A Big Thank You from CMH: The 2nd Annual “Give a Gift, Get a Gift” Promotion

Last Year was so Awesome (Thank You), We’re Doing it Again…
The Give A Gift, Get a Gift Holiday Contest.

Yay! The contest is over and the winners are Laurie T, Martin T and Daniel B (3 Grand Prize Winners), and David H and Sara S (Runner Ups). Congratulations! 

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Greetings CMH Fans and Followers! 

We had so much fun last year – and are truly grateful that you all took the time to read and comment on our Contributor posts – that we’ve decided to do it again!

That said, to show our appreciation to our CMH fans and followers — and to celebrate our columnists who take the time to pen such wonderful articles for us — we’re launching the 2nd Annual “Give a Gift, Get a Gift” Holiday Giveaway…

Here’s how the giveaway works:

Over the past two years, we added a variety of monthly CMH columns, each with a niche classic film theme, authored by some of the best writers in the classic film community. To better acquaint you with these fabulous writers and to show them some fan love in return, this contest asks you to read as many of these featured posts as you desire (listed below) and leave a comment of feedback for each of those you’ve read. For every comment submitted, you get an entry into our contest. The more comments you give, the more chances you have to win! And – for those of you that already commented on some of these posts earlier in the year, no problem, just comment again, and each new comment will count toward your entries.

We call the contest Give a Gift, Get a Gift… The gift you’re giving is the gift of time by reading and commenting on the post(s)… The gift you’re getting is an entry (or entries) into the contest… As for me, to show my appreciation for your participation, I have tried to put together some nice prize packages — and all of the DVDs have been purchased by me (they were not supplied by any outside company)…

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The weekly and Grand Prize drawings:

The contest will run from now through December 29, 2018, 8PM EST. In order to qualify to win one of these prizes via this contest giveaway, you must read and comment on as many of the featured posts as you want (links below). For each comment submitted, you will gain one entry into the contest. However, the sooner you get started, the more chances you will have to win – because in addition to the Grand Prizes awarded at the end of the contest, we will also be giving away one DVD a week (as listed below). And, if you win a DVD during one of the weekly drawings, you are STILL ELIGIBLE to win one of the Grand or Runner Up Prizes at the end of the contest! United States (all 50 states) and Canadian residents are eligible this time. All prizes will be awarded via random drawings. Prizes will be shipped to our winners in mid-January.

• Dec 8: The Bishop’s Wife DVD (1 winner announced Dec 9 at 8PM)
• Dec 15: The Bishop’s Wife DVD (1 winner announced Dec 16 at 8PM)
• Dec 22: The Bishop’s Wife DVD (1 winner announced Dec 23 at 8PM)
• Dec 29: The Bishop’s Wife DVD (1 winner announced Dec 30 at 8PM)
• Dec 31: Grand Prize Packages (a total of 5 winners… each winner will be announced around midnight on Dec 31 — to help ring in the New Year)
  • Grand Prize #1: winner’s choice of 4 DVDs (listed below) + one surprise gift
  • Grand Prize #2: winner’s choice of 4 DVDs (listed below) + one surprise gift
  • Grand Prize #3: winner’s choice of 4 DVDs (listed below) + one surprise gift
  • Runner Up Prize #1: winner’s choice of 3 DVDs (listed below)
  • Runner Up Prize #2: winner’s choice of 3 DVDs (listed below)

We will announce each week’s winner on Twitter @ClassicMovieHub or this blog, depending how you entered, as noted above.

See full rules below.

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Here are the DVDs up for grabs (winner’s choice of 3 or 4, as noted above, while supplies last):

