Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on July 17, 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: The Yellow...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on June 15, 2022

Esther Williams and Ann Miller are pictured alongside Red Skelton in Texas Carnival, one of his best films for MGM. The publicity department promoted the film as an Esther Williams vehicle but Red Skelton was really the star of this show, the last of four films the twosome made together....   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on June 27, 2021

Dennis Morgan and Jack Carson were great pals off-screen and they had the good fortune to play together on-screen in 11 films released throughout the 1940s. Most of these were simple comedies in the vein of the popular Bob Hope and Bing Crosby Road pictures that Paramount was issuing. In...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on February 5, 2021

Jack Carson is cuddling up with an Indian maiden in this publicity photo for Warner Brother's Two Guys from Texas ( 1948 ) that featured the comedy duo of Carson and Dennis Morgan. The "Indian" pictured is Cleatus Caldwell, wife of actor Robert Hutton. From the Archives is our latest...   read more

Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on May 21, 2020

Ninety years ago this week, Carole Lombard's first film for Paramount, the Charles "Buddy" Rogers musical vehicle "Safety In Numbers" (Lombard is second from left) had the distinction of being the first film shown at a venue that architecturally held its own with any movie palace of the time.It was   read more

Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on August 16, 2019

Carole Lombard and Clark Gable gets lots of love at Love Field in Dallas in December 1939 (that's MGM publicist Otto Winkler next to Carole) as they make a stopover en route to Atlanta for the "Gone With The Wind" premiere. For Carole -- who looks a bit perturbed by...   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on January 7, 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 500. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: Two Guys...   read more

The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on January 26, 2016

The Best of An Alan Smithee Podcast: Episode Seven The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974, Tobe Hooper) / Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994, Kim Henkel) Originally posted: November 10, 2010 Subscribe via iTunes.   read more

The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on January 26, 2016

The Best of An Alan Smithee Podcast: Episode Eight The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974, Tobe Hooper) / Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994, Kim Henkel) Originally posted: November 10, 2010 Subscribe via iTunes.   read more

The Man on the Flying Trapeze Posted by David on January 7, 2015

The personal, private, top, top super-secret diary of Nasa Springer No boys allowed! (tee-hee) June 12, 1932 Dear Diary: Just got back from riding my horses across our vast Texas estate. We stopped for a water break at Dallas and then got as far as Amarillo before we turned back....   read more

The Man on the Flying Trapeze Posted by David on January 7, 2015

The personal, private, top, top super-secret diary of Nasa Springer No boys allowed! (tee-hee) June 12, 1932 Dear Diary: Just got back from riding my horses across our vast Texas estate. We stopped for a water break at Dallas and then got as far as Amarillo before we turned back....   read more

Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Annmarie Gatti on October 29, 2013

Audie Murphy awarded Texas Legislative Medal of Honor Governor Rick Perry will formally present the Texas Legislative Medal of Honor posthumously to Major Audie L. Murphy on October 29, 2PM in a public ceremony in Farmersville, Texas.  The award will be accepted by Murphy’s sister, Mrs. Nadi   read more

The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on October 8, 2013

Where chainsaws ever present in nightmares before The Texas Chain Saw Massacre?  Since Tobe Hooper’s film in 1974, the chainsaw has taken new life.  The rev and buzz of the machine has become part of the soundtrack of the Halloween season and being chased by a madman wielding the tool...   read more

Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on September 8, 2013

"No One Man," "No Man Of Her Own" and "White Woman" were three of Carole Lombard's Paramount releases in 1932 and 1933 -- and heralds for all three films now are up for auction at eBay.No date is given to when it ran, but we do know where it ran...   read more

Critica Retro Posted by Lê on July 26, 2013

Viver sonhando / Texas, Brooklyn and Heaven (1948) O título da blogathon é “William Castle – Scaring the pants off America”, mas em nada o terror tem a ver com esse filme do começo da carreira do diretor, que então tinha apenas 34 anos. A comédia leve e simpática conta...   read more

Critica Retro Posted by Lê on July 26, 2013

Viver sonhando / Texas, Brooklyn and Heaven (1948) O título da blogathon é “William Castle – Scaring the pants off America”, mas em nada o terror tem a ver com esse filme do começo da carreira do diretor, que então tinha apenas 34 anos. A comédia leve e simpática conta...   read more

Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on February 10, 2013

The Heart of Texas Ryan (1917) stars silent cowby hero Tom Mix as Jack Parker. Until he met Texas Ryan, the Eastern-bred daughter of rugged cattle king William Ryan, Jack Parker was just a straight-shooting, hard-riding cowboy. Hoping to see Texas again, Parker accepts a job on the Ryan ranch. Whil   read more

Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on February 10, 2013

The Heart of Texas Ryan (1917) stars silent cowby hero Tom Mix as Jack Parker. Until he met Texas Ryan, the Eastern-bred daughter of rugged cattle king William Ryan, Jack Parker was just a straight-shooting, hard-riding cowboy. Hoping to see Texas again, Parker accepts a job on the Ryan ranch. Whil   read more

The Movie Rat Posted by Bernardo Villela on November 8, 2012

This past weekend the Belgian Film North Sea Texas opened in New York and Los Angeles. I was fortunate enough to watch this film in July when it screened at Q Fest in Philadelphia. Based on the plot synopsis I had hopes that it would be a good film, what...   read more

The Movie Rat Posted by Bernardo Villela on October 19, 2012

Most holidays worth their while encompass entire seasons, such as Christmas, for example. However, as you may have noticed there is a corporate push every year for us to think about the next holiday even sooner. While this has many negative side effects I figure I may as well embrace...   read more