An Ideal Mentor: Buster Keaton?s Apprenticeship With Roscoe Arbuckle
Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton
If you?re a fan of classic comedy, you?ve
likely heard of Buster Keaton?s earliest film appearances in Roscoe ?Fatty?
Arbuckle?s slapstick comedies, many of which are considered classics today......
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Top 1940’s Movies (see all)
- Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
- Double Indemnity (1944)
- Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
- The Lady Eve (1941)
- Adam's Rib (1949)
- The Bishop's Wife (1947)
- Ball of Fire (1941)
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
- Casablanca (1942)
- Bambi (1942)
Fan Top Drama Movies (see all)
- Gone with the Wind (1939)
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
- North by Northwest (1959)
- Casablanca (1942)
- The African Queen (1951)
- All About Eve (1950)
- Ben-Hur (1959)
- Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
- The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
- Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
Fan Top Husband Wife Movies (see all)
- The Bishop's Wife (1947)
- Adam's Rib (1949)
- The Thin Man (1934)
- The Awful Truth (1937)
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
- The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
- Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
- My Favorite Wife (1940)
- Rebecca (1940)
- Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)
Today's Classic Movie Birthdays:
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George Raft
Sep 26, 1901
Edmund Gwenn
Sep 26, 1877
Donald Cook
Sep 26, 1901
Gladys Brockwell
Sep 26, 1894
Silents are Golden
Monsters and Matinees
In today?s on-demand world of streaming services, we feel
like we can watch any movie with a click of a button. But that?s not true.
There are always films that elude us despite our best efforts to find them.
For me, that?s Beginning of the End (1957). I was a kid when I first saw the awesomely t......
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Noir Nook
Anthony Mann at the Helm
Several years
ago, when I was a guest on a podcast, the hostess asked me to name my favorite
film noir directors. I don?t know why, but I felt like a deer caught in the
headlights, and my mind went completely blank ? the only director I could even
think of was Alfred Hitc......
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Silver Screen Standards
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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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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Legend Tribute: Mickey Rooney
Happy Birthday to Classic Movie Legend, Mickey Rooney, born September 23, 1920! Even though it?s a cliche phrase, I?m going to say it anyway: What can possibly be said about Mickey Rooney that hasn?t already been said? The man has won two different kinds of Academy Award (Juvenile and Honorary), two... Read more...
Mini Tribute Arnold Stang
Born September 28, 1918 Character Actor Arnold Stang With thick black glasses and inimitable squawky voice, Arnold Stang‘s career spans radio, Broadway, television and film. His film and TV appearances include My Sister Eileen (uncredited debut role),?The Man with the Golden Arm (Sinatra’s... Read more...
5 Fun Facts About Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
5 Fun Facts About Arsenic and Old Lace
Frank Capra?s Arsenic and Old Lace is a wonderfully madcap tale of murder, mayhem ? and one very eccentric family. Starring Cary Grant as drama critic Mortimer Brewster, the film follows his increasingly frantic attempts to deal with the discovery that his ......Read more
5 Fascinating Facts About Sophia Loren
5 Fascinating Facts About Sophia Loren
From a childhood marked by poverty and war to becoming one of the world’s most glamorous and celebrated movie stars, Sophia Loren’s life has been quite a journey.
Born in Rome on September 20, 1934, and raised in Pozzuoli near Naples, Loren we......Read more
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
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Did you know that there is an National Film Registry
To Kill a Mockingbird, directed by the legendary Robert Mulligan, was released in 1962. In 1995, 33 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
Jane Wyman's, Footprints & Handprints were "set in stone" in Grauman's famous forecourt in 1952. So were Ava Gardner, Clifton Webb, Olivia de Havilland... see more