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I Do and I Don't: A History of Marriage in the Movies by Jeanine Basinger 9780307269164 Hardcover Alfred A. Knopf (Random House) On Sale: January 29, 2013 Find the book on: Powells Indiebound Barnes and Noble Amazon “... the traditional role for both the marriage movie and the divorce movi read more

1928 is one of the most fascinating years in film history. Hollywood was in a state of transition, quickly trying to learn how to match visuals with sounds to deliver talking pictures to an eager public. The industry had already mastered the silent film making process and were churning out good qual read more

Happy Birthday to Norman Lloyd! He turns 100 today. I had the pleasure of seeing Norman Lloyd at the 2013 TCM Classic Film Festival. I shot a video of him in conversation with Leonard Maltin at the screening of Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (1938). I'm sharing it here today in celebration read more

Son of Harpo Speaks! by Bill Marx February 2007 Applause Books – Hal Leonard Paperback $19.99 315 pages My dad’s wonderful impact on people’s lives had given me an entree into a world I’m sure I would have otherwise never known.- Bill Marx Whenever I think of classic fil read more

The lovely Carley of The Kitty Packard Pictorial has a series called The Kitty Corner in which she interviews classic film bloggers. She asked me to participate and I was absolutely thrilled to do so. It was such a fun interview and Carley was a gracious interviewer. Check out the interview here. read more

A Mysterious Something in the Light: The Life of Raymond Chandler by Tom Williams Chicago Review Press 9781613736784 - 384 pages January 2012 Amazon - Barnes and Noble - Powells Was Raymond Chandler, the author who invented detective Phillip Marlowe, as interesting as his creation? This question w read more

Celebrities in my town - I helped break a local news story that a scene from the HBO movie Clear History (2014) was being filmed in my town. Not only that the location was a block away from where I live. The film will star Michael Keaton, Eva Mendes, Jon Hamm (OMG), Kate Hudson and more. It's being read more

Arrowsmith (1931) With the recent outbreak of the Ebola virus dominating the news this Pre-Code film is timelier than ever. Independently produced by Samuel Goldwyn and directed by John Ford, Arrowsmith (1931) stars Ronald Colman as Dr. Martin Arrowsmith, a young doctor whose talents in the field read more

This year's festival theme was History According to Hollywood but it might as well been something else. My nomination? Stars on the Red Carpet. TCM pulled out the big guns with their line-up of special guests this year. Not only that I got to see even more of my online friends at the festival than t read more

The seventh set in the popular Forbidden Hollywood Collection is a true gem. All four films, on 4 MOD-DVD discs, are rife with all the sins that make Pre-Codes so enjoyable to watch. I started to do something recently that I have been wanting to do for a very long time: watch Pre-Codes every morn read more

“He was a big shot once.” The 1930s saw Humphrey Bogart in countless crime dramas playing every different variation on the gangster character. It wasn’t until the early 1940s, thanks to some poor decisions made by fellow actor George Raft, that Bogart’s career would do an ab read more

Spencer Tracy, Polo "There's something about horses which, once you really become interested in them, just naturally makes you think this is a pretty good world." - Spencer Tracy Director John Cromwell encouraged Spencer Tracy to take up polo and Tracy trained with Reginald Leslie "Snowy Baker read more

The Graduate signage at the 2017 TCM Classic Film Festival Another day in La La Land kicks off with the third day of the 2017 TCM Classic Film Festival. Still weary from the midnight screening of Zardoz (1977), I managed to get up early for the 9 AM screening of The China Syndrome (1979). read more

Here is part two of my collection of classic film treasures. If you missed part one, make sure you take a look before you move on! Books Books books books. I love books. I especially love my collection of classic film books of which I have many. Every year I run a summer reading challenge to read more

Born in jail, Eugene Francois Vidocq (George Sanders) seemed destined for a criminal life. On his birthday a few decades later, he finds himself once again behind bars. There he makes friends with fellow career criminal Emile Vernet (Akim Tamiroff). The Vernet matriarch sends Eugene a special birthd read more

Dolce Vita Confidential Fellini, Loren, Pucci, Paparazzi, and the Swinging High Life of 1950s Rome by Shawn Levy W.W. Norton & Company 9780393247589 - 480 pages September 2016 Amazon - Barnes and Noble - Powells "Rome had always had a way of making even the most egregious aspects of its pa read more

Today I have a special treat for my film book loving readers! Here's your chance to win an autographed copy of The Girl on the Balcony by Olivia Hussey. Yes you read that correctly. Autographed! I reviewed Hussey's new memoir back in September. You can read the full review here. But to recap here i read more

The Ten Commandments (1923) In 1923, Cecil B. DeMille and his crew headed to the Nipomo Dunes of Guadalupe, California, a small town 160 miles north of Hollywood. DeMille brought with him carpenters, electricians, sculptors, painters, set decorators and many more to build a giant set for his new f read more

Phantom Lady Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison The Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock by Christina Lane Chicago Review Press Hardcover ISBN: 9781613733844 400 pages February 2020 Amazon — Barnes and Noble — Powell's "Alfred Hitchcock would not have become 'Hitchcock' without her." — read more

Sloan De Forest. Photo credit: Manoah Bowman I've had the privilege of interviewing Sloan De Forest, author of Must See Sci-Fi: 50 Movies That are Out of This World (TCM/Running Press). She's an actress, writer and film historian and has written about film for Sony, Time Warner Cable, the Mar read more