Here’s a sample pulled from my collection of movie stills, a lovely picture of Marsha Hunt and Margaret O’Brien in Lost Angel (1943). Lost Angel was one of O’Brien’s earliest major roles, in which she plays a little girl who’s been raised…
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You know the drill. Below is a classic movie photo with Jason’s caption. You’re encouraged to leave your own suggestion in the comment section below! Yentl’s hosts insisted the dinnerware was Mottahedeh— so why was there a Dollar Store tag on the…
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“When an American cracks up, he opens a window and shoots up a bunch of strangers. When a Japanese cracks up, he closes the window and kills himself.” – Richard Jordan in The Yakuza The Yakuza (1974) has a pretty…
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Apocalypse…POW! You know that any movie that starts with a quote from Lord Humongous, the monstrous goalie mask-wearing bad guy from The Road Warrior, isn’t going to be a quaint rom-com. Bellflower isn’t. The film has been buzzed about in the…
Read more →September 14, 1919: Lon Chaney portrays the first of his memorable “grotesque roles,” twisting his body to play a fake cripple healed by The Miracle Man. September 14, 1936: Producer Irving G. Thalberg, the “boy wonder” behind many of MGM’s…
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Guest blogger Paul Castiglia writes: The 1970s and ’80s were a wonderful time to grow up for a classic comedy kid like me. In those years, nostalgia for old movies was fostered by regular airings on TV stations (I think…
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Medicine Men: The doctor drama series got controversial with Medical Center, the CBS show that ran from 1969 to 1976. James Daley was the head doc and Chad Everett the handsome young surgeon at L.A. University’s medical center. Race, homosexuality…
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This 1952 exercise in foolishness, directed by Howard Hawks, is constructed well enough to make itself likeable, even charming. The star-studded cast doesn’t hurt anything either—Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers and Charles Coburn all get their chances to jump around and use…
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