Hollywood Stars and the Search for a Polio Vaccine

Hollywood Stars and the Search for a Polio Vaccine

Agustus 26, 2021
Cecil B. DeMille, Desi Arnaz, Judy Garland, Lucille Ball, Mickey Rooney, Robert Young, short subject

Hollywood public service shorts on behalf of the March of Dimes and the search for a polio vaccine remind us of a world where a deadly and e...

Calamity Jane Pt 2 - "The Plainsman" - 1937

Calamity Jane Pt 2 - "The Plainsman" - 1937

Juli 21, 2011
Cecil B. DeMille, Charles Bickford, Gary Cooper, Helen Burgess, James Ellison, Jean Arthur, Porter Hall, The Plainsman, William S. Hart

“The Plainsman” (1937) never lets an absence of fact stand in the way of telling us a good story. Director Cecil B. DeMille is in his eleme...

Union Pacific - 1939

Union Pacific - 1939

Mei 04, 2011
Akim Tamiroff, Anthony Quinn, Barbara Stanwyck, Brian Donlevy, Cecil B. DeMille, Evelyn Keyes, Henry Kolker, J M Kerrigan, Joel McCrea, Lynne Overman, Regis Toomey, Robert Preston, Union Pacific

“Union Pacific” (1939) is a Cecil B. DeMille spectacle on the joining of the transcontinental railroad, making this great big country a litt...

Lux Radio Theatre

Lux Radio Theatre

April 11, 2007
Academy Award Theatre, Cecil B. DeMille, Lux Radio Theatre, Manhattan Melodrama, Screen Guild Players, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Screen Director's Playhouse

The Lux Radio Theatre featured film stars from every studio. In radio play scripts adapted from popular films, these actors had an opportun...

Easter In Hollywood - 1949

Easter In Hollywood - 1949

April 03, 2007
Cecil B. DeMille, Easter bonnet, Easter Parade, Fred Astaire, Gene Autry, Here Comes Peter Cottontail, Judy Garland, My Dream Is Yours

Easter in the old movies comes to us in fashion, flowers, and songs. The two films, “Easter Parade” and “My Dream is Yours” give us plenty ...

TV and the Movie Buff

TV and the Movie Buff

Maret 28, 2007
Cecil B. DeMille, Jack Warner, Louis B. Mayer, old movie buffs, The Three Stooges, Turner Classic Movies

Louis B. Mayer had no idea the DVD was coming. Jack Warner could not envision TiVo, and Cecil B. DeMille, for all his imagination, probably ...