It was 82 years ago this week that Greta Garbo uttered the famed (and often misquoted) line “I want to be alone” in MGM’s lush all-star drama Grand Hotel. Read on to see what other grand cinematic events occurred.
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Mickey Rooney began his career in silent pictures and parlayed his start into a career spanning more than 80 years in movies, television and the Broadway stage. MovieFanFare looks back at the one-time child star who passed away Sunday at the age of 93.
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A Saturday matinee mainstay for nearly 20 years, The Bowery Boys made dozens of movies throughout the gang’s various incarnations. Guest writer Todd Liebenow looks at the fellas taking on crooked cab drivers in the 1946 Monogram picture In Fast Company.
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Is it an embrace of racism to say you love “The Little Rascals” today? Or is it the height of foolish political correctness to devote any time to acknowledging some of the films’ retrograde humor? Let’s dive in with the Rascals short “Moan and Groan.”
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Adept at both comedy and drama–and at mixing the two–Academy Award-winning writer/director Billy Wilder gave us some of Hollywood’s greatest movies. Vote for your top Wilder film in this week’s poll.
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It’s time for MovieFanFare to step up to the plate with a roster of some of our favorite baseball movies. Check it out and see which celluloid diamond stars made the line-up.
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Based on a popular stage play, the 1922 whodunit Sherlock Holmes featured screen heartthrob John Barrymore in the title role. Guest writer Fritzi Kramer offers her take on the Great Profile’s turn as Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary detective.
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Ready for this? It’s been exactly 40 years since San Francisco performance artist Robert Opel got his 15 minutes by streaking the Oscarcast. We’ve got even more movie milestones to lay bare.
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One of the spring’s most publicized movie releases is Darren Aronofsky’s Biblical epic Noah. See how, 85 years earlier, another cinematic look at the Old Testament story turned into a costly disaster…if not at the box office, then in lives lost during the production.
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You can have big budgets, you can have big stars…but that’s still no guarantee of a big hit. Let’s give Irv a crystal ball and see if he can predict what movies are going to be the biggest bombs of 2014!
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