Public Domain Day - 2020

Public Domain Day - 2020

Januari 02, 2020
Betty Bronson, Buster Keaton, Erich von Stroheim, Girl Shy, Harold Lloyd, Hot Water, It's a Wonderful Life, Peter Pan 1924, Public Domain Day, The Thief of Bagdad 1924

January 1st has become yet another reflection of our media-conscious society in its being heralded as Public Domain Day.   This achieved wid...

Lionel Barrymore - The Spirit of Christmas Past and Present

Lionel Barrymore - The Spirit of Christmas Past and Present

Desember 20, 2019
A Christmas Carol (1938), Dr. Kildare series, Franklin Roosevelt, It's a Wonderful Life, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Louis B. Mayer, radio shows, Reginald Owen

Lionel Barrymore was Ebenezer Scrooge for a generation.  For another generation, he became Mr. Potter, perhaps a deeper, more disturbed, and...

90th Anniversary of the 1929 Stock Market Crash

90th Anniversary of the 1929 Stock Market Crash

Oktober 24, 2019
Crash of 1929, Ginger Rogers, Gold Diggers of 1933, It's a Wonderful Life, James Stewart, Marx Brothers, Mary Astor, The Cocoanuts, The Roaring Twenties

James Stewart's dazed expression at the panicked customers demanding all their deposits in the aftermath of the 1929 stock market crash ...

Joy Cometh in the Morning

Joy Cometh in the Morning

Desember 21, 2017
It's a Wonderful Life, James Stewart, Lionel Barrymore, The Best Years of Our Lives

I think that classic film fans are idealistic.  We may differ in our lives in many ways, but we share that basic element of idealism that is...

Romance at the Drugstore

Romance at the Drugstore

Februari 13, 2012
Cyd Charisse, Dana Andrews, It's a Wonderful Life, Richard Basehart, Tension, Teresa Wright, The Best Years of Our Lives

In a nod to Valentine's Day tomorrow, we pay tribute to that most romantic location...the drugstore. Oh, my, how we've seen time and...

Henry Travers

Henry Travers

Juli 05, 2007
ageism, Baby Boomers, Henry Travers, It's a Wonderful Life, James Stewart, Mrs. Miniver, Shadow of a Doubt

Henry Travers is one of the film industry’s most beloved character actors, a veteran of the stage in the UK and in New York before he ever c...

Lukewarm Reviews of Classics

Lukewarm Reviews of Classics

Maret 26, 2007
Bosley Crowther, Frank S. Nugent, It's a Wonderful Life, lukewarm reviews, New York Times, Wizard of Oz

Bosley Crowther, film reviewer for the New York Times, thought the weakness of “It’s a Wonderful Life” was its sentimentality. He decried t...