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...

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...

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 ...