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Ten Favorite Classic Movie Mothers
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on May 14, 2017
For this Mother's Day we felt a tribute to some of those wonderful on-screen movie mothers was in order. They are such a joy to watch and their warmth and tenderness seem to reach out to the audience, making you appreciate and, hopefully, aspire to be like these women. Below we have gathered togethe read more
TV/Movie Set - When Ladies Meet ( 1941 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on May 7, 2017
Back in the studio-system days of Hollywood, if a film turned out to be successful at the box-office, within a decade you can be sure that a remake would be filmed. Why chance a new script when you have a winner on hand? Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer loved digging out old scripts and re-working them for their read more
Belle Fountaine - "The Chalk Garden" House
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on May 6, 2017
Phyllis Loves Classic Movies and Love Letters to Old Hollywood have teamed up to host The Favorite Film and TV Homes Blogathon ( great idea Phyllis! ) which is taking place today and tomorrow. This brilliant event gives architecture enthusiasts a chance to gush about their favorite sets. Hopefully t read more
Edwige Feuillère - La Grande Actrice Française
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Apr 27, 2017
On November 13, 1998, the day that Edwige Feuillère died, France mourned. A beloved icon of the silver screen and the grand dame of the Paris theater had passed on and the wave of tributes that poured in befitted a political head of state.
"Many actresses have been called La Divine, but none read more
From the Archives: Joan Fontaine in Suspicion ( 1941 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Apr 24, 2017
Joan Fontaine posing for a quick costume shot during the making of Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion. Joan always knew how to wear high collars and top-heavy hats like a queen.
From the Archives is our latest series of posts where we share photos from the Silverbanks Pictures collection. Some read more
Book Review - Hollywood in Kodachrome
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Apr 20, 2017
Over 35 years ago John Kobal assembled a number of excellent coffee table books featuring stunning photography from Hollywood's golden era. Among these books was "Hollywood Color Portraits", which presented a beautiful collection of Kodachromes of some of Hollywood's biggest stars of the 1930s-1950s read more
Classic Bible and Religious Films
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Apr 16, 2017
With Easter and Passover here I thought it would be nice to put together a list of some famous ( and rarer ) classic religious films.
I have such fond memories of watching these movies, especially David and Bathsheba and Ben-Hur.
When I was a youngster, my family would often go to Our Lady read more
The Impossibly Difficult Name that Movie Game
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Apr 13, 2017
All aboard! Is it the Hogwarts Express pulling out of the station? No, not quite. Time seems to stand still at this train station and the passengers have no complaints about waiting for the train to depart.
As always, if you are not familiar with the rules to The Impossibly Difficult Name th read more
Binnie Barnes Shares Stories of Her Past
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Apr 9, 2017
Into a cold, gray London factory, on a
foggy morning, tramped a cheerless girl in a
shabby hat and a rag of a dress. Under her
arm she carried a lunch box, nothing more
than an old pasteboard shoe box which was
turned to everyday use. Going to her place at a grimy
iron stamping machine, she op read more
From the Archives : Enter Arsene Lupin ( 1944 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Apr 4, 2017
Charles Kovin and Ella Raines are receiving some dialogue direction from script girl Mildred Vallee. Korvin was making his film debut as the famous French thief in Universal Pictures' Enter Arsene Lupin ( 1944 ).
From the Archives is our latest series of posts where we share photos from the S read more
The Trouble with Angels ( 1966 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Mar 29, 2017
"I just thought of a scathingly brilliant idea!"
Mary ( Hayley Mills ) is chock-full of scathingly brilliant ideas, most of them taking the form of pranks to play on the nuns at St. Francis Academy, the convent school for girls that she and her partner-in-crime Rachel ( played by newcomer June Hard read more
Maedchen in Uniform ( 1931 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Mar 27, 2017
"What you call evil, I call the great Spirit of Love, which has a thousand forms..."
Manuela ( Hertha Thiele ), a sensitive 14-year old child, is sent by her aunt to a strict boarding school for officer's daughters operated by headmistress Frau Oberin ( Emila Unda ), a stern Prussian who believes th read more
Dead Man's Treasure - The Avengers ( 1967 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Mar 25, 2017
The Avengers has long been one of my favorite television series, so, when A Shroud of Thoughts announced the 3nd annual Favorite TV Show Episode Blogathon, I naturally chose to write about a classic from the 1965-1967 "Emma Peel Era" of The Avengers - "Dead Man's Treasure".
This episode feat read more
The Halfway House ( 1944 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Mar 23, 2017
Ealing Studios, one of England's major film companies, made some exceptionally entertaining films during the 1940s-1960s such as The Lavender Hill Mob, The Blue Lamp, Mandy, Kind Hearts and Coronets, and Scott of the Antarctic. Early in their history they released a charming drama that came to repre read more
The Impossible Difficult Name that Movie Game
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Mar 19, 2017
Twenty singing school girls all in a row, featured in a scene from a film you all know. Tell us the title of this film and you'll win a prize! Simply, isn't it? Or perhaps not.......
As always, if you are not familiar with the rules to The Impossibly Difficult Name that Movie game or the prize, cli read more
The Art of the Hollywood Backdrop - Book Review
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Mar 17, 2017
In November 2016, Regan Arts released "The Art of the Hollywood Backdrop" by Richard M. Isackes and Karen L. Maness. This beautiful 11 x 14" hardcover coffee table book is fully illustrated with behind-the-scenes photographs of the impressive set backdrops that were created for the major Hollywood s read more
The English Village Setting of the 1940s
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Mar 13, 2017
Films are by far the most marvelous means of personal escapism and during the 1940s, a time of war, anxiety, and sorrow, the American people certainly needed a place to escape to. Hollywood, being a most benevolent servant of the Arts, created and then delivered us to our destination. They gave us t read more
The White Cliffs of Dover ( 1944 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Mar 10, 2017
I have loved England dearly and deeply, since that first morning, shining and pure,
The White Cliffs of Dover, I saw rising steeply, Out of the sea that once made her secure. I had no thought then of husband or lover, I was a traveler, the guest of a week. Yet when read more
Cinderella ( 1947 ) aka Zolushka
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Mar 8, 2017
Classic foreign films are often presented as being moody, atmospheric dramas or visual voyages into surrealism, but anyone who has enjoyed a classic Russian film knows how beautiful and how colorful their films truly were. They definitely did not follow the brooding European noir-style trend of the read more
From the Archives : Michael Redgrave Arrives in Hollywood
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Mar 4, 2017
In this 1947 publicity photo, Michael Redgrave is seen disembarking a train in Los Angeles. The actor, one of England's top ranking box-office favorites at the time, had just arrived in Hollywood for his first American film production Secret Beyond the Door, released by Universal Pictures. Little di read more