Tagged: movies

July 16, 2014

Grand Hotel: 1932 Best Picture

1932’s Best Picture winner was Grand Hotel, produced by Irving Thalberg and directed by Edmund Goulding. It was the first film to feature an all-star cast: Greta Garbo, as Grusinskaya,...

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July 15, 2014

Cimarron: 1931 Best Picture

The Best Picture Oscar winner at the 4th Academy Awards was RKO’s “Cimarron,” a 1931 western based upon the 1929 Edna Ferber novel of the same name. What Ferber got...

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July 14, 2014

All Quiet on the Western Front: 1930 Best Picture

The winner of the third Best Picture Oscar was Universal’s “All Quiet on the Western Front,” a 1930 American war film based on the Erich Maria Remarque novel, “Im Westen...

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July 12, 2014

The Broadway Melody: 1929 Best Picture

This MGM musical starred Eddie Kearns and Anita Page, known as “The Girl with the Most Beautiful Face in Hollywood,” and Bessie Love, who was nominated for Best Actress for...

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July 12, 2014

Wings: The First Best Picture Oscar Winner

Here is a review of “Wings”, a 1927 film that won the first Academy Award for “Outstanding Picture”, as the Best Picture award was then known. The award ceremony was...

Celebs

June 28, 2014

Marilyn Monroe, Ultimate Sex Symbol

Some have said that if you slap some red lipstick on a gal and dye her hair blonde, they all look pretty much alike, but is that really so? If...

Celebs

June 16, 2014

Scarface Stars – Where Are They Now?

Say hello to our old friends… the stars of Scarface. According to Box Office Mojo, Scarface was the 16th highest grossing film in 1983. Al Pacino was already well-known in...

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December 22, 2013

George C. Scott as General Patton

Today is the day that General George S. Patton passed away in 1945, and if you happen to be looking for a good film to watch, how about 1970’s Oscar-winner...

On The Tube

December 25, 2012

Papillon Remake Dream Cast

We intended to go see Les Misérables (2012) today, but as Robert Burns put it, the best laid plans of mice and men go oft awry. Instead, we watched an...

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January 4, 2012

Favorite Shirley Temple Movies

Curly headed, dimpled, adorable Shirley Temple was just about THE most popular star in America and the biggest box office draw in the late 1930s, when she made a string...