Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on January 30, 2016

Johnny Baxter ( Dean Jones ) is your average hard-working American family man, stuck in an accounting job he doesn't like but staying on because he has a wife and two children to support. "In the five years I've been there I moved from accounts receivable to accounts payable", he...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on January 30, 2016

Johnny Baxter ( Dean Jones ) is your average hard-working American family man, stuck in an accounting job he doesn't like but staying on because he has a wife and two children to support. "In the five years I've been there I moved from accounts receivable to accounts payable", he...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on January 30, 2016

Johnny Baxter ( Dean Jones ) is your average hard-working American family man, stuck in an accounting job he doesn't like but staying on because he has a wife and two children to support. "In the five years I've been there I moved from accounts receivable to accounts payable", he...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on January 27, 2016

We're saluting all of the friendly neighborhood postmen across America with our latest entry in the Impossibly Difficult Name that Movie Game. This is one happy looking fellow and neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night will keep him from the swift completion of his appointed rounds....   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on January 27, 2016

We're saluting all of the friendly neighborhood postmen across America with our latest entry in the Impossibly Difficult Name that Movie Game. This is one happy looking fellow and neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night will keep him from the swift completion of his appointed rounds....   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on January 27, 2016

We're saluting all of the friendly neighborhood postmen across America with our latest entry in the Impossibly Difficult Name that Movie Game. This is one happy looking fellow and neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night will keep him from the swift completion of his appointed rounds....   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on January 23, 2016

James Stewart and director Henry Koster made a wonderful team. They worked together on five films, beginning with the highly entertaining Harvey. Stewart had made numerous comedies in the 1930s and 1940s and had a natural knack for comedy, but in the 1950s and 1960s he was turning more and...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on January 23, 2016

James Stewart and director Henry Koster made a wonderful team. They worked together on five films, beginning with the highly entertaining Harvey. Stewart had made numerous comedies in the 1930s and 1940s and had a natural knack for comedy, but in the 1950s and 1960s he was turning more and...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on January 23, 2016

James Stewart and director Henry Koster made a wonderful team. They worked together on five films, beginning with the highly entertaining Harvey. Stewart had made numerous comedies in the 1930s and 1940s and had a natural knack for comedy, but in the 1950s and 1960s he was turning more and...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on January 20, 2016

Some say that you could judge a man by the books he reads. Well, you could also say that one could judge a woman by the house she keeps. Her nesting instincts make a house one of the most important aspects of a woman's life, and they reveal - by...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on January 20, 2016

Some say that you could judge a man by the books he reads. Well, you could also say that one could judge a woman by the house she keeps. Her nesting instincts make a house one of the most important aspects of her life, and they reveal - by their...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on January 18, 2016

Eustace Lycett is another one of those names that all Disney fans will recognize in a flash. His name has appeared on the credits, preceded with "Special Effects By", in over 44 different films released by the Walt Disney Studios. Lycett once described the era of pre-computer special effects in...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on January 18, 2016

Eustace Lycett is another one of those names that all Disney fans will recognize in a flash. His name has appeared on the credits, preceded with "Special Effects By", in over 44 different films released by the Walt Disney Studios. Lycett once described the era of pre-computer special effects in...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on January 18, 2016

Eustace Lycett is another one of those names that all Disney fans will recognize in a flash. His name has appeared on the credits, preceded with "Special Effects By", in over 44 different films released by the Walt Disney Studios. Lycett once described the era of pre-computer special effects in...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on January 17, 2016

This installment in our continuing series of vintage movie magazine articles is a fascinating piece from the April 1960 issue of "Movie Life". Author Stephanie Edwards interviewed (?) Cary Grant to ask him what advice he would give his son for his upcoming marriage to Jill St. John. Here is...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on January 17, 2016

This installment in our continuing series of vintage movie magazine articles is a fascinating piece from the April 1960 issue of "Movie Life". Author Stephanie Edwards interviewed (?) Cary Grant to ask him what advice he would give his son for his upcoming marriage to Jill St. John. Here is...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on January 17, 2016

This installment in our continuing series of vintage movie magazine articles is a fascinating piece from the April 1960 issue of "Movie Life". Author Stephanie Edwards interviewed (?) Cary Grant to ask him what advice he would give his son for his upcoming marriage to Jill St. John. Here is...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on January 13, 2016

Max Steiner ( May 10, 1888 - December 28, 1971 ) Max Steiner is universally acknowledged as the "father of film music", namely because his music had an extraordinary influence on the conventions and techniques of Hollywood film music for nearly a half-century after he created King Kong ( 1933...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on January 13, 2016

Max Steiner ( May 10, 1888 - December 28, 1971 ) Max Steiner is universally acknowledged as the "father of film music", namely because his music had an extraordinary influence on the conventions and techniques of Hollywood film music for nearly a half-century after he created King Kong ( 1933...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on January 13, 2016

Max Steiner ( May 10, 1888 - December 28, 1971 ) Max Steiner is universally acknowledged as the "father of film music", namely because his music had an extraordinary influence on the conventions and techniques of Hollywood film music for nearly a half-century after he created King Kong ( 1933...   read more