Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on December 24, 2015

Guardian angels can come in many forms, and in the film “We’re No Angels” (1955), help arrives from three convicts. Early Christmas Eve, Joseph (Humphrey Bogart), Albert (Aldo Ray), Jules (Peter Ustinov) and Adolf the poisonous snake, escape from prison on French colonial Devil’s Island in 1   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on December 22, 2015

Almost every Christmas for the past four years, I try to film a special Christmas video for the readers and supporters of Comet Over Hollywood. This year — as my gift to you — my mother and I re-enacted one of my favorite Christmas scenes from a classic film. I hope you...   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on December 21, 2015

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 Lemon...   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on December 18, 2015

Cary Grant in the 1940s Cary Grant is often noted as one of the best and most attractive actors of all-time. His film resume includes some of Hollywood’s best films such as Alfred Hitchcock’s “Notorious” (1946) to the comedy “His Girl Friday” (1940). But out of a   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on December 17, 2015

The same year Peggy Ann Garner performed her award winning role in “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,” the 13-year-old actress found herself in a coming of age comedy, “Junior Miss” (1945). Similar to “And So They Were Married” (1936), Christmas is merely a backdrop to adolescent antics in “Junior Miss”...   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on December 14, 2015

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: “Shower of...   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on December 11, 2015

What started out as a song to get party guests to leave is now a Christmas favorite that has come under some scrutiny in recent years. “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” has evolved into a song never left off a Christmas album. The catch? When it was written in 1944, songwriter...   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on December 10, 2015

Before twin Hayley Mills were trying to get their parents together in “The Parent Trap” (1961), Jackie Moran and Edith Fellows worked to keep their parents apart in “And So They Were Married” (1936). In this fun, comedic romp, divorced Edith Farnham (Mary Astor) and her daughter Brenda (Fellows) he   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on December 7, 2015

Comet Over Hollywood is setting aside the usually scheduled Musical Monday for a World War II themed piece. Wealthy Stella Hadley of Washington, DC, begins her Dec. 7, 1941, birthday as she does every year. Lunch is to be served promptly at 1 p.m. with guests: her son Theodore (Richard Ney),...   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on December 1, 2015

Mae West in a publicity photo for “Go West Young Man” (1936) Mae West, known for her buxom figure, long Gibson-girl like gowns and sultry voice, slinked through 1930s films throwing around phrases like “Why don’t you come up and see me sometime?” But after only 10 film   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on November 30, 2015

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: Devil-May-Care (1929) –...   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on November 23, 2015

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: Dames (1934)...   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on November 16, 2015

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: “Blues in...   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on November 9, 2015

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 Cool...   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on November 2, 2015

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: “Small Town...   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on November 1, 2015

A year after “Mr. Boogedy” (1986) aired, the Wonderful World of Disney aired its 1987 sequel, “Bride of Boogedy.” In the sequel, the Davis family is now comfortably settled at their newly renovated in Lucifer Home and happily rid of the ghost Mr. Boogedy for a year. The children in...   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on October 27, 2015

Many of us have movies that we watched repeatedly as children. For my two older sisters and myself, it was the made-for-TV Disney horror comedy “Mr. Boogedy” (1986). My sisters saw it when it originally aired on Disney channel on a Sunday night in April of 1986. Eventually my parents...   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on October 26, 2015

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: “Bedknobs and...   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on October 23, 2015

To go along with some monthly health observances, Comet Over Hollywood is recognizing actors who battled diseases and often, kept it a secret from their public and exhibited strength by continuing to practice their craft. Others helped create awareness or spearheaded organizations for research, suc   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on October 19, 2015

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 Glass...   read more