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I come from a long line of bad cooks. My mother was way ahead of her peers with the natural foods craze, but, like a new vegan, she never learned to substitute anything for the bacon grease she’d been raised with; everything she made was bland. When we visited my maternal grandmother’s, all of our read more

I’ve already mentioned on more than one occasion that it was Thomas Edison’s studio that brought many a classic piece of literature to the screen for, if not the first, one of the first times. Here’s a very brief and very early filmic rendition of one of my favorite all-time storie read more

"Vigil In The Night" may not be among the easiest of Carole Lombard's films to watch, but it's surely among her most intense. This 1940 tale of nursing was too downbeat for Carole's core audience, yet it shows her dramatic skill in a way few of her movies do. Now, two large vintage ads for that film read more

I come from a long line of bad cooks. My mother was way ahead of her peers with the natural foods craze, but, like a new vegan, she never learned to substitute anything for the bacon grease she’d been raised with; everything she made was bland. When we visited my maternal grandmother’s, all of our read more

Have your copies of Holmes for the Holidays, Christmas Stalkings, Murder at Christmas and The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries reached the stage of yellowed edges and missing pages?  Are you looking for that light, short story of murder and mayhem perfect for a post-shopping sit down with a cup read more

By Fritzi Kramer on December 11, 2014 in Blog, Humor, Silent Movie Rules Douglas Fairbanks had a lot of fun with Zorro’s dual identity in The Mark of Zorro. No one believed that the sleepy Don Diego was really the fearless Zorro. Robert McKim’s villain certainly had no idea who he was d read more

meet me in st Louis review,a Christmas gems review https://www.facebook.com/Wolffianclassicmoviesdigest  “Meet Me in St. Louis is One of the greatest movie musicals, and thus one of the greatest American movies,its a classic. It’s Summer 1903 in Missouri and the Smith family are buzzing read more

Carole Lombard's vivacity, beauty and talent have made her a natural for novelists to use as a character when writing tales of classic Hollywood. From "Moviola" by her one-time director Garson Kanin (http://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/164848.html) to appearing in the baseball fantasy "All The Star read more

meet me in st Louis review,a Christmas gems review https://www.facebook.com/Wolffianclassicmoviesdigest  “Meet Me in St. Louis is One of the greatest movie musicals, and thus one of the greatest American movies,its a classic. It’s Summer 1903 in Missouri and the Smith family are buzzing read more

Christmas in Connecticut,a Christmas gems review https://www.facebook.com/Wolffianclassicmoviesdigest Christmas in Connecticut (1945 – Directed by Peter Godfrey) Barbara Stanwyck stars as a well-known magazine food writer who has been lying to her millions of fans that she is married with chi read more

Christmas in Connecticut,a Christmas gems review https://www.facebook.com/Wolffianclassicmoviesdigest Christmas in Connecticut (1945 – Directed by Peter Godfrey) Barbara Stanwyck stars as a well-known magazine food writer who has been lying to her millions of fans that she is married with chi read more

  The Vultures of the Coast (original title: Havsgamar), 1915, was a Swedish production by Svenska Biografteatern AB, with the United States distribution facilitated by the Apex Film Company. Vultures was three-reels, and came in at 3,000 feet; about thirty-three minutes.[1] The Swedish releas read more

  The Vultures of the Coast (original title: Havsgamar), 1915, was a Swedish production by Svenska Biografteatern AB, with the United States distribution facilitated by the Apex Film Company. Vultures was three-reels, and came in at 3,000 feet; about thirty-three minutes.[1] The Swedish releas read more

  The Vultures of the Coast (original title: Havsgamar), 1915, was a Swedish production by Svenska Biografteatern AB, with the United States distribution facilitated by the Apex Film Company. Vultures was three-reels, and came in at 3,000 feet; about thirty-three minutes.[1] The Swedish releas read more

Book Giveaway: “Charlie Chaplin: A Brief Life” by Peter Ackroyd Well, we had two lucky winners last week and two more winners the week before, but we’ve still got lots more books to giveaway! That said, we’re giving away TWO more BOOKs this week too! Here’s what you need to do to enter this read more

I was wary of watching any versions of A Christmas Carol this year after I did an entire month of various adaptations for my old podcast.  Let’s just say after you watch four of those in a row you get bored with the story.  Interestingly, in looking back on that grand adventure I noticed I did read more

  In one way or another I have always been attracted to minutia, tidbits, and trivial knowledge not just concerning one sphere, but anything or anyone that came into my field of vision. The true obsession began with my first World Almanac, published by the Newspaper Enterprise Association and read more

  In one way or another I have always been attracted to minutia, tidbits, and trivial knowledge not just concerning one sphere, but anything or anyone that came into my field of vision. The true obsession began with my first World Almanac, published by the Newspaper Enterprise Association and read more

A few weeks back I’d mentioned the fantabulous webseries, A Quick Fortune. The series follows Kate (Erin Hunter) and Archie (James Gavigan), two Depression-era characters living in “dire straits” and constantly hunting for the fortune that will put them on Easy Street. If you haven read more

By Fritzi Kramer on December 7, 2014 in Blog, Feature, Silent Movie Review William S. Hart is the proprietor of a successful gambling house. Some clown gets the brilliant idea of robbing him at gunpoint. This goes over about as well as you might expect. The problem? The dead man’s innocent and penn read more