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If there ever was a man who needed no introduction it’s the man above. This is a never before seen shot of one of the biggest stars of the Golden Era. And, yes, that’s our Dnal Gordon picture above. And, last week we brought you Jane Withers and Rory Calhoun (see studio shots below), fresh […]
The chant “going to the movies” for those of a certain age arouses nostalgic goose bumps. Do you get goosebumps at the prospect of patronizing today’s local multiplex? No? We thought not. This may come as a surprise to our younger readers but local movie theaters right up into roughly the late 1950’s, did […]
She is, yet again, making some news. That’s because of the 2017 release of Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story, Alexandra Dean’s fascinating historical documentary forcefully presenting the view that Hedy in fact was a intellectually gifted woman and pioneering inventor — in addition, of course, to being one of classic Hollywood most renowned sexpots. In […]
Well, it turns out that at least some of you know a lot about Tyrone Power. We also suspect a lot more of you do but just aren’t saying. In any case, lets get to the answers to our TP Quix: 1) Question: Power began his movie career at this prominent Hollywood studio, and was considered […]
He was right up there with Gary Cooper and Clark Gable in the ranks of Hollywood’s handsomest leading men. He was so popular that mothers named their sons after him, presumably in hopes that they would turn out as strikingly good looking. He was one of the few Hollywood stars who actually saw combat while serving […]
It was one of Alfred Hitchcock’s disappointments. And, perhaps, that’s why we see it so infrequently. Still 1956’s The Wrong Man has some fine touches including a topnotch music score by the renowned Bernard Herrmann and atmospheric B&W photography and lighting (by Robert Burks). But since audiences don’t leave humming the scenery, the picture’s obvious […]
Consider today’s blog an introductory preview of what’s to come. That is, we’d like to present our subject today face first. A longer — and very appreciative — blog is to come in about Wallace Ford short order. Yes, you’ve probably gave seen him in a bunch of classic films. Bit parts, sometimes character parts. […]
Do you recognize the two youngsters pictured above? This snapshot is from our Donald Gordon Collection. Lets provide some hints. She was more famously the child star — a sort of second banana Shirley Temple at 20th Century Fox. She went on to a career lasting nearly 70 years (remember, she started very young) and covering some 71 […]
David Niven began his movie career in 1932, and one way or another — except for a key six-year interruption during World War II — worked right up until 1983, the year he died age 73. He was a bona fide member of the “rat pack” auxiliary, a man who faced genuine tragedy in his private […]
Outside of perhaps Laurence Olivier, has there ever been a British actor who reigned as a classic Hollywood movie star with the tenacity and persistence of the subject of our Monday Quiz? Just asking. David Niven began his movie career in 1932, and one way or another through a key interruption worked right up until 1983, […]