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The 2011 TCM Classic Film Festival took place April 28th through May 1st in Hollywood, but my incredible experience at the festival actually started a day earlier.  TCM invited me to film a Fan Story with them since the impact of classic cinema has been so significant in my life.  The orig read more

Wedding? What wedding? Newsprint is a cruel mistress. Poor Ralph Bellamy. This is an entry for the Best For Film Hollywood Haikus blogging competition. Enter now. read more

Damn Nazis screw up everything—even love. ‘Least they still have Paris. This is an entry for the Best For Film Hollywood Haikus blogging competition. Enter now. [These things are addictive, no?] read more

Murder by moonlightLies as intricate as laceGuilt hides in her heartThis is an entry for the Best For Film Hollywood Haikus blogging competition. Enter now. Contest results: http://bestforfilm.com/film-blog/hollywood-haikus-2011-competition-winners/ read more

The gathered suspectsTremble 'neath Inspector's glare"You are murderer!"This is an entry for the Best For Film Hollywood Haikus blogging competition. Enter now.Happy second place finish for Inspector Chan:http://bestforfilm.com/film-blog/hollywood-haikus-2011-competition-winners/ read more

Hoofing through puddles– a great way to catch a gal’s heart and a head cold. This is an entry for the Best For Film Hollywood Haikus blogging competition. Enter now. read more

Ride the High Country Respect was their due Danger and death their payment Enter justified This is an entry for the Best For Film Hollywood Haikus blogging competition. Enter now. Contest results: http://bestforfilm.com/film-blog/hollywood-haikus-2011-competition-winners/ read more

Page has a large collection of classic movie star autographs, and she has used them as the starting point for an enormously entertaining blog. Her star profiles always shed a little more light on the actors I thought I already knew so well and I look forward to her amusing screen shot movie reviews read more

Florenz Ziegfeld, master showman of Broadway, hated Hollywood. No, it wasn't an east coast-west coast thing. It wasn't even  theater vs. film snobbery. He hated Hollywood (and the movies) because Flo, the great glorifier of the American girl, was constantly having his stable of lovelies stolen read more

During World War II Hollywood churned out popular pictures both entertaining and patriotic, bolstering home front morale and earning enormous box receipts. Between 1942 and 1945, Americans were spending 23% of their recreation dollars on movies and by 1946 weekly attendance was over 90,000,000. But read more

During World War II Hollywood churned out popular pictures both entertaining and patriotic, bolstering home front morale and earning enormous box receipts. Between 1942 and 1945, Americans were spending 23% of their recreation dollars on movies and by 1946 weekly attendance was over 90,000,000. But read more

During World War II Hollywood churned out popular pictures both entertaining and patriotic, bolstering home front morale and earning enormous box receipts. Between 1942 and 1945, Americans were spending 23% of their recreation dollars on movies and by 1946 weekly attendance was over 90,000,000. But read more

I promise, this will be my last Jean Harlow post for a while!  But how would you like a chance to win a copy of the new book “Harlow in Hollywood”?  And not just any regular old copy of the book, but a copy signed by authors Darrell Rooney and Mark Viera!  If this sounds up your alley, read more

The murder mystery has been a movie staple since the silent era. In the 1930s variations on the drawing-room style whodunit, perhaps epitomized by the lighthearted Powell/Loy “Thin Man” series and the suspenseful Rathbone/ Bruce “Sherlock Holmes” franchise, became popular. Fa read more

The murder mystery has been a movie staple since the silent era. In the 1930s variations on the drawing-room style whodunit, perhaps epitomized by the lighthearted Powell/Loy “Thin Man” series and the suspenseful Rathbone/ Bruce “Sherlock Holmes” franchise, became popular. Fa read more

The murder mystery has been a movie staple since the silent era. In the 1930s variations on the drawing-room style whodunit, perhaps epitomized by the lighthearted Powell/Loy “Thin Man” series and the suspenseful Rathbone/ Bruce “Sherlock Holmes” franchise, became popular. Fa read more

Allyn Joslyn1901 - 1981It's been a while since a Broadway to Hollywood trivia has been spotlighted on this blog. Today let's highlight one or two featuring Allyn Joslyn, one of my favourite guys who pops up in classic film. He shouldn't be as he generally portrays loud-mouth and pushy boors. Ho read more

The Kitty Packard Pictorial has posted a great interview with Darrell Rooney and Mark A. Vieira, the authors of the new Jean Harlow biography Harlow in Hollywood: The Blonde Bombshell in the Glamour Capital, 1928-1937. The book is set for release on March 1st, and is currently available for pre-orde read more

That’s right, today is my first blogaversary! I’ve had a blast writing here over the past year. I already loved writing about movies when I started this blog, but this past year has been so much fun that I’ve grown to love it even more than I already did. Thank you to all the r read more

Constance Bennett, Lowell Sherman and Gregory Ratoff in What Price Hollywood? I’ll admit I originally wanted to see What Price Hollywood? because I knew it was an important influence on William A Wellman’s masterpiece A Star Is Born, released just five years later. (David O Selznick prod read more