From the Archives: Doctor Dolittle ( 1967 )
Rex Harrison performed with a number of different actresses throughout his long career but he probably never expected to act with this fine lady. In this scene from Doctor Dolittle ( 1967 ), Sophie is...
View ArticleJonathan Winters on The Jack Paar Show ( 1964 )
Jonathan Winters was a great stand-up comedian who was best known for taking on the personalities of a number of characters while he delivered his monologues. In this January 31, 1964 episode of The...
View ArticleBritish Pathe: Model Racing Cars ( 1956 )
This 1956 British Pathe newsreel takes us to the workshop of Alban Adams and Christopher Crockett who are building 1/16th scale race cars modeled after authentic Formula 3 automobiles. Adams claimed to...
View ArticleThe Phantom Stage - Universal's Haunted Stage 28
The old story of a phantom haunting a Hollywood sound stage was brought to television in a number of episodes of various series throughout the 1970s-1980s ( most notably in the two-part "The Hollywood...
View ArticleThe Impossibly Difficult Name that Movie Game
Today's game features a spooky scene from a film that is very fitting to watch on Halloween. A front view of this character would have been too easy for our readers, so in keeping with the title of the...
View ArticleTV/Movie Set: Bedknobs and Broomsticks ( 1971 )
It has been a long, long time since we have featured a TV/Movie set article, so to bring the series back to life, my sister and I selected a house design that we have loved for years - the Bedknobs and...
View ArticleHorror Hotel aka City of the Dead ( 1960 )
"Is it Whitewood you seek?" A tall distinguished-looking man asks this of Nan Barlow ( Venetia Stevenson ) when she comes to a crossroads one dark, foggy evening searching for an old village. It is...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: High Barbaree ( 1947 )
Who said you can't kiss with a mask on? Van Johnson and June Allyson prove that it can be easily done in this photo from a scene from High Barbaree ( 1947 ). From the Archives is our latest series of...
View ArticleBritish Pathé: Bicycle of the Future aka Moulton Bicycle ( 1963 )
Leave it to the Brits to re-invent and improve upon something that seems perfectly suitable already. That's exactly what Dr. Alex Moulton did with the bicycle. Moulton was dissatisfied with the large...
View ArticleThe Hideaways aka From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler ( 1973 )
Claudia Kincaid wants to run away from home. She is a romantic dreamer at heart and feels like her parents do not appreciate her. So, when she finds a train ticket with an unpunched ride, she decides...
View ArticleThe People That Time Forgot ( 1977 )
The 7th Continent - a lost world shut off by a wall of ice, roamed by beasts unknown to Science, ruled by men lost to History, doomed to vanish in a chaos of leaping flames! This was the tagline to The...
View ArticleThe Impossibly Difficult Name that Movie Game
These two men look like they are giving a darn good look at something interesting, but what could that something or someone be? We hope this scene piques your interest because only the keen-eyed...
View ArticleJuliet Prowse on The Muppet Show ( 1977 )
The talented dancer and actress Juliet Prowse was one of the many fine performers that appeared on The Muppet Show during its heyday in the 1970s. This show appealed to children because of its puppets,...
View ArticleJoe Flynn - A Frustrated Fellow
Aurora, author of the blog Once Upon a Screen, is hosting the 9th annual What a Character! Blogathon this weekend along with Kellee of Outspoken and Freckled and Paula of Paula's Cinema Club. This...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: The Fan ( 1949 )
Mrs. Windermere ( Jeanne Crain ) meets the conniving Mrs. Erlynne ( Madeleine Carroll ) for the first time at a dinner party, while her husband Lord Windermere ( Richard Greene ) looks on in this scene...
View ArticleBritish Pathé: Peter Cushing and His Toy Soldiers ( 1956 )
This 1956 British Pathé newsreel reveals that the inimitable English actor Peter Cushing was a toy soldier enthusiast. As if he wasn't marvelous enough already! As you will see in this 2-minute clip,...
View ArticleAll I Desire ( 1953 )
Naomi Murdoch is returning to the small town of Riverdale to see her daughter perform in a high school play and the town is in a gossiping uproar. Nearly ten years earlier, Naomi left Riverdale, her...
View ArticleThe 12 Delights of Christmas Tag
Heidi of Along the Bradywine created a jolly Christmas tag to celebrate the season and we are pleased as punch to have been tagged by Paddy Lee, known by her readers as Caftan Woman. For those of you...
View ArticleThe Impossibly Difficult Name that Movie Game
Look at all that beautiful white fluffy snow! We've been posting a number of tricky photos lately, so to cap the year off we have an easier puzzle for our Impossibly Difficult followers. Be the first...
View ArticleFlood Tide ( 1958 )
Behind the mask of innocence.....murder! Universal Pictures made a number of good melodramas in the late 1950s that have fallen into obscurity today, one of which was Flood Tide ( 1958 ) starring...
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