Travel classic: Joan McCracken Joan McCracken While the name Joan McCracken is unknown to many these days, in her heyday she was a renowned actress, dancer, and comedian who was responsible for the role of Sylvie in is known Oklahoma!She adopted the nickname "The Girl Who Falls Down" for her pratfalls on the show. An instant hit...
"Vitagraph: America's First Great Film Studio"”We're giving away four books this month! CMH is excited to announce our next Classic Movie Book Giveaway as part of our partnership with University Press of Kentucky! This time we're giving away FOUR COPIES of "Vitagraph: America's First Great Film Studio" on the occasion of the book's publication on June 9th!...
Modern science fiction owes a debt to "Day of the Triffids" In an ongoing effort to enjoy as many classic movie monsters as possible, it was time to revisit it The day of the triffids. Seeing it with fresh eyes after so long brought a sense of déjà-vu in an unexpected way. There, in Day of the...
“Mean… Moody… Great !: Jane Russell and theMarketing a Hollywood legend "We're giving away four books this month! CMH is excited to announce our next Classic Movie Book Giveaway as part of our partnership with University Press of Kentucky! This time we're giving away FOUR COPIES of "Mean ... Moody ... Great !: Jane Russell and the...
Silverscreen standards: The gay divorcee (1934) The gay divorcee (1934) I knew I wanted to write about Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers for this month's column, but with ten films to choose from, the hard part was deciding which one to watch the most. cylinder (1935) and Rocking time (1936) are the most obvious choices, but I...
How many films have Clark Gable andJean Harlow Star Together? The King of Hollywood and the Blonde Bombshell, Clark Gable and Jean Harlow “She didn't want to be famous. She wanted to be happy. "-Clark Gable (via Jean Harlow) Clark Gable and Jean Harlow starred in SIX films together. The Secret Six (1931), directed by George W....
Western RoundUp: Corriganville Some of the best known western locations are outside of Southern California ... places like Lone Pines Alabama Hills, further north in California, or Monument Valley, where John Ford shot westerns on the Arizona-Utah border. However, hundreds of westerns, typically those with smaller budgets, have been shot on Southern California film ranches. Some of...
There is no one on the planet who knows more about the classic TV series Bewitched as a talented writer Adam-Michael James. His deliciously comprehensive first book, The enchanted continuum, was an encyclopedic tome of everything you could ever want to know about the series, which ran from 1964 to 1972, including a detailed recap of all...
Marilyn Monroe – The Intellectual Over the years, Marilyn Monroe has become more icon than person. The Marilyn the world knows is mostly defined by two things: appearance and tragedy. She is seen as the ditzy, blonde bombshell who giggles as her skirt flies up or as the naïve orphan eaten alive by Hollywood. In reality, Marilyn Monroe was...
The second Emmys ceremony in less than a year delivered a handful of highlights, a few head-scratchers, and one...
Read more
About US
Welcome to our stimulating blog and journal!
Hello! Let me introduce my wife and myself. I am Stephane and I was really lucky to meet my wife, Mariolis, 14 years ago in the beautiful Caribbean island of Cuba. For some time now we have dreamed to create an on-line ‘dairy’ and blog to share aspire our life’s passions
Read my full story.
English
العربية
Nederlands
Français
Deutsch
Italiano
日本語
한국어
Русский
Español
Svenska
Türkçe
اردو
Tiếng Việt