Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on June 3, 2024

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 Vagabond...   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on September 5, 2016

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: “The Vagabond...   read more

The Man on the Flying Trapeze Posted by David on May 28, 2015

Click here to read my review of the 1929 film "The Vagabond Lover." What follows is some background on the movie: Before Bieber, before Timberlake, before Elvis and Sinatra and even before Crosby, there was Vallee. In the late 1920s, Rudy Vallee and his band, the Connecticut Yankees, were hu   read more

The Man on the Flying Trapeze Posted by David on May 28, 2015

Click here to read my review of the 1929 film "The Vagabond Lover." What follows is some background on the movie: Before Bieber, before Timberlake, before Elvis and Sinatra and even before Crosby, there was Vallee. In the late 1920s, Rudy Vallee and his band, the Connecticut Yankees, were hu   read more

Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on August 6, 2013

Have a spare couple million? If so, as has been widely reported this morning, this charming sketch could be yours. The seller claims it's Rudy Vallee, and I suppose there's a resemblence to the crooner and sometime leading man, but much more to the point, he claims that it's by...   read more

Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on August 6, 2013

Have a spare couple million? If so, as has been widely reported this morning, this charming sketch could be yours. The seller claims it's Rudy Vallee, and I suppose there's a resemblence to the crooner and sometime leading man, but much more to the point, he claims that it's by...   read more

The Man on the Flying Trapeze Posted by David on July 27, 2013

The 1929 film "The Vagabond Lover" stars Marie Dressler, Sally Blane and a statue known as Rudy Vallee. Filmed when Vallee was at the height of his fame as a bandleader (of the Connecticut Yankees) and as a crooner with a voice that sounds like his adenoids have adenoids, "The...   read more

The Man on the Flying Trapeze Posted by David on July 27, 2013

The 1929 film "The Vagabond Lover" stars Marie Dressler, Sally Blane and a statue named Rudy Vallee. Filmed when Vallee was at the height of his fame as a bandleader (of the Connecticut Yankees) and as a crooner with a voice that sounds like his adenoids have adenoids, "The Vagabond...   read more