Lionel Barrymore - The Spirit of Christmas Past and Present

Lionel Barrymore - The Spirit of Christmas Past and Present

Desember 20, 2019
A Christmas Carol (1938), Dr. Kildare series, Franklin Roosevelt, It's a Wonderful Life, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Louis B. Mayer, radio shows, Reginald Owen

Lionel Barrymore was Ebenezer Scrooge for a generation.  For another generation, he became Mr. Potter, perhaps a deeper, more disturbed, and...

Anne Shirley in Screen Guide

Anne Shirley in Screen Guide

Desember 05, 2019
Anne Shirley, John Payne, Screen Guide

Anne Shirley from Screen Guide , May 1942.  A brief blurb laments her recent divorce from John Payne, but supports the young mother and work...

Listen to THE WAR OF THE WORLDS - 1938

Listen to THE WAR OF THE WORLDS - 1938

Oktober 31, 2019
Orson Welles, radio shows, The War of the Worlds

Have a listen to my favorite Halloween tradition -- "The War of the Worlds" as heard on October 30, 1938 on the Mercury Theater ra...

90th Anniversary of the 1929 Stock Market Crash

90th Anniversary of the 1929 Stock Market Crash

Oktober 24, 2019
Crash of 1929, Ginger Rogers, Gold Diggers of 1933, It's a Wonderful Life, James Stewart, Marx Brothers, Mary Astor, The Cocoanuts, The Roaring Twenties

James Stewart's dazed expression at the panicked customers demanding all their deposits in the aftermath of the 1929 stock market crash ...

Bertha Kirk - a Studio "Extra" Mystery

Bertha Kirk - a Studio "Extra" Mystery

September 16, 2019
1920s, Bertha Kirk, character actors, crime, extras

In September 1928, a gentleman named H. J. Pepper, 60 years old, retired hotelkeeper from Manitoba, Canada, and now eager silent movie ...

Fred MacMurray sings "I'm in the Market for You"

Fred MacMurray sings "I'm in the Market for You"

Agustus 29, 2019
Fred MacMurray

Before he was a Hollywood actor, Fred MacMurray was a saxophonist and a singer who entertains us here with the timely tune from 1930:  ...

Wretched Refuse of Your Teeming Shore - Since You Went Away (1944)

Wretched Refuse of Your Teeming Shore - Since You Went Away (1944)

Agustus 15, 2019
Albert Basserman, Carl Sandburg, Claudette Colbert, Craig Stevens, David O. Selznick, Emma Lazarus, fascism, Jennifer Jones, Nazimova, Since You Went Away, World War II

Since You Went Away (1944) is a tribute to the American home front during World War II, its cozy, meandering plot glowing with quiet moment...