Another Old Movie Blog

This ad from Screen Guide , March 1942, is a typical marvel of Hollywood merchandizing.  A photo of Veronica Lake is pasted in the corner of...

  A few months ago I had the pleasure of talking about one of my favorite movies -- The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) with Paul Francis Su...

  For Independence Day, Bing Crosby and Paul Robeson both give us the "Ballad for Americans" from 1940.  Happy Fourth of July!

For Canada Day today, which celebrates the 1867 founding of the Canadian Confederation, we have a view of Canada's women service personn...

Here is a link to my recorded Zoom talk  earlier this month on the historical background of my novel Beside the Still Waters   for the Holyo...

Norman Lloyd, who recently left us, was an actor of skill, intelligence, with an astounding resilience that gave him a life of 106 years and...

  Zoom presentation on BESIDE THE STILL WATERS: Tuesday, June 8, 2021, 7 p.m. (ET) I'll be discussing the historical background of my no...

Till the End of Time (1946) examines the difficulties of post-war adjustment for three returning Marines, their families, and a war widow f...

Gasoline Alley (1951) brings the popular comic strip to life, and like the strip seems to reflect that life goes on and time doesn’t stand ...

Working Winnie (1926) brings the 1920s sensation from the funny papers -- Winnie Winkle -- to the big screen.  It's a short movie, abou...

Today I extend my well wishes, as well as Happy Birthday, to your friend and mine, Paddy Nolan-Hall, the Caftan Woman, whose blog is a sourc...

  Last week we discussed author David C. Tucker’s new book:   S. Sylvan Simon, Moviemaker – Adventures with Lucy, Red Skelton and Harry Cohn...