1. Alfred Hitchcock: 20 Films (The Lady Vanishes 1938, The Farmer’s Wife 1928, The Manxman 1926, Easy Virtue 1926, Jamaica Inn 1939, The Lodger 1926, The Ring 1927, Young and Innocent 1937, Rich and Strange 1932, The Thirty-Nine Steps 1935, Secret Agent 1936, Champagne 1928, Blackmail 1929, Juno and the Paycock 1930, Sabotage 1936, The Skin Game 1931, Number Seventeen 1932, The Man Who Knew Too Much 1934, Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Cheney Vase, Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, trailers)
2. An Affair to Remember
3. An American in Paris
4. The Adventures of Robin Hood
5. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (39 episodes, 4 films) (includes TV episodes starring Ronald Howard, as well as films including The Woman in Green starring Basil Rathbone)
6. The Apartment
7. Barefoot in the Park
8. Breakfast at Tiffanys
9. Bullitt
10. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
11. Cabaret
12. Carousel
13. Casablanca
14. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
15. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
16. Christmas in Connecticut
17. The Day the Earth Stood Still
18. Father of the Bride
19. Fiddler on the Roof
20. Four Film Favorites, Classic Holiday Collection Vol 2 (All Mine to Give, It Happened on 5th Avenue, Holiday Affair, Blossoms in the Dust)
21. Francis the Talking Mule
22. Funny Face
23. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
24. Hello Dolly
25. Heroes of the Old West (20 TV episodes, 10 films) (includes McLintock and Santa Fe Trail, plus some episodes of The Lone Ranger)
26. House Boat
27. How to Marry a Millionaire
28. The Incredible Mr. Limpet
29. John Wayne Tribute Collection (25 films plus documentary) (includes Angel and the Badman McLintock and Sagebrush Trail plus a documentary called The American West of John Ford)
30. The King and I
31. Life with Father / Father’s Little Dividend
32. Ma and Pa Kettle, Vol 2. (Four Films: At the Fair, On Vacation, At Home, At Wakiki)
33. The Maltese Falcon
34. The Music Man
35. North by Northwest
36. Oklahoma
37. Paris When It Sizzles
38. Penny Serenade
39. Rebel Without a Cause
40. Rio Bravo
41. The Roaring Twenties
42. Roman Holiday
43. Sabrina
44. Second Hand Lions
45. Send Me No Flowers
46. Singin’ in the Rain
47. Some Like It Hot
48. Spellbound
49. The Three Stooges 75th Anniversary Collector’s Edition (Disorder in the Court, Sing a Song of Six Pants, Brideless Groom, Malice in the Palace, Jerk of All Trades, live action color classics, Swing Parade of 1946, cartoons, trailers)
50. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
51. True Grit
52. West Side Story
53. Great Cinema: 15 Films (The Snows of Kilimanjaro 1952, Anna Karenina 1948, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court 1952, Tale of Two Cities 1953, Jane Eyre 1971, Legend of the Sea Wolf 1975, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1953, The Jungle Book 1942, Call of the Wild 1972, Macbeth 1961, Of Human Bondage 1934, Little Men 1940, The Last Time I Saw Paris 1954, David Copperfield 1970, Cyrano De Bergerac 1950)

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Here are the links to the blog articles…
(enter as many times as you like… 1 comment on 1 post = 1 entry):

• Annette Bochenek: Classic Movie Travels:
  • Jeanne Crain, Englewood and Los Angeles
  • Jobyna Ralston, South Pittsburg
  • Josephine Hutchinson, Seattle Washington and New York City
  • Glenda Farrell, Wichita, San Diego and NY
  • Robert Young – Chicago, Seattle, Pasadena, Los Angeles
  • Jeanette Loff, Idaho to Hollywood
  • Donald O’Connor, Illinois and Wisconsin
  • Billie Burke, New York
  • Vivian Blaine, New Jersey, New York
  • Ray Bolger, Boston, NY and LA
  • I Am Max: A Max Linder Docudrama Film
  • Toby Wing, California
  • Danny Thomas — will be posted in December
• Danilo Castro: Film Noir Review:
  • Journey Into Fear
  • Sorry Wrong Number
  • Vertigo
  • The Long Goodbye
  • Armed Car Robbery
  • Desperate
  • Christmas Noir — will be posted in December
• Karen Burroughs Hannsberry: Noir Nook 
  • Norish Beginnings
  • Four Noir Fellas
  • The Luck of the Irish
  • Johnny O’Clock
  • The Ends of Noir
  • Uncommon Ladies of Noir – Shelley Winters
  • Bad Guy Burr
  • Ripped from the Headlines – Ace in the Hole
  • Noirs I Watch Over and Over
  • Uncommon Ladies of Noir – Loretta Young
  • Elisha Cook Jr.
  • December post to follow
• Kim Luperi: Pre-Code Corner
  •  13 Reasons Why You Should Watch Thirteen Women Tonight
  • Three on a Match and Kidnapping
  • Doctor X and Mystery of the Wax Museum
  • The Censorship Woes of One More River
  • The Best of Pre-Code Warren William
  • Three Wise Girls All Mixed Up
  • So You Want to be a Nurse – Tricks of the Trade Pre-Code Style
  • A Look at the Atlanta Better Films Committee
  • Outward Bound – High Class on the High Seas
  • Man Wanted – Experience Necessary
  • Scarface – An Anti-Ganster Film
  • December post to follow
• Kellee Pratt: The Funny Papers
  •  Make Love Not War – The Sex Comedies of the Sixties
  • A Love Letter to Danny Kaye
  • Top Ten Slapsticks in the Ring
  • Celebrate Marie Dressler 150!
  • When Scary is Funny
• Lea Stans: Silents are Golden
  •  George Méliès: The Magician of the Cinema
  • A Look at Six (Very) Early Film Directors
  • The Thoroughly Lost Art of the Title Card
  • Silent Superstars: The Incomparable Mary Pickford
  • Before the Nickelodeon: The Era of Traveling Movie Picture Shows
  • A Little Tour Through the History of Silent Comedy
  • Silent Superstars: The Dapper Max Linder
  • A Brief Look at Obscure Silent Film Comedians
  • WWI – The Gamechanger of Film History
  • Just What the Heck was German Expressionism
  • Silent Superstars: Colleen Moore the Definitive Flapper
  • December post to follow
• Ron Hutchinson: Vitaphone View 
  •  Vaudeville in a Can
  • The Coming of Talkies, Part 1
  • The Coming of Talkies, Part 2
  • Where is Convention City Hiding?
  • Talkies for the Home
  • Thanks for Coming – Now Scram
  • Sound Without Talking
  • This is Not a Musical
  • How Vitaphone Discs are Found
  • Early Talkies in Widescreen
  • Vitaphone’s Most Prolific Director
  • December post to follow
• Laura Grieve: Western RoundUp
  • Five of My Favorite Westerns
  • John Wayne Favorites
  • Snowy Westerns and Day of the Outlaw
  • Lone Pine Favorites
  • Universal Gems
  • Christmas in the West
  • December post to follow
• Jessica Pickens: Musical Interlude
  • What is a Musical – A New Answer Comes with Each Decade
  • The Singing Voices Behind the Stars
  • Five Must See Musicals
  • Singing and Dancing Through the Holidays
  • Musical Remakes – will be posted in December
• Aurora Bugallo: Looking at the Stars
  • Celebrating Women’s History
  • William ‘Billy’ Haines
  • Audie Murphy
  • The First Lady of Song – Ella Fitzgerald
  • The Brown Derby
• Minoo Allen: Minoo’s Musings
  • Five Things You May Not Know About Conrad Veidt
  • Five Things You May Not Know About Ernest Borgnine
  • The Whales of August: Exclusive Interview with Producer Michael Kaplan
  • Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story: Exclusive Interview with Director Daniel Raim
  • Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story: Exclusive Interview with Director Alexandra Dean
• Author Gwenda Young (Clarence Brown: Hollywood’s Forgotten Master)
  • Clarence Brown: Hollywood’s Forgotten Master
  • National Velvet – will be posted in December
• Author Daniel de Vise (Andy and Don)
  • Emmy’s Greatest Sit-Com Sidekicks
• Author Danny Miller (About Face: The Life and Times of Dottie Ponedel, Make-up Artist to the Stars)
  • Judy Garland and Dottie Ponedel
• Author Mary Mallory (Hollywood at Play and Living with Grace)
  • Hollywood at Play: Evolution of Photography Styles with Publicity Stills
  • Grace Kelly: Dress to Impress
  • Grace Kelly’s Stepping Stones to Success
  • Grace Kelly: Model
• Author Cynthia and Sara Brideson (Ziegfeld and His Follies)
  • The Dolly Sisters

