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Humphrey Bogart aboard his yacht "Santana" circa 1945. Source: LIFE Magazine Humphrey Bogart, Sailing “Unless you really understand the water and understand the reason for being on it and understand the love of sailing and the feeling of quietness and solitude, you don't really belond on a read more

It's become an annual tradition to go on a tour of the Warner Bros. lot every time we go to the TCM Classic Film Festival. So far we’ve done three different tours. Our first was an official Warner Bros. VIP tour, our second was with Rob of Dear Old Hollywood (read about it here)  and thi read more

The Tall Target (1951) is a historical detective story based on the disputed Baltimore Plot; a conspiracy to assassinate President-elect Abraham Lincoln on his scheduled train stop in Baltimore, Maryland. The year is 1861 and President Lincoln was on a whistle stop tour that would take him to Washin read more

Anne Shirley and O.P. Heggie in a publicity shot for Anne of Green Gables (1934) "I cannot imagine my red hair away. I do my best but it's no use. It will be my lifelong sorrow." - Annie Shirley It's the film that gave actress Anne Shirley her name. Anne of Green Gables (1934) stars&n read more

Edward G. Robinson, Art Collector “I remember well what it was like to be a true collector, that soft explosion in the heart, that thundering inner 'yes' when you see something you must have or die"- Edward G. Robinson Edward G. Robinson didn't like to think of himself as a collector. His read more

And with a snap of the finger, TCMFF was over. Per my yearly tradition, I took it easy on day #4 of the festival in order to recuperate. I had to skip the early morning screening of Cock of the Air (1932) in order to sleep, pack and get a bit of writing in. I discovered that the easier I go on my fe read more

I'm being brave and venturing out into the world of YouTube again. I've done a few videos in the past but with much trepidation. I'm not comfortable with public videos, ratings or comments yet but I won't let that stop me from trying out some videos. I was inspired by (i.e. stole the idea from) Vane read more

"And here came the Carletons, a merry little streamlined family exuding charm and a touch of larceny with every fortune-hunting smile..." Producer David O. Selznick was in a bind. Gone With the Wind was costing his production company Selznick International Pictures a lot of money and they read more

One service that has been integral to my life as a classic film enthusiast is DVD Netflix. Over the years I’ve come to rely on the DVD rental service to enrich my life with classic movies but also contemporary, indie and foreign ones too. (And TV shows, lots of TV shows!) Before I share my own read more

"The moments of love are the only ones that matter." - Madame X  Directed by David Lowell Rich, Madame X (1966) is one in a long line of frothy soap operas that delivers a good old-fashioned sob story. This film pulls out all the stops and leaves nothing behind in an effort to put its vie read more

Author Kenneth Bixby (Warren William) is one hot ticket. His sensational novels are titillating lady readers all over the country. Bixby and his secretary Anne (Joan Blondell) are on a nation wide book tour and have made a pit stop in Cleveland. Anne, who is a secretary by name but is practically hi read more

I've been busy over on my YouTube channel creating some fun classic film themed videos for you all! Two recent ones include a classic film book haul with lots of great novels and two non-fiction selections as well as a review of Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel's memoir My Last Sigh. I hope you'll chec read more

New year, new books! I'm excited to present to you another classic film book round-up. There are so many new releases that I had to be a tad more selective this time. I didn't include some of the higher priced scholarly books and kept mostly to trade and books that I thought you all would be interes read more

 Waterloo Bridge (1940)Bright and early on the final day of the festival, I headed over to the Chinese Multiplex for a special screening of Waterloo Bridge (1940). The film was introduced by author Sloan De Forest. I'm a big fan of her books and it was great to finally see her in person (h read more

Can someone tell me what the name of this type of college sweater is? Someone?! Anyone?! It was common during the 1920s and 1930s. The pictures above are from Good News (1947) which is based on a musical from the late 1920s and the setting is 1927. I researched sweatshirts and they were sports/co read more

 When it was announced that the WBShop was closing down in its current form and that they would be having their last 4 for $44 sale for Warner Archive titles, I pounced. On March 12th I bought a whopping 32 discs. I used both the sale and a special 15th anniversary coupon code for an extra deal read more

Books, books and more books. One can never have enough books, especially classic film ones! I keep hearing from folks that you love these round-ups so I'll keep bringing them to you. They're a labor of love (no, seriously it's about 2 weeks worth of research!) and I hope if anything they're useful. read more

Lucky for us, they didn't wait for the 50th anniversary to release this! If I enjoyed David Lean's greatest flop, Ryan's Daughter (1970), chances are I would thoroughly enjoy one his major successes. Doctor Zhivago (1965) is truly an epic. It's one of those films that has transcended it's own medium read more

Rock on FilmThe Movies That Rocked the Big Screenby Fred Goodmanforeword by Sir Michael Lindsay-HoggTCM and Running PressHardcover ISBN: 9780762478439July 2022224 pagesAmazon — Barnes and Noble — Powell's“One of the beauties of rock movies is that sometimes they capture the time an read more

Jack's Joke (1913) Photo Credit: courtesy Undercrank Productions/Library of Congress Before there was the Vitaphone there was Thomas Edison's Kinetophone. Over a decade before Al Jolson proclaimed "you ain't heard nothing yet" in The Jazz Singer (1927), Kinetophone brought talking pictures to audi read more