Another Old Movie Blog

Rochelle Hudson is the subject of David C. Tucker’s latest book, “largely because she deserved one.” Miss Hudson’s career began in 1930 wh...

This photo of Regis Toomey, by Dyar, is another in the 1930 book Stars of the Photoplay .  The book is fascinating for two points: first, to...

The Wearing of the Grin (1951) seems to have been Porky Pig's last starring role before being relegated to a mere supporting player.  I...

A couple of anniversaries this week:  the 16th anniversary of Another Old Movie Blog , and most poignant for many of us, the first anniversa...

The advent of silent movies had a profound effect on society in just about every way one could imagine.  While we classic film fans are well...

  One year since the start of World War III (whether we acknowledge it or not).   Invasion and atrocities. Putin's Russia has committed ...

This sepia-toned portrait of Helen Kane, the Boop-a-Doop Girl from the book Stars of the Photoplay , a book of photo portraits of the Hollyw...

T he eBook version of  Hollywood Fights Fascism , my collection of essays on movies from Hollywood's heyday that addressed the evils of ...

The I Don’t Care Girl (1953) is a biography of the vaudeville star Eva Tanguay, and like a lot of movie “biographies” of the era, it falls ...

Recently, a lady contacted me to share some information about her grandmother's involvement in the film A Majority of One (1961), which...

Time once again to update our annual look at Public Domain Day, which is January 1 st , the day that another year of creative works enter in...

Mary Field was a very good actress, with the ability to command a scene and entirely lose herself in a character, yet most of the roles she ...