Sep 26, 2009 | Laura's Miscellaneous Musings
Tonight's Movie: The Unguarded Hour
THE UNGUARDED HOUR reunites Loretta Young and Franchot Tone, costars of the pre-Code classic MIDNIGHT MARY .
Women dominate comedy DVD releases
We continue to live in a golden age of classic movies pouring out on DVD. Here's a survey of recent goodies, all packed with icons.
Who is an Ethnic Chinese, Anyway?
Editor's Note: Yellow Face is currently being presented by TheatreWorks of Silicon Valley at the Mountain View Performing Arts Center through September 26.
The Academy Awards are planning all kinds of ways to jazz up and reinvent their ceremony--like making the Best Picture category include 10 entries, no doubt so G-Force can catapult to the nominees' list.
Carol Olson: No one can top Cary Grant as a leading man
A FEW WEEKS ago, I was having one of those wonderful nights we all have every so often.
Carol Olson: No one can top Cary Grant as a leading man
A FEW WEEKS ago, I was having one of those wonderful nights we all have every so often.
Carol Olson: No one can top Cary Grant as a leading man
A FEW WEEKS ago, I was having one of those wonderful nights we all have every so often.
Carol Olson: No one can top Cary Grant as a leading man
A FEW WEEKS ago, I was having one of those wonderful nights we all have every so often.
Screwball laughs of golden era still entertaining
Screwball comedy is a term that loosely applies to romantic comedies from Hollywood's golden era.
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Tonight's Movie: A Night to Remember
"It was a dark and stormy night..." and so naturally a mystery writer and his wife decide to move into a spooky Greenwich Village apartment in A NIGHT TO REMEMBER.
Dear David Inman: Many years ago, I saw a movie with Jeff Chandler and Loretta Young.
Tonight's Movie: Three Blind Mice
Before MOON OVER MIAMI and THREE LITTLE GIRLS IN BLUE , there was the delectable romantic comedy THREE BLIND MICE, starring Joel McCrea, Loretta Young, and David Niven.
Tonight's Movie: Wife, Husband and Friend
Leonard Borland is a successful contractor whose business is currently struggling due to the late '30s recession .
Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Volume Three
Studio: Warner Home Video Year: 1932-33 Cast: Mary Astor, James Cagney, Barbara Stanwyck, George Barnet, Lyle Talbot, Loretta Young Director: William A. Wellman Release Date: March 31, 2009 Rating: Not Rated for Run Time: 07h:01m:46s Genre : compilation Six films' worth of pre-Code goodness, from the TCM Archives.
Duration: 1:31:11 TVG Franz Kindler , Mastermind of the Holocaust, believes that he has effectively erased his past as a Nazi war criminal, and leads a sedate life as Charles Rankin in small town Harper, Connecticut, and is about to marry his unsuspecting fiancee Mary Longstreet .
With the arrival of the Production Code in the 1930s, a chill descended on Hollywood that lasted for decades.
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