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Here’s the follow-up to my collection of great screen tests from last week. This time, I’m posting tests with three of the most legendary Hollywood personalities: James Dean, Marlon Brando and Marilyn Monroe. James Dean, Sal Mineo and Natalie Wood have great loose energy together in thi read more

This great clip from a James Dean and Paul Newman screen test that Nicole posted on Classic Hollywood Nerd last week inspired me to search for more interesting tests from classic Hollywood. Here are some of my favorites:I’ve seen this Audrey Hepburn test for Roman Holiday (1953) dozens of time read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. Edith Norma Shearer was born August 11, 1900 or 1902 in Montreal, Québec, Canada. It's unclear which year. Norma came from a privileged Scottish family. Her father Andrew Shearer owned his read more

Victor Moore1876 - 1962Victor Moore was a stage and screen star with a lengthy and successful Broadway career. Movie fans recall him best as Fred Astaire's pal in Swing Time. Among his original characterizations was the role of Moonface in Cole Porter's Anything Goes which ran on Broadway for 420 read more

Rumor has it that by late '38, Louis B. Mayer was so eager to get the Widow Thalberg out of Marie Antoinette that he tested every single actress on the lot. Sadly, Marjorie Main's supposedly heartbreaking reel has disappeared, and all that remains of Margaret O'Brien's is this haunting still. Yeah read more

'Round about 70 years, Edgar Bergen - pioneer and, really, sole practitioner of the very odd profession of radio ventriloquist - gave a party. The theme? The Gay '90s. It looks like it was great, if slightly quirky, fun. The host, of course, entertained, in the company of a blackfaced Charlie McCart read more

Horace "Stephen" McNally1913 - 1994Former attorney Horace McNally decided to become an actor in the late 30s and toiled in Hollywood under his given name in a number of small roles in B pictures roles and the Broadway stage. A Broadway hit was Elmer Harris' Johnny Belinda in which he played the rol read more

Did you know that Eduardo Ciannelli (1889 - 1969) played "Diamond Louis" in the 1928 Broadway production of The Front Page?Did you further know that Abner Biberman (1909 - 1977) played "Diamond Louis" in the 1940 film version of The Front Page, Howard Hawks' His Girl Friday? And did you also know th read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. I finally sat down and watched The Hollywood Revue of 1929 all the way through! And by golly I enjoyed every minute of it. Well, all the minutes in between Conrad Nagel's presentations, be read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. It's so pretty! And it's mine, all mine! It comes with 5, count 'em 5 films plus a documentary. What a great deal and what a beautiful package. My picture doesn't do it justice. Go out and read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. So on Friday I broke down and went ahead and purchased the TCM Archives Boxed Set "The Forbidden Hollywood Collection Volume 2". I was going to buy it eventually but had just been renting read more

In real life, when you lose your temper, you've only given up something you can't get back. In the movies, losing your temper can be the key to stardom, accolades and audience sympathy. These three women unleashed some of the best tirades of classic Hollywood:The Miracle Woman (1931), Barbara Stanwy read more

Fay Wray and Robert Riskin A Hollywood Memoir by Victoria Riskin Pantheon Hardcover ISBN: ISBN 9781524747282 February 2019 416 pages Amazon — Barnes and Noble — Powells "My mother had a pioneer resilience, a vulnerability, a need for admiration... she never expected life to magically read more

I've been excited for the Ken Burns' documentary series The Roosevelts: An Intimate History for months. While some people are intrigued by the Kennedys, I've always been fascinated by the Roosevelts. In honor of the documentary series airing this week, I thought I'd share some cool photographs of th read more

-- Letters from Hollywood Inside the Private World of Classic American Moviemaking by Rocky Lang and Barbara Hall foreword by Peter Bogdanovich ABRAMS Books 352 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9781419738098 September 2019 Amazon — Barnes and Noble — Powells Letters from Hollywood is truly read more

Cue the Gilligan’s Island theme song! We’re going on... a three hour tour... a three hour tour. On the morning before the TCM festival, members of the media hopped on board the TCM & Starline bus for a three hour tour of Hollywood and Los Angeles. We saw roughly 50 movie locations a read more

Hollywood TikiFilm in the Era of the Pineapple Cocktailby Adam Foshko and Jason HendersonThe History PressPaperback ISBN: 9781467149907208 pagesAugust 2022Amazon — Barnes and Noble — Powell's“Tiki Culture was never about a real place but about the escape to imaginary places—n read more

The First King of Hollywood:  The Life of Douglas Fairbanks by Tracey Goessel 560 pages October 2015 Chicago Review Press Amazon Barnes and Noble Powells Your local Indie "His story is also the story of the birth of an industry -- the transition of the movie business from a nickel novelty to read more

Cecil B. DeMille: The Art of the Hollywood Epic by Cecilia de Mille Presley and Mark A. Vieira Running Press Hardcover - pages November 2014 If you're going to invest in a high quality coffee table book, you shouldn't just go for looks alone. There is a pride in ownership of Cecil B. DeMille: Th read more