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A day in LIFE: Jan. 8, 1945
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on Jan 8, 2016
LIFE magazine, Jan. 8, 1945 (Photo/Comet Over Hollywood) Comet Over Hollywood is starting a new LIFE magazine series. At the beginning of each post, I’ll feature the film article and provide a listing of other magazine highlights. Published weekly starting in November 1936 to December 1972, o read more
Musical Monday: Silver Skates (1943)
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on Jan 4, 2016
It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 500. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: “Silver Skates” (1943)– read more
Musical Monday: Silver Skates (1943)
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on Jan 4, 2016
It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 500. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: “Silver Skates” (1943)– read more
Mr. New Year’s Eve: Guy Lombardo
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on Dec 31, 2015
Publicity photo of Guy Lombardo in the 1940s. “Auld Lang Syne” was his theme song. They called him Mr. New Year’s Eve, and he was part of America’s New Year’s tradition for nearly 50 years. Before Dick Clark and Ryan Seacrest counted down to 12 a.m., January 1, there was Guy Lombardo. read more
Musical Monday: Call Out the Marines (1942)
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on Dec 28, 2015
It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 500. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: “Call Out the Marines read more
Christmas on Film: “We’re No Angels” (1955)
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on Dec 24, 2015
Guardian angels can come in many forms, and in the film “We’re No Angels” (1955), help arrives from three convicts. Early Christmas Eve, Joseph (Humphrey Bogart), Albert (Aldo Ray), Jules (Peter Ustinov) and Adolf the poisonous snake, escape from prison on French colonial Devil’s Island read more
A Gift from Comet Over Hollywood
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on Dec 22, 2015
Almost every Christmas for the past four years, I try to film a special Christmas video for the readers and supporters of Comet Over Hollywood. This year — as my gift to you — my mother and I re-enacted one of my favorite Christmas scenes from a classic film. I hope you enjoy it as much as I loved read more
Musical Monday: Lemon Drop Kid (1951)
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on Dec 21, 2015
It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 500. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: “The Lemon Drop Kid” read more
Cary Grant’s “Christmas Lullaby”
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on Dec 18, 2015
Cary Grant in the 1940s Cary Grant is often noted as one of the best and most attractive actors of all-time. His film resume includes some of Hollywood’s best films such as Alfred Hitchcock’s “Notorious” (1946) to the comedy “His Girl Friday” (1940). But out of a read more
Christmas on Film: Junior Miss (1945)
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on Dec 17, 2015
The same year Peggy Ann Garner performed her award winning role in “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,” the 13-year-old actress found herself in a coming of age comedy, “Junior Miss” (1945). Similar to “And So They Were Married” (1936), Christmas is merely a backdrop to adolescent antics in “Junior read more
Musical Monday: Shower of Stars presents A Christmas Carol (1954)
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on Dec 14, 2015
It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 500. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: “Shower of Stars” read more
Baby, It’s Not a Christmas Song
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on Dec 11, 2015
What started out as a song to get party guests to leave is now a Christmas favorite that has come under some scrutiny in recent years. “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” has evolved into a song never left off a Christmas album. The catch? When it was written in 1944, songwriter Frank Loesser wasn̵ read more
Christmas on Film: “And So They Were Married” (1936)
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on Dec 10, 2015
Before twin Hayley Mills were trying to get their parents together in “The Parent Trap” (1961), Jackie Moran and Edith Fellows worked to keep their parents apart in “And So They Were Married” (1936). In this fun, comedic romp, divorced Edith Farnham (Mary Astor) and her daughter Brenda (Fellows) read more
Review: The War Against Mrs. Hadley (1942)
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on Dec 7, 2015
Comet Over Hollywood is setting aside the usually scheduled Musical Monday for a World War II themed piece. Wealthy Stella Hadley of Washington, DC, begins her Dec. 7, 1941, birthday as she does every year. Lunch is to be served promptly at 1 p.m. with guests: her son Theodore (Richard Ney), daugh read more
A “Wild Christmas” with Mae West
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on Dec 1, 2015
Mae West in a publicity photo for “Go West Young Man” (1936) Mae West, known for her buxom figure, long Gibson-girl like gowns and sultry voice, slinked through 1930s films throwing around phrases like “Why don’t you come up and see me sometime?” But after only 10 film read more
Musical Monday: Devil-May-Care (1929)
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on Nov 30, 2015
It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 500. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: Devil-May-Care (1929) – read more
Musical Monday: Dames (1934)
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on Nov 23, 2015
It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 500. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: Dames (1934) – Musical read more
Musical Monday: Blues in the Night (1941)
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on Nov 16, 2015
It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 500. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: “Blues in the Night” read more
Musical Monday: The Cool Ones (1967)
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on Nov 9, 2015
It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 500. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: “The Cool Ones” (1967)– read more
Musical Monday: Small Town Girl (1953)
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on Nov 2, 2015
It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 500. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: “Small Town Girl” (1953)– read more