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Girls came and went in all the Andy Hardy movies, but one girl remained constant — Polly Benedict, Andy’s true love. And throughout the late Thirties and early Forties pretty, perky Ann Rutherford portrayed Polly. Ann had quite a career in other films as well. Who can forget her as the youngest of the O’Hara sisters […]
Mickey Rooney died at his Los Angeles home on April 6 at age 93. There’s no question that Rooney’s career was among Hollywood’s longest — if not THE longest ever. Rooney certainly warrants the “honor” of being a subject of our weekly Monday Quiz. Ok, let’s see how you did. (Remember, just scroll down to yesterday’s blog to review […]
As a classic movie fan who pays attention, you undoubtedly know by now that Mickey Rooney died at his Los Angeles home on April 6 at age 93. Whadda guy and whadda career — not all of it good by any means. We are more or less of two minds about Rooney: Joe has long […]
The terrible twos are over. This blog turned three last week. Yes, for three years we’ve come to you rain or shine every Monday through Friday with our musings about Classic Films, Classic Movie Stars, and the Golden Era of Hollywood. We think of ourselves as cheerier than the Post Office and, we hope, a […]
With today’s blog, you’ll find out exactly why we love reader e-mails. We recently received this note from Kitty Collins: I love this blog! Please make Hedy Lamarr your Star of the Week one of these days – I absolutely adore her, and I’d get such a kick out of seeing her being appreciated for […]
Who are these two schlamiels anyway? It’s amazing how much a film buff can learn when watching old movies on TV. Thank heaven for Turner Classic Movies, one of the cable channels which runs not just classics, but old movies of every stripe. A few weeks ago we caught up with a 1944 film called […]
As mentioned yesterday, the subject of this week’s Monday Quiz may not be immediately familiar to our readers under a certain age, but think of Marion Davies this way: Recall the Susan Alexander character in Orson Welles’ 1941 masterpiece, Citizen Kane. You know, the aspiring opera singer (played by Dorothy Comingore) who sang flat, and was pushed way beyond her artistic […]
The subject of this week’s Monday Quiz may not be immediately familiar to our readers under a certain age, but think of Marion Davies this way: Recall the Susan Alexander character in Orson Welles’ 1941 masterpiece, Citizen Kane. You know, the aspiring opera singer (played by Dorothy Comingore) who sang flat, and was pushed way […]
As you should know by now, we are big — and we mean BIG — fans of Mildred Pierce. Time has proven this 1945 film noir a classic. Not just because of the Oscar winning performance by Joan Crawford in the title role, but because of the direction (Michael Curtiz), art direction (Anton Grot and Bertram Tuttle) […]
As classic movie fans, we don’t need to tell you about how much a solid movie score can enhance even the best dramas — or comedies, for that matter. Yet “best original score” remains a distinctly down-the-list Oscar category (can you tell us who won in this bracket this year?) even though “best original song” […]