The remarkable power of the tenor voice possessed by this native Philadelphian guaranteed him a meteoric arc across the pop culture of post-WWII America and an appreciation that has endured over the half-century since his very premature passing. In 1921,…
Read more →July 28, 1928: Encouraged by the response to the few minutes of sound in The Jazz Singer, Warner Bros. releases Lights of New York, the first all-talking picture. July 28, 1948: Lon Chaney, Jr. and Bela Lugosi play the Wolf…
Read more →Has anyone ever topped the performance Boris Karloff gave as the Frankenstein Monster? Does anybody out there think Steve Martin was as funny playing Inspector Clouseau as the late, great Peter Sellers? Maybe you thought that once the Shat created the…
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Movie FanFare offers a star-spangled salute to the movie and TV appearances of shield-slinging superhero Captain America, from 1944’s Republic serial to this year’s big-budget actioner starring Chris Evans as Cap.
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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! “Well, better to smell like fish than a French whorehouse.”
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Guest blogger Richard Finch presents this review of the classic thriller The Red House: *** Country: US Director: Delmer Daves A strange family living in self-imposed isolation, carefully guarded family secrets, an eerie forest rumored to be inhabited by spirits,…
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Here are 10 trivia facts about Caddyshack from 1980, 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 more…
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Summertime is a fine time for making trips, so we at MovieFanFare were moved—geddit?— to put together a quick quiz. Below are movie titles with their taglines—except they’re wrong. The tags may seem appropriate for the accompanying films but they…
Read more →July 17, 1913: An old vaudeville gag is reborn on screen as Mabel Normand becomes the first to throw a pie into “Fatty” Arbuckle’s kisser, in A Noise from the Deep. July 22, 1934: After seeing MGM’s Manhattan Melodrama at…
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