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Cinderella ( 1947 ) aka Zolushka
Classic foreign films are often presented as being moody, atmospheric dramas or visual voyages into surrealism, but anyone who has enjoyed a classic Russian film knows how beautiful and how colorful...
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The White Cliffs of Dover ( 1944 )
I have loved England dearly and deeply, since that first morning, shining and pure, The White Cliffs of Dover, I saw rising steeply, Out of the sea that once made her secure. I had no thought...
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The English Village Setting of the 1940s
Films are by far the most marvelous means of personal escapism and during the 1940s, a time of war, anxiety, and sorrow, the American people certainly needed a place to escape to. Hollywood, being a...
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The Art of the Hollywood Backdrop - Book Review
In November 2016, Regan Arts released "The Art of the Hollywood Backdrop" by Richard M. Isackes and Karen L. Maness. This beautiful 11 x 14" hardcover coffee table book is fully illustrated with...
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The Impossibly Difficult Name that Movie Game
Twenty singing school girls all in a row, featured in a scene from a film you all know. Tell us the title of this film and you'll win a prize! Simply, isn't it? Or perhaps not.......As always, if you...
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The Halfway House ( 1944 )
Ealing Studios, one of England's major film companies, made some exceptionally entertaining films during the 1940s-1960s such as The Lavender Hill Mob, The Blue Lamp, Mandy, Kind Hearts and Coronets,...
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Dead Man's Treasure - The Avengers ( 1967 )
The Avengers has long been one of my favorite television series, so, when A Shroud of Thoughts announced the 3nd annual Favorite TV Show Episode Blogathon, I naturally chose to write about a classic...
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Maedchen in Uniform ( 1931 )
"What you call evil, I call the great Spirit of Love, which has a thousand forms..."Manuela ( Hertha Thiele ), a sensitive 14-year old child, is sent by her aunt to a strict boarding school for...
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The Trouble with Angels ( 1966 )
"I just thought of a scathingly brilliant idea!"Mary ( Hayley Mills ) is chock-full of scathingly brilliant ideas, most of them taking the form of pranks to play on the nuns at St. Francis Academy, the...
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From the Archives : Enter Arsene Lupin ( 1944 )
Charles Kovin and Ella Raines are receiving some dialogue direction from script girl Mildred Vallee. Korvin was making his film debut as the famous French thief in Universal Pictures'Enter Arsene Lupin...
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Binnie Barnes Shares Stories of Her Past
Into a cold, gray London factory, on a foggy morning, tramped a cheerless girl in a shabby hat and a rag of a dress. Under her arm she carried a lunch box, nothing more than an old pasteboard shoe box...
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The Impossibly Difficult Name that Movie Game
All aboard! Is it the Hogwarts Express pulling out of the station? No, not quite. Time seems to stand still at this train station and the passengers have no complaints about waiting for the train to...
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Classic Bible and Religious Films
With Easter and Passover here I thought it would be nice to put together a list of some famous ( and rarer ) classic religious films. I have such fond memories of watching these movies, especially...
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Book Review - Hollywood in Kodachrome
Over 35 years ago John Kobal assembled a number of excellent coffee table books featuring stunning photography from Hollywood's golden era. Among these books was "Hollywood Color Portraits", which...
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From the Archives: Joan Fontaine in Suspicion ( 1941 )
Joan Fontaine posing for a quick costume shot during the making of Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion. Joan always knew how to wear high collars and top-heavy hats like a queen. From the Archives is our...
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Edwige Feuillère - La Grande Actrice Française
On November 13, 1998, the day that Edwige Feuillère died, France mourned. A beloved icon of the silver screen and the grand dame of the Paris theater had passed on and the wave of tributes that poured...
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Sir Percy - A Ripping Good Scoundrel
If I had to list the most praiseworthy and lovable scoundrel of all the dastardly villains that ever dared show their face on the silver screen, Sir Percival Ware-Armitage of Those Magnificent Men in...
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Belle Fountaine - "The Chalk Garden" House
Phyllis Loves Classic Movies and Love Letters to Old Hollywood have teamed up to host The Favorite Film and TV Homes Blogathon ( great idea Phyllis! ) which is taking place today and tomorrow. This...
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TV/Movie Set - When Ladies Meet ( 1941 )
Back in the studio-system days of Hollywood, if a film turned out to be successful at the box-office, within a decade you can be sure that a remake would be filmed. Why chance a new script when you...
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Ten Favorite Classic Movie Mothers
For this Mother's Day we felt a tribute to some of those wonderful on-screen movie mothers was in order. They are such a joy to watch and their warmth and tenderness seem to reach out to the audience,...
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