Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on October 30, 2022

Angela Lansbury, that wonderful actress of the stage and screen, passed away on October 11th at the age of 96. She was one of those rare actors who was equally well known for her work in film ( The Portrait of Dorian Gray, The Manchurian Candidate, etc ), in the...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on October 26, 2022

Henry Hull, who usually plays kindly men in films, turned vicious in Universal Pictures' Werewolf of London ( 1935 ). Luckily, his friends and family only had to put up with his fierce lycanthropic side when the moon was full. From the Archives is our latest series of posts where...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on October 22, 2022

On October 7, 1971, Walt Disney's Bedknobs and Broomsticks, a delightful and magical musical starring the late great Angela Lansbury and David Tomlinson, had its world premiere in London. Earlier that day, John Noakes, the host of Britain's popular children's series Blue Peter, was in Leicester Squa   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on October 16, 2022

Orson Welles always loved a scary tale. In 1938, he and other players of his Mercury Theater company put on a radio play of H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds" for Halloween that scared the heebie-jeebies out of most of his listeners. Then in 1951, while taking a break from...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on October 13, 2022

We have an eeeeeerie screenshot here since it is the bewitching month of October. If you have been watching Halloween classics then you probably have seen this scene flash before your eyes already....now just reach past the cobwebs into your memory vault and see if you pull out the title...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on October 9, 2022

Eustacia "Stacy" Orpington ( Emma Samms ) is entrusted by her boss Gordon ( Dirk Benedict ) to deliver the famous Orpington jeweled crown from the little Thringsby Museum in Massachusetts to the prestigious London Museum in England. Instead of having the jewels securely packaged, Gordon thought it w   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on September 28, 2022

If you ever heard the music of big band leader Si Zentner you would know that he is famous for his exciting bold brassy sound, so, when the James Bond films exploded onto film in the early 1960s with their bold sound as well, it seemed a natural choice that...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on September 25, 2022

Before Hammer Film Studios began its regular output of horror films, they made quite a number of dramas and also experimented in other genres...including swashbucklers. One year before Richard Greene became the idol of youth in television's The Adventures of Robin Hood, Hammer tried their hand at sp   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on September 20, 2022

Rex Harrison, Shirley MacLaine, and Ingrid Bergman head up the all-star cast of The Yellow Rolls-Royce, a colorful anthology film of three stories linked together by a sparkling 1931 Rolls-Royce Phantom II. The opening segment shows the first owner of the beautiful Rolls, the Marquess of Frinton ( R   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on September 10, 2022

Can anyone top a Mitzi Gaynor performance? This glamorous woman was the full package deal....a fantastic dancer, singer, and actress, plus she had a fabulous figure! This performance from 1968 features Mitzi performing "Love is Blue", a Eurovision ballad that French orchestra leader Paul Mauriat ma   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on September 4, 2022

Last year I came across a great series of annual promotional books called "For a Greater Audience" that were released by American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres Inc. in the 1960s. Each catalog contained a section devoted to each studio where the current release schedule for that studio was posted a   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on August 31, 2022

Mark your calendar, Trekkies! TCM Big Screen Classics will be bringing Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan back into theaters for a 3-day special event showing on September 4th,5th, and 8th. This film, the second in a five-film Star Trek series, has Ricardo Montalban's character Khan Singh ( who...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on August 30, 2022

James Hill was a director of British films ( A Study in Terror, Born Free ) and television series of the 1960s and 1970s. He filmed numerous episodes of The Avengers, The Saint, and Worzel Gummidge, but he is best known as a director of family-oriented short films and documentaries....   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on August 22, 2022

Judith Farrow ( Julie Andrews ) is still grieving over the breakup of a rather lurid liaison with her married paramour Group Captain Richard Patterson ( David Baron ). She is vacationing in Barbados, attempting to clear her muddled mind and heal her broken heart, when she meets the suave...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on August 18, 2022

What a cute kid! He's not Spanky and he probably made only one film in his whole life but we noticed him...and if you did too, you may remember what film he appeared in. Test your memory and give a guess.As always, if you are not familiar with the rules...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on August 14, 2022

Several years ago we posted an article on the whereabouts of the oil painting of Captain Gregg from the 1947 film classic The Ghost and Mrs. Muir. This post ( Whatever Became of the Portrait of Captain Gregg? ) is one of our most viewed posts and I was surprised...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on August 13, 2022

Margaret Leighton and Julie Christie have a slight difference of opinion as young Dominic Guard looks on in this scene from The Go-Between ( 1971 ), a beautifully filmed adaptation of L.P. Hartley's 1953 novel about a schoolboy who spends his summer at an English estate and acts as a...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on August 6, 2022

We generally do not write about music on Silver Scenes ( unless, of course, it is film music ), but a legend in the music industry passed away yesterday - Judith Durham. This lovely woman was one of the founding members of The Seekers, a group that had hits in...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on July 31, 2022

Before America became stricken with space fever in the mid-1960s, Britain was already coming down with symptoms of this consuming affliction. Evidence in proof of this can be seen in television and film series of the era, especially those aimed at youngsters. One such program was Masters of Venus, a   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on July 30, 2022

When Doctor Dolittle was released in 1967, 20th Century Fox studios thought it would have received a much better box-office reception than it did. In fact, they were not the only ones who thought so. The music was so beautiful that The Lawrence Welk Show featured an episode that included...   read more