Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on October 15, 2023

Treguna Mekoides and Trecorum Satis Dee...."I don’t want locomotionary substitution or remote in transitory convolution, only one precise solution is the key…. substitutionary locomotion it must me!"Yes, Eglantine Price was searching, not for locomotionary substitution, nor for remote in   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on October 22, 2022

On October 7, 1971, Walt Disney's Bedknobs and Broomsticks, a delightful and magical musical starring the late great Angela Lansbury and David Tomlinson, had its world premiere in London. Earlier that day, John Noakes, the host of Britain's popular children's series Blue Peter, was in Leicester Squa   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on October 30, 2020

It has been a long, long time since we have featured a TV/Movie set article, so to bring the series back to life, my sister and I selected a house design that we have loved for years - the Bedknobs and Broomsticks manor. It's so fitting for this time of...   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on October 26, 2015

It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 500. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: “Bedknobs and...   read more

Journeys in Classic Film Posted by on October 8, 2014

“Filigree, apogee, pedigree, perigee!” Our Halloween tribute to all things witchy goes Disney with a look at Bedknobs and Broomsticks. In the wake of Mary Poppins several Poppins copycats were greenlit. United Artists tried their hand four years after Poppins, losing Andrews but retainin   read more

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on September 17, 2012

Loosely based on the novel by Mary Norton, Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) followed up Disney's enormous success with Mary Poppins (1964), and on paper the two pictures must look very similar. Here we have two musical comedies set in England, both involving magic and a handful of cute but troublesom   read more