Jessie Ralph

Jessie Ralph

Agustus 29, 2007
After the Thin Man, Camille, George M. Cohan, Greta Garbo, Jessie Ralph, San Francisco, The Bank Dick, W.C. Fields

Jessie Ralph was born during the American Civil War and died during World War II. She appeared on Broadway in many of George M. Cohan’s sho...

San Francisco (1936) - Part 2

San Francisco (1936) - Part 2

Agustus 28, 2007
Clark Gable, Jack Holt, Jeannette MacDonald, Jessie Ralph, Margaret Irving, San Francisco

See Part 1 of "San Francisco" here. MacDonald spends much of the movie torn between a choice of Gable or Holt, and it is Burley’s ...

San Francisco (1936) - Part 1

San Francisco (1936) - Part 1

Agustus 27, 2007
Clark Gable, Jack Holt, Jeannette MacDonald, San Francisco, Spencer Tracy, Ted Healy, Tommy Bupp

“San Francisco” (1936) recreates the raucous turn-of-the-20th Century Barbary Coast before our eyes with affectionate detail, and then dest...

Going to the Movies - Two B-Horror Films

Going to the Movies - Two B-Horror Films

Agustus 23, 2007
Boris Karloff, Elisha Cook Jr., House on Haunted Hill, Jack Nicholson, now playing, Richard Long, The Terror, Vincent Price

Two recent trips to the movies brought an interesting perspective. The first trip to see a current feature film was enjoyable enough, despi...

Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts (1937)

Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts (1937)

Agustus 22, 2007
B-westerns, Great Depression, Horace Murphy, Marjorie Reynolds, Phillip Ahn, Snub Pollard, Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts, Tex Ritter, Tommy Bupp

“Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts” (1937) stars Tex Ritter, his horse “White Flash”, and features Marjorie Reynolds, who later went on to a bet...

Alan Reed - 100th Anniversary

Alan Reed - 100th Anniversary

Agustus 20, 2007
Alan Reed, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Here Comes the Groom, The Desperate Hours, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Viva Zapata

A nod today to Alan Reed, on the 100th anniversary of his birth. Before you say “Fred Flintstone,” remember that Mr. Reed was a prolific te...

All Aboard - Trains in the Movies

All Aboard - Trains in the Movies

Agustus 16, 2007
42nd Street, Movie Maniacs, Shadow of a Doubt, Since You Went Away, Sullivans Travels, The Great Train Robbery, The Harvey Girls, The Thin Man Goes Home, The Three Stooges, White Christmas

The movies began with “The Great Train Robbery,” (1903) a film that lasted all of ten minutes and gave birth to our fascination with the fli...