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Calling All Romantics… A Mystery from the 1939 World’s Fair, Solved! (Well, Mostly)
Recently I stumbled onto a haunting old mystery I just had to share with my hopelessly romantic classic movie family. In one of the few real bookstores left in New York, I was riffling through boxes of old postcards, looking for any from the 1939 World’s Fair, which I’m mildly obsessed with. I found one …
STREAMING SATURDAYS! Peter Cushing in CASH ON DEMAND, the Christmas Sleeper You Didn’t Know You Needed
Welcome to another edition of STREAMING SATURDAYS, where we bring you free, fabulous films to watch right here! Imagine if Ebenezer Scrooge were scared straight not by four ghosts but by a criminal mastermind who utterly beguiled Bob Cratchit. That’s pretty much the set-up in CASH ON DEMAND, a woefully overlooked Hammer classic from 1961. Two …
Can We Save TCM? Will This Movie Have a Happy Ending?
You head outside on a winter’s day with 90 percent of your body covered, but suddenly it’s 20 percent. Think you’d notice? You were making $90,000 a year yesterday but $20,000 a year today. Think you’d notice? Your bathroom was 90 square feet yesterday but 20 square feet today. Think you’d notice? And yet Warner …
When Classic Stars Were All Around Us
Though nothing can bring back the hourOf splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower,We will grieve not, rather findStrength in what remains behind. I’ve never been great at heeding that advice from Wordsworth, and for classic film lovers, it gets harder every year. What remain behind, of course, are the movies that sustain …
STREAMING SATURDAYS! Lizabeth Scott and Dan Duryea Find It’s TOO LATE FOR TEARS
Welcome to another edition of Streaming Saturdays, where we embed a free, fabulous movie for you to watch right here! This week it’s Byron Haskin’s noir thriller Too Late for Tears. The film opens with a startling sight: an almost timid Lizabeth Scott. When first we meet Jane Palmer (Scott), she and her husband Alan …
Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn in WWII Reveals Entirely New Facets of Her Life, Including Her Work as a Resistance Fighter
Ah, there’s the Audrey we love—light and breezy, cycling around the set of Sabrina in capri pants and a ponytail. But a scant eight years earlier, an Audrey we’ll grow to love even more was cycling through the darkened streets of her Nazi-occupied city, entrusted with urgent missives of the Dutch Resistance printed on sheets …
Audrey at 90: The Salute to Audrey Hepburn Blogathon Has Arrived!
Happy Birthday, Audrey Hepburn! This extraordinary woman was born 90 years ago today, and to celebrate, we’re launching Audrey at 90: The Salute to Audrey Hepburn Blogathon! A heartfelt thank-you to all the writers helping us explore so many aspects of her amazing life. And we’re so honored to welcome a very special guest —Audrey’s …
Grab Your Classic Movie Valentine’s Day Card Here!
Happy Valentine’s Day and lots of love to my classic film family of friends! Still looking for that perfect card, or maybe—gasp—you forgot the big day was today? Feel free to grab one of these, created just for you. Whether you’re lucky enough to have found love or are still searching for it, I hope your day …
A Soldier Lovingly Remembers Marlene Dietrich
Originally posted on Sister Celluloid:
She sizzled onscreen with the hottest leading men in Hollywood—Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, Charles Boyer, Robert Donat, James Stewart, Ronald Colman—but Marlene Dietrich’s most memorable co-star may have been a balding, jowly, irascible middle-aged man. While entertaining the troops during World War II, she ventured within a mile of the German…
ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU! A Salute to Some of the Fabulous Men of Classic Film
Merry Christmas, my wonderful classic-movie family of friends!! Here’s a little ditty I wrote, sung to the tune of All I Want For Christmas Is You, celebrating some of the men we all love so much! I say “some” because if I included them all, all I’d get for Christmas is carpal tunnel syndrome. I hope …
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