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The Family Way ( 1966 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Jan 25, 2023
The Family Way is one of those films that you have probably heard a lot about but never bothered to watch, thinking it to be just a routine British drama. But it is not routine. And it is worth watching. The plot may sound simple, certainly not something one would build a film around, and yet it is read more
British Pathé: The Royal Tour in Technicolor ( 1966 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Jan 19, 2023
In this 1966 British Pathé newsreel, we get a glimpse of Her Royal Majesty Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip taking a holiday ( ahem, royal tour ) in the West Indies colony known as British Guinea. Arriving in the royal yacht Brittania, the Queen did her customary walkabout, greeting the read more
Check it Out! - Karen Wyman on The Ed Sullivan Show ( 1967 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Jan 8, 2023
When Ed Sullivan says "here is something you won't forget" it means you are in for a special treat indeed. This man saw so many talented top-notch entertainers in his days as a variety show host, but he thought 16-year-old Karen Wyman's debut performance of "Why Can't I Walk Away?" ( from the read more
From the Archives: Land of the Giants ( 1968 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Jan 7, 2023
"Gadzooks! It's a man!"Yes, man never looked so towering and terrifying as he did in Land of the Giants, Irwin Allen's 1968 sci-fi series. In this scene, Gary Conway, Deanna Lund, Kurt Kaszner, Heather Young, and the rest of the cast stare up at what we may surmise to be a giant cat or rat. Fro read more
The Impossibly Difficult Name that Movie Game
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Dec 30, 2022
"Calling in the New Year, calling in the New Year, are you there?""Hello, Old Year! New Year here. Getting ready to arrive and sending you my best wishes!"This woman might not be connecting the Old Year with the New Year but she is certainly hooking someone up on the switchboard. We'll be kind read more
Holiday Television Specials on Tubi
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Dec 24, 2022
There has been a bevy of classic Christmas movies playing on television this year so you probably had no shortage of films to watch, but if you wanted to watch some classic singers crooning Christmas tunes, you may have to hunt a little further away from the mainstream channels and turn on your Roku read more
Check it Out! Mary Costa Performs The Ukrainian Carol
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Dec 20, 2022
We have a special treat to share with you today: Mary Costa performing The Ukrainian Carol ( set to words ) on Bing Crosby's The Sounds of Christmas television special filmed in 1970. The lovely opera singer is best known for providing the voice of Aurora in Walt Disney's Sleeping Beauty ( 1959 ), b read more
King of the Jungle ( 1933 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Dec 17, 2022
A young boy is raised by a pride of lions in Africa after his parents are killed while on a safari. He loves the lions and speaks to them as friends. Years later, a group of hunters captures "the lion man" as he is now known, and along with his lions, they ship him to San Francisco to be exhibited i read more
From the Archives: All This and Heaven, Too ( 1940 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Dec 9, 2022
Bette Davis looks properly prim in this scene from All This and Heaven, Too ( 1940 ), the Warner Brothers' classic where she stars as Mlle. Henriette, a much-loved French governess who falls in love with her distinguished employer, played by Charles Boyer. From the Archives is our latest s read more
The Impossibly Difficult Name that Movie Game
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Nov 30, 2022
We have a really tricky screenshot this month. It is obviously a scene of a woman dismayed about something, but what could she have seen? You would have to be a keen-eyed movie fan to remember this scene....but many of you are! So give a guess below and you may just hit on the right film title. read more
British Pathe: Model Village ( 1955 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Nov 27, 2022
It has been quite a while since we shared a British Pathe newsreel but today we have a gem: Model Village from 1955. This 4:33 minute newsreel has footage of a very impressive model village in The Hague, Netherlands...and what a great opening! You think you are looking at a real building until a hea read more
Check it Out! - The Landing of the Pilgrims ( 1940 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Nov 24, 2022
Happy Thanksgiving to all of our readers! We hope you are having a wonderful day and counting all of your blessings. There is so much we can all be grateful for!If you have a few minutes and want to watch something Thanksgiving-related then check out this fabulous little cartoon from 1940 - The read more
Film Albums: The Screen Scene starring Peter Nero
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Nov 19, 2022
If you like piano music and classic films then this is an album not to be missed! Peter Nero was a maestro when it came to tickling the ivories. He was a downright jazzy player and his unique New York arrangements of familiar songs made the oldest of tunes sound fresh and vibrant. He was like Elmer read more
From the Archives: Moment to Moment ( 1966 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Nov 17, 2022
Jean Seberg is looking lovely here as usual, and she is seated next to director Mervyn LeRoy in this candid shot taken on the set of Moment to Moment ( 1966 ), a wonderful - and terribly underrated - thriller shot in the south of France. From the Archives is our latest series of post read more
Murder at the Gallop ( 1963 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Nov 10, 2022
"Yes, old Enderby was frightened to death!"One afternoon, while collecting funds for charity, Miss Marple witnesses the death of Mr. Enderby, a death that the doctor claims was due to a heart attack. Miss Marple believes it was deliberate murder: a heart attack triggered by the sight of a cat. Mr. E read more
Take a Girl Like You ( 1970 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Nov 8, 2022
If you were to look for a summary of Take a Girl Like You, you would probably find a plot description labeling it as a sex comedy because it is....well...about sex. But oddly enough, it does not fit into that genre at all. There are hardly any bedroom scenes ( certainly nothing graphic ) and not muc read more
Murder She Wrote: Night of the Headless Horseman ( 1987 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Oct 30, 2022
Angela Lansbury, that wonderful actress of the stage and screen, passed away on October 11th at the age of 96. She was one of those rare actors who was equally well known for her work in film ( The Portrait of Dorian Gray, The Manchurian Candidate, etc ), in the theater ( Mame, Sweeney Todd ), and o read more
From the Archives: Werewolf of London ( 1935 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Oct 26, 2022
Henry Hull, who usually plays kindly men in films, turned vicious in Universal Pictures' Werewolf of London ( 1935 ). Luckily, his friends and family only had to put up with his fierce lycanthropic side when the moon was full. From the Archives is our latest series of posts where we share read more
Check it Out! - Preparing for Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Oct 22, 2022
On October 7, 1971, Walt Disney's Bedknobs and Broomsticks, a delightful and magical musical starring the late great Angela Lansbury and David Tomlinson, had its world premiere in London. Earlier that day, John Noakes, the host of Britain's popular children's series Blue Peter, was in Leicester read more
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Oct 16, 2022
Orson Welles always loved a scary tale. In 1938, he and other players of his Mercury Theater company put on a radio play of H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds" for Halloween that scared the heebie-jeebies out of most of his listeners. Then in 1951, while taking a break from filming Othello in Ireland, h read more