Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on November 3, 2024

In April 2013, I attended the Turner Classic Movies Film Festival for the first time. The event featured an amazing line-up of guest stars, including Mitzi Gaynor, Max von Sydow, Polly Bergen, Julian Sands, Coleen Gray, Norman Lloyd, and Tippi Hedren. And Ann Blyth. During the fest, I saw Blyth...   read more

Pop Culture ImagineMDD Posted by ImagineMDD on April 21, 2015

Fans React to Meeting Actors who play Frightening Characters on Screen Q: Who are these 1920s-30s baddies? "If for instance you play a bad woman on the screen most of your public take it Doreen Lang as 'Mother who is hysterical with fear' The Birds for granted that you're a...   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on July 22, 2014

Irish actress Maureen O’Hara, pictured here in the 1950s. Hundreds of people stood waiting, excitedly chattering. A line wrapped up and down an alley at least four times and stretched out to Hollywood Boulevard. When the doors to El Capitan Theater opened, people walked briskly, some even run   read more

Classic Movies Posted by KC on June 28, 2011

When the news broke of Peter Falk’s passing, I remembered that I’d seen him in person many years ago. I was thirteen years old and I was with my family in Hollywood. We were on a big California vacation. I was about a year into my classic Hollywood obsession and...   read more