"[MGM] was one big happy family and a little kingdom. Everything was provided for us, from singing lessons to barbells. All we had to ...

Read Jacqueline Lynch's detailed account (complete with newsreel screen shots) of Rosiland Russell's last visit to her propheticall...

It’s the turn of the 20th century and the wealthy Hubbard-Giddens family wants to add more to their coffers through perverse means, in The L...

Hit The Deck is a fluffy MGM musical which is preceded by the 1930 RKO film of the same name, which is based on the 1927 Broadway musical, ...

Kate from Silents and Talkies , along with the Large Movie Blog Association is having a blog-a-thon about your summer childhood movie memori...

It's probably common knowledge to James Bond fans that Sean Connery entered and lost the Mr. Universe contest in 1953. I discovered the...

WellesNet recounts an Orson Welles press release for Citizen Kane from January 1941. Kane examines the private life of a public figure an...

"They say the bad guys are more interesting to play, but there is more to it than that - playing the good guys is more challenging bec...

Through a series of web searches I stumbled upon this brief review   of a Donald O'Connor performance from July 1975 . O'Connor, st...

The path to stardom for Hollywood dreamboat Van Johnson gets a nice once-over at Greenbriar in the blog post " An Overnight Star is Man...