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News & Notes

Articles gathered under this heading include Cliff's monthly previews of Turner Classic Movies programming, reviews of movie books and interviews with film book authors, and site-related announcements including collectibles sales and book announcements.

New Page Collects “Classic Movie Daily” Photos

May 16, 2015 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

Immortal Ephemera

Pointing to a new page on the site that collects all individual still photos, fan photos, and postcard images that have been mailing to Classic Movie Daily subscribers. Also lists some other features of the Daily with links to example posts.

Filed Under: News - Notes Tagged With: Newsletter

TCM Preview and Recommendations for May 2015

May 2, 2015 By Cliff Aliperti 3 Comments

Helen Mack in Sweepings

Preview and recommendations for May 2015 on Turner Classic Movies. Pick of the Month: Sweepings (1933) on May 5. Star of the Month is Sterling Hayden. Friday Night Spotlight on Orson Welles. Plus Immortal Ephemera site news.

Filed Under: News - Notes Tagged With: now playing guide, previews, schedules, TCM, Turner Classic Movies

TCM Recommendations April 2015; Site News

April 6, 2015 By Cliff Aliperti 2 Comments

Walter Huston

Preview and recommendations for April 2015 on Turner Classic Movies. Pick of the Month: NIGHT COURT (1932) on April 6. Star of the Month is Anthony Quinn. Post also includes a look at David Meuel’s new book and Immortal Ephemera site news.

Filed Under: News - Notes Tagged With: David Meuel, now playing guide, previews, schedules, TCM, Turner Classic Movies

Review: Nobody’s Stooge: Ted Healy by Bill Cassara

March 23, 2015 By Cliff Aliperti 4 Comments

Ted Healy in San Francisco

A review of the 2015 BearManor Media release Nobody’s Stooge: Ted Healy by Bill Cassera. A biography of the creator of The Three Stooges, who met an untimely and controversial death in 1937.

Filed Under: News - Notes Tagged With: Bill Cassara, book reviews, movie book reviews, Ted Healy, The Three Stooges

TCM Preview & Recommendations for March 2015

March 1, 2015 By Cliff Aliperti 11 Comments

Ann Sothern 1940s CBS Radio Press Photo

Preview and recommendations for March 2015 on Turner Classic Movies. Pick of the Month: Big City Blues (1932) on March 6. TCM’s Star of the Month is Ann Sothern. Other marathons feature Guy Kibbee, Robert Donat, Katharine Hepburn, Joan Crawford, Granville Bates, and the Perry Mason movies.

Filed Under: News - Notes Tagged With: now playing guide, previews, schedules, TCM, Turner Classic Movies

Freddie Bartholomew: An Informal Biography – eBook Now Available

February 9, 2015 By Cliff Aliperti 1 Comment

Freddie Bartholomew An Informal Biography by Cliff Aliperti

Announcing Freddie Bartholomew: An Informal Biography for Amazon’s Kindle. This 99¢ eBook is the first biography of the child star in any book form since a 1935 Big Little Book.

Filed Under: News - Notes Tagged With: ebook, Freddie Bartholomew

Interview with Glenda Farrell Biographer Scott Allen Nollen

January 29, 2015 By Cliff Aliperti 10 Comments

Glenda Farrell Hollywoods Hardboiled Dame by Scott Allen Nollen

Eleven questions for film historian Scott Allen Nollen about his latest book, Glenda Farrell: Hollywood’s Hardboiled Dame. Discover so much more to Glenda than Torchy Blane.

Filed Under: News - Notes Tagged With: film books, Glenda Farrell, interview, Scott Allen Nollen, Torchy Blane

Real-Life Society ‘Honor Slaying’ Inspires Two 1932 Films

January 14, 2015 By Cliff Aliperti 6 Comments

Edward Allen shoots Francis Donaldson III

A look at two pre-Code courtroom melodramas, Unashamed and Two Against the World, compared to the sensational real-life society murder that inspired the movies. Unashamed stars Helen Twelvetrees, Robert Young, and Monroe Owsley, while Two Against the World stars Constance Bennett and Neil Hamilton.

Filed Under: News - Notes Tagged With: 1932, Allen Vincent, Constance Bennett, Courtroom Drama, Gavin Gordon, Helen Twelvetrees, Helen Vinson, John Miljan, Lewis Stone, MGM, Murder, Neil Hamilton, pre-Code, ripped from the headlines, Robert Warwick, Robert Young, Warner Bros.

TCM Preview & Recommendations for January 2015

January 2, 2015 By Cliff Aliperti 15 Comments

Loretta Young 1934 Godfrey Phillips Shots from the Films

Preview and recommendations for January 2015 on Turner Classic Movies. TCM’s focus may be on Robert Redford and Neil Simon, but Loretta Young and John Barrymore are preferred here.

Filed Under: News - Notes Tagged With: now playing guide, previews, schedules, TCM, Turner Classic Movies

Luise Rainer, 1910-2014

December 31, 2014 By Cliff Aliperti 3 Comments

Luise Rainer 1936 MGM promotional photo

Celebrating the long life and short peak of two-time Oscar winning actress Luise Rainer. Includes an appreciation of one of Rainer’s non-Oscar winning roles, her first several minutes opposite Spencer Tracy in Big City (1937).

Filed Under: News - Notes Tagged With: Luise Rainer, obituary

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