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More Western Filmmakers Final Resting Places This month we return to the topic of the final resting places of Western filmmakers, visiting the gravesites of several actors and actresses across the Greater Los Angeles area. Actor Kirk Douglas lived to the venerable age of 103, when he was burie read more

Spring Trivia – Laraine Day, Van Heflin, Robert Taylor and More Classic movie trivia and the budding of spring – two things that go great together . . . at least, they do here at the Noir Nook! This month’s Nook celebrates the new season with some tasty tidbits about six great performers read more

Final Resting Places: More Western Filmmakers This month we’ll be taking another of our unique tours through Western film history, paying tribute to a variety of actors as we visit their final resting places. We begin with longtime “B” Western star Johnny Mack Brown. I was gl read more

If you’re like me, you know Erich von Stroheim best as Max Von Mayerling, the butler (and first husband) of aging silent movie star Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) in the classic 1950 noir Sunset Blvd. But there was so much more to von Stroheim than Max. While writing about von Stroheim for the soon- read more

WARNING! This post contains major spoilers for THE DAMNED DON'T CRY and other classic noir films. Proceed at your own risk. When I showed The Damned Don't Cry (1950) to my lifetime learners as the final film of our Joan Crawford series, they were especially struck by the open ending of the story, wh read more

Buy Me A Coffee, Substack and more! On April 14, 2023 By CarolIn Uncategorized Hello everyone! It’s been a crazy few weeks in the blogging world for and so I thought I’d share a few things with you guys. So, most of you probably know read more

I watched so many films in preparation for award voting, I almost forgot I had written other capsule reviews at the end of last year. As this year’s award cycle comes to an end, I thought I might as well share my thoughts on some of 2022’s other releases. Elvis Elvis is a schizophrenic read more

Good Luck to You, Leo Grande. An enjoyable, meaningful film about a woman dealing with sex and her self-worth in middle age. A nuanced story, with a sympathetic portrait of sex workers. It gets nada from the Academy. A subtle, star-making turn by Daryl McCormack–ignored. And Emma Thompson not read more

News, screenings and more! On July 25, 2022 By CarolIn Uncategorized Image from Travelkalutara You may have seen on the Facebook page for the Garden that I will be hosting a screening of David Lean’s The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) at the Cinema read more

My Medium page – reviews, lists and more! On May 30, 2022 By CarolIn Uncategorized Hello everyone! Quick reminder that I’m on Medium, if you’d like to follow me (email subscription is fine)! I recently wrote about the 8 sexiest scenes read more

Undine Christian Petzold is the master of methodical cinema and with the conceit for Undine, he proves he’s more than up for imprinting his style onto a modern-day mythical fairy tale. He reunites again with Paula Beer and Franz Rogowski from Transit. Once more it’s a world from a distant past some read more

A Season of Free Holiday Movies and Giveaways, courtesy of Best Classics Ever CMH is happy to announce that Best Classics Ever is giving away lots of BCE Streaming Subscriptions to celebrate the Holiday Season! Plus a few amazon fire TV sticks as well! There are a bunch of different (and read more

Since I watched more contemporary films than I usually do for award season, I put together some capsule reviews. There’s not too much rhyme or reason to these, but I thought I would include them here. Let me know what you thought of these movies. Thank you! Palm Springs In some serendipitous read more

A Visit to the Lucy-Desi Museum and moreSpecial Guest Post by Lucy fan, Lucy Ortiz When I was born, my parents decided to name me after the I Love Lucy show. As an adult, I realized I had some things in common with the Arnaz-Ball family. My birthday is exactly one week before Desi Jr’s in J read more

Our November Picks on the Classic Movie Hub ChannelNovember Birthdays and Film Noir! It’s that time again… We have our monthly free streaming picks for our Classic Movie Hub Channel at Best Classics Ever (BCE) – the mega streaming channel for classic movies and TV shows! read more

Yesterday's entry examined a face mask fashioned from artwork for the Carole Lombard movie "No One Man." It was from a site named redbubble.com, which as it turns out has all sorts of Lombard-related items on sale, such as a sticker designed from the stately still above. Three sizes are available, a read more

In 2016 and 2019, I used my blogging platform to give people ideas of films to watch during the Halloween season. I’ve decided to repeat the concept this year as I always love writing these blog posts. Plus, I’m killing two birds with one stone by making this an entry for Kristen’s read more

Noir Nook: More Unsung Noirs Out the Past. Double Indemnity. Laura. Blah blah blah. We all know about these often-seen and much-loved noirs. But what about the unsung features? The ones that nobody talks about? The ones that many noir lovers have never even heard of, let alone seen? In this mo read more

Our Oct Picks on the Classic Movie Hub ChannelOver 40 Titles Streaming Free All, Every Month It’s that time again… We have our monthly free streaming picks for our Classic Movie Hub Channel at Best Classics Ever (BCE) – the mega streaming channel for classic movies read more

In our recent listing of photos Carole Lombard made at Pathe, we inadvertently omitted the one above -- cl-18, probably taken near the end of 1928. The 20-year-old starlet makes for a fine "sleeping beauty," doncha think?We've also uncovered a new Lombard Paramount p1202 portrait, specifically p1202 read more