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How much did you know about our cult classic Repeat Performance? How much did you know about Billy Wilder’s film The Apartment? Read on and see. Let’s start with answers to questions relating to the former picture. Question 1: The movie begins with a woman standing over the body of her dead spouse. The occasion […]
Two of our favorite films which have themes centering around New Year’s Eve are The Apartment and Repeat Performance. Thus this brief Quiz. Let’s see how much you know about them. First…… Question 1: Jack Lemmon plays a lonely company drone who lends out his Upper West Side New York apartment to his corporate bosses […]
Sometimes a stand alone leading lady, but more often than not the Star’s best friend, the versatile actress had a long and successful career. From Wuthering Heights and Dark Victory in 1939 to starring roles in Nobody Lives Forever, and Three Strangers, to character parts well into the 1970s and 80s. Did you like […]
Theatre is great. But movies are better. Film captures a moment and keeps it for future generations to enjoy. What we find most fascinating are examples when great stars from different eras have an opportunity to work together. Above you see the great Rita Hayworth whose career was winding down in 1957 and Jack Lemmon, […]
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Best wishes for the Merriest of Christmases and a happy holiday season. Yes, above are George Bailey and Mary Hatch Bailey (Donna Reed and James Stewart), the familial stalwarts of It’s A Wonderful Life. In this quintessential holiday movie — set in the mythical Bedford Falls — the two stars play small town dwellers. […]
It’s become a bit of a tradition with us — as with so many others — and what more fitting Christmas Quiz? Yes, it’s the most famous of Christmastime films over the more than seven decades since it was first released to the world. What, we ask, would the season be without It’s A Wonderful Life? […]
He was noted for playing ethnic characters, often Hispanics…. ….Or Italians. And get this: Naish never played Chinese detective Charlie Chan in the movies but did so in the 1958 tv series, The New Adventures of Charlie Chan. He was twice nominated for a best supporting actor Oscar. He is remembered for his stirring anti-Mussolini speech […]
Sexy she was, but she could act too. The silver screen seems to love blowsy blondes. Sometimes dumb, sometimes shrewd. And sometimes put upon. Her most durable role was that of the working girl pimped out by the unctuous, amoral pressagent Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis) in the 1957 classic The Sweet Smell of Success. Barbara […]
He was around for decades. In A movies, in B movies, in Classic Movies. Our man pictured above is none other than Edward Arnold, another great character actor from Hollywood’s Golden Age. He wasn’t always thought of as such. A 1937 poll of movie exhibitors, for example, named Arnold among other stars as “box office […]