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Western Roundup: Western Film Book Library – Part 2

Western Film Book Library – Part 2 Last summer I shared a few of the favorite books on Westerns in my library.  Some of the books I wrote about encouraged my love of Westerns from an early age, while other … Continue reading

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Western Roundup: Western Film Book Library

Western Roundup: Western Film Book Library I love to watch Westerns, and I also love to read about them! A variety of books helped make me the classic film and Western fan that I am today. In this column, I’ll … Continue reading

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Western Roundup: TCMFF and Winchester ’73

Western Roundup: TCMFF and Winchester ’73 The 10th Annual TCM Classic Film Festival, also known as TCMFF, recently took place in Hollywood, California. It was my eighth time to attend the festival, which ran from April 11th through 14th, 2019. … Continue reading

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Western RoundUp: “B” Western Actresses of the ’30s

Western RoundUp: “B” Western Actresses of the ’30s One of my favorite ways to spend a weekend is with a stack of “B” Westerns. For me these films are “movie comfort food,” and there’s also a definite “thrill of the … Continue reading

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Western RoundUp: A Trio of Wyatt Earp Westerns

Western RoundUp: A Trio of Wyatt Earp Westerns Real-life Western lawman Wyatt Earp (1848-1929) has been portrayed in countless films over the years. The stories always take a fair amount of dramatic license, but Earp’s legend was such that his … Continue reading

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A Big Thank You from CMH: The 2nd Annual “Give a Gift, Get a Gift” Promotion

Last Year was so Awesome (Thank You), We’re Doing it Again… The Give A Gift, Get a Gift Holiday Contest. Yay! The contest is over and the winners are Laurie T, Martin T and Daniel B (3 Grand Prize Winners), … Continue reading

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Silver Screen Standards: Jane Eyre (1943)

Silver Screen Standards: Jane Eyre (1943) I’ve spent the fall of 2023 swimming in the wake of Jane Eyre, both the original 1847 novel by Charlotte Brontë and the 1943 adaptation starring Joan Fontaine and Orson Welles. I’ve been teaching … Continue reading

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Monsters and Matinees: Like big-bug films? Try these she-bug B-movies

Classic horror fans are forever grateful to the 1950s, a decade that birthed one of the greatest of all film genres: the big-bug movie. Multitudes of giant ants, spiders, grasshoppers, shrews and scorpions all treated moviegoers to oversized terrors. Toward … Continue reading

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Silents are Golden: Silent Superstars – The Early Heartthrob Sessue Hayakawa

Silents are Golden: Silent Superstars – The Early Heartthrob Sessue Hayakawa The typical handsome leading man of silent films was a strong, dependable, clean-cut type, with names like Harold Lockwood or Earle Williams. Rudolph Valentino’s popularity in the ‘20s also … Continue reading

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Classic Movie Travels: Hoagy Carmichael

Classic Movie Travels: Hoagy Carmichael Hoagy Carmichael was a beloved American composer, songwriter, actor, and lawyer. In addition to appearing in films and on television, he composed numerous hit songs, including “Stardust,” “Georgia on My Mind,” “The Nearness of You,” … Continue reading

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