On April 15th, 1912, in the early morning hours, the luxury liner RMS Titanic sank in the waters of the North Atlantic after striking an iceberg. Over 1,500 passengers perished in one of the worst ocean disasters in history. Today…
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American actress Lynda Carter is best known for playing the beautiful Diana Prince, an Amazonian princess, on the television series Wonder Woman (1975-1979). For four years she entertained television audiences with her superhuman powers, deflecting bullets with her golden bracelet…
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Before Basil Rathbone donned the deerstalker to play Sherlock Holmes in 14 films, he portrayed the dapper sleuth Philo Vance in The Bishop Murder Case (1930), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s first film to feature S.S. Van Dine’s famous detective hero. Paramount Pictures brought…
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Dennis Morgan and Jack Carson were great pals off-screen and they had the good fortune to play together on-screen in 11 films released throughout the 1940s. Most of these were simple comedies in the vein of the popular Bob Hope…
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My sister and I were first introduced to classic movies through the films of the 1960s since this was the decade that our father loved the most growing up in. He started us off on children’s classics from this time…
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As some of you already know, underrated classics are what I love to write about most. There are hundreds of little-known treasures that deserve to be shared, one of which is The Black Orchid. The Black Orchid stars Sophia Loren…
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Joan Crawford in a western? If that sounds incredulous, Ms.Crawford must have thought so, too, because it was not until 1954 that she starred in her first spurs-and-guns picture – Johnny Guitar. Unlike Barbara Stanwyck, Joan seemed out of place in the…
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In today’s guest post, Constance Metzinger shares her thoughts on the 1957 drama Spring Reunion: Maggie Brewster (Betty Hutton) has been looking forward to the fifteenth reunion of her high school class for weeks. It is the day of the…
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“Boo-Bop-BopBop-Bop, I love you, too!” – Pete’s Dragon Good ol’ Elliott. He is exactly the kind of companion any child would wish to have. Strong, clever, amusing, cuddly, fun to be with, and he has the ability to make himself…
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In today’s guest post, Constance Metzinger looks at a movie that is not on DVD or Blu-ray but should be: 1934’s Once to Every Woman. Grey’s Anatomy 1934. Well, not quite. But if you want to see what a 1930s…
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