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Barbara Stanwyck enters the 1930 film "Ladies of Leisure" -- and film history -- in a rowboat. The oars squeak. Her face is marked by mascara-streaked tears and she's clutching a broken dress strap. She's Kay, a party girl who just left a wild one on a yacht. On shore is Ralph Graves as Jerry, who' read more

Lemmon and Mills = great chemistry. Avanti! (1972) Director: Billy Wilder    Cast: Jack Lemmon, Juliet Mills, and Clive Revill. One of Wilder’s last films stars Lemmon as an uptight American businessman who journeys to a small Italian town to retrieve the body of his father, wh read more

Welcome to Mill Creek Musings, a segment in which I work my way through the three low-price Mill Creek film sets that I own, reviewing each film for content and quality along the way. Love from a Stranger marks my second viewing from the 50 Dark Crimes set. Hi-ho, hi-ho, it’s off to Europe we read more

Vlog: I love Dracula (1931) Good morning everyone!  Hope all of you on the East Coast of Canada & the US are staying safe right now (it's been raining here in Toronto non-stop since Friday and things are set to get worse tonight).  I recorded a new vlog last night about my love f read more

That stunning portrait of Carole Lombard was taken by Eugene Robert Richee to promote her 1933 film "White Woman" (thanks to Tally Haugen for making it available). It has nothing to do with the following anecdote, which involves a man who knew and liked Lombard, but unfortunately never had the chanc read more

Also known as The Hands of Orlac, Mad Love (1935) offers an unusually literate and even lyrical take on the mad doctor motif, a staple of the classic horror genre. This MGM production from director Karl Freund features well-known horror stars like Peter Lorre and Colin Clive in the leading roles, an read more

Also known as The Hands of Orlac, Mad Love (1935) offers an unusually literate and even lyrical take on the mad doctor motif, a staple of the classic horror genre. This MGM production from director Karl Freund features well-known horror stars like Peter Lorre and Colin Clive in the leading roles, an read more

Also known as The Hands of Orlac, Mad Love (1935) offers an unusually literate and even lyrical take on the mad doctor motif, a staple of the classic horror genre. This MGM production from director Karl Freund features well-known horror stars like Peter Lorre and Colin Clive in the leading roles, an read more

Appropriately enough, the June 1955 issue of True Story features a woman wearing what appears to be a wedding veil. Inside, the issue gives advice to engaged couples. (Scanned for TMP from my personal collection) (This post is the second in a two-part series featuring excerpts from two 1955 magazine read more

Carole Lombard was in a potentially awkward situation in December 1939 when "Gone With The Wind" made its long-awaited, triumphant debut. As the wife of Clark Gable, she certainly had to attend, and as a film aficionado herself (not to mention someone who harbored eventual producing ambitions of her read more

Karen Duncan (Barbara Stanwyck) is a famed concert pianist who has been touring the world and essentially living any musician’s dream. But that all comes to a halt when Karen is admitted to a Swiss sanitarium to be treated for tuberculosis by Dr. Stanton (David Niven). Though she realizes she& read more

Howard, Davis and director Archie Mayo on set. (Image via doctormacro.com) Basil Underwood (Leslie Howard) is a nationally respected stage actor who appears alongside Joyce Arden (Bette Davis) and acts as her partner both on stage and off. There’s just one problem: Basil looks so great in tigh read more

Trivia question: what was the first comedy series to feature a hot-tempered, Latin-born musical performer who mangled the English language and launched into paroxysms of invective en Espanol when angered by a Caucasian spouse? If you said I Love Lucy, you’d be wrong. The correct answer is Mexi read more

The Classic Movie Blog Association is sponsoring the Gene Kelly Centennial Blogathon from August 20 - 25 and this is my contribution to the event. Please click here for links to the other participating blogs. ~ 1960 was the year that Echo I an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over Russia read more

Joe: “We’re trying to tell a story with music, and song, and dance. Well, not just with words. For instance, if the boy tells the girl that he loves her, he just doesn’t say it, he sings it.” Jane: “Why doesn’t he just say it?” Joe: “Why? Oh, I don&# read more

Cruel, Cruel Love has a lot of possibilities. Sadly, director Nichols doesn’t realize any of them. He’s interested in broad physical humor–wrestling, actually–and having Charlie Chaplin mug for the camera. Chaplin does a fine enough job mugging, but it goes on forever. Love read more

The Classic Movie Blog Association is sponsoring the Gene Kelly Centennial Blogathon from August 20 - 25 and this is my contribution to the event. Please click here for links to the other participating blogs. ~ 1960 was the year that Echo I an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over Russia read more

The Classic Movie Blog Association is sponsoring the Gene Kelly Centennial Blogathon from August 20 - 25 and this is my contribution to the event. Please click here for links to the other participating blogs. ~ 1960 was the year that Echo I an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over Russia read more

My apologies for slacking on the blog postings recently. It is due in part to this: A Story of Our Hero – To 1930 & Beyond! (which also partly answers the question posed above).  Believe it or not, I’m not very good at the whole self-promotion thing, and so I simply ask that you plea read more

This is yet another post that has been inspired by Bob Freelander and his wonderful blog Rupert Pupkin Speaks. Check it out, if you haven’t already. I’ve ruminated on this list long enough I believe. In the spirit of my recent post about lists not really being finished, I’ll just go with what read more