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History Through Hollywood
The Blonde At The Film Posted by Cameron on Mar 27, 2015
or: What I Learned From Classic Movies This is the first post in my History Through Hollywood series. Check out the other entries on Vice, Fashion, Love, those pseudo-British accents, and Paramount’s grand experiment in Paris to learn more! If you’ve ever watched a classic Hollywood movie, read more
History Through Hollywood
The Blonde At The Film Posted by Cameron on Mar 27, 2015
or: What I Learned From Classic Movies This is the first post in my History Through Hollywood series. Check out the other entries on Vice, Fashion, Love, those pseudo-British accents, and Paramount’s grand experiment in Paris to learn more! If you’ve ever watched a classic Hollywood movie, read more
Comet Walking Around Hollywood: Turner Classic Film Festival 2015
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on Mar 25, 2015
Comet Over Hollywood is covering the Turner Classic Film Festival for my third year this week. The festival runs from Thursday, March 26, through Sunday, March 30. I arrived in Los Angeles, CA, by way of North Carolina on Tuesday for the sixth annual Turner Classic Movies Film Festival. Once again, read more
Hollywood Veterans in Arlington National Cemetery: Audie Murphy
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on Mar 24, 2015
Last weekend, filmmaker Brandon Brown and I set out to find six celebrities buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, DC. The venture took four hours and more than five miles of walking. To put that into perspective, we were hunting for six graves out of more than 400,000 people buried i read more
History per Hollywood & Dance Halls
Classic Reel Girl Posted by BG Voita on Mar 24, 2015
With only a few days left until the annual TCM Film Festival, I have this year's theme, History According to Hollywood, on the brain. I go back and forth on my film choices, wanting to hear the discussion connected with the "herstory" films, but also wanting to see old favorites on the big screen. S read more
Movie Quiz Answers Golden Age of Hollywood
Pop Culture ImagineMDD Posted by ImagineMDD on Mar 23, 2015
The past two articles presented a Movie History quiz. Here are the answers. How well did you do?
1) Director David Wark Griffith invented the close-up, first used 1911.
Rudolph Valentino & Alla Nazimova in Camille
2) An iris-in is a photographic trick by which when a scene is shown at firs read more
Hollywood Veterans in Arlington National Cemetery: Lee Marvin
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on Mar 21, 2015
Last weekend, filmmaker Brandon Brown and I set out to find six celebrities buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, DC. The venture took four hours and more than five miles of walking. To put that into perspective, we were hunting for six graves out of more than 400,000 people buried i read more
Hollywood Military Wives in Arlington National Cemetery
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on Mar 20, 2015
Last weekend, filmmaker Brandon Brown and I set out to find six celebrities buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, DC. The venture took four hours and more than five miles of walking. To put that into perspective, we were hunting for six graves out of more than 400,000 people buried i read more
Modern Screen’s Hollywood Yearbook: Top Couples of 1962
The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on Mar 19, 2015
The 1962 edition of Modern Screen’s Hollywood Yearbook featured a list of the ten most fascinating on- and off-screen couples of the previous year. Today, as a part of TMP’s “Historical Context” series of fan mag excerpts, I’ll be sharing the list with you!
Natalie Wood read more
Movie trivia questions Hollywood 1920s-30s era
Pop Culture ImagineMDD Posted by ImagineMDD on Mar 19, 2015
Test your film history knowledgeHollywood Movie Questions 1920s - 1930s
All questions are from quizzes and tests that appeared in 1920s-30s movie magazines.
How well do you know old movies, legendary screen actors and actresses, directors, history? While there may be more than one answer to some o read more
Hollywood Veterans in Arlington National Cemetery: Jackie Cooper
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on Mar 18, 2015
Last weekend, filmmaker Brandon Brown and I set out to find six celebrities buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, DC. The venture took four hours and more than five miles of walking. To put that into perspective, we were hunting for six graves out of more than 400,000 people buried i read more
Hollywood Veterans in Arlington National Cemetery: Dashiell Hammett
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on Mar 17, 2015
Last weekend, filmmaker Brandon Brown and I set out to find six celebrities buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, DC. The venture took four hours and more than five miles of walking. To put that into perspective, we were hunting for six graves out of more than 400,000 people buried i read more
Book Look! Room 1219: The Life of Fatty Arbuckle, the Mysterious Death of Virginia Rappe, & the Scandal That Changed Hollywood
Stardust Posted by Vanessa Buttino on Mar 16, 2015
Book Look! Room 1219: The Life of Fatty Arbuckle, the Mysterious Death of Virginia Rappe, & the Scandal That Changed Hollywood
This book left me with such a bitter taste in my mouth. Not because it wasn't a great book (because it totally was) but because it made me despise Roscoe "Fatty" Arb read more
Old Hollywood Songs: Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo
Old Hollywood Films Posted by Amanda Garrett on Mar 13, 2015
This week's song is Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo performed by Verna Felton as the Fairy Godmother in the 1950 animated version of Cinderella.
The novelty song, Bibbidi-Bobbodi-Boo was the most popular tune from Walt Disney’s 1950 animated film Cinderella, becoming a chart-topping hit for artists li read more
Beverly Griffith, Gaining Ground by Grit: a Hollywood Story
Classic Film Aficionados Posted by C. S. Williams on Mar 9, 2015
Beverly Howard Griffith, Motion Picture Studio Annual, 1916 Beverly Beginnings: Beverly Howard Griffith was born on September 27, 1887 in Butler, Georgia, to Benjamin Howard “Howdy” Griffith and Mary Burke Butt. Butler is located some one-hundred miles south of Atlanta, and is the county seat of read more
Beverly Griffith, Gaining Ground by Grit: a Hollywood Story
Classic Film Aficionados Posted by C. S. Williams on Mar 9, 2015
Beverly Howard Griffith, Motion Picture Studio Annual, 1916 Beverly Beginnings: Beverly Howard Griffith was born on September 27, 1887 in Butler, Georgia, to Benjamin Howard “Howdy” Griffith and Mary Burke Butt. Butler is located some one-hundred miles south of Atlanta, and is the county seat of read more
Beverly Griffith, Gaining Ground by Grit: a Hollywood Story
Classic Film Aficionados Posted by C. S. Williams on Mar 9, 2015
Beverly Howard Griffith, Motion Picture Studio Annual, 1916 Beverly Beginnings: Beverly Howard Griffith was born on September 27, 1887 in Butler, Georgia, to Benjamin Howard “Howdy” Griffith and Mary Burke Butt. Butler is located some one-hundred miles south of Atlanta, and is the county seat of read more
Animals on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Pop Culture ImagineMDD Posted by ImagineMDD on Mar 4, 2015
Animals on Hollywood's Walk of FameFamous Dogs, Character Costumes : Muppets, Godzilla
Walk of Fame Animals: Lassie, Rin Tin Tin, Strongheart, The Muppets, Kermit the Frog, Big Bird, Godzilla
The only actual animals with stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame are three dogs: Strongheart, Rin Ti read more
Forbidden Hollywood Volume 8
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by on Mar 2, 2015
Warner Bros. has a lot of pre-Code cinema, so much that they’re up to volume 8 of their popular Forbidden Hollywood series. I was fortunate to receive the latest volume and the four movies contained within. In the interest of time, I’ll be doing up mini-reviews of each movie in order to read more
In Hollywood on Oscars eve
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Feb 21, 2015
We're less than 24 hours away from this year's Academy Awards -- and they're a long way removed from the ceremonies Carole Lombard attended. For one thing, the event's predominant media coverage will come from television, not radio, print or newsreels. For another, they've been stationed in one spot read more