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Welcome to The Old Hollywood Garden!
The Old Hollywood Garden Posted by Carol Martinheira on Sep 5, 2015
Welcome to The Old Hollywood Garden!
On September 5, 2015September 5, 2015 By CarolMartinheira
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For Christmas, the Brits go Hollywood
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Aug 23, 2015
It's late 1936, and Carole Lombard -- who had conquered comedy in America by starring in "My Man Godfrey" that fall -- now was doing likewise in Great Britain. So it's no wonder she was included in Picture Show magazine's Christmas Special issue. The cover featured Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.... read more
For Christmas, the Brits go Hollywood
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Aug 23, 2015
It's late 1936, and Carole Lombard -- who had conquered comedy in America by starring in "My Man Godfrey" that fall -- now was doing likewise in Great Britain. So it's no wonder she was included in Picture Show magazine's Christmas Special issue. The cover featured Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.... read more
Eating out, classic Hollywood style
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Aug 20, 2015
Whether Carole Lombard was squired by William Powell, Russ Columbo or Clark Gable, they all knew the best way to this woman's heart was to wine and dine her -- and in the Hollywood and environs of cinema's classic age, there were all sorts of wonderful places around town to take Lombard or someone e read more
Eating out, classic Hollywood style
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Aug 20, 2015
Whether Carole Lombard was squired by William Powell, Russ Columbo or Clark Gable, they all knew the best way to this woman's heart was to wine and dine her -- and in the Hollywood and environs of cinema's classic age, there were all sorts of wonderful places around town to take Lombard or someone e read more
IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD PRESENTS: THE LAUREN BACALL BLOGATHON
In The Good Old Days Of Classic Hollywood Posted by Crystal Kalyana on Aug 17, 2015
After the success of my Barrymore Trilogy Blogathon, I’ve decided to host another blogathon dedicated to Lauren Bacall, the famed actress who was known for her husky voice, sultry beauty and her blossoming marriage to Humphrey Bogart that would make for the screens most celebrated couple. Lau read more
MR. BENCHLEY, OF NEW YORK AND HOLLYWOOD
Lady Eve's Reel Life Posted by The Lady Eve on Aug 14, 2015
Mr. Benchley, by Al Kilgore
Mr. Benchley, originally of Worcester, Massachusetts, was first and foremost enamored of Manhattan. He was later lured to Hollywood but he was not especially fond of the movie capital. And though his love for New York City endured, Hollywood did, nonetheless, manage to read more
MR. BENCHLEY, OF NEW YORK AND HOLLYWOOD
Lady Eve's Reel Life Posted by The Lady Eve on Aug 14, 2015
Mr. Benchley, by Al Kilgore
Mr. Benchley, originally of Worcester, Massachusetts, was first and foremost enamored of Manhattan. He was later lured to Hollywood but he was not especially fond of the movie capital. And though his love for New York City endured, Hollywood did, nonetheless, manage to read more
MR. BENCHLEY, OF NEW YORK AND HOLLYWOOD
Lady Eve's Reel Life Posted by The Lady Eve on Aug 14, 2015
Mr. Benchley, by Al Kilgore
Mr. Benchley, originally of Worcester, Massachusetts, was first and foremost enamored of Manhattan. He was later lured to Hollywood but he was not especially fond of the movie capital. And though his love for New York City endured, Hollywood did, nonetheless, manage to read more
The Queen of Hollywood – Myrna Loy
Timeless Hollywood Posted by Michele on Aug 12, 2015
Myrna Loy started out playing Vamps in silent movies. She also played characters of Asian background. She is probably best known as Nora Charles starring opposite William Powell in the Thin Man (1934) series. Loy and Powell starred in 14 movies together. She also starred with Clark Gable, Tyron Pow read more
History Through Hollywood: 2nd Edition
The Blonde At The Film Posted by Cameron on Aug 5, 2015
The History Through Hollywood series takes a look at the little things you can pick up from watching Old Hollywood films. As I’ve discussed in the earlier posts, classic movies are inadvertent time capsules: the cars, architecture, fashion, language, and customs of a bygone era are all there, read more
History Through Hollywood: 2nd Edition
The Blonde At The Film Posted by Cameron on Aug 5, 2015
The History Through Hollywood series takes a look at the little things you can pick up from watching Old Hollywood films. As I’ve discussed in the earlier posts, classic movies are inadvertent time capsules: the cars, architecture, fashion, language, and customs of a bygone era are all there, read more
Book Review--My Life As a Mankiewicz: An Insider's Journey Through Hollywood
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Jul 29, 2015
My Life As a Mankiewicz: An Insider's Journey Through Hollywood
Tom Mankiewicz and Robert Crane
University Press of Kentucky, 2012 (paperback version 2015)
Though I knew little of writer/director/producer Tom Mankiewicz' career before I learned his story, the surname was all I needed to draw me to read more
Old Hollywood Songs: The Way You Look Tonight
Old Hollywood Films Posted by Amanda Garrett on Jul 25, 2015
Today's song is The Way You Look Tonight performed by Fred Astaire in Swing Time (1936).
Swing Time (1936), the sixth Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musical, is one of their best films. It features the typical Astaire-Rogers formula of a breezy plot, comic sidekicks (in this case Victor Moore and Er read more
Tales from the pioneers of Hollywood
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jul 23, 2015
When 12-year-old Jane Alice Peters, the future Carole Lombard, went before motion picture cameras for the first time in the summer of 1921 to make "A Perfect Crime," the industry of movies -- which she would come to know and cherish for the rest of her brief life, beginning about 1924 -- was undergo read more
Tales from the pioneers of Hollywood
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jul 23, 2015
When 12-year-old Jane Alice Peters, the future Carole Lombard, went before motion picture cameras for the first time in the summer of 1921 to make "A Perfect Crime," the industry of movies -- which she would come to know and cherish for the rest of her brief life, beginning about 1924 -- was undergo read more
Life of groundbreaking Hollywood composer explored in new film
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on Jul 21, 2015
What would the shower scene of “Psycho” be like without his piercing, staccato strings? Would the theme from “Vertigo” be as dizzying without those swirling woodwinds? Rehearsal of The Free Company radio drama with conductor Bernard Herrmann. Image dated April 6, 1941. Copyright © 1941 CBS read more
Classic Hollywood, viewed through posters
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jul 17, 2015
That's a Spanish-language poster for Carole Lombard's Universal film "Love Before Breakfast," which as you can tell is a nearly literal rendering of the one-sheet Universal used in the U.S.: The Spanish version is among quite a few original movie posters to be auctioned off via Bonham's this Monday, read more
Classic Hollywood, viewed through posters
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jul 17, 2015
That's a Spanish-language poster for Carole Lombard's Universal film "Love Before Breakfast," which as you can tell is a nearly literal rendering of the one-sheet Universal used in the U.S.: The Spanish version is among quite a few original movie posters to be auctioned off via Bonham's this Monday, read more
Classic TV and the Golden Age of Hollywood (Part One): I Love Lucy and the Birth of Sitcoms (1950s)
Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Terence Towles Canote on Jul 14, 2015
Lucille Ball, TV’s First Sitcom Star… Even in its early days, movie stars were no strangers to television. Many made guest appearances on various shows in the Fifties and Sixties. Bette Davis guest starred on Wagon Train (three episodes, nonetheless), The Virginian, and Perry Mason. Joa read more