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In 1956, Rock Hudson made three movies, one of which was Giant with costars Elizabeth Taylor and, the by-now iconic, James Dean, an actor we’ve written about extensively. Who was the better actor in director George Stevens’ sweeping western saga based on Edna Ferber’s novel about life on a Texas cattle ranch? Was it Hudson as rancher […]
Today he might best be remembered as a Kennedy son-in-law, or a member of Frank Sinatra’s rat pack, but in the 1940s and 50s, Peter Lawford was a genuine movie star. Often teamed with June Allyson in MGM musicals or comedies, he also starred opposite Judy Garland, Esther Williams, Jane Powell, and Judy Holliday. He […]
To answer your questions, that is. Reader Pam White wrote to us and asked: My Dad is a Korean War vet. He remembers a war movie starring Mickey Rooney showing in the early 1950’s. My Dad’s clearest memory of the plot is that the movie ends with Mickey Rooney’s character being left behind and waiting […]
The subject of our Monday Quiz this week is one of the most written-about (partially by herself) movie stars in classic Hollywood history. Still, we’re betting that you couldn’t immediately comes up with answers to our 10 questions about her (scroll down to Monday’s blog for the queries). Well today is crunch time, answers to […]
Millions of words have been written about her. Thousands of stories told. But who was she really? Well, we’ll give you a chance today to find out. Since her passing in 2003 at age 96, there’s been a fair amount of revisionist assessment of Katharine Hepburn personally and of her illustrious career covering more than […]
Our quiz about Film Noir ad lines earlier this week reminded us of one of the least remembered noirs of the early 40s, I Wake Up Screaming. The film stars Betty Grable (above), Victor Mature and Carole Landis and features bulky and strong-voiced Laird Cregar as the crooked police detective who’s eager to pin the murder […]
They fascinate! They are classic Hollywood’s bad girls — eg., Barbara Payton, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Linda Christian are tops in this category (we’ve written about all three) — and we love ’em. In honor of the surprisingly large number readers we log daily in France, we’ve decided to add a French touch to our […]
I’m a dying man with no money. […]
Yesterday we threw out 10 ad lines which the studios used (mainly in their wonderful posters which they sent to theatres across America in the 1940s and 50s) to publicize their films. How many did you know? Ok, after refreshing yourselves on the blurb lines covered in Monday’s blog (scroll down just a tad), check […]
Fasten your seat belts! We’re experimenting with our usual Monday Quiz format. This week, instead of asking you via our usual probing questions about a specific star or movie, we decided to test your knowledge of famous movie ad lines. Lines such as GABLE’S BACK AND GARSON’S GOT ‘IM. That’s from the Victor Fleming’s 1945 […]