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Musical Monday: A Star is Born (1954)
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on Oct 1, 2018
It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 500. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: A Star Is Born (1954) – read more
The Longest Yard: "It's just a game."
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Oct 1, 2018
I'm sure many critics would opt for Deliverance, but I'd rate Burt Reynolds' performance in The Longest Yard as his best. That opinion was just confirmed when I watched that 1974 football-in-prison film for probably the fifth time. It still holds up remarkably well despite running just over two read more
Comic Relief: A Simple Favor & Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Sep 29, 2018
Need comic respite? I’m happy to report that two new dramedies featuring strong women are even better than you’ve heard. Can You Ever Forgive Me?, starring national treasure Melissa McCarthy, is based on the memoir of real-life writer Lee Israel, who became a con artist to pay the vet bi read more
Book Review - Joe De Yong: A Life in the West
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Sep 29, 2018
In February 2018, author William Reynolds launched a Kickstarter campaign to publish his biography of Joe De Yong, a cowboy and protege of Western artist Charles M. Russell. It was successfully funded and the result was a beautiful hardbound, 320-page book measuring 9" x 11.5".
Joe De Yong le read more
Comic Relief: A Simple Favor & Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Sep 29, 2018
Need comic respite? I’m happy to report that two new dramedies featuring strong women are even better than you’ve heard. Can You Ever Forgive Me?, starring national treasure Melissa McCarthy, is based on the memoir of real-life writer Lee Israel, who became a con artist to pay the vet bi read more
Carole -- caught in a 'starry' crossfire?
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Sep 26, 2018
These are nervous times for Carole Lombard fans. That's because her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, on Hollywood Boulevard......has as its immediate eastward neighbor this star:And in case you haven't heard, actor-comedian Bill Cosby was sentenced Tuesday to three to 10 years in a Pennsylvania p read more
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Sep 26, 2018
The first time I saw Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey was about ten years ago on a computer screen across the room. Though I was intrigued, it was late and collectively, my husband and I slept through half the movie. Disappointing, I know. However, a few weeks ago, my brother gave me a wonder read more
Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars (1938, Ford Beebe and Robert F. Hill), Chapter 14: A Beast at Bay
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Sep 26, 2018
A Beast at Bay could just as easily be called We Give Up, There’s One More. After a lackluster cliffhanger resolution, Buster Crabbe’s plan to save the Clay kingdom fails because he couldn’t control one unarmed prisoner and then couldn’t beat him in a fistfight. The thirteen chapters of Crabbe read more
Não quero ser um homem (1918) / I don’t want to be a man (1918)
Critica Retro Posted by Lê on Sep 23, 2018
Não quero ser um homem (1918) / I don’t want to be a man (1918) Há muitas parcerias entre diretores e artistas no cinema, em todos os países. Por exemplo, você consegue citar uma dupla de ator / diretor famosa do cinema alemão? A primeira que me vem à mente é Klaus Kinski / Werner read more
book: A Voice in the Night (2012; trans 2016 Stephen Sartarelli) by Andrea Camilleri
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Sep 22, 2018
It’s Inspector Montalbano’s 58th birthday, and he’s trying to use what we might call the Sicilian equivalent of GOP economics to persuade everyone — especially himself — that it’s really only his 57th. Meanwhile, he’s got two cases to solve — three, r read more
'Screenland,' December 1937: Take a 'Sacred' trip
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Sep 21, 2018
Earlier this week, we alerted you to a Blu-ray reissue of Carole Lombard's only three-strip Technicolor feature, the 1937 comedy "Nothing Sacred" (https://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/938111.html). Now we've uncovered a fanmag piece from about the time of its release.It's from the December 1937 Scr read more
Carole and Mary, a proposed publication portrait and a switch to blonde
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Sep 12, 2018
In recent years, we've noted Carole Lombard had a friend in 1930s actress Mary Carlisle, but didn't have any photographic proof even after the last surviving WAMPAS Baby Star (an award given to up-and-coming actresses by West Coast film marketers) died at age 104 early on Aug. 1.Now, thanks to the p read more
Secrets of a Hollywood Hostess
The Baz Posted by Neve on Sep 12, 2018
Basil and Ouida relaxing at home. read more
A Classic Movie Blog: Now on Instagram!
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Sep 10, 2018
I invite you all to follow the new Instagram account for A Classic Movie Blog:
@aclassicmovieblog
In addition to being a great way to keep tabs on the site, this is the spot for gorgeous classic film-related photos and other bits of fun. So far I've had a blast sharing these amazing images. Come read more
Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995, John McTiernan)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Sep 9, 2018
Until the tacked on finish, Die Hard with a Vengeance can do little wrong. It doesn’t aim particularly high, just high enough–it’s a symphony of action movie action (and violence) set in New York City; the city’s geography (at least movie familiar geography) plays less and less of a part as read more
Lombard, a 'Sinner' under the Italian 'Sun'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Sep 8, 2018
Carole Lombard's film "Sinners In The Sun" premiered in the U.S. in May 1932, but much of the rest of the world didn't see it until 1933, according to the Internet Movie Database. For example, its premieres in Sweden and Turkey weren't until the final week of May 1933.As movies often do, its title w read more
Joseph Cotten from A to Z
The Wonderful World of Cinema Posted by Virginie Pronovost on Sep 6, 2018
Ah, Jo, Joseph, Joseph Cotten… What a man! Perhaps one of the most underrated actors in Hollywood, he surely deserves his own tribute. And his own blogathon! Crystal from In The Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood and Maddy from Maddy Loves Her Classic Films are back to take care of that! Of c read more
Fred MacMurray and a Double Dose of Flubber
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Sep 6, 2018
MacMurray in the lab.
Following the success of 1959's The Shaggy Dog, Walt Disney re-teamed Fred MacMurray and Tommy Kirk for The Absent-Minded Professor (1961). This time around, Fred got most of the screen time with Tommy in a supporting role as the villain's son.
Fred plays Ned Brainard, a bril read more
Jack Oakie with a 'White Woman'?
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Sep 4, 2018
Jack Oakie made two films with Carole Lombard, "From Hell To Heaven" (from which a publicity still is shown) and "The Eagle And The Hawk" (like Cary Grant, he had no scenes with Carole). If Oakie's remembered today, it's for his turn as a Benito Mussolini type in Charlie Chaplin's 1940 classic "The read more
A 'Screwball Comedy' takes to the stage
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Sep 3, 2018
Carole Lombard rose to movie fame through the screwball comedy. "Twentieth Century" (above, 1934), among the earliest examples of the genre, revitalized her heretofore aimless career; two years later, she starred in "My Man Godfrey," for many the finest screwball ever made.Hallmarks of the genre inc read more