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FilmStruck Forum: Exploring FilmStruck My First Log-in to the Streaming Movie Service As part of our long-term partnership with FilmStruck (which includes lots of monthly giveaways throughout the year), we are launching a monthly CMH column called FilmStruck Forum in which I will be exploring the ma read more

Top 10 Slapsticks in the Ring – Comedies That Pack a Punch There are plenty of serious films that have taken on the drama of boxing. Often they play up the angle of the unknown, struggling underdog who works hard, and defies the naysayers to beat all odds and make it as a champion. Some have focused read more

The Big Country 60th Anniversary Special Edition Blu-Ray Giveaway “Kino Lorber’s majestic Blu-ray presentation of The Big Country is nearly an essential presentation of William Wyler’s masterpiece, on a disc loaded with enough extras to satisfy casual and rabid collectors alike.& read more

A Little Tour Through The History Of Silent Comedy When it comes to the genre of silent comedy, everyone’s familiar with the great Charlie Chaplin– perhaps the single most famous figure in cinema– and the solemn-faced Buster Keaton has a large and devoted following as well. And even if you haven’t read more

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story Exclusive Interview with Director Alexandra Dean Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story When it comes to women, whether in real life or as depicted in art, there always seems to be a tendency to place them in some sort of dichotomy. They’re either a whore or a Madonna, a read more

Noir Nook: Uncommon Ladies of Noir – Shelley Winters Shelley Winters may be best known for her role as an overweight, but heroic, former championship swimmer in 1972’s The Poseidon Adventure, or perhaps her Oscar-winning turns in The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) or A Patch of Blue (1965) – but she read more

Vitaphone View: THANKS FOR COMING – NOW SCRAM! It is hard for modern audiences, often sitting with just a few dozen other patrons in a multiplex, to realize that in the twenties and thirties 3,500 seat movie palaces filled their seats three or four times a day. Movie-going then went far beyond the read more

  Celebrating Judy Garland’s Birthday with Her Friend and Confidante, Dottie Ponedel Judy Garland and Dottie Ponedel always found time for laughs on set. Today marks the 96th anniversary of the birth of Judy Garland, by any measure one of the greatest entertainers the world has ever seen, whet read more

Win tickets to see “Big” on the big screen!  In Select Cinemas Nationwide Sun July 15 and Wed July 18! “Your wish is granted.” CMH continues into our 3rd year of our partnership with Fathom Events - with the 7th of our 13 movie ticket giveaways for 2018, courtesy of Fathom read more

Classic Movie Travels: Jeanette Loff – Idaho, Minnesota, Saskatchewan, Oregon, California, New York City The beautiful Jeanette Loff poses in a fringe dress. When I watch early films, I often wonder what became of certain individuals and where their lives took them beyond their work in the film read more

“Man, woman or child, Ella is the best.” – Bing Crosby It was in 1979 that President Jimmy Carter decreed June to be Black Music Month. President Obama later changed the official designation to African-American Music Appreciation Month. Although it is astonishing that it took until the late 1970s read more

“About Face: The Life and Times of Dottie Ponedel, Make-up Artist to the Stars” We have TEN Copies to Give Away in July! It’s time for our next book giveaway! And, this is a very special one for me, as I have the pleasure of knowing two of the authors, but more about that later… That said, read more

It’s a Classic Movie Streaming Celebration! We’re giving away EIGHT Annual Subscriptions to FilmStruck! Now through July 28th! We are so VERY EXCITED to announce our longterm partnership with FilmStruck, the ultimate classic movie streaming service! To kick things off, we have a very special read more

“Hollywood Heyday: 75 Candid Interviews with Golden Age Legends”  We have TEN Copies to Give Away! “In-depth interviews – things that people really want to know — not gossip.” -Jane Powell Time for our next book giveaway! CMH is thrilled to be giving away TEN COPIES of the read more

Three Wise Girls All Mixed Up Three Wise Girls (1932) is a rather apt screen title for a book one reviewer for the Studio Relations Committee (SRC) termed: “An exceedingly tawdry and cheap piece of literature designed to thrill a moronic public by its blatant sex detail.” The SRC obviously didn’t read more

The CMH Guide for June 2018: TV Schedules, Movie Screenings, Contests and More! Welcome to our first monthly ‘CMH Guide’ for Classics! There’s so much going on every month in the wonderful world of classics, we thought we’d launch a monthly guide to help everyone plan ahead. read more

A Love Letter to Danny Kaye “Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.” – Danny Kaye According to my baby book, my first crush was Donny Osmond. Don’t judge – it was a different time. I think it was a combination of “Puppy Love” and assuredly read more

Five Fun Facts About The Dolly Sisters Classic flapper girls! “They’re Beautiful…They’re Glamorous…They’re Scandalous!” So read the tagline for Twentieth Century Fox’s glossy, highly fictionalized biopic about the famous (and infamous) Dolly Sisters. In the film, read more

“If I let you change me, will that do it? If I do what you tell me, will you love me?” As cinema’s reigning “Master of Suspense”, Alfred Hitchcock usually made a point of keeping his audience in the loop. He believed that information and tension went hand in hand, and that by telling read more

  And now for Day Two of the Dynamic Duos in Classic Blogathon… The time has come to celebrate famous movie pairings of yesteryear for the Dynamic Duos in Classic Film blogathon. I am thrilled to host the second of two days of entries, preceded by the fabulous Aurora at Once Upon a Screen read more