their marriage. When Susan's father, newspaper publisher Austin Spencer (Sidney Blackm read more

Warner Bros. The Making of an American Movie Studio by David Thomson Yale University Press Hardcover ISBN: 9780300197600 232 pages August 2017 Amazon – Barnes and Noble – Powells When the film industry was in it's early years, Warner Bros. studio stood out as a leader and harbinger read more

-- Letters from Hollywood Inside the Private World of Classic American Moviemaking by Rocky Lang and Barbara Hall foreword by Peter Bogdanovich ABRAMS Books 352 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9781419738098 September 2019 Amazon — Barnes and Noble — Powells Letters from Hollywood is truly read more