The Impossibly Difficult Name that Movie Game
We felt like being particularly cruel this month and posting a truly obscure Impossibly Difficult screenshot. This lovely scene is from an excellent, but very underrated classic. It was noteworthy for...
View ArticleFarewell to the Alma Mater!
Hat's off to the graduating class of 2014 whoever you may be! Early June is approaching and that means it's graduation time......throw off those mortarboards and give a hip-hooray and a high-ho...
View ArticleAbove Suspicion ( 1943 )
"My love is like a red, red rose...." MGM journeys into the realm of espionage with Above Suspicion ( 1943 ), a witty jaunt into spy-laden pre-World War II Europe. Fred MacMurray plays Richard Myles,...
View ArticleThe Shaggy Dog ( 1959 )
In the mid-1950s Walt Disney gave ABC their very first full-hour western television program - Davy Crockett. The series was such a success that the network soon launched many other similar series such...
View ArticleThe Saint ( 1962-1969 )
"Templar...Simon Templar." The world was a safer place when the Saint was there to quench the evil desires of the wicked foes scattered across the planet. Simon Templar aka "The Saint" came to the...
View ArticleTV/Movie Set: The Parent Trap Ranch
It's that time of year again....when summer begins to peak its head around the corner then our brains start to buzz with new ideas. One of them you're seeing right now : a new series featuring the...
View ArticleThe MGM Blogathon : The Master List
The big day is about to arrive! In two weeks the MGM blogathon will be making its grand entrance. READ all about the big stars! READ all about the big films! SEE all...
View ArticleOn the Homefront : MGM and the War Effort
Sunlight streams through the shattered roof of a country church. There are empty places in the pews where, only a few weeks earlier, parishioners had sat - the local stationmaster, a choirboy, the...
View ArticleHollywood Home Tour - Clark Gable
"Here we come to one of the most famous of movie star homes - the ranch shared by Clark Gable and his wife Carole Lombard from 1939 -1942.... 4525 Petitt Street, Encino"The spacious nine-room white...
View ArticleThe Happiest Millionaire ( 1967 )
After having completed Mary Poppins in 1965, Walt Disney's enthusiasm for musical films was at an all-time high, and with the recently purchased rights to Cordelia Drexel Biddle's book/play "The...
View ArticleThe MGM Blogathon : A 90th Anniversary Celebration
Kick up your heels and start singin' in the rain, for the MGM Blogathon is finally here!! Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, founded in 1924, is celebrating their 90th anniversary this year and to celebrate the...
View ArticleA Brief History of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
"It was the great film studio of the world,"actress Helen Hayes recently recalled of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the 1930s, "not just of America or of Hollywood, but of the world".Every time the magnificent...
View ArticleHelen Deutsch - Screenwriter
After watching several hundred MGM films, one begins to pay attention to the credits; and when one pays attention to the credits, one begins to notice that a number of names crop up recurrently, such...
View ArticleThe Making of The Music Man ( 1962 )
The Music Man captures the spirit of small town America in a way unlike any other film. It enthralled audiences when it first debuted as a stage show in 1957 and continues to delight classic film fans...
View ArticleThe Impossibly Difficult Name that Movie Game
It is once again time for a round of the Impossibly Difficult Name that Movie game. For this outing we got a nice summer-themed image on display. It's a scene from a very entertaining, although not all...
View ArticleThose Were the Days ( 1940 )
William Holden displays the good ol' Siwash spirit of horseplay in Paramount Pictures minor wisp of nostalgia Those Were the Days set in the fictional college of Siwash at the turn of the century....
View ArticleNugget Reviews - 12
It Happens Every Spring ( 1949 ) 14kA chemistry professor accidentally creates a liquid that repels wood and decides to apply it to a baseball and launch the St. Louis Cardinals to World Series...
View ArticleForgotten Television Shows of the 1950s & 1960s
Ever see the television schedule for the week and wonder if those 25-some series that you are watching were all that were released in the 1950s and 1960s? We never wondered that, but just in case you...
View ArticleBachelor in Paradise ( 1961 )
Bob Hope stars as AJ Niles, a world-renowned author of a series of books examining the lifestyle, eating habits, and sex life of the Europeans. His research keeps him busy all across the continent and...
View ArticleA Ghost of a Chance to Win
After seeing what a lackluster bunch of athletes the Godolphin track team is made up of, new coach Steve Walker ( Dean Jones ) has his doubts that he can whip them into shape for the new season and...
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