The Bride Wore Red (1937)

A poor, mercenary woman mixes with the upper crust . This type of fish-out-of-water movie was quite common in the 1930s and earl...

Wednesday, December 10, 2014
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Tyrone Power Events Continue

On November 15, 1958, actor Tyrone Edmund Power (b. May 5, 1914) died on the set of Solomon and Sheba in Madrid. On this the year of t...

Saturday, November 15, 2014
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Facebook: A Place for Lively Classic Movie Discussions

Facebook Groups can be a wonderful resource for lively discussion about your favorite people from Hollywood. I've only just discovere...

Friday, November 07, 2014
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The Kissing Bandit (1948) - Frank Sinatra and Kathryn Grayson

The world's goofiest bandit makes time with a young lady in The Kissing Bandit (1948). Ricardo ( Frank Sinatra ) returns home from...

Monday, October 27, 2014
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Untamed (1955) - Susan Hayward, Tyrone Power Adventure

Scarlett O'Hara takes South Africa. This is perhaps the best way to describe the film adaptation of Helga Moray's novel, Untamed . ...

Saturday, October 18, 2014
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Around the Web

Audrey Hepburn's Granddaughter Recreates Photos for Harper's Bazaar The Classic Film and TV Cafe interviews the director of the ...

Tuesday, September 30, 2014
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Newspaper Archives

Over the past few weeks, yours truly has gathered the internet version of classic movie newspaper and magazine clippings and sorted them int...

Friday, September 05, 2014
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A Moment of Confusion

Saul Bass has said that the title credits of a movie should set the "mood and the prime underlying core of the film’s story." ...

Thursday, September 04, 2014
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Classic Fashion in Later Times

The more things change the more they stay the same. Even fashion-wise The peplum skirt has made a comeback. On the left, Judy G...

Wednesday, September 03, 2014
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How to Cope with Movie Remakes and Sequels

People often dislike change, especially when their favorite movies are involved. So when a movie company announced a sequel to the classic...

Tuesday, September 02, 2014
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Doris Day's White Dress in The Pajama Game (1957)

Marylin Monroe made famous a white, halterneck summer dress designed by William Travilla in The Seven Year Itch (1955). Monroe It...

Thursday, August 07, 2014
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On Location: Tyrone Power's Tunica Wedding

Traveling down Highway 61 from Memphis, Tennessee to Tunica, Mississippi, one gets a sense of Tyrone Power's journey to the small...

Friday, July 11, 2014
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NPR's Classic Movie Segments

In 2011, National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" aired a few segments about classic movies called "On Location....

Wednesday, July 09, 2014
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Three for the Show (1955)- A Musical w/ Betty Grable/Jack Lemmon/Marge and Gower Champion

Known as Betty Grable's last musical, Three for the Show (1955) is a light romantic comedy with striking dances. It's meant ...

Thursday, July 03, 2014
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