Another Old Movie Blog

A couple things to address today, and then maybe I can turn to getting my life back after the Olympics. First, sincere thanks to R.C. of ...

(Photo by JT Lynch) The Oriental Theatre in downtown Chicago now hosts live musical theatre productions, but it started out as a gra...

The recent excellent post at Self-Styled Siren on the myth about silent star John Gilbert's failure to make it in talkies because of hi...

“Olympic Games” (1927) is an “Our Gang” comedy, one of the silent shorts put out by Hal Roach. Any resemblance to the real Olympic Game...

We interrupt this blog for another in our continuing series of annoying announcements: the second book in my new “cozy” mystery series ...

  With the Olympic Games starting tomorrow in London, we turn our attention to a couple of teammates from the 1928 Amsterdam Games who ...

“Swamp Water” (1941) was what did it for Dana Andrews. After a few years in Hollywood bouncing between bit parts, an apprenticeship a...

This is to announce two upcoming blog events. First, David at Film Classics is conducting the annual Classic Hollywood Writing Contes...

Here we have the answers to last week’s foray into the box at the theatre. I liked Caftan Woman’s answers for “C”. Hang onto your opera...

There's nothing that says class like sitting in a box at the theater.  How many of your fellow patrons of the arts can you name, and the...

“Mildred Pierce” (1945) is film that should be shown to people who say they don’t like to watch black and white movies. The cinematogra...