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My first screening of the festival, and I quickly learned it’s sometimes great to see something that may not be on everybody’s hit list. The theatre was half full as festival-goers jammed in to see “Funny Girl” and “The Killing” and “Ninotchka.” The v read more

Thursday was the first full day of the TCM Classic Film Festival. For those of you at home, if you saw the intros last night on TCM for Bite the Bullett (1975) or The Great Race (1965), you may have spotted me in the background of the actor interviews conducted by Ben Mankiewicz. This is the intro w read more

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928) Status: Missing and presumed lost The famous 1953 film starring Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe was the second film incarnation of the 1925 Anita Loos novel. Well, actually, it was adapted from a musical version that was based on the novel but let’s not split h read more

“Mildred Pierce”: 4th Film in “High Heels and Fedoras” series at Daystar Center May 14, 2013 Tuesday, May 14, 2013 6:30 p.m. The Venue 1550 at the Daystar Center 1550 S. State Street Mildred Pierce was a critical and financial hit when released in 1945. It resurrected read more

The TCM Classic Film Festival kicked off today with a flurry of events taking place in the Roosevelt Hotel, followed by an array of screenings in the evening hours. The first official event that I attended was a very difficult trivia quiz hosted by Bruce Goldstein entitled “So You Think You read more

“Mildred Pierce”: 4th Film in “High Heels and Fedoras” series at Daystar Center May 14, 2013 Tuesday, May 14, 2013 6:30 p.m. The Venue 1550 at the Daystar Center 1550 S. State Street Mildred Pierce was a critical and financial hit when released in 1945. It resurrected read more

Last night (Thursday, April 25) I saw my first film at the Turner Classic Film Festival: South Pacific. The film was shown poolside at the Roosevelt Hotel and introduced by Ben Mankiewicz with France Nuyen and Mitzi Gaynor as special guests. Nuyen told about how she got her role in the film and wa read more

Though I would love to be spending time with my fellow classic movie fans at TCM Classic Film Festival right now, I have to say I was thrilled to attend the press launch for the Seattle International Film Festival today. As always, they've got an inspiring line-up of classic films on the schedule, a read more

This is the first of my transcripts for the Press Conference that happened on Wednesday April 24th, 2013 at the TCM Classic Film Festival. I tried to be as thorough as possible but there is some paraphrasing along with some quoting. It's not word-for-word but as close as I can get to it. Note that v read more

Happy TCM Film Fest! Wishing all of my friends who are attending this year's TCM Film Fest an absolutely wonderful time! Remember to take a lot of pictures so that I can see them and live vicariously through you! I'll see you there next year! Safe travels! xoxo Carole Lombard, Fred Ma read more

As a precursor to the official festivities of the TCM Classic Film Festival beginning tomorrow, members of the media were invited to a special press roundtable at which we could ask questions of relevance to our readers. The panel, consisting of TCM premier host Robert Osborne, head of programming read more

The TCM Classic Film Festival doesn't officially start until Thursday but there was already plenty of interesting things happening on Wednesday. My day started with getting to meet several bloggers at the Club TCM lounge at the Roosevelt Hotel. It was great to meet Laura of Laura's Miscellaneous Mus read more

Douglas Fairbanks is a nice Kansan who, through a the odd combination of his mother’s prenatal Dumas reading and a cyclone ravaging town as he was born, is a little hyper. All right, a lot hyper. He is also chivalrous to the point of madness (Dumas again). Setting out to find adventure, he h read more

Featuring the famous opening line”he was born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad,” Scaramouche is the tale of Andre-Louis,  a young lawyer (Ramon Novarro) who seeks to revenge the murder of his best friend at the hands a heartless aristocrat (Lewis Stone). To f read more

Following a lovely journey down California’s Highway 101 with stops in Carmel and Santa Barbara, I have arrived in Hollywood 4 days early for the TCM Classic Film Festival. In case any of my readers are unfamiliar with Backlots’ festival protocol, I will be enabling live tweets the day read more

Alice Terry (July 29, 1899 – December 22, 1987), began her career during the silent film era, performing in thirty-nine films between 1916 and 1933. Born Alice Frances Taaffe in Vincennes, Indiana, she made her film debut in, Not My Sister(1916). Which is now considered lost. read more

Hollywood is slyly skewered by Glenn Hunter and Viola Dana. Merton of the Movies (1924) Status: Missing and presumed lost Harry Leon Wilson is not well-remembered today but he was a popular writer in the early 20th century. He wrote zany, breezy comedic novels that often involved a cripplingly ecce read more

The Phantom Empire may be the most unique movie serial ever created. I was told of its existence by my favorite film professor in college and I was fortunate enough to have found it on VHS shortly thereafter. After having viewed it I was glad to have given it to him. Now I have since reacquired it o read more

Douglas Fairbanks stars in the very first Zorro movie. The tale is familiar: Zorro is a Californian Robin Hood, who robs from the rich, gives to the poor, fights oppression, romances the beautiful Lolita and does battle with the villainous Captain Ramon. Bonus: I will also be reviewing the 1940 ver read more

Did you wish you had an encyclopedia filled with biographies of all the excellent femme fatales who made their mark during the film noir period?  Look no further than Karen Burroughs Hannsberry’s fabulous two-volume series Femme Noir: Bad Girls on Film.  This 643 page compendium, split into read more