Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on November 7, 2016

"Aye, I know wha' tis said. He locked the gate and buried the key, and nary's been in there since." A secret garden. Locked up for years. Now overgrowing with weeds and bramble for want of anyone to tend to it. When the young orphan Mary Lennox first discovers this...   read more

Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on July 17, 2013

Dean Stockwell, Margaret O'Brien and Brian Roper in The Secret Garden (1949) The Secret Garden (1949) is a delightful adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel of the same name. Of the three adaptations I've seen of The Secret Garden, this one is my favorite (although I'm also partial to the...   read more

Journeys in Classic Film Posted by on June 18, 2013

I’ve always been nonchalant about The Secret Garden.  I never read it as a kid, and while I saw the various film adaptations I was never particularly fond of them; I was a Little Princess girl (how funny that both Princess and Garden were written by the same author, and...   read more

Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on November 30, -0001

Dean Stockwell, Margaret O'Brien and Brian Roper in The Secret Garden (1949) The Secret Garden (1949) is a delightful adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel of the same name. Of the three adaptations I've seen of The Secret Garden, this one is my favorite (although I'm also partial to the...   read more