Olive Digs Republic: Well, we’re happy to report that it didn’t take long for Olive to get to their newly acquired library of titles from Republic Pictures. The new releases include Cyrano De Bergerac (1950) with Jose Ferrer in an…
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Classic movie articles featuring movie articles from the 1930s 1940s and 1950s
Get a Handle on Hollywood Rides a Bike
Movie stars on bicycles? Who would have thunk it? Well, there has been a book on movies stars in bathtubs, so why not? Steven Rea, film critic for The Philadelphia Inquirer, decided to marry his two obsessions—films and biking—into one…
Read more →Bogie, James Cagney, MacDonald/Eddy On Tap from Warner
Sweet Prince, Hot Showgirl: The DVD and Blu-ray release of My Week with Marilyn, the Oscar-nominated chronicle of a film gopher’s experience on a 1957 film starring Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Oliver, has prompted Warner Home Video to return that…
Read more →Movie Marathons
Rested up? Ready for some serious movie watching? Perhaps at the outset of this year, you’re feeling frosty enough to curl up and commit to a Movie Marathon. With the recent completion of the eight-part Harry Potter film franchise fresh…
Read more →State Fair (1945) A Guest Classic Movie Review
State Fair 1945 film classic Brief plot: The Frake family travels to the annual Iowa State Fair, entering their mincemeat, pickles, and prize hog Blue Boy into contests. The two children find romance at the fair, but it is uncertain if it will continue…
Read more →The Sound of Music: A Guest Review
Guest blogger Katie Scarlett writes: Sky-diving, bungee-cord jumping, watching a classic musical in a theatre; these are all things that make life a thrilling experience. Everyone should have the experience to watch a vintage film on a big screen with…
Read more →Cut-Ups & Creeps Right in Your Living Room
Guest blogger Paul Castiglia writes: The 1970s and ’80s were a wonderful time to grow up for a classic comedy kid like me. In those years, nostalgia for old movies was fostered by regular airings on TV stations (I think…
Read more →Hope & Crosby: Bob + Bing = Bliss
Guest blogger Marsha Collock writes: There are some stars that earn the adjective “beloved.” Either for their professional or personal contributions, or both, they are adopted by the audience and become a part of the “family.” Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, separately,…
Read more →A “Glowing” Review of Murder, He Says
Pollster Fred MacMurray gets mixed up with homicidal hillbillies, glow-in-the-dark grannies, and a hidden fortune in the zany 1945 comedy Murder, He Says, co-starring Helen Walker, Porter Hall and Marjorie Main. Check it out, we says!
Read more →The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939): Movie Review
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939) The nine films Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers made together at RKO between 1933 and 1939 are some of the most magical and sublime movies ever made. They’re also among the wittiest….
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