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Eleanor Parker 1922-2013; TCM Marathon Scheduled for December 17; TCM Remembers Video Premieres

December 11, 2013 By Cliff Aliperti 4 Comments

Eleanor Parker 1953 Topps Who-Z-At Trading Card

TCM changes line-up to remember the late Eleanor Parker on December 17. Parker also included in the brand new TCM Remembers video for 2013, which is embedded on this page. Additional stars honored on the network December 30.

Filed Under: News - Notes Tagged With: eleanor parker, obituary, schedules, tcm remembers, tcm remembers 2013

TCM Preview December 2013 – A Look Inside My Now Playing Guide

December 2, 2013 By Cliff Aliperti 4 Comments

Fred Astaire 1949 Carreras Turf Tobacco Card

TCM preview and recommendations for December 2013 with emphasis on Golden Age titles showing on Turner Classic Movies throughout the month. Spotlight on pre-Codes and pre-War titles. Fred Astaire Star of the Month and a Friday night focus on The Hollywood Costume.

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

Joe Donahue, “World’s Greatest Dancer” and Sunny Co-Star

November 27, 2013 By Cliff Aliperti 9 Comments

Joe Donahue in Sunny

Digging into Joe Donahue, talented vaudevillian dancer who replaced his late brother, Jack, opposite Marilyn Miller in the film version of Sunny. He also appeared in Expensive Women and two Dorothy Mackaill titles during his stay with First National, 1930-31. Piecing together some of the mysterious Donahue’s life and discovering, once and for all, the date he died.

Filed Under: Movie Star Biographies Tagged With: dancers, Dolores Costello, Dorothy Mackaill, First National, jack donahue, Joan Blondell, Joe Donahue, Marilyn Miller, vaudeville, Warren William

Don’t Bet on Blondes (1935) Starring Warren William and Claire Dodd

November 23, 2013 By Cliff Aliperti 1 Comment

Warren William and Claire Dodd

Warner Brothers Don’t Bet on Blondes (1935) features solid work by Warren William as bookmaker turned freak insurance man, Claire Dodd cast against type as his love interest and Guy Kibbee giving the strongest performance of the bunch as Dodd’s father, who takes out a policy against his daughter’s marriage. It is also Errol Flynn’s second Hollywood movie and Flynn’s early career is detailed within the post.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1935, Claire Dodd, clay clement, Errol Flynn, gambling, Guy Kibbee, Hobart Cavanaugh, insurance, Mary Treen, Maude Eburne, New York, Robert Florey, Spencer Charters, Vince Barnett, Walter Byron, Warner Archive, Warner Bros., Warren William, William Gargan

Lon Chaney, Jr. in Dead Man’s Eyes (1944) – An Inner Sanctum Mystery

November 18, 2013 By Cliff Aliperti 12 Comments

Lon Chaney Jr in Dead Mans Eyes

Lon Chaney, Jr. stars in Dead Man’s Eyes, an Inner Sanctum Mystery from Universal in 1944. Posted for the Chaney Blogathon. Article also includes a separate section about mysterious co-star Acquanetta.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1944, acquanetta, edward fielding, George Meeker, Horror, inner sanctum mysteries, Jean Parker, Jonathan Hale, Mysteries, Paul Kelly, reginald le borg, thomas gomez, Universal, Universal Horror

Hugh Herbert – Woo Woo Man vs. F. Hugh and Other Biographical Corrections

November 11, 2013 By Cliff Aliperti 22 Comments

Hugh Herbert illustration from August 1938 issue of Hollywood Magazine

A complete biography of Woo Woo! man Hugh Herbert that reestablishes many writing and directorial credits previously given to F. Hugh Herbert and reveals his wife, Rose Epstein, and co-star, Anita Pam, were the same person. Hugh’s early vaudeville days dating from 1911 are covered as well as his earliest work at the film studios.

Filed Under: Movie Star Biographies Tagged With: anita pam, comedy shorts, f hugh herbert, Goodbye Again, Hugh Herbert, RKO (Pathe), tom francis, tom herbert, vaudeville, vitaphone, what a character, woo woo

TCM Preview November 2013 – A Look Inside My Now Playing Guide

November 1, 2013 By Cliff Aliperti 2 Comments

Burt Lancaster 1950 Trading Card

TCM preview for November 2013 puts the emphasis on Golden Age titles showing on the network. Spotlight on pre-Codes and pre-War titles. Burt Lancaster Star of the Month and a Friday night focus on Screwball Comedies.

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

The Walking Dead (1936) – Lindbergh Heart Resurrects Boris Karloff

October 29, 2013 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

Boris Karloff in The Walking Dead

Warner Brothers mixes crime and horror in THE WALKING DEAD where mobsters put down Boris Karloff but Edmund Gwenn brings him back to life with a Lindbergh Heart. Karloff’s fine performance highlighted along with some background information about Lindbergh’s “robot heart.”

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1936, Barton MacLane, Boris Karloff, Crime, Edmund Gwenn, Gangsters, hal mohr, Henry O'Neill, Horror, Joe Sawyer, louis f edelman, marguerite churchill, Michael Curtiz, paul harvey, Ricardo Cortez, robert strange, Warner Bros., warren hull

Murder by the Clock (1931) Starring William “Stage” Boyd and Lilyan Tashman

October 22, 2013 By Cliff Aliperti 5 Comments

Lilyan Tashman in Murder by the Clock

Tough to find and thus underappreciated, Murder by the Clock (1931) is an early mystery thriller highlighted by Lilyan Tashman, a creepy tomb alarm and a few surprising twists.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1931, Blanche Friderici, charles beahan, edward sloman, henry myers, Horror, Irving Pichel, karl struss, lester vail, Lilyan Tashman, Martha Mattox, Mysteries, Paramount, Regis Toomey, rufus king, sally oneil, walter mcgrail, William "Stage" Boyd

Keep Your Bill Boyds Straight

October 16, 2013 By Cliff Aliperti 2 Comments

William Stage Boyd

It was confusing when a second William Boyd arrived in Hollywood in 1929. The original “Movie” Boyd achieved later fame as Hopalong Cassidy, but who was the actor who became known as William “Stage” Boyd?

Filed Under: News - Notes Tagged With: bill boyd, Hopalong Cassidy, William "Stage" Boyd

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