Play It Again, Max: Casablanca and the Battle over “As Time Goes By”(Exclusive by Author Steven C. Smith)

Casablanca and the Battle over “As Time Goes By”(Exclusive by Author Steven C. Smith) By mid-1941, Max Steiner had already scored over thirty films at Warner Bros. since becoming that studio’s highest paid staff composer in 1937. Many of his projects had been prestigious and highly profi... Read full article

Working Night & Day: Max Steiner, Fred Astaire, and the RKO Movie Musical (Exclusive by Author Steven C. Smith)

Max Steiner, Fred Astaire, and the RKO Movie Musical(Exclusive by Author Steven C. Smith) In 1933 — the same year he recorded his landmark score for King Kong —Max Steiner achieved another ambition he’d sought since becoming RKO’s musical director: oversight of a sophisticated, successfu... Read full article

Mrs. Smith goes glam

After two years making dramatic films, Carole Lombard triumphantly returned to comedy in early 1941 with the marital farce "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" (directed by, of all people, Alfred Hitchcock). Instead of the nurse and waitress outfits she'd worn in her previous two movies, Carole played an upper-middle... Read full article

Doctor Who (2005) s03e01 – Smith and Jones

New only-other-billed actor (but technically not the new companion yet) Freema Agyeman guest starred at the end of last season but is playing a different character here. Thank goodness. Agyeman is a medical resident, so it’s going to be the Doctor and a doctor going forward, which is a lot better ... Read full article

Mrs. Smith tries on another gown

When I saw the portrait of Carole Lombard, I thought to myself, "Didn't I run that not long ago?" It turns out I hadn't, and my memory was playing tricks. Here's the photo I was confusing it with:We ran this photo nearly 16 months ago (https://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/979037.html). It's easy to... Read full article