Any Number Can Play - 1949

Any Number Can Play - 1949

September 26, 2011
Alexis Smith, Any Number Can Play, Barbara Billingsley, Clark Gable, Darryl Hickman, Edgar Buchanan, Frank Morgan, Leon Ames, Lewis Stone, Marjorie Rambeau, Scotty Becket, Wendell Corey, Wiliam Conrad

"Any Number Can Play" (1949) is a spot-the-character-actor festival.  Shown recently on TCM, I came in late, after the opening cre...

Dillinger - 1945

Dillinger - 1945

Juni 13, 2011
Anne Jeffreys, Clark Gable, Dillinger, Edmund Lowe, Eduardo Ciannelli, Elisha Cook Jr., Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Lawrence Tierney, Manhattan Melodrama, Marc Lawrence, William Powell

“Dillinger” (1945) is a fast-paced “B” movie that stands out as the first dramatization on the life of real-life gangster John Dillinger, an...

The Biograph Theater - Chicago

The Biograph Theater - Chicago

Juni 02, 2011
Clark Gable, downtown movie houses, Manhattan Melodrama, movie theaters, Myrna Loy, William Powell

The Victory Gardens (Biograph) Theater in Chicago has a unique history and owes as much of its longevity to real-life as to reel-life circum...

Clark Gable's Big Hands

Clark Gable's Big Hands

Maret 14, 2011
Clark Gable, Franklin Roosevelt, Grauman's Chinese Theater, Hollywood history, W.S. Van Dyke II

One of the first things people do when visiting the stars’ handprints and footprints in cement out front of the (now) Mann’s Chinese Theater...

San Francisco (1936) - Part 2

San Francisco (1936) - Part 2

Agustus 28, 2007
Clark Gable, Jack Holt, Jeannette MacDonald, Jessie Ralph, Margaret Irving, San Francisco

See Part 1 of "San Francisco" here. MacDonald spends much of the movie torn between a choice of Gable or Holt, and it is Burley’s ...

San Francisco (1936) - Part 1

San Francisco (1936) - Part 1

Agustus 27, 2007
Clark Gable, Jack Holt, Jeannette MacDonald, San Francisco, Spencer Tracy, Ted Healy, Tommy Bupp

“San Francisco” (1936) recreates the raucous turn-of-the-20th Century Barbary Coast before our eyes with affectionate detail, and then dest...

Orphans of the Storm (1921) - Part 2

Orphans of the Storm (1921) - Part 2

Juli 10, 2007
American Revolution, Clark Gable, D.W. Griffith, Dorothy Gish, French Revolution, Gone With the Wind, Lillian Gish, Lucille La Verne, Orphans of the Storm, Sheldon Lewis

Like the villainous Jacque-Forget-Not, we see that the commoners, like the rapacious aristocracy, are not all that great either, and have th...

Clarence Brown - From Cars to Film

Clarence Brown - From Cars to Film

April 18, 2007
Anna Christie, automobile manufacturing, Clarence Brown, Clark Gable, Elizabeth Taylor, Greta Garbo, Stevens-Duryea cars

Clarence Brown became a Hollywood director in the days when being a Hollywood director had nothing to do with film school. An extraordinary...