Born in Canada in 1920, Ann Rutherford got her start in Hollywood as a teenager, acting in weekly serials. She made her feature-length screen debut in 1935’s Waterfront Lady. In the early years of her career, the young starlet appeared…
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He may be (kind of) smiling here, but from the 1930s to the ’80s actor Charles Lane excelled at playing crabs, curmudgeons and grumps in the movies and on TV. Read about his lenghty career, which included appearances in nine Frank Capra films.
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Six Pix presents a sextet of movie posters representing a particular actor/director/genre. You pick the one you feel is visually the most artistic or best sums up the film. These Six Pix are all Neo Noir posters—that is, film noirs…
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The Big Combo (1955): Movie Review Sexually and sadistically charged, The Big Combo is a paradigm for what can be accomplished with spare change filmmaking. This film, and the earlier work Gun Crazy (1950) are director Joseph H. Lewis’ masterpieces….
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My kids were in a production of Bye Bye Birdie over the last month. So, playing the part of the good father, I attended several shows. My kids had small parts in the chorus, so it wasn’t just their limited…
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It’s been too long since the last Movie Mash-Ups. As always, I’ve mashed up posters and their titles creating new movie one-sheets that definitely will not be coming soon to a theater near you. Let’s get right to it… American Splendor In The Grass ….
Read more →June 16, 1916: The merger of Famous Players and Jesse Lasky Feature Play Co. brings together Lasky, Adolph Zukor and Samuel Goldfish (Goldwyn). June 11, 1922: The “father of the documentary film,” Robert Flaherty, releases his greatest achievement, Nanook of…
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For today’s guest post, Rick 29 returns with his insights on Alfred Hitchcock’s 1966 thriller, Torn Curtain: Under the pretense of attending a conference in Copenhagen, Michael Armstrong (Paul Newman), an American physicist, defects to East Germany. His fiancée and…
Read more →Sometimes it’s just fun to throw a curveball to Movie Irv and then roll the camera: The Movie Alphabet A to Z How well would you have done on the spur of the moment? I’m inclined to think Irv gave…
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