Classic movies - Posts - Page 19

Happy Birthday, Penny Singleton!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Sep 15th 2019

She had stiff competition for the film role that would make her a household name: actresses Gloria Blondell and Una Merkel

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Sep 3rd 2019

Old-time radio legend Frank Nelson (The Jack Benny Program) shared the following anecdote in Leonard Maltin’s The Great Ame

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Aug 25th 2019

During the 1940s, the man born Charles Van Dell Johnson in Newport, Rhode Island on this date in 1916 was known as Metro-Go

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Aug 17th 2019

It’s a textbook example of how a mediocre movie can be redeemed by the appearance of a personality whose mere presence domi

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Aug 13th 2019

It was a story that he frequently told in interviews: when Sir Alfred Hitchcock was only five years old, his father (who re

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jul 23rd 2019

For all his success in the literary world, and then later in Hollywood, author Raymond Thornton Chandler was a lonely man.