Musical Monday: The Yellow Rose of Texas (1944)

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 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: The Yellow Rose of Texas... Read full article

From the Archives: Texas Carnival ( 1951 )

Esther Williams and Ann Miller are pictured alongside Red Skelton in Texas Carnival, one of his best films for MGM. The publicity department promoted the film as an Esther Williams vehicle but Red Skelton was really the star of this show, the last of four films the twosome made together. From the Ar... Read full article

Two Guys from Texas ( 1948 )

Dennis Morgan and Jack Carson were great pals off-screen and they had the good fortune to play together on-screen in 11 films released throughout the 1940s. Most of these were simple comedies in the vein of the popular Bob Hope and Bing Crosby Road pictures that Paramount was issuing. In 1946, Morga... Read full article

From the Archives: Two Guys from Texas ( 1948 )

Jack Carson is cuddling up with an Indian maiden in this publicity photo for Warner Brother's Two Guys from Texas ( 1948 ) that featured the comedy duo of Carson and Dennis Morgan. The "Indian" pictured is Cleatus Caldwell, wife of actor Robert Hutton. From the Archives is our latest series of posts... Read full article

A happy, belated 90th to the gem of West Texas

Ninety years ago this week, Carole Lombard's first film for Paramount, the Charles "Buddy" Rogers musical vehicle "Safety In Numbers" (Lombard is second from left) had the distinction of being the first film shown at a venue that architecturally held its own with any movie palace of the time.It was ... Read full article