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After this very nice Olivia de Havilland’s marathon, I have already started a new one: A William Holden’s films marathon. I introduced it with the I Love Lucy’s episode “Hollywood at last” where William Holden plays his own role. Also, the movies that I have already se read more

The Wonderful World of Cinema is proud to participate to 31 Days of 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 next month in read more

Very recently, I finished a little Olivia de Havilland’s film marathon. Olivia de Havilland is my 12th favourite actress. The first objective of this marathon was to see more of her films, because I liked her very much in the only two movies with her I had seen before the marathon, but I felt read more

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,000 times in 2014. If it were a cable car, it would take about 17 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see t read more

I have the reputation to be a big Hitchcock’s fan. Not the biggest, but maybe one of the biggest. Anyway, this is not a contest. In fact, I’m telling you this because, today, I’m going to explain to you why I love Hitchcock’s films that much. Let me tell you right now that t read more

It’s time for me to let you know who are my 10 favourite actresses of all time. 1- Audrey Hepburn 2- Grace Kelly 3- Ingrid Bergman 4- Joan Fontaine 5- Katharine Hepburn 6- Jean Simmons 7- Vivien Leigh 8- Donna Reed 9- Teresa Wright 10- Margaret Lockwood read more

Spellbound is a movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1945. The first time I watched Spellbound, I realized it was a great movie; the second time, I realized it was a very great movie and the third time (yesterday), I realized it was just a masterpiece. So, I had to tell you why I think this movie read more

If I would have the chance to star in an Hitchcock’s film, I would certainly have loved to star in The Lady Vanishes. The Lady Vanishes was, as I said, directed by the great Alfred Hitchcock in 1938. It was produced by Gainsborough Pictures. Along with The 39 Steps, it is considered one of hi read more

As it is directed by one of my very favourite movie director, William Wyler, I really had to see this movie. Mrs Miniver was directed in 1942 and many great actors starred in it: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright, Dame May Whitty, Henry Travers and many more. This excellent drama won some read more

November 12: Today, it’s Grace Kelly’s birthday. She one of my very favourite actresses (number 2, more precisely) so I’ll take the occasion to explain how much I appreciate this actress. Grace Kelly is maybe the actress that I know the more things about. About her cinema’s read more

I think that the best way to end this Sunday would be to write  a tribute to my 7th favourite actor, the one and only Burt Lancaster. I really love this classic actor and today, November 2, it’s his birthday. After working in a circus, Burt was already 32 when he started a brilliant film care read more

Today, I’m happy to write this text to celebrate my 9th favourite actress, the marvellous Teresa Wright. Even if I had seen only two of her movies, I just fount her incredible, especially in Hitchcock’s Shadow of A Doubt (1943). For what I’ve seen of this actress, acting look so s read more

It’s a very big challenge to determine what is the best movie of all times. Today, I want to propose you my way to choose what is the best movie of all times. The best movie is a perfect movie. I’ll explain that to you. It’s a movie perfect in every way: the screenplay, the direct read more

Today, I’m happy to celebrate the 97th birthday of the incredibly talented actress Joan Fontaine As I am a big Hitchcock’s fan, it’s the movies Rebecca (1940) and Suspicion (1941) that made me discover this star. Joan Fontaine is the only actress who ever won an Oscar for an Hitchc read more

Because I’m a 19 years old girl, many people ask me how I come to watch and love old movies. There’s many factors that made me want to watch old movies. You have to know that, when I was a child, I didn’t want to watch old movies. These didn’t interest me. I only wanted to w read more

My video tribute to the wonderful Joan Fontaine This is the first October 22 without her… She would have been 97. Happy birthday dearest! :D read more

MADNESS OF THE HEART is a 1949’s film directed by Charles Bennett and starring Margaret Lockwood, Paul Dupuis and Kathleen Byron. First, I want to talk to you about Charles Bennett, because I discovered very interesting informations about him. Charles Bennett directed only two movies (includin read more

It’s with a great pleasure that I bought, recently, a 16 DVDs box set. All classics, but not very popular classics like The Wizard of Oz or Casablanca. Anyway, after watching some trailers and read a little about these films, one of them kept my attention: “Three Guys Named Mike” read more