Ten Classic Film Actors and Actresses from Your State

Ten Classic Film Actors and Actresses from Your State

Januari 10, 2019
Agnes Moorehead, Bette Davis, Charles Bickford, Charles Farrell, Edna May Oliver, Eleanor Powell, Jack Lemmon, Lewis Stone, Thelma Todd, Wendell Corey

Dear Edna May Oliver, a formidable talent, and clearly fearless and unrepentant in her poses, is one of my favorite Massachusetts girls. How...

Office Christmas Party - The Desk Set and The Apartment

Office Christmas Party - The Desk Set and The Apartment

Desember 20, 2018
Dina Merrill, Jack Lemmon, Joan Blondell, Katharine Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, Spencer Tracy, Sue Randall, The Apartment, The Desk Set

No one ever sings, “Oh, there’s no place like the office for the holidays…” but that is where we visit this Christmas, the office parties ...

Walter Abel

Walter Abel

Desember 14, 2018
blogathon, Holiday Inn, So Proudly We Hail, The Three Musketeers 1935, Walter Abel

“Boy!   Are we happy!” Walter Abel yell s during yet another clutch moment in Holiday Inn (1942) as the conniving, frenetic talent agent in...

Prelude to War - Requiescat in Pace, Greatest Generation

Prelude to War - Requiescat in Pace, Greatest Generation

Desember 06, 2018
FMPU, Frank Capra, Prelude to War, Requiescat in pace, Why We Fight, World War II

Tomorrow, December 7th, marks the 77th anniversary of the day America stood on the precipice of World War II, and a generation -- now referr...

Movies in Our Time - On sale!

Movies in Our Time - On sale!

November 29, 2018
Movies in Our Time

A holiday shopping announcement! Now through December 31st, the eBook version of my collection of essays on classic film, Movies in Our Time...

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 ...

The Desperate Hours - 1955

The Desperate Hours - 1955

November 15, 2018
Arthur Kennedy, Beverly Garland, Dewey Martin, Humphrey Bogart, Martha Scott, Richard Eyer, Robert Middleton, The Desperate Hours, Walter Baldwin, Whit Bissell, William Wyler

The Desperate Hours (1955) brought the escaped convict genre to suburbia. That’s where everyone else was headed in the 1950s, and the house ...