Guest blogger TheLadyEve writes: Marlene Dietrich is one of only a very few film legends whose career spanned 60+ years. Her life in film began in the early 1920s with silent pictures. It came to a close with Maximilian Schell’s 1984…
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Late last year I wrote an article for MovieFanFare on the final screen appearances of six classic movie comedy teams (Abbott and Costello, Hope and Crosby, Laurel and Hardy, Martin and Lewis, the Marx Brothers, and the Three Stooges). Not…
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These days, when a director strings a few good movies together, people say they are on a roll. But how many filmmakers can honestly had an entire career that was one big roll—a career in which he’s never made a…
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Throughout the entire span of one’s own movie-watching career (for lack of a better word), there are always going to be films that get missed by individuals. Some of these celluloid efforts that escape a person’s experience are even considered…
Read more →March 25, 1932: Olympic swimming champ Johnny Weissmuller is Tarzan the Ape Man and Maureen O’Sullivan Jane in the first in MGM’s jungle adventure series. March 24, 1939: Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce make the first of 14 screen pairings…
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As with the original Letter Imperfect article, when it comes to movie posters, one wrong letter can change everything. See for yourself… He’s a poet. Did you know it? • The 40 Year Old Virgin
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About nine years ago I saw The Man with the Golden Arm for the very first time. I was only a year or so into being a huge movie fan, and so for almost every film I watched I was…
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On November 5, 1938, some 71 years ago, the Mohawk Theater opened in the small western Massachusetts town of North Adams. These days, the community is anticipating, and actively involved, in its future re-opening. Once part of the E.M. Loew…
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Here’s a funny thought: more than a few moviegoers–many of them, I’m guessing, under the age of 30–may only know cult filmmaker John Waters as one of the people behind that charming, upbeat musical from a few years ago, Hairspray. It’s even funnier…
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