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Films From My Father Child of the Depression My dad grew up during the Great Depression. Like many kids his age, he went to the movies at least once a week. Back in the late 1930s, a Saturday at the movies might have included several films. The main attraction was generally an A-picture, one w read more

Films From My Father Child of the Depression My dad grew up during the Great Depression. Like many kids his age, he went to the movies at least once a week. Back in the late 1930s, a Saturday at the movies might have included several films. The main attraction was generally an A-picture, one w read more

Jeanne Crain: More Than Just a Pretty Face A Fan's Perspective I’m an unabashed fan of Jeanne Crain. Today is her birthday; if she were still with us, she’d be 86 years old. Crain was a beauty for sure, but she was also a talented movie actress who doesn’t get the credit she read more

Jeanne Crain: More Than Just a Pretty Face A Fan's Perspective I’m an unabashed fan of Jeanne Crain. Today is her birthday; if she were still with us, she’d be 86 years old. Crain was a beauty for sure, but she was also a talented movie actress who doesn’t get the credit she read more

Fred MacMurray: Nice-Guy Movie Star Fred MacMurray (1908-1991) was a popular movie star during Hollywood’s Golden Age. He was so popular, that in 1943, MacMurray was the highest paid movie star in the world. For most of his career, MacMurray played likeable characters in comedies, music read more

Fred MacMurray: Nice-Guy Movie Star Fred MacMurray (1908-1991) was a popular movie star during Hollywood’s Golden Age. He was so popular, that in 1943, MacMurray was the highest paid movie star in the world. For most of his career, MacMurray played likeable characters in comedies, music read more

Farley Granger, Star of Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train" Dies at 85 Farley Granger (1925-2011), star of the Alfred Hitchcock classics Rope (1948) and Strangers on a Train (1951) died on Sunday. He was 85.  The North Star was Farley Granger's first movie role. Teenage Movie Star Pluck read more

Farley Granger, Star of Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train" Dies at 85 Farley Granger (1925-2011), star of the Alfred Hitchcock classics Rope (1948) and Strangers on a Train (1951) died on Sunday. He was 85.  The North Star was Farley Granger's first movie role. Teenage Movie Star Pl read more

Elizabeth Taylor: Born To Be a Star Storybook Childhood Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011) was born to be a star. Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was born to American parents in Hampstead Garden Suburb, just northwest of London, England. Her early life was idyllic. On the family’s farm, Taylor dev read more

Elizabeth Taylor: Born To Be a Star Storybook Childhood Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011) was born to be a star. Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was born to American parents in Hampstead Garden Suburb, just northwest of London, England. Her early life was idyllic. On the family’s farm, Taylor dev read more

"Jane Eyre": A Golden Age Classic A recent article in The New York Times featured a story on the new film version of Jane Eyre directed by Cary Fukunaga. Charlotte Brontë’s novel, first published in 1847, has been filmed at least 18 times, according to Charles McGrath, the author of the read more

"Jane Eyre": A Golden Age Classic A recent article in The New York Times featured a story on the new film version of Jane Eyre directed by Cary Fukunaga. Charlotte Brontë’s novel, first published in 1847, has been filmed at least 18 times, according to Charles McGrath, the author of the read more

Classic Movie Fans at Midnight Showing On February 26, 2011, I presented the Academy Award winning film classic Johnny Belinda (1948), starring Jane Wyman at Facet Film School, Chicago. Wyman won a Best Actress Oscar for her performance as Belinda MacDonald, a poor deaf mute living with her fat read more

Classic Movie Fans at Midnight Showing On February 26, 2011, I presented the Academy Award winning film classic Johnny Belinda (1948), starring Jane Wyman at Facet Film School, Chicago. Wyman won a Best Actress Oscar for her performance as Belinda MacDonald, a poor deaf mute living with her fat read more

Joan Bennett: Almost Scarlet O'Hara, But Always a Movie Star Joan Bennett (1910-1990) had a long career in Hollywood. Starting out as a movie ingenue in the silent era, Bennett made the transition to sound without missing a beat. A scandal in the early 1950s put an abrupt end to her movie caree read more

Joan Bennett: Almost Scarlett O'Hara, But Always a Movie Star Joan Bennett (1910-1990) had a long career in Hollywood. Starting out as a movie ingenue in the silent era, Bennett made the transition to sound without missing a beat. A scandal in the early 1950s put an abrupt end to her movie care read more

Silence is Golden: Jane Wyman's Oscar-Winning Performance in "Johnny Belinda" Jane Wyman paid her dues. When she arrived in Hollywood in the early 1930s, Wyman worked steadily, but no one knew her name. During this early period in her career, she appeared in dozens of films, some classics, incl read more

Silence is Golden: Jane Wyman's Oscar-Winning Performance in "Johnny Belinda" Jane Wyman paid her dues. When she arrived in Hollywood in the early 1930s, Wyman worked steadily, but no one knew her name. During this early period in her career, she appeared in dozens of films, some classics, incl read more

Classic Movie Man's Guilty Pleasure: "Elephant Walk" Part of the fun of loving movies, is loving the ones that don’t quite hit the mark, the ones that are sometimes so bad they’re good. One of my guilty movie pleasures is 1954’s Elephant Walk. A big-budget spectacle from Param read more

Classic Movie Man's Guilty Pleasure: "Elephant Walk" Part of the fun of loving movies, is loving the ones that don’t quite hit the mark, the ones that are sometimes so bad they’re good. One of my guilty movie pleasures is 1954’s Elephant Walk. A big-budget spectacle from Param read more