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Happy Holidays with Kino Lorber! DVD/Blu-Ray Giveaway, Winner’s Choice of 3 Holiday Classics Okay, now it’s time for the Facebook/Blog version of our Kino Lorber Holiday Giveaway Contest! This time we’ll be giving away two Holiday Classics via Facebook and this blog, courtesy of Kino Lorber. Each read more

Classic Movie Hub and Fathom Events Partner Again for Year-Long Movie Ticket Giveaways to TCM Big Screen Classics For the third consecutive year, Fathom Events and TCM present TCM Big Screen Classics — a year-long series of 13 unforgettable movie classics shown on the Big Screen, each accompan read more

“Barbara La Marr: The Girl who was Too Beautiful for Hollywood” Book Giveaway via Facebook and this Blog Okay, now it’s time for the Facebook/Blog version of our of  “Barbara La Marr: The Girl Who Was Too Beautiful for Hollywood” Giveaway Contest! This time we’ll be giving away one read more

Celebrating the Holidays with Kino Lorber! DVD/Blu-Ray Giveaway, Winner’s Choice of 3 Classic Titles This month we celebrate the Holidays courtesy of Kino Lorber! We are happy to say that we have EIGHT classic Holiday DVD or Blu-Rays to giveaway on Twitter this month, winners’ choice of three read more

Gower Champion, Geneva Illinois “I use dancing to embellish, extend or enlarge upon an existing emotion.” –Gower Champion When considering notable dance teams throughout film history, it is easy to come up with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers as a perfect example of one. However, the tea read more

  Surviving Holiday Mayhem With These Ladies of Screwball Comedy   Dan (Ralph Bellamy): “I certainly learned about women from you.” Aunt Patsy (Cecil Cunningham): “Here’s your diploma.” (As she hands him Lucy’s break-up letter) In The Awful Truth (1937), Ralph Bellamy as wealthy read more

10 Classic Films Noir for the Holidays For many (myself included), the holidays are the happiest time of the year. It’s hard to match the euphoric feeling of being with loved ones, exchanging gifts, and doing so to the tune of any number of classic songs. That said, such an oppressively happy season read more

“Barbara La Marr: The Girl who was Too Beautiful for Hollywood” Book Giveaway via Twitter “The silent film community as a whole should be thankful that Snyder was not only up to the task, but has created a work that will serve to define La Marr’s life and career for decades to come.̶ read more

Fritz Lang: The Silent Films 12-Blu-Ray Set Review and Giveaway (below) I first became ‘acquainted’ with the silent films of Fritz Lang a few years back when I was lucky enough to see Metropolis on the Big Screen. I will never forget how intensely my heart was pounding throughout the fi read more

  To Pre-Code, or Not to Pre-Code: What Say You, Brief Moment? Have you ever watched a pre-Code that you felt didn’t quite live up to, well, it’s pre-Code potential? That was me with Brief Moment (1933). Can someone please explain that tagline to me? Now, I don’t expect every read more

From Heavies to Heroes Interviews with Classic Stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood Ever since Humphrey Bogart went from being a gangster-type heavy in the 1930s to being a tough guy anti-hero in the 1940s, actors have been able to argue that glamour boy looks aren’t necessary to being a movie lea read more

  A Special Holiday Contest… Give A Gift, Get a Gift. Greetings CMH Fans and Followers!  As many of you know, Classic Movie Hub is a labor of love for me, one that I launched about five or so years ago… It started out as my final project for a web development course I took at NYU read more

Born November 24, in 1912, Director/Writer Garson Kanin Garson Kanin started his show biz career as a musician, comedian and stage actor, making his Broadway debut in 1933 in the drama Little Ol’Boy. He became assistant to Broadway director George Abbot, and in a few short years, Kanin was wr read more

The History and Use of Publicity Stills In the early decades of the Twentieth Century before the invention of television and the internet, the Hollywood motion picture industry sold itself and its products to the general public through the use of still photographs distributed to magazines and newspa read more

The Politics of Yankee Doodle Dandy The notion for a biographical film about legendary show business powerhouse George M. Cohan had been kicking around Hollywood since the late 1930s. The father of American musical comedy claimed to be born on July 4, 1878 and began treading the boards at age eight read more

Paving The Way For The Movies — A Nod To Victorian Film Pioneers When you study the origins of film, it almost seems to have begun by magic. For centuries there was painting and sculpture. By the 19th century there was also photography. And near the start of the 20th century, suddenly, there w read more

Celebrating Noirvember All-Month Long with Kino Lorber! DVD/Blu-Ray Giveaway, Winner’s Choice of 4 Classics Okay, now it’s time for the Facebook/Blog version of our Kino Lorber Classic Horror Giveaway Contest! This time we’ll be giving away two Film Noir Classics via Facebook and this blog, read more

  Finding Early Technicolor Films Most film buffs know how unstable nitrate film is, and how over 90% of black and white motion pictures made before 1930 have decomposed and no longer survive.  The survival rate of films made in the early 2-color Technicolor process is even lower. The superb and awa read more

Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story DVD Giveaway #2 Okay, now it’s time for the Facebook/Blog version of our “Harold and Lillian” Giveaway Contest! This time we’ll be giving away one copy of the DVD via Facebook and this blog, courtesy of Kino Lorber. And, remember, we’re read more

Noir Nook:  Two Fab Film Noirs In last month’s column, I offered up the first in a series of columns on low-budget, B-level films noir that nobody ever talks about. This time around, I’m taking a look at films that are not quite in the “I’ve-never-even-heard-of-this-movie” category, but they read more