Originally posted on Ticklish Business:
It was always decided that I’d include I Married a Witch during my Halloween festivities.  After all, it was the film that brought Veronica Lake into my life.  To give some context, Sullivan’s Travels cemented my love for Veronica, but I Married a Witch was the first film I ever saw her in.  I adore this movie and I adore… Continue reading

Originally posted on Once upon a screen…:
Word has it that Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein as the result of a dare from a friend.  The friend was poet, Lord Byron and he challenged her to write a ghost story.  Drawing from state of the art medical experimentation at the time, Mary, born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, wrote one of the most influential books in the history of… Continue reading

Originally posted on Backlots:
                  For my first installment of the Carole Lombard Filmography Project, I will be profiling Man of the World (1931) the first film Lombard made with good friend and future husband William Powell. The movie was produced by Universal, and released in March of 1931. The focus of the story is on a… Continue reading

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When I discovered there was to be a Val Lewton blogathon hosted by twitter film pals Stephen aka @sreggie and Kristina aka @HQofK , I just had to to get in on the action. This post is part of the Val Lewton blogathon hosted by Stephen aka Classic Movie Man and Kristina of the Speakeasy blog. I’m a fan of the horror genre. Not the typical youthful fan … Continue reading Val Lewton: A Horror Original and Modern Influencer

Originally posted on True Classics:
My latest contribution to the ongoing Wonders in the Dark Comedy Countdown is live … at number 42, it’s the frenetic and fanatically funny Preston Sturges masterpiece, The Palm Beach Story (1942)! Head on over to WitD to check out my thoughts on one of my favorite films of all time, and make sure to throw your two cents into the discussion… Continue reading

Originally posted on Ticklish Business:
Fiend Without a Face is cheese at its finest.  The plot is meandering and ridiculous but boy is the final minutes of it hilarious!  If anything I recommend watching the last ten minutes of this film and laugh heartily.  The acting is sitcom bad and again the plot is boring but thankfully the short runtime makes that irrelevant.  This is… Continue reading

Last weekend I was delighted to attend a live screening of F. W. Murnau’s NOSFERATU (1922). The timing of this silent classic fits in nicely with my October series of horror classics. My town’s local arts center in partnership with Footprints’ Birkenstock sponsors an ongoing series for silent film screenings. This was the 2nd of silent gems I had the pleasure to see as part … Continue reading The Original Vampire: Nosferatu

Originally posted on Once upon a screen…:
This week (May 26th to be exact) marks the 125th anniversary of the release of Bram Stoker’s novel, Dracula.  It went on sale for the first time in London bookshops on that day in 1897.  Since (to me) that novel introduced what would become the single, most popular and influential character in popular culture, I thought it deserved… Continue reading

Originally posted on cinematically insane:
In the spring of 1992, the city of Scranton paid tribute to a kindly old musician who had relocated from Manhattan in the late 1950s. Sadly, it turned out to be a requiem. A few months later, Sammy Timberg was dead at the age of 89, and the accomplishments of a life deeply intertwined in the history of American popular… Continue reading