NOTE: if for any reason you encounter a problem commenting on any of the blog posts, please feel free to tweet or DM us, or send an email to clas…@gmail.com and we will be happy to create the entry for you.

ALSO: Please allow us 48 hours to approve your comments. Sorry about that, but we are overwhelmed with spam, and must sort through 100s of comments every day…

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Last but not least, the Rules:

• Contest will run from Dec 2, 2018 to Dec 29, 2018 at 8pm EST.
• Limited to United States (yes, all 50 states can enter this time!) and Canadian residents only.
• Every time you read a column article (from the list above) and leave an eligible feedback comment, you will receive one entry into the Contest.
• Only one comment per post/article during the contest period is counted as an entry. If you already commented on a post/article at some point earlier in the year (aka before the contest start date of Dec 2, 2018, you can still post a comment during the contest period of Dec 2 through Dec 29 and it will be counted as a new/eligible entry)
• Each comment must be positive, and must be more detailed than simply “great post!” Some good examples:
  • “Karen, I really enjoyed learning about the noir gem, WICKED WOMAN. Who knew the writing/directing duo behind that film created the story of Doris Day/Rock Hudson classic PILLOW TALK?? Thanks for teaching me something new about classic film!”
  • “Ron, I never thought about how early talkies would completely change movie concessions. That was a fascinating perspective. Thanks!”
• Yes, you can win the weekly DVD giveaway, and still be eligible to win a Grand Prize or Runner Up Prize package.
• Spammers (i.e. using bots to make generic comments) are ineligible.
• Updates will be posted on CMH social media channels on a regular basis.
• Each winner will be notified by email and/or Twitter and will have 48 hours to respond with their shipping information or a new winner may be chosen. If any Prize or Prize notification is returned as undeliverable, the winner may be disqualified, and an alternate winner may be selected.
• Prizes will ship after the contest period is over. Please allow up to 2 to 4 weeks for prize delivery. Classic Movie Hub is not responsible for prizes lost or stolen.
• Family of Classic Movie Hub is not eligible for entry……

The more feedback comments you give, the more chances to win. See? Give a Gift, Get a Gift! We hope you enjoy participating in our Holiday Contest to honor this season for giving.

A Big Thank your for participating! And a Happy and Healthy Holidays to All,

–Annmarie Gatti for Classic Movie Hub