Three Came Home - 1950

Three Came Home - 1950

Agustus 27, 2020
A Town Like Alice, blogathon, Claudette Colbert, Florence Desmond, Mark Keuning, Patric Knowles, Sessue Hayakawa, Three Came Home

Three Came Home (1950) is notable for its presentation of courageous women struggling to survive in a Japanese prison camp during World War...

The Shocking Miss Pilgrim - 1947

The Shocking Miss Pilgrim - 1947

Agustus 20, 2020
Anne Revere, Arthur Shields, Betty Grable, Dick Haymes, Elisabeth Risdon, Elizabeth Patterson, Gene Lockhart, Glynis Johns, Mary Field, Mary Poppins, The Shocking Miss Pilgrim

The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947) is an affectionate spoof of a suffragette (or suffragist, as they actually called themselves) and her missi...

SALE - Ann Blyth: Actress. Singer. Star.

SALE - Ann Blyth: Actress. Singer. Star.

Agustus 14, 2020

  Ann Blyth: Actress. Singer. Star. , my book on the career of multitalented actress Ann Blyth is on SALE until Monday, August 17th (in cele...

Requiescat in Pace - Olivia de Havilland

Requiescat in Pace - Olivia de Havilland

Juli 30, 2020
A Midsummer Night's Dream, George Tobias, Ida Lupino, Olivia de Havilland, Thank Your Lucky Stars, The Heiress, The Strawberry Blonde

The incomparable Olivia de Havilland has exited this world after celebrating her 104th birthday, leaving us breathless, as usual, with the s...

Bud and Lou on your home projector...

Bud and Lou on your home projector...

Juli 23, 2020
Abbott and Costello, Castle films, Don Beddoe, Midget Car Maniacs, Milburn Stone, Nat Pendleton

More on Castle Films this week...and an interesting variation.  Midget Car Maniacs (1947), a short subject comedy starring Bud Abbott and L...

Castle films at home

Castle films at home

Juli 16, 2020
cartoons, Castle films, classic film fans

As this ad from 1941 reminds us, long before there was the VHS cassette, serious film fans had those 16-mm reels of "6 great cartoons t...

Requiescat in pace - Carl Reiner

Requiescat in pace - Carl Reiner

Juli 02, 2020
Carl Reiner, Requiescat in pace, Sid Caesar, television

Carl Reiner will be remembered for his long career and incredible talent, for being a mensch, for being a pioneer of early television.  For ...