Podcast - Discussing THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

Podcast - Discussing THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

Juli 08, 2021
podcast, The Best Years of Our Lives

  A few months ago I had the pleasure of talking about one of my favorite movies -- The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) with Paul Francis Su...

Classic movies for comfort...

Classic movies for comfort...

Mei 21, 2020
blogathon, I'll Be Seeing You, Meet John Doe, Mrs. Miniver, Since You Went Away, The Best Years of Our Lives

When I think of movies that are most comforting to me in times of turmoil, I think of World War II-era “home front” films. They are not roll...

Another Old Movie Blog 13th Anniversary

Another Old Movie Blog 13th Anniversary

Maret 05, 2020
Dana Andrews, Meanwhile Back at the Blog, Teresa Wright, The Best Years of Our Lives

Like migrant birds returning in the spring, I seem to revisit The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) every year about this time.  Perhaps it is...

The Best Years of Our Lives - 1946

The Best Years of Our Lives - 1946

Mei 30, 2019
Dana Andrews, Fredric March, Harold Russell, Hoagy Carmichael, Myrna Loy, Roman Bohnen, Teresa Wright, The Best Years of Our Lives

The Best Years of Our Lives , released in 1946 was, essentially, about 1946, illustrating a year ironically more tenuous than celebratory,...

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...

Hollywood Fights Back - A Radio Protest

Hollywood Fights Back - A Radio Protest

November 16, 2017
blacklist, Dana Andrews, Dorothy McGuire, Hollywood Fights Back, HUAC, Humphrey Bogart, Jane Wyatt, Judy Garland, Lauren Bacall, Myrna Loy, Paul Henreid, The Best Years of Our Lives, William Wyler

Hollywood Fights Back was a radio program broadcast in two parts in the autumn of 1947. Some 50 Hollywood stars, writers, directors, as well...

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...