Running Board Answers

Running Board Answers

Januari 30, 2012
trivia

Thanks so much for those who wracked their brains to come up with some answers for our look at running boards last Thursday, and well done....

On Running Boards

On Running Boards

Januari 26, 2012
trivia

Oh, running boards, how wonderful they were.  How stylish, and yet functional.  The above photo is not from a movie, but is a publicity shot...

More Than a Secretary - 1936

More Than a Secretary - 1936

Januari 23, 2012
Charles Halton, Dorothea Kent, George Brent, Jean Arthur, Lionel Stander, More Than a Secretary, Ruth Donnelly

“More Than a Secretary” (1936) is like a time travel adventure.  It is impossible to watch this movie about the editor of a fitness magazine...

Off Topic - Book Sale

Off Topic - Book Sale

Januari 21, 2012
off topic

This is to announce that TODAY and TOMORROW only, my time-travel adventure novel MYTHS OF THE MODERN MAN will be FREE exclusively on Amazon...

Comedy Classics Blogathon

Comedy Classics Blogathon

Januari 19, 2012
blogathon

This is to announce next week's "comedy classics" blogathon, sponsored by the Classic Movie Blog Association.  On Monday, we...

Two-Gun Man from Harlem - 1938

Two-Gun Man from Harlem - 1938

Januari 16, 2012
B-westerns, Clarence Brooks, Herb Jeffries, Jess Lee Brooks, Mae Turner, Mantan Moreland, Marguerite Whitten, Matthew Stymie Beard, Spencer Wiliams, Two-Gun Man from Harlem

“Two-Gun Man from Harlem” (1938) creates a world for us that is both strange and familiar, an image placed over another image. We see a sepa...

California Conquest - 1952

California Conquest - 1952

Januari 12, 2012
Alfonso Bedoya, California Conquest, Cornel Wilde, John Dehner, Teresa Wright

“California Conquest” (1952) features Teresa Wright as a pants-wearing, deadeye shot in the days before California’s annexation to the U.S. ...

The Chicago Theatre

The Chicago Theatre

Januari 09, 2012
downtown movie houses, Frank Sinatra, movie theaters, Norma Talmadge, The Sign on the Door

The Chicago Theatre, so grand and magnificent a building it was dubbed “the Wonder Theatre of the World” at its opening in 1921. The first o...

Meet Me in Las Vegas - 1956

Meet Me in Las Vegas - 1956

Januari 05, 2012
Agnes Moorehead, Cara Williams, Cyd Charisse, Dan Dailey, Frankie Laine, Hermes Pan, Jerry Colonna, Jim Backus, Lena Horne, Meet Me in Las Vegas, Paul Henreid, Sammy Davis Jr.

Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956) is a fun and frothy pastiche uniting the two themes upon which the reputation of that town is built: gambling, ...