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The second round of The 2015 Favourite Classic Movie Actress Tournament (30’s Era) is now over. So here are the results. The third round will start later this afternoon. QUEENS OF THE SCREEN Barbara Stanwyck 64/ Claudette Colbert 28 Jean Harlow 47/ Greta Garbo 39 BRITISH LADIES Madeleine Carroll 68/ read more

Round 2 of the 5th Annual Favorite Classic Movie Actress Tourney is now on with 8 matches for the actresses of the 30’s here at The Wonderful World of Cinema. Congratulation to all the winners of the first round! You have until next Saturday (March 14th) at 1:00 PM to vote for your favourite read more

The first round of The 2015 Favourite Classic Movie Actress Tournament (30’s Era) is now over. So here are the results. The second round will start later this afternoon. QUEENS OF THE SCREEN Barbara Stanwyck 89 / Mary Astor 23 Claudette Colbert 70 / Marlene Dietrich 36 Greta Garbo 75 /Miriam read more

The first round  of The 2015 Favourite Classic Movie Actress Tournament continues  with a new set of incredible actresses! This is an actress competition to elect your favourite actress of the 30’s, the 40’s, the 50’s and the 60’s, organized by All Good Things and hosted by All Good Things read more

March Madness 2015 has started This is an actress competition to elude your favourite actress of the 30’s, the 40’s, the 50’s and the 60’s, organized by All Good Things and hosted by All Good Things (for the 40’s), The Wonderful World of Cinema (for the 30’s), Ros read more

William Wyler is someone we can call an Oscar Winner director. Well, after John Ford he is (with Frank Capra) the second movie director who has received the most Oscars. He won the award for a total of three of his films: Mrs Miniver, The Best Years of Our Lives and Ben-Hur. These three movie also read more

I have to say that Cecil Beaton is my favourite photographer, but he was also an incredible costume designer. He created the costumes of 14 movies: Kipps, Dangerous Moonlight, On Approval, The Young Mr. Pitt, Anna Karenina (1948), An Ideal Husband, Beware of Pity, Dandy Dick, The Truth about Women, read more

I said to myself, the other day, that it would be intelligent to write a review of my favourite movie of all times. So, there it is, my Some Like it Hot‘s review, a movie that I can watch over and over always with a great pleasure. Before I saw this film, I had a feeling, just by seeing the t read more

I’m happy to tell you that I have now finished my long William Holden’s films marathon. From Golden Boy to Fedora, I saw a total of 16 of his films. The only one I had seen before was Sunset Boulevard. I try to see new movies in my marathons. My introduction to this marathon was an epis read more

Free & Easy is a 1930’s film, kind of a musical comedy, directed by Edward Sedgwick and starring Buster Keaton, Robert Montgomery, Anita Page and Trixie Friganza. This movie was Buster Keaton first talking picture and, unfortunately, it didn’t have a big success and it’s not o read more

When he was about 19, Leonardo DiCaprio received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for his performance as a 17-18 years old boy suffering of Asperger’s syndrome in the movie What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (Lasse Hallström, 1993). Eleven years later, he was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar read more

Helen Hayes as Ada Quonsett in Airport I didn’t know what to expect, but when I saw it for the first time,  Airport became one of my favourite movies of the 70’s. Directed by George Seaton ( Miracle on 34th Street, Apartment for Peggy, The Country Girl) in 1970, it tells the story of read more

Last Saturday, on January 31st, we celebrated Jean Simmons’ 86th birthday. Unfortunately, I was busy  with The Dueling Divas Blogathon, so I didn’t have time to write a tribute to her like I always do when it’s the birthday of a star I like very much. But instead of waiting next y read more

I’m happy to participate, today, to the 4th annual Dueling Divas Blogathon hosted by Lara Gabrielle Fowler from Backlots. As a topic, I chose the film Bonnie & Clyde directed by Arthur Penn in 1967. This is simply one of my very favourite movies or, more precisely, my favourite movie of t read more

The Wonderful World of Cinema is proud to participate to The First Annual Buster Keaton Blogathon organized by Silent-Ology! The event will take place on Fabruary 8 & 9 2015. Each participant have to choose a topic related to the wonderful Buster Keaton. It can be a film, a moment in his carrer read more

Today, on January 27, we celebrate the 94rd anniversary of the late Donna Reed. Even if I have seen only 3 of her films (It’s a Wonderful Life, From Here to Eternity and Eyes in the Night), Donna Reed is one of my very favourite actresses. Well, for those who have seen my top 10, she is exact read more

Yesterday, I had the chance to see The Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin, 1925) on big screen at The Cinémathèque Québécoise which is a film conservatory based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada where I live. I have seen The Gold Rush many times before, but seeing it on big screen was a completely new a wonderfu read more

I have almost finished my William Holden’s films marathon (only 5 more to watch) so next week (probably in the middle of the week), I’ll start a third marathon! I choose Dolores Hart, because I haven’t seen any of her movies, but I’ve heard a lot about her and she seems to b read more

I have the honour to tell you that, tomorrow, on January 23th 2015,  I will go see The Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin, 1925) on big screen. I will see it at La Cinémathèque Québécoise in Montreal where I live. It’s a movie I love and I have watched it so many times. Can’t wait to see it read more

As I said yesterday, The Wonderful World of Cinema will participate to the 31 of Days Oscar Blogathon 2015 hosted by Kellee (@IrishJayHawk66) of Outspoken and Freckled, Paula (@Paula_Guthat) of Paula’s Cinema Club and Aurora (@CitizenScreen) of Once Upon a Screen. The blogathon will take place read more