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Watching Humphrey Bogart and Dick Powell, you realize that being a detective looks hard. You have to constantly smoke, you need to be able to brood but still crack jokes, you probably need to be able to throw a punch, and you have to be witty all the time. Sounds exhausting, no? Well, luckily, the m read more

  In 1964 Stanley Kubrick, who had by this time directed several notable and some Oscar-nominated films (Killer's Kiss, The Killing, Paths of Glory, Lolita, Dr. Strangelove) as well as one multiple-Academy-Award-winner (Spartacus), was now diving deep into science fiction. He'd become intere read more

  In 1964 Stanley Kubrick, who had by this time directed several notable and some Oscar-nominated films (Killer's Kiss, The Killing, Paths of Glory, Lolita, Dr. Strangelove) as well as one multiple-Academy-Award-winner (Spartacus), was now diving deep into science fiction. He'd become intere read more

  In 1964 Stanley Kubrick, who had by this time directed several notable and some Oscar-nominated films (Killer's Kiss, The Killing, Paths of Glory, Lolita, Dr. Strangelove) as well as one multiple-Academy-Award-winner (Spartacus), was now diving deep into science fiction. He'd become intere read more

The Innocents (1961), starring Deborah Kerr, is one of the classic movies airing on TCM this week. This week, TCM is airing great movies from stars like Christopher Lee, Paul Newman, and Deborah Kerr. Plus, they are putting the spotlight on trailblazing women in Hollywood and classic horror come read more

The 70s was THE golden decade for catastrophe movies. Some of the best ones were made during back then. Think of Airport, The Poseidon Adventure, Earthquake and, of course, The Towering Inferno. It’s on this one, release in 1974, that we will concentrate today. The Towering Inferno was produ read more

This just in from Michelle Morgan:"The books have arrived in the warehouse and publisher's office! This means that UK bookshops will start to receive them very soon. Overseas fans can still order them though, from Amazon and The Book Depository, etc. Happy Birthday to Carole, and Happy Publication d read more

This just in from Michelle Morgan:"The books have arrived in the warehouse and publisher's office! This means that UK bookshops will start to receive them very soon. Overseas fans can still order them though, from Amazon and The Book Depository, etc. Happy Birthday to Carole, and Happy Publication d read more

A Face in the Crowd (1957), starring Andy Griffith, is one of the classic movies airing on TCM this week. This week, TCM is airing great movies from stars like Christopher Lee, Buster Keaton, and Carole Lombard. Plus, they are putting the spotlight on trailblazing women in Hollywood and classic h read more

Sometime next week, if all goes according to plan, The History Press, a British publisher, will release Michelle Morgan's long-awaited Carole Lombard biography, "Carole Lombard: Twentieth-Century Star." (I believe it's already available via Kindle, for those who prefer to go that route.)And Morgan w read more

vt Desirable Lady; vt Flaming Girls; vt Hollywood Nights; vt Not Enough Clothes; vt Reckless Youth; vt Room for Love; vt Strips and Blondes US / 69 minutes / bw / Carry Westen, Monogram Dir: Donald Brodie Pr: J. Richard Westen Scr: Elizabeth Hayter Story: Harry O. Hoyt Cine: Marcel Le Picard Cast: J read more

Sometime next week, if all goes according to plan, The History Press, a British publisher, will release Michelle Morgan's long-awaited Carole Lombard biography, "Carole Lombard: Twentieth-Century Star." (I believe it's already available via Kindle, for those who prefer to go that route.)And Morgan w read more

Dan Duryea Heel with a Heart Mike Peros Hollywood Legends Series University Press of Mississippi, 2016 Though Dan Duryea made his name playing slippery cinematic cads, it turns out he was one of the nicest guys in Hollywood, just like fellow screen rascals and beloved citizens Basil Rathbone and Au read more

"Call me Ishamael." Herman Melville's opening line to Moby Dick is one of the most famous first sentences in English literature, and yet, when a large volume of the book is opened to the first page in the credits of this pre-code take on the novel, there is no Ishamael in sight. The man himself neve read more

On August 19, 1972 a special program appeared on NBC urging younger voters to get out and vote in the upcoming presidential election. Sponsored by Chevrolet, the special feature live acts performing their own music, something rather unique at the time since, like many appearances by acts on TV today read more

  Yup — we sold out about an hour and a half before closing time. Frustrating, of course, but as my neighbor, the excellent children’s author/illustrator Ross Burach (There’s a Giraffe in My Soup), pointed out, it was a nice problem to have. We had a great day out — it read more

Frankenstein (1931), starring Boris Karloff, is one of the classic movies airing on TCM this week. This week, TCM is airing great movies from stars like Greer Garson, June Allyson, and Gene Wilder. Plus, they are putting the spotlight on slapstick comedy and Frankenstein's monster. So, without f read more

There are few screen actors who have gone through as many career changes as Elizabeth Taylor. In the first part of that astonishing professional journey she transitioned from a sweet-tempered child actress, to a gorgeous ingénue and then decided that she was more than a movie star; she was going to read more

  It is hard to imagine that in the same year in which Tim Holt was portraying the insufferable-brattish, adult Georgie Minafer in Orson Welles’ masterpiece, The Magnificent Ambersons, that he was starring in no less than six westerns. While Ambersons wrapped shooting by late January, Holt con read more

"Mrs. Kendell had a knife??" Why was Mrs. Kendell walking around with a knife? Mrs. Kendell herself certainly could not say. Indeed, the poor woman did not even realize that during one of her recent blackout spells a body had been discovered stabbed to death. This is just one of several murders tha read more