Summer is here, but it's too hot . Stay indoors and catch up on classic summer movies. Here's a list to get you started. Sandra ...

Sometimes you notice a movie's plot hole long after you've seen the film. Alfred Hitchcock called this the Icebox Syndrome , because...

Comedian Jerry Lewis pours out his brotherly love for crooner Dean Martin in a 352-paged letter. Lewis' memoir Dean and Me follows  the...

Thanks to everyone who participated in the Marlene Dietrich biography giveaway. The winner, Diana B., has been notified and the book has b...

Yours truly still has not received the catalog for Debbie Reynolds' Costumes Auction (June 18, 2011). However,  if you -unlike me-  had ...

While coming across the following passage in Broadway Babies Say Goodnight   , I discovered another reason why I like Sinatra's singi...

Simon & Schuster is offering a free copy of Marlene: Marlene Dietrich, A Personal Biography to readers of Java's Journey ! This c...

In the Judy Garland v. Deanna Durbin battle, Durbin seems to win in the following newspaper clipping. The big deal is that film star Durbin...

A post-1940s photo of reclusive megastar Deanna Durbin is rare. I'd seen the famous early '80s photo that she'd sent to Life Mag...

While John Wayne was learning to walk like a girl, while Jimmy Stewart prepared for his Oscar-nominated faint, and while Clark Gable was too...