In black-and-white, from left: Tallulah Bankhead, Bette Davis and Elisabeth Bergner; front and center: Bette Davis, Gary Merrill and...

A One Day Blogathon on May 5 Monday, May 5 th is the 100 th anniversary of Hollywood mega-star Tyrone Power’s birth, and Patt...

GETTING READY FOR THE 2014 TCM CLASSIC FILM FESTIVAL The full schedule of screenings and events set for TCM’s 5 th annual cla...

Notorious (1946) - French movie poster I love the posters of France, Italy, Spain, Germany and other countries of Western and Eastern Eu...

The historic Napa Valley Opera House on Main Street in Napa, California, first opened its doors in 1880 with a production of Gilbert and ...

According to J.E. Luebering of the Encyclopædia Britannica , a roman à clef ("novel with a key") is a work of fiction that...

Christopher Pollock's annotated filmography of the San Francisco Bay Area While visiting Northern California, evangelist Bil...

A week or so ago Silver Screen Modiste , the website of my dear blogger friend Christian Esquevin, was hi-jacked. When he discovered that...

San Francisco's annual Noir City film noir festival is in progress now at the city's iconic movie palace, the Castro Theatre. T...