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Today's Classic Movie Birthdays

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Birthname: Ellen Miriam Hopkins
Born: Oct 18, 1902
    Savannah, GA
Passed: Oct 9, 1972
    New York City, NY

Miriam Hopkins
Oct 18, 1902

Birthname: Evelyn Venable
Born: Oct 18, 1913
    Cincinnati, OH
Passed: Nov 15, 1993
    Coeur d'Alene, ID

Evelyn Venable
Oct 18, 1913

Birthname: Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer
Born: Oct 18, 1898
    Vienna-Penzing, Austria-Hungary. [now Austria]
Passed: Nov 27, 1981
    New York City, NY

Lotte Lenya
Oct 18, 1898

Birthname: George Campbell Scott
Born: Oct 18, 1927
    Wise, VA
Passed: Sep 22, 1999
    Westlake Village, CA

George C. Scott
Oct 18, 1927

Birthname: Maria Amalia Mercouri
Born: Oct 18, 1920
    Athens, Greece
Passed: Mar 6, 1994
    New York City, NY

Melina Mercouri
Oct 18, 1920

MONTHLY COLUMNS

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Silver Screen Standards

The Beast with Five Fingers (1946)

If Thing is your favorite member of the Addams Family, then creep on over to see The Beast with Five Fingers (1946), which stars Peter Lorre as a mistreated secretary who is haunted by the murderous hand of his recently deceased employer. This eerie Warner Bros. outing from director Robert Florey ge......
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Classic Movie Travels

Dorothy Christy

Dorothy Christy was born Dorothea Jean Seltzer on May 26, 1900, in Reading, Pennsylvania, to John and Priscilla Seltzer. Her parents emigrated from Germany. Although she occasionally participated in amateur plays as a young woman, she did not initially plan to pursue acting as a career. After attend......
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Western RoundUp

The War Wagon (1967)

John Wayne has always been one of my favorite actors, as reflected in past columns such as John Wayne Favorites. Still, there are a number of Wayne films I’ve never seen, particularly from among his later films. One of those titles was The War Wagon (1967), which I’ve now caught up with thanks t......
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Silents are Golden

An Ideal Mentor: Buster Keaton’s Apprenticeship With Roscoe Arbuckle

Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton If you’re a fan of classic comedy, you’ve likely heard of Buster Keaton’s earliest film appearances in Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle’s slapstick comedies, many of which are considered classics today. With its freewheeling atmosphere and talented fellow comedian......
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Monsters and Matinees

The ‘big grasshopper movie’ makes me feel like a kid again

In today’s on-demand world of streaming services, we feel like we can watch any movie with a click of a button. But that’s not true. There are always films that elude us despite our best efforts to find them. For me, that’s Beginning of the End (1957). I was a kid when I first saw the awesomel......
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Noir Nook

Anthony Mann at the Helm

Several years ago, when I was a guest on a podcast, the hostess asked me to name my favorite film noir directors. I don’t know why, but I felt like a deer caught in the headlights, and my mind went completely blank �" the only director I could even think of was Alfred Hitchcock! And no shade to S......
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BIRTHDAY TRIBUTES

Legend Tribute

Jean Arthur

Happy Birthday to Classic Movie Legend, Jean Arthur, born October 17, 1900. How do you do it, Jean Arthur? How do make comedy look so effortless? This is what I think every time I watch a Jean Arthur movie. Dubbed by film historian Robert Osborne as “the quintessential comedic leading lady,” Arthur...  Read more...

Mini Tribute

Melville Cooper

Born October 15, 1896 Character Actor Melville Cooper! Plump-faced, droopy-eyed, Character Actor, Melville Cooper, appeared in over 100 film and TV roles — playing pompous ineffectual types — blunderers, cowards, thieves, disdainful servants, snobs. Most notably, he played the High Sheriff...  Read more...

Fan Favorites: Romance Films

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Sunrise

1927

Fan rating: 10.00

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

1939

Fan rating: 10.00

Paris Blues

1961

Fan rating: 10.00

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