Lux Radio Theatre

Lux Radio Theatre

April 11, 2007
Academy Award Theatre, Cecil B. DeMille, Lux Radio Theatre, Manhattan Melodrama, Screen Guild Players, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Screen Director's Playhouse

The Lux Radio Theatre featured film stars from every studio. In radio play scripts adapted from popular films, these actors had an opportun...

Gower Gulch

Gower Gulch

April 10, 2007
Autry Museum of the American West, Daffy Duck, Flower of Gower Gulch, Gower Gulch, Hollywood sign, Porky Pig, Sunset Boulevard, Warner Brothers

Gower Gulch was the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street. Hollywood attracted many newcomers in the 1930s hoping for a career ...

Hollywood Sign

Hollywood Sign

April 09, 2007
film industry, Griffith Park, Hollywood sign, Los Angeles

A recent fire in the Griffith Park area of Los Angeles, dramatically close to the Hollywood Sign, brings to mind what an odd history the Sig...

Easter Parade

Easter Parade

April 05, 2007
Bing Crosby, Easter Parade, Fred Astaire, Holiday Inn, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Judy Garland, Marjorie Reynolds

“Easter Parade” (1948) set in 1911-1912, showcases Irving Berlin’s Tin Pan Alley hits, and one hit of the Great Depression, which was the so...

My Dream Is Yours (1949)

My Dream Is Yours (1949)

April 04, 2007
Bing Crosby, Doris Day, Easter, Eve Arden, Holiday Inn, Jack Carson, Marjorie Reynolds, musicals, My Dream Is Yours, Tweety

In My Dream is Yours (1949), we have a film which spoofs radio advertising, the music business, agents, and really has no Easter message at...

Easter In Hollywood - 1949

Easter In Hollywood - 1949

April 03, 2007
Cecil B. DeMille, Easter bonnet, Easter Parade, Fred Astaire, Gene Autry, Here Comes Peter Cottontail, Judy Garland, My Dream Is Yours

Easter in the old movies comes to us in fashion, flowers, and songs. The two films, “Easter Parade” and “My Dream is Yours” give us plenty ...

Easter Films - Sacred vs Silly

Easter Films - Sacred vs Silly

April 02, 2007
Doris Day, Easter, Easter Parade, Geiger Counter Song, Irving Berlin, My Dream Is Yours

With Easter approaching and this week, Holy Week, the most important in the Christian calendar, it’s interesting to take a look at Americans...