Film fans, here’s a Valentine’s Day recipe: Mix wild scenarios with slapstick humor and witty dialogue,blend in a love story, and you have screwball comedy. Guest writer Victoria Balloon salutes some ’30s and ’40s screwball gems in a classic article.
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Guest contributor Victoria Balloon writes: As a writer, it’s always fun to discover something new. In this case, what’s new is actually old but that makes it even more fun. A new series has been released on DVD called Lost…
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Join us at the corner drugstore for a soda as guest contributor Victoria Balloon writes: Whenever I need soothing, I watch an Andy Hardy movie. MGM made this series of B movies from 1937-1946 featuring the lives of the…
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Guest blogger Victoria Balloon writes: Some people refuse to watch Westerns on the grounds that the predictable parade of horses, gunfights and tumbleweeds makes them ultimately shallow and boring. They are missing out; there were Westerns made in the 1950s that…
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Guest blogger Victoria Balloon writes: Already popular in comics and radio, Superman had previously starred in two serials: Superman (1948) and Atom-Man vs. Superman (1950) If our hero could leap tall buildings in a single bound, surely he could make…
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Saddle up! Guest contributor Cowgirl Victoria “Buckaroo” Balloon writes: A Saturday afternoon at the movies was practically synonymous with seeing a cowboy picture. From exciting serials with cliff-hanging action to full-length features, there are so many greats to choose from—Ken…
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Francis the Talking Mule Only in Hollywood could a smart-talking mule save the life of a dim-witted soldier and become a star. Francis was so hugely successful upon its release in 1950 – filmed for $150,000 and making $3 million…
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Like so many others, I first saw Debbie Reynolds in Singin’ in the Rain. She later said of the experience, “Singin’ in the Rain and childbirth were the hardest things I ever had to do in my life.” You never…
Read more →Guest contributor Victoria Balloon writes: Before there was House and Gray’s Anatomy Americans got their Hollywood medical drama from watching Dr. James Kildare. Not the 1960s television series starring Richard Chamberlain, but a series of MGM short feature films from…
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Guest contributor Victoria Balloon writes: Where did Ma and Pa Kettle come from and how on earth did such an unlikely, unsophisticated premise become so popular? In 1945 Betty Mac Donald’s “The Egg and I” was a wildly successful book,…
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