Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on April 10, 2023

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: Hollywood Hotel...   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on January 26, 2023

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...   read more

Caftan Woman Posted by on November 22, 2021

It was interesting to discover recently in the decades between my first and second viewing of Tight Spot, 1955 how much of the movie remained vivid in my memory; a true sign that something is working. In my opinion, that something was director Phil Karlson whose way with a well-paced...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on October 31, 2020

"Is it Whitewood you seek?" A tall distinguished-looking man asks this of Nan Barlow ( Venetia Stevenson ) when she comes to a crossroads one dark, foggy evening searching for an old village. It is indeed Whitewood that Nan seeks. After hearing her college professor Alan Driscoll ( Christopher Lee...   read more

Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on November 23, 2019

Carole Lombard's dressing room at the Paramount studios in Hollywood was exquisite, designed with all the comforts a star of the '30s could want. The royal treatment is echoed in a new, luxurious hotel in a place Lombard probably never heard of during her lifetime......Dubai, the city in the United   read more

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on October 4, 2019

Margaret Rutherford. The best way to approach Margaret Rutherford's four "Miss Marple" films is to forget that she's playing Jane Marple. Rutherford's films are comedies with a little mystery and her character bears only a slight resemblance to Agatha Christie's spinster sleuth. The best of Rutherf   read more

Noirish Posted by John Grant on May 17, 2019

A Collins novel that’s deservedly among his lesser-known pieces yet is still thoroughly entertaining, this combines mystery with the supernatural to generally good effect. All London is aghast when the highly eligible Herbert John Westwick, First Baron Montbarry, chooses to dump his long-time   read more

Caftan Woman Posted by on May 10, 2019

Pale Writer and The Poppity are hosting this blogathon tribute to Joan Crawford on May 11th and 12th. You can share in all the tributes to the amazing actress's career by clicking HERE or HERE. Thank you, Gabriela and Erica D! Vicki Baum's successful 1929 novel Grand Hotel became a...   read more

Critica Retro Posted by Lê on August 14, 2018

Grande Hotel (1932) / Grand Hotel (1932) “Grande Hotel” não precisa de propaganda – nem o filme nem o local. O Grande Hotel é o hotel mais caro da Alemanha, como diz o personagem de Lionel Barrymore. “Grande Hotel”, o filme, é uma aula magna sobre o star system,   read more

Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on January 15, 2018

Today, 76 years ago, Carole Lombard made what would be her last public appearance -- visiting Indianapolis, capital of her home state of Indiana, to rally citizens in the nation's first bond rally of World War II. While America had been building up its readiness since war broke out in...   read more

Smitten Kitten Vintage Posted by Rhonda0731 on August 17, 2016

I am pleased to bring you Grand Hotel , my contribution to the Barrymore Trilogy Blogathon hosted by the wonderful Crystal over at IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD. The first time I saw Grand Hotel it was with my dad. He mentioned what a great film it was and...   read more

The Old Hollywood Garden Posted by Carol Martinheira on August 15, 2016

Grand Hotel (1932) On August 15, 2016 By CarolIn Uncategorized What’s this? Another blogathon? You bet! I love my blogathons and August seems to be filled with them! So when Crystal of In The Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood announced that she was hosting   read more

The Man on the Flying Trapeze Posted by David on March 26, 2016

Vicki Baum's 1929 novel (and play) "Grand Hotel" was purchased by MGM, and in 1932 the studio released a film version featuring all the big shots on the lot -- Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Lionel Barrymore and Wallace Beery, with Lewis Stone and Jean Hersholt thrown in for...   read more

The Man on the Flying Trapeze Posted by David on March 26, 2016

Vicki Baum's 1929 novel (and play) "Grand Hotel" was purchased by MGM, and in 1932 the studio released a film version featuring all the big shots on the lot -- Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Lionel Barrymore and Wallace Beery, with Lewis Stone and Jean Hersholt thrown in for...   read more

Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on October 12, 2015

Carole Lombard's fateful final trip to her home state of Indiana for what would be the nation's first war bond rally of World War II has become the stuff of legend. It's well known that Carole helped sell $2 million worth of bonds at the Indiana state capitol building during...   read more

Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on October 12, 2015

Carole Lombard's fateful final trip to her home state of Indiana for what would be the nation's first war bond rally of World War II has become the stuff of legend. It's well known that Carole helped sell $2 million worth of bonds at the Indiana state capitol building during...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on August 12, 2015

Grand Hotel is the epitome of a Hollywood superstar ensemble, and it would set the bar for all the films that would try to imitate and surpass it. Thanks to Irving Thalberg and the studio with more stars than there are in the heavens, MGM delivered a film that was...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on August 12, 2015

Grand Hotel is the epitome of a Hollywood superstar ensemble, and it would set the bar for all the films that would try to imitate and surpass it. Thanks to Irving Thalberg and the studio with more stars than there are in the heavens, MGM delivered a film that was...   read more

GlamAmor Posted by on June 3, 2015

One of my newest partnerships is with Discover Los Angeles, the tourism site for the city. They have invited me to write articles on historic locations for them, which will seem familiar to many of you who enjoy my Out & About series on GlamAmor. The first of my visits...   read more

The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on January 29, 2015

Wes Anderson’s latest film, The Grand Budapest Hotel may be his grandest work yet.  It spans four different time periods, each with their own color pallets and aspect ratios.  Yet, all these periods, points of view and fields of vision gel into one beautiful, energetic and whimsical story. We are...   read more