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  Part Two of our Exclusive Interview with Victoria Riskin, author of “Fay Wray and Robert Riskin: A Hollywood Memoir” Today we’re sharing Part Two of our Exclusive Interview with Victoria Riskin (daughter of Fay Wray and Robert Riskin) about her new book “Fay Wray and Robert read more

Fay Wray and Robert Riskin: A Hollywood Memoir Autographed Book Giveaway via Facebook and this Blog Okay, now it’s time for the Facebook/Blog version of our Fay Wray and Robert Riskin: A Hollywood Memoir Book Giveaway Contest. This time we’ll be giving away TWO AUTOGRAPHED COPIES of the book read more

Classic Movie Hub and Once Upon a Screen observe the release of Victoria Riskin's book about her famous parents and their 1942-1955 marriage with a blogathon running on March 2nd, here and 3rd, here. Hollywood in 1934 was grappling with the prospect of truly enforcing the Production Cod read more

Day Two of Fay Wray and Robert Riskin, The Blogathon The time has come to officially celebrate the careers of Fay Wray and Robert Riskin in a joint effort with Once Upon a Screen. Fay Wray and Robert Riskin, The Blogathon was conceived to celebrate the release of Fay Wray and Robert Riskin: A Hollyw read more

Colaboradores e amigos: Robert Riskin e Frank Capra / Collaborators and friends: Robert Riskin and Frank Capra Quando falamos de duplas dinâmicas do cinema, em geral nos referimos a uma dupla de director e intérprete (ator ou atriz) – como William Wyler e Bette Davis, por exemplo ̵ read more

This is my contribution to Fay Wray and Robert Riskin, The Blogathon. I must point out that the day I am writing this, March 2, happens to be the birthday of Willis O'Brien...and yesterday, March 1, was the birthday of Lionel Atwill--two men who had a major impact on the movie career of Fay Wray. F read more

"Virtue," Carole Lombard's first loan-out from Paramount (made for Columbia in 1932), unveiled a tougher side to this 23-year-old ingenue than had heretofore been seen. Playing a former New York prostitute who hides her past from her cab-driving husband, Lombard shows a complexity not present in her read more

Exclusive Interview with Victoria Riskin, Daughter of Fay Wray and Robert Riskin about her new book “Fay Wray and Robert Riskin: A Hollywood Memoir” I’m so excited to say that Victoria Riskin’s new book “Fay Wray and Robert Riskin: A Hollywood Memoir” is available read more

Fay Wray and Robert Riskin: A Hollywood Memoir A Very Special Autographed Book Giveaway! I am so pleased to announce a very special giveaway this month! Plus a Blogathon and an Exclusive Interview too! But more about those later… CMH will be giving away TEN AUTOGRAPHED COPIES of  Fay Wray read more

Fay Wray and Robert Riskin, The Blogathon February 26, 2019 marks the release of a must-read dual Hollywood biography and we are honoring it with a special blogathon. Commemorating the lives and careers of one of classic Hollywood’s greatest stars and one of its most memorable screenwriters, F read more

 The Wonderful Words of Robert Riskin “Behold the walls of Jericho! Maybe not as thick as the ones that Joshua blew down with his trumpet, but a lot safer. You see, I have no trumpet.” - Clark Gable in It Happened One Night Recognize that quote? Yes, I would imagine that many of us class read more

Fay Wray and Robert Riskin A Hollywood Memoir by Victoria Riskin Pantheon Hardcover ISBN: ISBN 9781524747282 February 2019 416 pages Amazon — Barnes and Noble — Powells "My mother had a pioneer resilience, a vulnerability, a need for admiration... she never expected life to magically read more

Colaboradores e amigos: Robert Riskin e Frank Capra / Collaborators and friends: Robert Riskin and Frank Capra Quando falamos de duplas dinâmicas do cinema, em geral nos referimos a uma dupla de director e intérprete (ator ou atriz) – como William Wyler e Bette Davis, por exemplo ̵ read more

Fay Wray and Robert Riskin A Hollywood Memoir by Victoria Riskin Pantheon Hardcover ISBN: ISBN 9781524747282 February 2019 416 pages Amazon — Barnes and Noble — Powells "My mother had a pioneer resilience, a vulnerability, a need for admiration... she never expected life to magically read more