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Penthouse (1933) Starring Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy

August 2, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti 10 Comments

Myrna Loy and Warner Baxter

Warner Baxter stars as a mobster’s mouthpiece in Penthouse (1933) also featuring Myrna Loy. And, in one of his best, Nat Pendleton plays the mobster.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1933, Albert Hackett, C. Henry Gordon, charles butterworth, Frances Goodrich, George E. Stone, Lawyers, Mae Clarke, Martha Sleeper, murder, Myrna Loy, Mysteries, Nat Pendleton, penthouse, Phillips Holmes, pre-Code, Robert Emmett O'Connor, W.S. Van Dyke, Warner Archive, Warner Baxter

“She Came from Montana” – Myrna Loy as Covered by Newspapers of the 1920s

August 1, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti 1 Comment

Myrna Loy 1920s 5x7 Fan Photo

Local girl Myrna Loy featured in a Helena, Montana, newspaper article from 1926, plus some other old Loy clippings and pre-Thin Man biography and information.

Filed Under: News - Notes, Research Tagged With: Myrna Loy, pretty ladies, Summer Under the Stars, suts, suts 2012, TCM, Turner Classic Movies

John Wayne on Football and Movies from a 1933 Newspaper Interview

August 1, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti 3 Comments

John Wayne 1955 Kane Products trading card

The Big Trail’s flop was still fresh on the mind of John Wayne during a 1933 interview when he thought he’d hit it big as a B western star.

Filed Under: News - Notes Tagged With: b-westerns, John Wayne, Summer Under the Stars, suts, suts 2012, TCM, Turner Classic Movies

Tony Martin, 1913-2012

August 1, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

Tony Martin 1940s Engravotints Weight Machine Card

Singer-actor Tony Martin died Friday at age 98. Remembering the versatile performer who earned four stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. With links to other impressive remembrances of Martin.

Filed Under: News - Notes Tagged With: Alice Faye, cyd charisse, obituary, tony martin

John Ford’s Stagecoach (1939) Starring John Wayne and Claire Trevor

July 31, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti 10 Comments

John Wayne in Stagecoach

The classic John Ford western Stagecoach (1939) is a movie for everybody. Forget genre prejudices and thrill to John Wayne, Claire Trevor and all of the rest of one of the richest supporting casts you’ll ever encounter.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1939, Andy Devine, berton churchill, claire trevor, Donald Meek, ernest haycox, George Bancroft, John Carradine, John Ford, John Wayne, louise platt, stagecoach, Thomas Mitchell, tim holt, tom tyler, Westerns

August 2012 TCM Summer Under the Stars Preview and Recommendations

July 30, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti 12 Comments

Kay Francis 1938 Polo L Tobacco Card

TCM Summer Under the Stars 2012 preview with recommendations for most days. A rundown covering each of the 31 days. Plus the usual tally along with the first annual Oldies Ranks for fellow classic movie obsessives.

Filed Under: News - Notes Tagged With: previews, schedules, Summer Under the Stars, suts, suts 2012, TCM, Turner Classic Movies

The Great Recasting Blogathon: Wall Street, Shifted from 1987 to 1933

July 28, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti 12 Comments

Warren William in The Dark Horse

This entry in The Great Recasting Blogathon shifts 1987’s Wall Street back in time to the Warner Brothers’ lot of 1933. Warren William stars as Gekko with Powell and Keeler on the scene as well.

Filed Under: News - Notes

Lewis Milestone’s The Purple Heart (1944) Starring Dana Andrews

July 27, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti 15 Comments

Dana Andrews Blogathon at Classic Movie Man

The Purple Heart (1944), directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Dana Andrews, is a World War II courtroom drama imagining the trial and fate of captured Doolittle Raid fliers before the world knew exactly what had happened to them. Part of the Dana Andrews blogathon.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1944, charles russell, Courtroom Drama, dana andrews, Darryl F Zanuck, Farley Granger, John Craven, kevin oshea, Lewis Milestone, red barry, richard conte, richard loo, sam levene, the purple heart, War, World War II

TCM Summer Under the Stars – 2012 Complete Schedule

July 25, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

Click Myrna to see the SUTS rule at Sittin on a Backyard Fence

A home base for Immortal Ephemera coverage of TCM Summer Under the Stars including the complete August 2012 TCM schedule. Illustrated by classic movie cards and collectibles.

Filed Under: News - Notes Tagged With: schedules, Summer Under the Stars, suts, suts 2012, TCM, Turner Classic Movies

The Solitaire Man (1933) Starring Herbert Marshall and Lionel Atwill

July 25, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti 3 Comments

Elizabeth Allan and Herbert Marshall

MGM tries to capitalize upon Herbert Marshall’s success in Trouble in Paradise with The Solitaire Main (1933). With Lionel Atwill, Elizabeth Allan, May Robson and Mary Boland.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1933, air travel, Bella Spewack, Elizabeth Allan, Herbert Marshall, Jack Conway, Lionel Atwill, Mary Boland, May Robson, MGM, murder, Mysteries, Ralph Forbes, Sam Spewack, the solitaire man, World War I

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