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April 5 Movie Star Birthday Palooza! Spencer Tracy (1900-1967) Two-time Academy Award Winner: Best Actor, Captains Courageous (1938); Best Actor, Boy's Town (1939) Bette Davis (1908-1989)Two-time Academy Award Winner: Best Actress, Dangerous (1936), Best Actress, Jezebel (1939) Gregory P read more

Happy 88th Birthday to Doris Day! I hope that you are happy and enjoying your special day. The clip is Ms. Day being charming while accepting her Cecil B. De Mille award at the 1989 Golden Globe ceremony. I love that brief shot of Robert Mitchum in the crowd. (There's a 10 second ad befo read more

To a wonderful actress and entertainer, Debbie celebrates her birthday today...She was born April 1, 1932 in El Paso, TexasDebbie Reynolds Photos read more

Happy Birthday, Shirley Jones March 31, 1934 Posted by Stephen Reginald at 8:25 AM Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook Labels: Elmer Gantry, Shirley Jones Reactions:  read more

Happy Birthday, Shirley Jones March 31, 1934 Posted by Stephen Reginald at 8:25 AM Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Labels: Elmer Gantry, Shirley Jones Reactions:  read more

Happy Birthday, Steve McQueen 1930-1980 Posted by Stephen Reginald at 1:48 PM Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook Labels: Steve McQueen Reactions:  read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. This is a special Happy Birthday greeting to my beau Carlos who turns ::mumbling:: years old today. xoxo This is Carlos channeling Paul Newman as Fast Eddie Felson in The Hustler (1961) read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. Today is the birthday of my very good friend Jonas from All Talking! All Singing! All Dancing!. Jonas and I met virtually over the internet when we both had done posts about Anita Page's p read more

Latin lothario Cesar Romero would have been 103 today; we catch him here making a radio appearance (and rocking a dashingly bearded look) with now-forgotten early-thirties screen favorite Sally Eilers.Romero's was a fun career - steady work certainly, with 60-odd pictures behind him before he went i read more

  Though Tallulah Bankhead made her reputation as a stage actress, she did make a few appearances in Hollywood. Over the course of several decades, she starred in flicks such as The Cheat (1931), Lifeboat (1944) and Die! Die! My Darling! (1965). I love read more

There was no one quite like Luise Rainer in old Hollywood. She wasn’t, and could never be a “type”. She was exotic, but in a softer way than Dietrich—and more earthbound than Garbo. She was also lively, but with more reserve than Lombard, and less confidence than Colbert. R read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. You rock my world! read more

Happy 88th birthday to Deanna Durbin! As a teenage singing star in the thirties she saved Universal studios from bankruptcy with her charming screen debut in Three Smart Girls (1936). Over the next twelve years, she starred in twenty more movies, most of them as enormously successful. read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. Today is my birthday. It falls so close to Thanksgiving that it often gets overlooked which suits me just well because as I get older these anniversaries get more and more depressing. read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. Carlos presented me with a copy of the out of print Norma Shearer biography by Gavin Lambert as an early birthday gift. When I say "presented", I mean hid it in my apartment and made me read more

I can think of no better way of celebrating birthday gal Carole Lombard than with a profanity-laced blooper reel from one of my favorite movies: My Man Godfrey (1936). Here's to the Profane Angel! read more

Today would have been Ingrid Bergman's birthday. I think watching her outdance Goldie Hawn in Cactus Flower (1969) is a fine way to celebrate: read more

James Cagney is my favorite actor, so I couldn't let his birthday pass without paying a brief tribute. I love this clip, because it showcases so many of his most endearing quirks: the goofy voices, his buoyant energy and the tiny flourishes he added to every scene. He was a mesmerizing talen read more

A varied group, today, of four people united only in having been conceived in the waning days of summer and born nine months later on the same date.Pioneering aviatrix Harriet Quimby was the first woman to fly the English Channel. Why don't you know that? Probably because she had the misfortune to d read more

Welcome to the annual "Bing Crosby's Birthday" blog. I know I've only been blogging since last year, but this is what you have to expect, folks. To celebrate this year we rejoice in the grand news that the 1960 album Bing and Satchmo has been released on CD. We will now pause for general rejoicin read more