Angel Face (1953)
Classic
film has no shortage of mean girls, but Angel Face (1953) offers a
particularly dangerous teenage femme fatale in its title character,
played with unhinged intensity by English actress Jean Simmons. The plot of
this riveting story of obsession and murder has a lot in com......
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Top 1940’s Movies (see all)
- Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
- Double Indemnity (1944)
- The Lady Eve (1941)
- Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
- The Bishop's Wife (1947)
- Ball of Fire (1941)
- Adam's Rib (1949)
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
- Bambi (1942)
- His Girl Friday (1940)
Fan Top Family Movies (see all)
- Alice in Wonderland (1951)
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
- The Wizard of Oz (1939)
- Bambi (1942)
- The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
- Ben-Hur (1959)
- The Sound of Music (1965)
- Bye Bye Birdie (1963)
- Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
- Mary Poppins (1964)
Fan Top Ghosts Movies (see all)
- Topper (1937)
- Blithe Spirit (1945)
- House on Haunted Hill (1959)
- The Canterville Ghost (1944)
- The Ghost Breakers (1940)
- The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
- The Curse of the Cat People (1944)
- A Christmas Carol (1938)
- The Uninvited (1944)
- Hold That Ghost (1941)
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Jackie Cooper
Sep 15, 1922
Fay Wray
Sep 15, 1907
Penny Singleton
Sep 15, 1908
Jean Renoir
Sep 15, 1894
Silver Screen Standards
Western RoundUp
Lone Pine Film Festival 2026 Preview
It?s hard to believe it, but it?s time for a preview of the
36th Lone Pine Film Festival!
This year?s festival takes place in Lone Pine, California, from
October 8th through 11th, 2026.
Countless movies were filmed in the Alabama Hills outside
Lone ......
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Monsters and Matinees
The Long Hair of Death is a movie title that sparks
the imagination.
How will it fulfill the glorious promise of its title? Perhaps
as a variation of Medusa with exceedingly long snakes for hair? Or a darker
version of Rapunzel where lethal tresses wrap so tightly around a person, they squeeze
th......
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Classic Movie Travels
Classic Movie Travels: Grace Kelly
Grace Kelly
Grace Patricia Kelly was born on November
12, 1929, to Margaret Majer Kelly and John Kelly Sr. in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, and was the third of their four children. Her father owned a
brickwork contracting company and won three Olympic gold med......
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Silents are Golden
Early Civil War Films Of The Silent Screen
During the 1900s and 1910s there was one genre
of American film that skyrocketed in popularity, becoming more prevalent than
at any other time since. No, it wasn?t the western, or even the slapstick
comedy?although those aren?t bad guesses?but the Civil ......
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Noir Nook
Pre-Code Films with Film Noir Flavor ? Part 2
Next to film noir, my favorite era of filmmaking is pre-Code
? and it?s no wonder that I?m so fond of these pictures ? so many of them served
up plots that would have made near-perfect film noirs. In my Noir Nook for July
2026, I took a look at five p......
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Silver Screen Standards
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
I?m always
impressed at just how many Frankenstein movies Universal turned out between
1931 and 1948, and I?m also deeply entertained by the studio?s mix and match
approach to making those pictures where its stars were concerned. It might not
make for the be......
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Legend Tribute: Lauren Bacall
Happy Birthday to Classic Movie Legend, Lauren Bacall, Born on September 16, 1924! Lauren Bacall is a survivor. And not just in a sense that she survived her late, idolized husband Humphrey Bogart.? No — her will to survive goes beyond that. What I am talking about is her will to survive in the... Read more...
Mini Tribute Fay Wray
Born September 15, 1907, Fay Wray!
‘Scream Queen’ Fay Wray is (of course) best remembered as King Kong‘s Leading Lady
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3 Fun Facts about The Big Sleep (1946)
3 Fun Facts about The Big Sleep
Released on August 31, 1946, The Big Sleep stars Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in one of classic Hollywood’s most famous film noirs.
Murder, mystery ? and one famously complicated plot! Here are three fun facts about The Big Sleep…
1. Even......Read more
Boldly Going to Garland: It Came From Texas Film Festival Celebrates 60 Years of Star Trek
Calling all Star Trek fans!
It?s hard to believe that it?s been 60 years since Star Trek first
invited television audiences to boldly go where no one had gone before. Six
decades, countless strange new worlds and one enormous pop-culture legacy
later, the It Came From Texas Film Festival is celeb......Read more
Humans, robots clash in remarkably relevant Creation of the Humanoids
Modern technology is crazy, isn?t it? It feels like it can take over the world – perhaps not right away but we can see it coming. We welcomed advancements that helped us, but is it going too far? I recently had to jump out of the way of a robotic floor cleaner at a grocery store. Don’t......Read more
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Did you know that there is a Cary Grant Statue in Bristol, England?
Unveiled on December 7, 2001, marking the 70th anniversary of Cary Grant's arrival in Hollywood, thi... .. read more
National Film Registry
Cool Hand Luke, starring the legendary Paul Newman, was released in 1967. In 2005, 38 years later, it was inducted into The National Film Registry. Thank you National Film Registry!see more National Film Registry inductees...
Grauman's Chinese Theater
Robert Duvall's, Footprints & Handprints were "set in stone" in Grauman's famous forecourt in 2011. So were Helen Mirren, Peter O'Toole, Rita Moreno, Russ Tamblyn... see more