Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on April 29, 2024

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 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: Broadway Gondolier...   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on February 28, 2022

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 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: Stars Over...   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on August 23, 2021

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 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: Broadway to...   read more

Caftan Woman Posted by on January 11, 2021

Mervyn LeRoy directed Three on a Match for Warner Brothers in 1932 with a screenplay by Lucien Hubbard based on a story by Kubec Glasman and John Bright. The film's 63 minutes is packed with the verve typical of LeRoy's work in this era (Five Star Final, Little Caesar, Big...   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on December 3, 2020

In 2011, I announced I was trying to see every film released in 1939. This new series chronicles films released in 1939 as I watch them. As we start out this blog feature, this section may become more concrete as I search for a common thread that runs throughout each film...   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on October 12, 2020

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 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: Meet Me...   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on October 14, 2019

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 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: Broadway Melody...   read more

Classic Movies Posted by KC on August 27, 2019

I’m delighted that Warner Archive has kept its promise to continue regularly releasing pre-code titles after the conclusion of its Forbidden Hollywood series. Its recent DVD release of Made on Broadway (1933) is definitely the kind of film that would have fit perfectly into one of those boxed   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on July 8, 2019

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 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: Broadway Hostess...   read more

Caftan Woman Posted by on May 7, 2019

Annette Bochenek of Hometowns to Hollywood is hosting The Hollywood Gangsters Blogathon from May 6th to the 8th. Click HERE for all the tough guys and molls. Inspector Chan (Warner Oland) and his son, Lee (Keye Luke) of Hawaii plan to be nothing but tourists when their ocean liner docks...   read more

Noirish Posted by John Grant on March 21, 2019

We were recently moving a piece of furniture that hadn’t been moved in a very long time and discovered inside it a stash of extremely old books. Quite why we’d put the books there was a mystery. Even more of a mystery was why we’d kept some of the books...   read more

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on January 16, 2019

Some 85 years after the great ape's original screen debut, King Kong has made a triumphant return to New York City, this time as the star of his own Broadway musical. There have been plenty of sequels, reboots, revisions, and reincarnations featuring the oversized cinema gorilla, but I've never seen   read more

Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on October 7, 2018

In the four years that Kristina and I have been recommending films for our Pre-Code Crazy series, I’ve never quite experienced a month like this one! October is a notoriously difficult month for me to identify a film, what with all the horror pictures crowding the TCM schedule, and I’m...   read more

Caftan Woman Posted by on June 3, 2018

Rebecca Deniston of Taking Up Room is hosting The Broadway Bound Blogathon, a look at movies about Broadway, Broadway plays, the whole lovely mix. Here is your backstage pass: Day 1 contributions Day 2 contributions Day 3 contributions to the blogathon running on June 1, 2, and 3. Hirschfeld'   read more

Critica Retro Posted by Lê on June 3, 2018

Melodia da Broadway de 1940 / Broadway Melody of 1940 Alguém tem como sonho ser uma estrela da Broadway. Outra pessoa quer montar um show musical. Há um interesse amoroso, confusão, mal-entendido, uma pouco de drama, um monte de músicas. Eu acabei de descrever todos os musicais já feitos &#8   read more

Caftan Woman Posted by on June 3, 2018

Rebecca Deniston of Taking Up Room is hosting the Broadway Bound Blogathon, a look at movies about Broadway, Broadway plays, and performers, the whole lovely mix. The blogathon runs from June 1 to 3. Here is your backstage pass: Day 1 contributions Day 2 contributions Day 3 contributions Hirs   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on May 30, 2018

Handsome Turhan Bey and pretty Susanna Foster are performing at the piano in this scene from RKO's 1944 production Bowery to Broadway. Ms. Foster was born Suzanne Larson but took the name Susanna after the song "Oh, Susanna" and Foster from the song's writer, Stephen Foster. From the Archives is...   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on May 21, 2018

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: “Bloodhounds of...   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on May 14, 2018

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: Broadway Rhythm (1944)...   read more

Classic Movies Posted by KC on May 11, 2018

No actress gave the classic melodramatic weeper more depth than Kay Francis. In a genre crafted to manipulate emotions, she threw herself into the drama with such abandon that you can’t help forgiving her for working your tear ducts so relentlessly. Now on DVD from Warner Archive, Comet Over B   read more