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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
Review: Bride of Boogedy (1987)
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on Nov 1, 2015
A year after “Mr. Boogedy” (1986) aired, the Wonderful World of Disney aired its 1987 sequel, “Bride of Boogedy.” In the sequel, the Davis family is now comfortably settled at their newly renovated in Lucifer Home and happily rid of the ghost Mr. Boogedy for a year. The children in Mr. Lynch’ read more
Halloweek: Mr. Boogedy (1986)
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on Oct 27, 2015
Many of us have movies that we watched repeatedly as children. For my two older sisters and myself, it was the made-for-TV Disney horror comedy “Mr. Boogedy” (1986). My sisters saw it when it originally aired on Disney channel on a Sunday night in April of 1986. Eventually my parents re read more
Halloweek Musical Monday: Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on Oct 26, 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: “Bedknobs and Broomsticks” read more
“My hope that women will not be afraid”: Classic Actresses who had Breast Cancer
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on Oct 23, 2015
To go along with some monthly health observances, Comet Over Hollywood is recognizing actors who battled diseases and often, kept it a secret from their public and exhibited strength by continuing to practice their craft. Others helped create awareness or spearheaded organizations for research, suc read more
Musical Monday: The Glass Skipper (1955)
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on Oct 19, 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 Glass Skipper” read more
“A Colorful Life”: Remembering Joan Leslie
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on Oct 15, 2015
Actress Joan Leslie in the 1940s With her shining smile, bright eyes and fresh face, actress Joan Leslie had an innocent girl-next-door appeal. But during her career at Warner Brothers during the 1940s, Joan Leslie held her own in top films with major actors such as Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart and read more
Musical Monday: Rock Around the Clock (1956)
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on Oct 12, 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 more than 500. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: “Rock Around the read more
Musical Monday: Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957)
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on Oct 5, 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: Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957 read more
Musical Monday: Ding Dong Williams (1946)
Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on Sep 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: “Ding Dong Williams” read more