Another Old Movie Blog

Hollywood public service shorts on behalf of the March of Dimes and the search for a polio vaccine remind us of a world where a deadly and e...

Happy 93rd Birthday to the wonderful Ann Blyth!    For a bit of a departure, here's an episode of Burke's Law from 1964 now on YouT...

Jane Withers, who passed away at 95 years old on August 7th, was one of Hollywood's greats, who deserves more recognition.  She began as...

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...