TCM Classic Film Festival - Read All About It

TCM Classic Film Festival - Read All About It

April 26, 2018
blogger pals, classic film fans, TCM, Turner Classic Movies

Today begins the TCM Classic Film Festival hosted at several Hollywood venues by Turner Classic Movies.  Though I've never been to the T...

Phone Call from a Stranger (1952)

Phone Call from a Stranger (1952)

April 19, 2018
Beatrice Straight, Bette Davis, Craig Stevens, Evelyn Varden, Gary Merrill, Keenan Wynn, Michael Rennie, Phone Call from a Stranger, Shelley Winters, Ted Donaldson

Phone Call from a Stranger (1952) is engrossing for the work of its cast, the sensitive and shrewd viewpoint of the director, and mostly fo...

It Can't Happen Here - The movie that was never made.

It Can't Happen Here - The movie that was never made.

April 12, 2018
Basil Rathbone, fascism, It Can't Happen Here, Lewis Stone, Lionel Barrymore, Louis B. Mayer, Sinclair Lewis, Virginia Bruce, Walter Connolly

It Can’t Happen Here is possibly the most important movie that was never made. It did have a cast: Lionel Barrymore was to be the star, pla...

Portrait of Kay Francis

Portrait of Kay Francis

April 05, 2018
Kay Francs

A stunning portrait photo of Kay Francis by Kenneth Alexander, published in Stars of the Photoplay (Photoplay Magazine, Chicago, 1930).  Her...