Rita Hayworth cemented her standing as Hollywood’s reigning sex queen with her title turn as Gilda, with opened 70 years ago this week. Want to see more Tinseltown trivia? Look inside…and put the blame on us.
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Now that you can see Sylvester Stallone reprise his role as Rocky Balboa in Creed, we’ve laced up the gloves to present this classic look from writer Irv Slifkin at such screen pugilists as Kirk Douglas, John Garfield, James Earl Jones and…Curly Howard?
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A canine couple sets out to rescue their 15 kidnapped puppies from a fashion-obsessed villainess and winds up with hitting a spotted jackpot! See why guest writer Aurora says Disney’s 1961 animated classic 101 Dalmatians is black and white and fun all over.
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With the passing this weeknd of former First Lady Nancy Reagan, we look back at her Hollywood days as an MGM contract actress named Nancy Davis, a brief career which included co-starring with husband Ronald Reagan in 1957’s Hellcats of the Navy.
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For the TV Sidekick Blogathon, we rev up our engines and salute Muttley, the snickering canine companion of Dick Dastardly on Wacky Races and Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines.
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Now that Leonardo Di Caprio finally has a Best Actor Academy Award, which of his winless “D” colleagues, Johnny Depp or Robert Downey, Jr., do you think will take home an Oscar next? Let us know in this week’s film poll.
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One of John Wayne’s best-loved collaborations with director John Ford, the powerful frontier drama The Searchers, opened 60 years ago this week. If you’re searching for more notable dates from Hollywood’s past, we’ve got plenty inside.
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Wild plots, crazy characters and rapid-fire dialogue marked the screwball comedies of the 1930s and ’40s. For his MovieFanFare debut, writer Nathaniel Cerf examines the genre where such stars as Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck and others showed off their funny bones.
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Virginia Mayo is the “girl with the heart of ice” who lets her mob lawyer boyfriend (Zachary Scott) take the fall for a killing she committed in Flaxy Martin. Guest blogger Kristen Lopez shines a light in the 1949 noir drama, which co-starred Dorothy Malone.
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He won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar as Paul Newman’s prison pal in Cool Hand Luke and was ace aviation engineer Joe Patroni in the Airport films. MovieFanFare remembers George Kennedy, who died this past Sunday at 91.
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