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...

An Underdog Thanksgiving

An Underdog Thanksgiving

November 22, 2018
cartoons, Lionel Barrymore

When I was a child, I was a big fan of "ace reporter" Sweet Polly Purebread.  As an adult, I occasionally find myself singing the ...

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...

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...

Bogie on the Big Screen

Bogie on the Big Screen

Agustus 18, 2011
Claire Trevor, Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, John Houston, Key Largo, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore, movie theaters

Florida Overseas Highway - JT Lynch photo   A few years ago I drove the Florida Overseas Highway from the mainland out to Key West where Rou...

Rasputin and the Empress (1932)

Rasputin and the Empress (1932)

Juni 18, 2007
Anne Shirley, Ethel Barrymore, Ingrid Bergman, Irving Thalberg, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Mischa Auer, Rasputin and the Empress, Romanov Dynasty, Russian Revolution

Rasputin and the Empress (1932) is a watershed film in a couple of different respects. First, it unites on film for the only time all three...