Rich, vivid Technicolor is one of the hallmarks of the most well-known and celebrated of the gorgeous, masterful films from the production t...

May 16 is here and it's National Classic Movie Day. Hooray! Happily, Rick over at the Classic Film & TV Cafe is once more hosting h...

Charlie Farrell, top center; Ava Gardner, bottom left; on the right, Marilyn Monroe and Spencer Tracy Many years ago, Charlie Farrell was a ...

I lived in Hollywood, once upon a time, on Poinsettia between Fountain and Santa Monica Blvd., not far from Melrose.  It was the early '...

It was August 1944 and World War II was advancing toward its cataclysmic end when 20 th Century Fox launched a heavily promoted biographi...

50 YEARS OF CHARACTER ROLES IN AMERICAN AND FRENCH CLASSICS I was watching Josef von Sternberg’s flamboyantly decadent noir The Shanghai Ges...

  Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Gene Tierney's birth on November 19, 1920   Link to Pt. 1 Gene Tierney would admit that before...

  Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Gene Tierney's birth on November 19, 1920  ~ Marlene Dietrich once said, “The relationship betwee...

PRESTON STURGES SERVES UP POLITICAL SATIRE IN HIS DIRECTORIAL DEBUT There is Fitzgerald’s Jay Gatsby who aspired to a romantic fantasy that ...