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! “Dear God! You mean there’s eight more innings of all this spitting & scratching & hitching &…
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Captains Courageous (1937) There are times when I think Spencer Tracy would have been better off if he’d never been paired up with Katharine Hepburn in 1942, when they co-starred in Woman of the Year. Now I know there are…
Read more →April 20, 1903: A judgment on appeal in Edison v. Lubin allows a film to be copyrighted in its entirety, rather than each individual frame. April 20, 1909: Broadway star Mary Pickford signs to appear in films for director D.W….
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In 1949, 28-year-old British actress Deborah Kerr starred opposite screen veteran Spencer Tracy in Edward, My Son. Though Kerr had already won critical acclaim for a handful of popular films in her native England–among them I See a Dark Stranger (1946)…
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Desk Set is not the best Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn comedy. For that, you would have to check out superior films like, say, Adam’s Rib or Woman of the Year. Then again, it’s not the worst either. Desk Set…
Read more →Here are 10 trivia facts about Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner from 1967, 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…
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An independent woman who made her mark portraying heroines just as willful and unforgettable as she was, as at home in light comedy as in provocative drama, this sculpted New England beauty deservedly spanned generations as a prominent motion picture…
Read more →June 11, 1922: The “father of the documentary film,” Robert Flaherty, releases his greatest achievement, Nanook of the North. June 6, 1933: The first drive-in theater opens on a 10-acre site on Admiral Wilson Boulevard in Camden, N.J. Now Showing:…
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Guest blogger The Lady Eve writes: During World War II Hollywood churned out popular pictures both entertaining and patriotic, bolstering home front morale and earning enormous box office receipts. Between 1942 and 1945, Americans were spending 23% of their recreation dollars…
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Man, do we have some new releases for you! This week the focus is on cinema classics, with a diverse assortment of yesteryear gems making their long-awaited DVD debuts. Likewise, there are also some, well, magical new DVD and Blu-ray…
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Q: Could you tell me if WB is ever going to release more Spencer Tracy films, in particular, A Guy Named Joe, The Seventh Cross, Cass Timberlane, Keeper of the Flame and The Sea of Grass? Also, with all of…
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