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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

Win tickets to see “West Side Story” on the big screen! In Select Cinemas Nationwide Sun June 24 and Wed June 27! “When you’re a Jet, you’re a Jet all the way! from your first cigarette your last dyin’ days.” CMH continues into our 3rd year of our partnership with Fathom Events - read more

Doris Day and Rock Hudson: Always Good for a Smile I’m not exactly sure when I first ‘discovered’ the Doris Day/Rock Hudson romantic comedies, but I do remember that it was at some point in my childhood when my parents shared them with me. And, as many classic movie fans will attes read more

Celebrating Springtime with Kino Lorber! DVD/Blu-Ray Giveaway, Winner’s Choice of 4 Classic Titles Now it’s time for the Facebook/Blog version of our Kino Lorber Springtime DVD/Blu-Ray Giveaway Contest! This time we’ll be giving away TWO Kino Classic titles via Facebook and this blog, courtesy read more

Before the Nickelodeon: The Era of Traveling Moving Picture Shows We’ve all seen pictures of beautiful 1920s movie palaces, complete with columns, statues, and enormous lit-up marquees. And their ancestor, the Nickelodeon, is fairly well known–those small, crowded little theaters that charged read more

Vitaphone View: Talkies For The Home With the silent-to-sound revolution in full swing in 1928, it was only a matter of time before talkies for home consumption were developed. Many Americans were enjoying the fruits of a vibrant and growing economy. And with that came more disposable income and buy read more

Noir Nook: The Ends of Noir In my first several Noir Nook posts of this year, I focused on beginnings – how some of our favorite noir actors and actresses got their big breaks in Hollywood. This month, I’m looking at endings. As you know, films noir are characterized by a tone of cynicism and hopele read more

Classic Movie Travels: Robert Young – Chicago, Seattle, Pasadena, Los Angeles Robert Young The 1950s were an era in which television flourished as a competitor to film. Audiences could welcome actors into their living rooms by merely turning on the television and enjoying the latest shows. While man read more

“Ziegfeld and His Follies: A Biography of Broadway’s Greatest Producer” Book Giveaway It’s time for our next book giveaway! CMH is happy to say that we will be giving away FIVE COPIES of  “Ziegfeld and His Follies: A Biography of Broadway’s Greatest Producer” by Sara and Cynthia Brideson, courtesy read more

The Maze 3D Blu-Ray Giveaway It’s time for our next giveaway, courtesy of Kino Lorber. This time, we’ll be giving away FIVE copies of the 1953 horror classic The Maze in 3D on Blu-Ray, directed  by William Cameron Menzies… In order to qualify to win one of these Blu-Rays via this contest giveaway, read more

Douglas Fairbanks Double Feature DVD/Blu-Ray Giveaway Thanks to our fine friends at Kino Lorber, we have another cool giveaway this month…  This time, we’ll be giving away FIVE copies of a Douglas Fairbanks silent movie double feature: The Half Breed and The Good Bad Man… In order to qualify read more

“I Didn’t Know You With All Your Clothes On”: The Best of Pre-Code Warren William Warren William is so entrenched with the pre-Code period in my mind that it’s not surprising to learn that, aside from two appearances credited as Warren Krech in 1922 and 1923, he soared to stardom during read more

“Nobody likes for his life to be disrupted. But when the country calls, they need you.” - Audie Murphy By the age of 19, Audie Murphy had won two Silver Stars and the Distinguished Service Cross. He won the Medal of Honor at that age by operating a machine gun on a burning tank destroyer read more