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On March 31st to April 3rd 2015, The Wonderful World of Cinema will be part of the 2015 Pre-Code Blogathon! Hosted by Danny of Pre-Code.com  (precodedotcom@gmail.com) and Karen of Shadows and Satin (thedarkpages@yahoo.com), this year Pre-Code blogathon will celebrate the 85th anniversary of the read more

It’s almost done! Who will be the famous winners of this tourney? Which famous actress of the 30’s, the 40’s, the 50’s and the 60’s will win? Sixteen fabulous actresses are still in the competition (four for each era). As you know, here at The Wonderful World of Cinema, read more

Today, as usual in March (in Quebec) it was snowing it Montreal… I love snow, but real spring and summer have to be on their way! Because on June 8th to June 12th 2015, The Wonderful World of Cinema will be part of the Beach Party Blogathon hosted by  Ruth of Silver Screenings and Kristina read more

I told you that many blogathons were coming out! On April 13 to April 17 2015, The Great Villlain Blogathon will take place. Hosted by  Ruth of Silver Screenings, Karen of Shadows & Satin and Kristina of Speakeasy, this blogathon is the perfect occasion for blog’s writers to explore the read more

What about finishing the month of March with another fantastic and original blogathon! The Favourite TV Show Episode Blogathon will take place on March 27the, 28th and 28th 2015. Hosted by A Shroud of Thoughts, this blogathon is the perfect occasion to talk about classic TV Shows. Because, yes, I a read more

The Wonderful World of Cinema is proud to participate to another fantastic blogathon: Shorts! A Tiny Blogathon hosted by Movies Silently. This blogathon was created to celebrate the world of short films (pre- 1970). The blogathon will take place on May 2, 3 and 4 2015. Here, at The Wonderful World read more

The Wonderful World of Cinema is happy to participate to one of these marvellous blogathons: The 2nd Annual Great Katharine Hepburn Blogathon hosted by Margaret Perry. The blogathon will take place on may 9th to may 12th 2015 for the occasion of Katharine Hepburn’s birthday. Here, at The Wond read more

Round 3 of the 5th Annual Favorite Classic Movie Actress Tourney is now on with only 4 new matches for the actresses of the 30’s here at The Wonderful World of Cinema. You have until next Saturday (March 21st) at 5:00 PM to vote for your favourite actresses. QUEEN OF THE SCREEN : FINAL MATCH BRITIS read more

The second round of The 2015 Favourite Classic Movie Actress Tournament (30’s Era) is now over. So here are the results. The third round will start later this afternoon. QUEENS OF THE SCREEN Barbara Stanwyck 64/ Claudette Colbert 28 Jean Harlow 47/ Greta Garbo 39 BRITISH LADIES Madeleine Carroll 68/ read more

Round 2 of the 5th Annual Favorite Classic Movie Actress Tourney is now on with 8 matches for the actresses of the 30’s here at The Wonderful World of Cinema. Congratulation to all the winners of the first round! You have until next Saturday (March 14th) at 1:00 PM to vote for your favourite read more

The first round of The 2015 Favourite Classic Movie Actress Tournament (30’s Era) is now over. So here are the results. The second round will start later this afternoon. QUEENS OF THE SCREEN Barbara Stanwyck 89 / Mary Astor 23 Claudette Colbert 70 / Marlene Dietrich 36 Greta Garbo 75 /Miriam read more

The first round  of The 2015 Favourite Classic Movie Actress Tournament continues  with a new set of incredible actresses! This is an actress competition to elect your favourite actress of the 30’s, the 40’s, the 50’s and the 60’s, organized by All Good Things and hosted by All Good Things read more

March Madness 2015 has started This is an actress competition to elude your favourite actress of the 30’s, the 40’s, the 50’s and the 60’s, organized by All Good Things and hosted by All Good Things (for the 40’s), The Wonderful World of Cinema (for the 30’s), Ros read more

William Wyler is someone we can call an Oscar Winner director. Well, after John Ford he is (with Frank Capra) the second movie director who has received the most Oscars. He won the award for a total of three of his films: Mrs Miniver, The Best Years of Our Lives and Ben-Hur. These three movie also read more

I have to say that Cecil Beaton is my favourite photographer, but he was also an incredible costume designer. He created the costumes of 14 movies: Kipps, Dangerous Moonlight, On Approval, The Young Mr. Pitt, Anna Karenina (1948), An Ideal Husband, Beware of Pity, Dandy Dick, The Truth about Women, read more

I said to myself, the other day, that it would be intelligent to write a review of my favourite movie of all times. So, there it is, my Some Like it Hot‘s review, a movie that I can watch over and over always with a great pleasure. Before I saw this film, I had a feeling, just by seeing the t read more

I’m happy to tell you that I have now finished my long William Holden’s films marathon. From Golden Boy to Fedora, I saw a total of 16 of his films. The only one I had seen before was Sunset Boulevard. I try to see new movies in my marathons. My introduction to this marathon was an epis read more

Free & Easy is a 1930’s film, kind of a musical comedy, directed by Edward Sedgwick and starring Buster Keaton, Robert Montgomery, Anita Page and Trixie Friganza. This movie was Buster Keaton first talking picture and, unfortunately, it didn’t have a big success and it’s not o read more

When he was about 19, Leonardo DiCaprio received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for his performance as a 17-18 years old boy suffering of Asperger’s syndrome in the movie What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (Lasse Hallström, 1993). Eleven years later, he was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar read more

Helen Hayes as Ada Quonsett in Airport I didn’t know what to expect, but when I saw it for the first time,  Airport became one of my favourite movies of the 70’s. Directed by George Seaton ( Miracle on 34th Street, Apartment for Peggy, The Country Girl) in 1970, it tells the story of read more