Happy New Year

Happy New Year

Desember 30, 2010
Happy New Year, Holiday Affair, Robert Mitchum

Happy New Year!   Thank you for the pleasure of your company this past year.   See you in 2011.

Off Topic - Children's Books during World War II

Off Topic - Children's Books during World War II

Desember 27, 2010
off topic

This is to pick up the thread of a conversation we began in the comments section of this post a month ago that introduced the series on home...

"Holiday Affair" - 1949

"Holiday Affair" - 1949

Desember 23, 2010
Esther Dale, Gordon Gebert, Griff Barnett, Holiday Affair, Janet Leigh, Robert Mitchum, The Shop Around the Corner, Wendell Corey

“Holiday Affair” (1949) could almost be an extension of the “war stories” series we did a couple weeks ago, with its examination of a war w...

The Shop Around the Corner - 1940

The Shop Around the Corner - 1940

Desember 20, 2010
Charles Halton, Charles Smith, Ernst Lubitsch, Felix Bressart, Frank Morgan, James Stewart, Josef Schildkraut, Margaret Sullavan, Sara Haden, The Shop Around the Corner, William Tracy

The Shop Around the Corner (1940) nostalgically shows us the finely delineated everyday moments that are more trying, require more patience ...

Now Playing - "I'll Be Seeing You"

Now Playing - "I'll Be Seeing You"

Desember 16, 2010
Ginger Rogers, I'll Be Seeing You, Joseph Cotten, now playing, Shirley Temple

Here's an ad for "I'll Be Seeing You" (1944), which we covered in this previous post.  We've got the soldier, the bea...

Off Topic

Off Topic

Desember 13, 2010
off topic

Book review blog, “MotherLode” has recently reviewed my novel “Meet Me in Nuthatch”, available as an ebook through Amazon.com , Barnes &am...

War Stories - Part 3 - "Love Letters" - 1945

War Stories - Part 3 - "Love Letters" - 1945

Desember 09, 2010
Ann Richards, Ayn Rand, Cecil Kellaway, Gladys George, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Love Letters, Robert Sully, World War II

“Love Letters” (1945) is our third and last in the series of “war stories”. It’s a love story, and a mystery that doesn’t really need The Wa...

War Stories Part 2 - "The More the Merrier"

War Stories Part 2 - "The More the Merrier"

Desember 06, 2010
Charles Coburn, George Stevens, Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Pillow Talk, Richard Gaines, Stanley Clements, The More the Merrier, World War II

Fair warning, I'm going to discuss pretty much the entire movie, so if you don't want to know the details, stick your fingers in you...