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Vitaphone View: The View from the Vitaphone Projection Booth The life of the early Vitaphone projectionist was a tough one. Although well compensated at an average $150/week (about $2158 in 2018 dollars), it was not an easy job. In the silent days, there was normally just one projectionist and no wo read more

Fay Wray and Robert Riskin, The Blogathon February 26, 2019 marks the release of a must-read dual Hollywood biography and we are honoring it with a special blogathon. Commemorating the lives and careers of one of classic Hollywood’s greatest stars and one of its most memorable screenwriters, F read more

Win tickets to see “My Fair Lady” on the Big Screen! In Select Cinemas Nationwide Sun Feb 17 and Wed Feb 20 “Aowh, wouldn’t it be lover-ly.” CMH continues with our 4th year of our partnership with Fathom Events - with the 2nd of our 14 movie ticket giveaways for 2019, courtesy of Fathom read more

Stuntwomen: The Untold Hollywood Story Book Giveaway via Facebook and this Blog Okay, now it’s time for the Facebook/Blog version of our Stuntwomen: The Untold Hollywood Story Giveaway Contest! This time we’ll be giving away one copy of the book via Facebook and this blog, courtesy of University read more

Pre-Code Corner: Baby Face (1933) – Ten Steps to Perfectly Pre-Code In the era of Pre-Codes, there are a few films that stand out. When I think of Pre-Code films, sometimes it’s the violent nature, or perhaps a few nods to bathtub gin with women barely clad in lingerie, casually checking their stock read more

Noir Nook: Quotable Noir As we enter a new year, I thought I’d ring in 2019 at the Noir Nook with 10 of my favorite noir quotes. Enjoy! And Happy Noir Year! Edward G. Robinson and Joan Bennett in The Woman in the Window (1944). “There are only three ways to deal with a blackmailer. You can pay him read more

Win tickets to see “The Wizard of Oz” on the big screen! In Select Cinemas Nationwide Sun Jan 27, Tues Jan 29, Wed Jan 30 “Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas any more.” CMH continues into our 4th year of our partnership with Fathom Events - with the 1st of our 14 movie read more

Classic Movie Hub and Fathom Events Partnership Continues! Year-Long Movie Ticket Giveaways to TCM Big Screen Classics For the fourth consecutive year, Fathom Events and TCM present TCM Big Screen Classics — a year-long series of 14 fabulous movie classics shown on the Big Screen, each accompanied read more

Classic Movie Travels: Mel Tormé – Chicago Mel Tormé Mel Tormé was one of the great jazz singers of his day. Nicknamed “The Velvet Fog,” he was responsible for entertaining many audiences with his singing, in addition to composing the holiday classic, “The Christmas Song”. An American musician, read more

Stuntwomen: The Untold Hollywood Story We have Five Books to Give Away via Twitter or this Blog “The legacy of stuntwomen in the film industry is finally getting a comprehensive telling“” — Los Angeles Magazine And now for our first giveaway contest in 2019! And we’re read more

  Musical Remakes Remakes are nothing new. Since films began, they were remade. Stories are revised, plot lines are shifted and new actors are cast in roles someone else made their own years before. Other times, the story, scenes and lines are exactly the same as they were in the original. Toda read more

Vitaphone View: The Talkies – How Could They Be So Wrong? They all laughed at Christopher Columbus When he said, the world was round They all laughed when Edison recorded sound They all laughed at Wilbur and his brother When they said that man could fly They told Marconi Wireless was a phony It̵ read more

Jarmila Novotna: My Life in Song Book Giveaway via Facebook and this Blog Okay, now it’s time for the Facebook/Blog version of our Jarmila Novotna: My Life in Song Giveaway Contest! This time we’ll be giving away one copy of the book via Facebook and this blog, courtesy of University Press read more

Western RoundUp: A Trio of Wyatt Earp Westerns Real-life Western lawman Wyatt Earp (1848-1929) has been portrayed in countless films over the years. The stories always take a fair amount of dramatic license, but Earp’s legend was such that his name and incidents from his life were a seemingly read more

10 More Classic Film Noirs for the Holidays Novelist Douglas Coupland once said that “Christmas makes everything twice as sad.” His quote may have stemmed from a place of tender melancholy, but here at CMH’s Film Noir section, we’d like to apply it to the lushes and low-lifes that inhabit the read more

 Classic Movie Travels: Danny Thomas Actor and philanthropist, Danny Thomas. Many remember Danny Thomas as an individual who made his mark upon the entertainment industry as a nightclub comedian, singer, actor, and producer. His lengthy career included a starring role in a situation comedy, in addit read more

Noir Nook: Five Things You Need to Know About Christmas Holiday (1944) Christmas Holiday is a 1944 noir starring Deanna Durbin as a devoted young bride who slowly comes to realize that her husband, played by Gene Kelly, is a charming sociopath and killer. The cast includes Gale Sondergaard as Kelly’ read more

“Jarmila Novotna: My Life in Song” We have Five Books to Give Away via Twitter or this Blog It’s time for our next book giveaway! CMH is happy to say that we will be giving away FIVE COPIES of  Jarmila Novotna: My Life in Song, Novotna’s memoirs, courtesy of University Press of Kentucky, read more

“This World Needs Its Dreamers” Clarence Brown’s National Velvet (1944) Exclusive Guest Post by Author Gwenda Young In a reappraisal of National Velvet written in the 1960s, Pauline Kael observed that “it touches areas in our experience that movies rarely touch — the passions and obsessions read more

The Puzzling Sin of Nora Moran The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931), Sin Takes a Holiday (1930), The Sin Ship (1931) — pre-Code debauchery can be hard to keep straight — and I’m just referring to these sinful titles right now. That said, I could’ve sworn I’d seen The Sin of Nora Moran (1933) read more