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Bringing Up Baby (1938): A Classic Movie Review
Bringing Up Baby (1938) As one of the most delightful screwball comedies of the 1930s, Bringing Up Baby has been enjoyed by generations and all ages. Directed by Howard Hawks, it is the story of befuddled boy meets impulsive girl…
Read more →Best Actor Snubs Over the Years
Where Oscar goes, controversy follows. MovieFanFare has looked at Best Picture Academy Award winners that perhaps shouldn’t have taken home the big prize. Now Irv Slifkin’s taking a glance at some of the miscues that may have occurred in the Best Actor category.
Read more →This Week In Film History, 02.19.12
February 25, 1906: Future Universal Pictures president Carl Laemmle enters the moving pictures business with Chicago’s first nickelodeon, the White Front Theater. February 22, 1934: A Depression-weary American public flocks to Frank Capra‘s comedy It Happened One Night, starring Claudette…
Read more →Paramount Classics On The Way
Paramount Gets Back In the Game: We never understood why a film studio would suddenly take some of their best—and best-selling—DVDs off of the market. We understand there are rights issues sometimes, and licenses expire, and there are other reasons…
Read more →Rampart and the Best of L.A. Noir
In the City of Angels, crime often pays big dividends when it comes to the movies. To some, Los Angeles is a Dreamland, feted in song, film and all matter of art, where warm weather, style and show biz glitz…
Read more →The Bit Actors of Double Indemnity
Guest blogger Allen Hefner recently contacted MovieFanFare with this article he wrote about the various actors of Double Indemnity: No one can argue that Double Indemnity (1944) is not a wonderful film noir classic. It is the very definition of the genre….
Read more →Silent Movie
“A silent movie? In this day and age?” Chances are, a silent movie-about-the-movies is about to take the Best Picture prize at this year’s Academy Awards. At least, all the usual signs are now pointing to The Artist making a…
Read more →Hello, Dolly!
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! Dolly & I were supposed to have a nice quiet lunch together. Did everything need to be…
Read more →Angel and the Badman: Classic Movie review
Angel and the Badman (1947) is one of my very favorite John Wayne movies, one which I revisit on a regular basis. The movie is a simple tale about gunslinger Quirt Evans (Wayne) who is wounded and nursed back to health…
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