Originally posted on Once upon a screen…:
This is for Judy! “I’ve always taken ‘The Wizard of Oz’ very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I’ve spent my entire life trying to get over it.”     Continue reading JUDY!

Originally posted on Once upon a screen…:
It was a Tuesday more than ninety years ago today – June 6, 1933 – that people first drove their cars right up to a screen to watch movies on Crescent Boulevard in Camden, New Jersey.  A new form of entertainment was born and Once Upon a Screen remembers once upon a screen in everywhere U.S.A. with a… Continue reading The DRIVE-IN turns 80

Originally posted on Seetimaar-Diary of a Movie Lover:
After having conducted  successfully, blogathons  on  Ridley Scott, Michael Mann, Tony Scott,  and Howard Hawks, the time has now come for another  blogathon.  Actually the next quarter, would see 3 back to back blogathons conducted on 3 of the most  influential directors in American cinema, Sydney Pollack,  Roman Polanski  and Oliver Stone.  The blogathons on Polanski and… Continue reading Sydney Pollack Blogathon, July 1-22, 2013

Originally posted on cinematically insane:
From 1962 until his retirement in 1992, Johnny Carson ruled the late night airwaves with wit, grace, and the occasional feathered turban. He wasn’t the first emcee of NBC’s The Tonight Show, nor the last, but he is universally considered the best. And now, two decades after his final sign-off and eight years after his death at age 79, some of… Continue reading Paging Art Fern! Carson and Classic Hollywood Together Again on TCM

Recently, my husband and I drove to the birthplace of John Wayne of Winterset, Iowa. Every year, the entire town holds a big gala to commemorate the Duke’s birthday with a 3-day series of special events which takes place the weekend closest to his birthday anniversary (May 26, 1907). I’m not gonna lie, I’m a fan of really good classic westerns. Ergo, I’m a John … Continue reading A Night with Maureen O’Hara

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I have a special affection for Warner Bros. (WB) – the studio that gave us Cagney, Davis and Bogart with a tough and gritty attitude, a realism no other studio could emulate – or dared to.  It’s the stuff that dreams are made of – for classic film fans in any case.  So Imagine my joy when I… Continue reading Best of Warner Bros. 50-Film Collection

Originally posted on Once upon a screen…:
Laughs, love, danger and adventure – TIMES TWO!  It’s the Dynamic Duos in Classic Film blogathon! In a co-host gig with the fabulous Classic Movie Hub (@ClassicMovieHub), Once Upon a Screen (@CitizenScreen) is happy to announce this upcoming blogathon event dedicated to perilous, precarious and/or personable pairs. Dynamic Duos in Classic Film blogathon The duos can be… Romantic: Professional partners: Adversaries:… Continue reading Dynamic Duos in Classic Film blogathon

The following post is an entry to the Howard Hawks Blogathon, hosted by twitter pal and movie blogging wonder Ratnakar Sadasyula aka @ScorpiusMaximus of the http://seetimaar.wordpress.com site. No matter what your favorite film genre is, Howard Hawks aims to please. Director/Producer/Screenwriter Hawks covered a multitude of film genres with stunning success. From westerns, action thrillers, crime dramas, screwball comedies and even a musical, he made … Continue reading HIS GIRL FRIDAY

Continue reading What’s on TCM: June 2013

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George Karl Wentzlaff was born on May 3, 1946 in Los Angeles, California.  He took (or was given) the stage name George Winslow and was billed as George “Foghorn” Winslow is several of the feature films he appeared in during the 1950s.  Films, I might add, in which he often took the spotlight away from the likes of… Continue reading Children in Films: The boy Winslow