Classic movie articles featuring movie articles from the 1930s 1940s and 1950s
It started with a girl named Maria and a boy named Tony who thought something was coming. That’s what I usually tell people when they ask how I became a classic movie fan: it happened on a fateful March evening…
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There’s a new biography chronicling the life of one of Hollywood’s biggest stars: Hedy Lamarr: The Most Beautiful Woman in Film by Ruth Barton. Holding the book in my hands, I stepped back a few years in time… Hedy Lamarr…
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When 1910s London chorus girl Myra Deauville (Mae Clarke) finds herself out of work, she assumes she’ll be able to find herself a new show soon enough. Two years later and still jobless, she has no choice but to become…
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Today’s guest blogger is the incomparable Leonard Maltin: In its heyday, Republic Pictures wasn’t taken seriously by the mainstream studios. It was a B-movie factory, and nothing more. (Erich von Stroheim referred to it as “Repulsive Pictures.”) In recent decades,…
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It was only a matter of time. Warner was first to throw their hat into the studio on-demand ring, introducing a wide array of famous and not-so famous films available in the DVD-R format. The Warner formula for mixing much-desired…
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“I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history.” So said the man who would eventually be voted number one in an American Film Institute poll of the greatest screen actors of all time. It may have been…
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When I was a kid, way back in the midst of the Seventies, movie viewing was restricted to visits to the cinema or the schedules of three TV channels. That’s right, kids, there was a dark time in our history…
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Where on television today can you find short subjects starring Betty Boop, Laurel & Hardy, Our Gang or Flash Gordon? Hollywood studios stopped producing short subjects altogether in the late 1950s as television became a household fixture, but in their…
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Here’s a quick recommendation for sci-fi fans seeking a vintage fix: Z.P.G. (Zero Population Growth) is a seriously underrated gem directed by Michael Campus. Campus has precious few other helming credits, with The Mack and The Education of Sonny Carson…
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On November 5, 1938, some 71 years ago, the Mohawk Theater opened in the small western Massachusetts town of North Adams. These days, the community is anticipating, and actively involved, in its future re-opening. Once part of the E.M. Loew…
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