Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on August 6, 2017

Some of the most beautiful films ever made came out of Russia during the 1940s-1960s, so it is not surprising that a number of these films also featured that exquisite form of dance that has become associated with Mother Russia herself - ballet. Even though ballet has long been considered...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on August 5, 2017

Every year in August, Silverbanks Pictures ( the modest little business my sister and I operate ) launches the Great Hollywood Auction offering a unique selection of rare candids, publicity photos, and original stills. This year we have over 300 photos going up on auction, and we think it is...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on August 3, 2017

This weekend Christina Wehner is hosting the En Pointe Blogathon, a three-day event celebrating films that spotlight that beautiful and centuries old form of dance known as ballet. One of the most overlooked Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films of the 1940s - The Unfinished Dance - just so happens to revolve a   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on July 31, 2017

Walt Disney produced a number of great television serials during the 1950s and 1960s for his show The Wonderful World of Color. The most popular were The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh and The Swamp Fox. One of the earlier serials, however, also ranks as one of the best - The...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on July 27, 2017

The handsome Ralph Forbes posing in desert regalia for a publicity photo from "Beau Ideal" ( 1931 ). From the Archives is our latest series of posts where we share photos from the Silverbanks Pictures collection. Some of these may have been sold in the past, and others may still...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on July 26, 2017

In the late 1960s, adventure and sci-fi films weren't all too popular in the theaters. The younger generation preferred films that portrayed gritty realism; films that dealt with problems they could relate to. The older generation were wondering what became of the musicals and noirs they loved and p   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on July 21, 2017

Pile up! Pile up! This fellow is heading right into a mob of bicyclists that aren't looking down at the road like they should be. If you are a fan of one of the actors in this film, you'll recognize this scene right away.... otherwise it might be impossibly difficult...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on July 15, 2017

"He was born with the gift of laughter and the sense that the world was mad" Raphael Sabatini's classic 1921 novel "Scaramouche" was made into three film adaptations over the years, including a 1956 television series, but hands down this Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer version starring the engaging English act   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on July 9, 2017

For hundreds of years people on the island of Cuba - and throughout other parts south of the equator - were dying of yellow fever, a disease that many doctors believed was unpreventable and, if not caught in time, incurable. What baffled these men of medicine the most was the...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on July 8, 2017

Dorothy McGuire is spending a little bonding time off the set of Old Yeller with her leading player, Spike, in this rare candid photo. Spike portrayed "Old Yeller" in the 1957 Walt Disney classic. He later moved on to television work, appearing as a regular in The Westerner and a...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on July 2, 2017

Johannisnacht ( 1956 ) 14k An opera singer divorces her husband shortly after an extended performing tour in America. Years later, she returns to Germany to see her daughter whom her husband hid away in a chalet in the valley. Willy Birgel, Hertha Feiler, Erik Schumann, Sonja Sutter, Wolfgang Gru   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on June 28, 2017

Back in 1958, Hugh O'Brian, the handsome star of the popular western television series Wyatt Earp received a cable from Dr. Albert Schweitzer, a renowned humanitarian who was currently working in a hospital he built on the banks of the Ogooue River in French Equatorial Africa. The message simply rea   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on June 24, 2017

Kate Douglas Wiggin's popular 1911 novel "Mother Carey's Chickens" was an ideal bit of literary property for Walt Disney Studios. It featured genteel characters, old-fashioned humor, a sweet story line, and a healthy dose of gaps in the plot ideal for musical intervals. The story centered around a   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on June 23, 2017

"Mangiare, Mangiare!" This family is getting ready to sit down for a hearty supper and if you look closely you may recognize Mama and Papa. They both made many great films! As always, if you are not familiar with the rules to The Impossibly Difficult Name that Movie game or...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on June 17, 2017

"Reach out for your child. Reach out and touch him, because I didn't and my father didn't. I couldn't even talk to my parents. Maybe that's why this show ( The Courtship of Eddie's Father ) is so important to me. It probably represents a lot of things I didn't...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on June 13, 2017

Deborah Walley bids farewell to Michael Callan in this charming scene from Walt Disney's Bon Voyage! ( 1962 ). One year later Walley would team up with Callan's look-a-like, James Stacey, in Disney's Summer Magic. From the Archives is our latest series of posts where we share photos from the...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on June 9, 2017

For many years Freddie Bartholomew was one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's biggest box-office drawing child actors but, like most child stars, he found his popularity waning as he grew into adolescence. In 1938, he was no longer a wide-eyed little aristocratic tyke, but had matured into a handsome - if a t   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on June 6, 2017

A bald Fred in 1944 Fred Astaire has always been more famous for his fancy feet than for his hair, but if one was to take a closer examination of his hair style one would notice that it was quite unique. So unique that even as a Rankin/Bass puppet (...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on June 3, 2017

Tim Considine was one of Disney’s most popular television actors and was in fact one of the very first of TV’s teen idols in 1955. Born Dec. 31, 1940 in Los Angeles, California, Tim grew up not very much unlike his first screen roles – the restless son from a...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on May 27, 2017

Carl Boehm and Dolores Hart take a break from filming Come Fly With Me ( 1963 ) to have some lovely publicity photos taken....one of which is this shot. They are posing in front of a beautiful schloss in Vienna, Austria. From the Archives is our latest series of posts...   read more