Funnyman Danny Kaye made his feature film debut as a hypochondriac who winds up a G.I. in Up in Arms. Guest writer Rick29 falls in for a closer look at the 1944 comedy/musical, which also stars Dinah Shore and Dana Andrews
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Like Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder found his career at the crossroads in the 1960s. Successes such as The Apartment and Irma la Douce were offset by flops like Kiss Me, Stupid and the under-appreciated One, Two, Three. It’s almost as if he couldn’t quite…
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Ernest Hemingway wrote two dozen stories about his alter ego, Nick Adams, throughout his literary career. Playwright and novelist A.E. Hotchner, a Hemingway friend who later penned the biography Papa Hemingway, combined several of the Nick Adams stories into the…
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Confession: I sometimes get the plots of Bob Hope’s three My Favorite… movies mixed up. While recently viewing My Favorite Brunette (1947) again, I kept waiting for the scene where the baddies give Bob truth serum–with predictably silly results. However,…
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Before he played a sailor in The Sand Pebbles and gambled for high stakes in The Cincinnati Kid, Steve McQueen starred as a Naval officer gambling for big bucks in The Honeymoon Machine (1961). But whereas the later films were “A” list…
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I confess that I have never been a Sandy Dennis fan. Perhaps, it was her choice of roles, but her characters always came across as a contrived combination of exaggerated emotions. But after recently watching Up the Down Staircase (1967),…
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In hindsight, The Shaggy Dog (1959) was a landmark Disney film. After all, this amusing comedy perfected the formula for the contemporary live-action family films produced by the studio for the next twenty years. It was also the first of Fred…
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Alfred Hitchcock’s most divisive thriller finds the Master of Suspense in magician mode. On the surface, The Birds is a traditionally-structured horror film, in which the bird attacks build progressively to three of Hitchcock’s most intense sequences. However, this is…
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In today’s guest post, the great Rick29 returns to share seven trivia tidbits about Chuck Connors! 1. Chuck Connors, who was 6′ 5″, played both professional basketball and baseball. He appeared in 53 games for the Boston Celtics in 1946-48…
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We originally printed this post from guest blogger Rick29 back in February, but we are featuring it again as we celebrate Halloween here on MovieFanFare!: Universal Studios was the “Home of Horror” from 1931 to 1946, but its Gothic monsters…
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