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The Classic Movie Blog Association sponsors the Fabulous Films of the 50s blogathon from May 22 to May 26.  So many great movies and so many great posts.  Ronald Colman stars as Beauregard Bottomley, the last scholar, in the delightful 1950 comedy Champagne for Caesar.  As always, read more

A BOY.     A GIRL.     A BOXER.     ON BROADWAY! THE BOY Bill Smith came to the big town to make his mark, but the only success he's met with has been the romantic time.  However, he is willing to temporarily leave his girl behind looking for a new start.  read more

The May spotlight is doing double duty as my annual birthday salute to Bing Crosby. What is better than a "Road to" movie?  How about a "Road to" movie in Technicolor.  1953s Road to Bali is the only "Road to" movie filmed in colour and is the last of what I would call the official "Road read more

Something scary is happening.  Speakeasy, Shadows and Satin and Silver Screenings have pooled their considerable talents to bring us The Great Villain Blogathon, running April 20th to 26th. Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce first embodied Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson for Twentieth Century Fox read more

An idea whose time has come!  This post is part of the James Stewart Blogathon hosted by the Classic Film & TV Cafe.  You can view the complete blogathon schedule here. The screen credit always read James Stewart, yet the people in the audience always called the actor "Jimmy".  read more

Ladies and gents, it is the sparkly Sunday of the Diamonds and Gold blogathon, a look at great performances by actors over the age of 50.  Yesterday Rich of Wide Screen World hosted the wonderful articles on gentlemen who impressed us the most.  Today I am thrilled to host a look at all th read more

It is my pleasure to be co-hosting Rich Watson's (Wide Screen World) brainchild, The Diamonds and Gold Blogathon, highlighting some of the great film performances from actors past the age of 50 (which we all know is the new 30!).  Tomorrow this site will be devoted to ladies of a certain age.&n read more

"I like joy; I want to be joyous; I want to have fun on the set; I want to wear beautiful clothes and look pretty. I want to smile and I want to make people laugh. And that's all I want. I like it. I like being happy. I want to make others happy." - Doris Day Animal activist, multi-talented read more

John Ford, though a man of a prickly and mercurial nature, was a director with great artistic vision and critical and popular success.  Despite his laudatory career and multiple awards it took many years for the stars to align for Ford's pet project, a film based on Maurice Walsh's 1935 short s read more

Dick Powell 1904 - 1963 Big Stars on the Big Screen is the name of a blogathon running March 20th and 21st sponsored by Aurora on her sterling television devoted blog How Sweet It Was.  This link will take you to a wondrous land where bloggers of renown release their inner fanboy/girl.  read more

"You never need to worry about him.  He's the old human dynamo.  He manufactures energy faster than any human being can use it up." - Paul Drake describes Perry Mason in The Case of the Moth-Eaten Mink, published 1952 Mason's creator, Erle Stanley Gardner, was a man of uncommon energy read more

It's been a long winter.  March is coming in like a lion.  Who wants to leave the comforts of home and hearth for an adventure?  You don't have to give up the coziness.  You can share the vicarious adventures of Captain Geoffrey Thorpe as he gives his all for Queen and country.&n read more

It's Oscar time.  A time of promotion for the motion picture industry.  A time of excitement and anxiety for the nominees.  And no less a time of interest and opinions on the part of film fans.  Classic fans enjoy 31 Days of Oscar on TCM and the second annual 31 Days of Oscar Blo read more

Ladies and Gentlemen, please join my friend and yours Rich Watson of Wide Screen World as we host the Diamonds and Gold Blogathon this coming April 12th and 13th. Fifty is the new thirty! Polish off that rose-amber spot and turn it on your favourite actors and actresses who ignored the siren ca read more

"Words with a K in it are funny.  Alka-Seltzer is funny.  Chicken is funny.  Pickle is funny.  All with a K.  Ls are not funny.  Ms are not funny." - Willy Clark, The Sunshine Boys Theatrical agent Ben Clark has been hearing theories on comedy his whole life from read more

Earl Derr Biggers popular fictional detective Inspector Charlie Chan of the Honolulu Police Department sprang from the writer's Hawaii vacation and the newsworthy career of local policeman Chang Apana.  Six Chan novels were published between 1925 and 1932.  So popular were the novels that read more

Visit our movie past as Fritzi of Movies Silently, Ruth of Silver Screenings and Aurora of Once Upon a Screen host the Classic Movie History Project Blogathon on January 12 - 14, 2014.   The liberation of Auschwitz.  The Yalta Conference.  The Battle of Iwo Jima.  Ninetee read more

It is starting out to be quite the chilly January.  Perfect weather for a nice, cozy little murder mystery.  Perhaps a backstage murder.  Something in comforting black & white.  Something with one of those great leading ladies from the Golden Age.  Something with an amus read more

Family Friendly Reviews is presenting the Christmas Movie Blogathon from December 20 - 22nd.  A time to catch up with your favourites of the holiday season.  Acclaimed cinematographer Lee Garmes (Shanghai Express, Nightmare Alley, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty) varied his Oscar winning read more

Christmas traditions include stories.  It starts with the Gospel of Luke and the first Christmas story.  From 1843 we have Dickens' immortal tale of redemption and charity in A Christmas Carol.  Over the years many movies have added to our emotional connection to the holiday and none read more