Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on March 10, 2023

"I got a living to earn for two and I can't do it in Kentucky. You got to take your spoon where the soup is." - Letty"Well, the soup's hot in New York, kid. You're likely to get burned." - CarolLetty ( Madge Evans ) is a small-town girl who...   read more

Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on August 1, 2020

Carole Lombard and Clark Gable pose for the press on March 30, 1939, the day after they married in Kingman, Ariz. Where did this take place? Their ranch in Encino? Nope, it wasn't ready yet, and in 1939, the Valley was a bit removed for much of the Hollywood press...   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on September 26, 2019

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

Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on April 21, 2019

A happy Easter (what's left of it, anyway) from Carole Lombard, as we've run across two sets of clippings of her now available on eBay.This batch of 23 pics is available for $44.96, although you can make an offer. Find out more about it, and the conditions attached, at https://www.ebay.com/itm/Carol   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on December 19, 2018

We are inserted, presumably, into a war picture courtesy of William A. Wellman, situated in WWI trenches. The downpour is compounded by the constant hail of bullets as a group of men conduct a near suicide mission. One of the soldiers, Tom Holmes (Richard Barthelmess) proves his heroics on the batt   read more

Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on June 27, 2018

Someone call Carole Lombard to give her the news: One of her scripts now is available, more than 80 years after it was converted into a movie.It's for "True Confession," Carole's final film for Paramount and one that inspires both avid defenders and intense detractors. (Leonard Maltin, otherwise a L   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on October 31, 2017

Mike Morgan ( Robert Young ) is a skeptic. He was a former magician who now makes his living selling his magic tricks to other New York City magicians. "Miracles for Sale" is his tagline, and creating illusions is his racket. So, when he comes across a real-life mystery he...   read more

Classic Reel Girl Posted by BG Voita on November 30, 2014

Watch any television program with a high female demographic or flip through a magazine intended for women, and you will be bombarded with countless ads peddling beauty wares. The desire for immortality is as old as Ponce de Leon's search for the Fountain of Youth, but the added emphasis on...   read more

Movies Silently Posted by Fritzi Kramer on November 17, 2014

By Fritzi Kramer on November 17, 2014 in Blog, Double Feature, Feature, Silent Movie Review A behind-the-scenes look at Hollywood, circa 1923. Eleanor Boardman plays a kid with a dream of stardom. The biggest names in the silent film industry serve as her backdrop, everyone from Charlie Chaplin to   read more

The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day Jr. on August 26, 2014

One of the sub-genres of the World War One film is the "Forgotten Man" storyline--a movie dealing with the returning veterans of the Great War. The topic of the "Forgotten Man" cropped up in pictures such as GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933 and THE ROARING TWENTIES. The struggling World War One...   read more

The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day Jr. on August 26, 2014

One of the sub-genres of the World War One film is the "Forgotten Man" storyline--a movie dealing with the returning veterans of the Great War. The topic of the "Forgotten Man" cropped up in pictures such as GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933 and THE ROARING TWENTIES. The struggling World War One...   read more

A Person in the Dark Posted by FlickChick on February 25, 2014

2014 is the year A Person in the Dark celebrates films about my favorite place - Hollywood! SOULS FOR SALE By 1923, Hollywood had already established itself as the capitol of glamour, dreams, scandal and sin. William Desmond Taylor had been murdered and the Arbuckle scandal cast a great shad   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on August 10, 2013

“Babies for Sale.” Few film titles have made me chuckle  as much as this 1940 B-movie did. But the movie starring Glenn Ford and Rochelle Hudson is not a comedy but a crime drama about organizations posing as charitable adoption agencies who are actually selling babies for thousands of dollars....   read more

Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn Sample on January 14, 2013

Una Merkel Beauty for Sale (1933). A film about the romances of three beauty salon employees. It was based on the novel Beauty by Faith Baldwin. Cast: Madge Evans, Alice Brady, Otto Kruger, Una Merkel, May Robson and Hedda Hopper. Madge Evans Letty Lawson, has just run out of the...   read more

The Man on the Flying Trapeze Posted by David on July 25, 2012

Richard Barthelmess had a face suited to sadness, and as the hero of "Heroes for Sale" (1933), it fits his character perfectly. He's Tom Holmes, a World War I veteran who faces prison, poverty, death, drugs and depression. He ends the movie with his ethics intact, but not much else....   read more

The Man on the Flying Trapeze Posted by David on July 25, 2012

Richard Barthelmess had a face suited to sadness, and as the hero of "Heroes for Sale" (1933), it fits his character perfectly. He's Tom Holmes, a World War I veteran who faces prison, poverty, death, drugs and depression. He ends the movie with his ethics intact, but not much else....   read more

Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on March 15, 2012

Carole Lombard's signature, in a far more formal environment than this photo, can be found on three documents now up for sale at eBay. And whereas Lombard signed this candid shot for free only a few days after it was taken, to purchase all three documents you would need about...   read more

Hollywood Revue Posted by Angela on November 22, 2011

During World War I, Tom Holmes (Richard Barthelmess) goes off to fight with his hometown friend Roger Winston (Gordon Westcott).  At one point, Roger is supposed to undertake a risky maneuver to capture a German prisoner.  When it comes time to go through with it, Roger is paralyzed with fear...   read more

Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on September 15, 2011

My TIFF experience marched on with Wednesday’s screening of the Moroccan film Death for Sale. I approached this movie with some apprehension because what I know about Morrocco… well, frankly what I know about Morroco I learned from Casablanca. I don’t often watch contemporary fore   read more

Critica Retro Posted by Lê on November 30, -0001

Almas à Venda (1923) / Souls for Sale (1923) “Você é real ou… uma miragem?”“Nenhum dos dois. Sou um ator de cinema.”“Are you real or… a mirage?”“Neither. I’m a movie actor.”Meu tipo favorito de film são filmes sobre filmes. Meu f   read more