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About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. This is a special Happy Birthday greeting to my beau Carlos who turns ::mumbling:: years old today. xoxo This is Carlos channeling Paul Newman as Fast Eddie Felson in The Hustler (1961) read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. Please go check out my guest post on Noir of the Week on the excellent Noir The Glass Wall (1953). I'll be reposting it here with my own pictures when the next noir replaces mine. Check ou read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. The year is 1957. Major movie studios are feeling pressure to get people back into the theaters and away from their television sets. Cinemas were losing business and subsequently closing read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. In my quest to be the world renown expert on all things Charles Emmett Mack (McNerney), I have been trying to get my hands on as many films of his as I can. I had waited not-so patien read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. TCM is doing a 5-City Tour called Road to Hollywood that will lead up to their first Classic Film Festival. I think TCM might have a vendetta against me (I don't know why that is because&n read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. I've been harboring a lot of resentment lately. It's been bubbling up and it's now at the surface and I feel myself about to explode. Even though I'm in a place that I've always wante read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. Today is the birthday of my very good friend Jonas from All Talking! All Singing! All Dancing!. Jonas and I met virtually over the internet when we both had done posts about Anita Page's p read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. The Big House (1930) takes place in an over-crowded Art Deco prison. Warden James Arden (Lewis Stone) presides over the prisoners at a safe distance, so as not to get his suit and bow- read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. I've been asking myself this question a lot lately and I've come up with two answers: Yes and No. YES - During my days as an undergrad and the year or so before I started grad school, I read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. Some months ago, when I was working on my review of the Natalie Wood boxed set, I invited a couple friends over to watch Sex and the Single Girl (1964) with me. All three of us were p read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. On Sunday night, a few friends came over to Chez Kevin for dessert and a movie. Just this past October, Kevin had purchased his first home. A condo; the first floor in a historic read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. A Google Alert for keywords "Charles Emmett Mack" alerted me to the fact that http://pakway.blogspot.com and it's mirror site http://guromusic.blogspot.com have stolen entire posts from my read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. Here are some tributes posted by other bloggers: What Jean Simmons meant to me... ~ ClassicForever - This one is particularly touching and Millie created a very sweet tribute video. Je read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. I know I know, it's the wrong decade for me. I usually avoid the 70s like the plague. But the film takes place in 1937 and it's as historically accurate as it could be, so I'm letting tha read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. I do not have Turner Classic Movies and extenuating circumstances prevent me from getting the channel. I'm not going to explain why because from the reaction I've been getting from people, read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. Here is a look back at the highlights of Out of the Past ~ A Classic Film Blog through the months of 2009. January My first ever recipe post with a meal straight out of The Fortune Cookie read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. George Sanders, Zsa Zsa, and Me by David R. Slavitt 9780810126244 Northwestern University Press 2009 Slavitt has a lot to say. In this book, he gets an opportunity to get those  read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. On a cold Saturday evening, Carlos and I snuggled on the sofa had some mint Hot Cocoa (with some peppermint Schnapps for some added warmth) and watched It's a Wonderful Life (19 read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. Every December I cling to one Christmas film which I proceed to watch over-and-over again. Last year it was Holiday Affair (1949) and the year before it was Love Actually (2004). This read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. In continuation of yesterday's post... (some spoilers) This movie isn't kidding around. A lot of folks even today consider San Fransisco a sinful city and it is portrayed that way in th read more