Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Lea Stans on September 22, 2026

An Ideal Mentor: Buster Keaton’s Apprenticeship With Roscoe Arbuckle Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton If you’re a fan of classic comedy, you’ve likely heard of Buster Keaton’s earliest film appearances in Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle’s slapstick comedies, many of which are considered classics today.   read more

Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Toni Ruberto on September 19, 2026

In today’s on-demand world of streaming services, we feel like we can watch any movie with a click of a button. But that’s not true. There are always films that elude us despite our best efforts to find them. For me, that’s Beginning of the End (1957). I was a...   read more

Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Karen Burroughs Hannsberry on September 17, 2026

Anthony Mann at the Helm Several years ago, when I was a guest on a podcast, the hostess asked me to name my favorite film noir directors. I don’t know why, but I felt like a deer caught in the headlights, and my mind went completely blank – the only...   read more

Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Jennifer Garlen on September 10, 2026

Angel Face (1953) Classic film has no shortage of mean girls, but Angel Face (1953) offers a particularly dangerous teenage femme fatale in its title character, played with unhinged intensity by English actress Jean Simmons. The plot of this riveting story of obsession and murder has a lot in commo   read more

Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Annmarie Gatti on August 31, 2026

3 Fun Facts about The Big Sleep Released on August 31, 1946, The Big Sleep stars Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in one of classic Hollywood’s most famous film noirs. Murder, mystery — and one famously complicated plot! Here are three fun facts about The Big Sleep… 1. Even R   read more

Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Laura Grieve on August 30, 2026

Lone Pine Film Festival 2026 Preview It’s hard to believe it, but it’s time for a preview of the 36th Lone Pine Film Festival! This year’s festival takes place in Lone Pine, California, from October 8th through 11th, 2026. Countless movies were filmed in the Alabama Hills outside Lone Pine,...   read more

Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Toni Ruberto on August 30, 2026

The Long Hair of Death is a movie title that sparks the imagination. How will it fulfill the glorious promise of its title? Perhaps as a variation of Medusa with exceedingly long snakes for hair? Or a darker version of Rapunzel where lethal tresses wrap so tightly around a person,...   read more

Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Annette Bochenek on August 28, 2026

Classic Movie Travels: Grace Kelly Grace Kelly Grace Patricia Kelly was born on November 12, 1929, to Margaret Majer Kelly and John Kelly Sr. in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was the third of their four children. Her father owned a brickwork contracting company and won three Olympic gold medal   read more

Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Annmarie Gatti on August 27, 2026

Calling all Star Trek fans! It’s hard to believe that it’s been 60 years since Star Trek first invited television audiences to boldly go where no one had gone before. Six decades, countless strange new worlds and one enormous pop-culture legacy later, the It Came From Texas Film Festival is...   read more

Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Lea Stans on August 25, 2026

Early Civil War Films Of The Silent Screen During the 1900s and 1910s there was one genre of American film that skyrocketed in popularity, becoming more prevalent than at any other time since. No, it wasn’t the western, or even the slapstick comedy–although those aren’t bad guesses–but the Civil Wa   read more

Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Karen Burroughs Hannsberry on August 20, 2026

Pre-Code Films with Film Noir Flavor – Part 2 Next to film noir, my favorite era of filmmaking is pre-Code – and it’s no wonder that I’m so fond of these pictures – so many of them served up plots that would have made near-perfect film noirs. In my Noir...   read more

Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Jennifer Garlen on August 13, 2026

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) I’m always impressed at just how many Frankenstein movies Universal turned out between 1931 and 1948, and I’m also deeply entertained by the studio’s mix and match approach to making those pictures where its stars were concerned. It might not make for the best   read more

Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Annette Bochenek on August 7, 2026

Classic Movie Travels: Ronnie Schell Ronnie Schell Ronald Ralph Schell was born on December 23, 1931, in Richmond, California, to David and Marguerite Schell. His father worked as a stock checker at an automobile industry plant and later worked for a naval supply center. His mother was a waitres   read more

Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Laura Grieve on July 24, 2026

The Maverick Queen (1956) Barbara Stanwyck is a favorite of many classic film fans, myself included. Over the years I’ve reviewed a few of her films here after seeing them for the first time: The Furies (1950), The Violent Men (1955), and Forty Guns (1957). The Maverick Queen (1956) One...   read more

Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Annette Bochenek on July 23, 2026

Classic Movie Travels: Jim Nabors Jim Nabors James Thurston Nabors was born on June 12, 1930, in Sylacauga, Alabama, the son of Fred Nabors, a police officer, and Mavis Pearl Newman Nabors. He was raised in the small central Alabama community alongside two older sisters: Freddie Mae and Annie   read more

Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Toni Ruberto on July 18, 2026

Modern technology is crazy, isn’t it? It feels like it can take over the world – perhaps not right away but we can see it coming. We welcomed advancements that helped us, but when is it going too far? I recently had to jump out of the way of a...   read more

Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Karen Burroughs Hannsberry on July 16, 2026

Pre-Code Films with Film Noir Flavor Next to film noir, my favorite type of classic movie is pre-Code – films released roughly between 1929 and July 1934, before the strict enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code (also known as the Hays Code). The Hays Code represented a set of...   read more

Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Jennifer Garlen on July 9, 2026

Man Hunt (1941) I discovered the existence of Man Hunt (1941) while searching for classic movies about close encounters with Nazis, and as soon as I learned about it, I knew I needed to see it for myself. Adapted from Geoffrey Household’s 1939 novel, Rogue Male, Man Hunt is one...   read more

Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Lea Stans on July 3, 2026

The American Revolution On The Silent Screen America (1924) It’s fascinating to see how American silent filmmakers portrayed events from U.S. history. Just think how much closer they were in time to events that are practically mythical to us today. In 1915, the Civil War had taken place only 50   read more

Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Annette Bochenek on June 30, 2026

Classic Movie Travels: Rosalind Byrne Rosalind Byrne Rosalind Loretta Mooney, later know as Rosalind Byrne, was born on February 19, 1904, in St Marys, Ohio, to William and Mary Mooney. Her parents were prominent members of the community and her father worked as a judge. Tragically, he passed   read more