Here are 10 trivia facts about Gran Torino from 2008, which originally appeared as our Mystery Movie Quiz on our Facebook page. There are hundreds of pieces of behind-the-scenes information about this movie. Please feel free to comment and add…
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Edna May Oliver: Queen of the Old Maids
From prim and proper spinsters to wise-cracking schoolmarms, Edna May Oliver had a storied career as one of Hollywood’s most popular character actresses in the ’30s and ’40s. The sour-faced star of Little Women and David Copperfield is today’s Scene Stealer.
Read more →Lovely Rita: Rita Hayworth Faves Land On DVD
Every man I knew went to bed with Gilda… and woke up with me. –Rita Hayworth Even Rita Hayworth realized she was not Gilda Mundson Farrell, the blowzy wife of casino owner George MacReady, who was once romantically involved with…
Read more →Guest Review: Wee Willie Winkie (1937)
Guest blogger The Siren writes: The first thing to know about Wee Willie Winkie is that it isn’t a Shirley Temple movie that happened to be directed by John Ford; it’s a John Ford movie that happened to star Shirley…
Read more →Movie Poll: Who’s Your Favorite “Baby Boomer” Leading Man?
To see a complete list of all movie polls, click here ““baby boomer” is defined as those born between 1946 and 1964”
Read more →Arsenic & Old Lace: A Guest Movie Review
Guest blogger Greg Orypeck writes: In these hard economic times, a little bit of escapism might be a good thing, almost essential, wouldn’t you say? How better to escape than by going into a movie theater, or, okay, watching a DVD in a…
Read more →No Lion–MGM Joins Manufacture-On-Demand Crowd
MGM is getting into the DVD-on-demand business. But what just does that mean? Many people know that most of the classic films of the fabled studio have belonged to Warner Brothers for years. And the studio that once gave us…
Read more →This Week In Film History, 01.02.11
January 4, 1954: The U.S. Supreme Court upholds the right of film distributors to confine first-run engagements to downtown theaters. January 8, 1954: Sydney Greenstreet, memorable screen heavy (in every sense of the term) of The Maltese Falcon and other…
Read more →MovieFanFare: The Most Popular Articles Of 2010
This year at MovieFanFare we started a new category called the Movie Mashup. The mashup features several articles written about a particular movie category or niche. For Halloween, we published two mashups, Halloween Classic Horror Movie Mashup and Zombies, Vampires…
Read more →Happy New Year!
As we bid farewell to 2010, we’d like to take this opportunity to say how much we appreciate our loyal readers and guest contributors, who have helped us publish exciting and informative articles about the movies we love to watch. Our…
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