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Yes! There are no maracas in Warner Archive’s KONGO (1932)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) manages a fairly elaborate production number to end the 1932 pre-code musical, KONGO. A scantily clad Lupe Velez leads a conga line through jungle terrain. Velez shakes and...
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Paging Dr. Kildare for MGM’s 90th Anniversary
About a month or so ago I received the Dr. Kildare Movie Collection to review from the fine folks at Warner Archive. The set is a nine-film, five-disc collection of the popular MGM Dr. Kildare movie...
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Lupita Tovar in SANTA (1931), Mexico’s first talking picture
I’ve been shamefully negligent in even referencing the role Spanish language movies played in my life. While I didn’t spend as much time watching movies in Spanish as I did Hollywood productions I...
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Antonio Moreno and The Story of Spanish-language Hollywood
The decade of the ’40s has always been my favorite as far as classic movies are concerned. In my opinion you just can’t beat the quality of films produced en masse to match audience attendance, which...
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CMBA Forgotten Stars Blogathon: Eddie Cantor
On Saturday, October 30, 1937 Eddie Cantor was honored with a testimonial dinner at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. The event, which was broadcast by the Columbia Broadcasting System was in...
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Season’s Greetings, “Good News” from MGM
It’s been an unusually busy few weeks around my neck of the woods, but I didn’t want the holiday season to go by without extending wishes to all those who’ve been so supportive of Once Upon a Screen....
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Lux Radio Theater: DESIRE
Starring Marlene Dietrich and Herbert Marshall. Filed under: Audio, Gallery Tagged: 1930s, Desire, Herbert Marshall, Lux Radio Theater, Marlene Dietrich, Old Time Radio, Radio
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Lux Radio Theater: The Thirty-Nine Steps
Lux presents Hollywood… Lux Radio Theater broadcast of The Thirty-Nine Steps starring Robert Montgomery and Ida Lupino from December 13, 1937. Produced and hosted by Cecil B. DeMille. Filed under: […]
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Scarface: The Shame of a Nation
Crime and criminals have been the focus of motion pictures since the birth of the medium. However, it wasn’t until the sound era (the 1930s) that gangster films truly became […]
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OTHER MEN’S WOMEN – James Cagney
James Cagney’s third picture is an odd little number and it’s my choice for submission to the James Cagney blogathon hosted by The Movie Projector. Cagney was on the brink of […]
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The DRIVE-IN turns 80
It was a Tuesday, eighty years ago today – June 6, 1933 – that people first drove their cars right up to a screen to watch movies on Crescent Boulevard […]
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Classic Movies return to the Heights!
I received a text from a friend a couple of weeks ago letting me know that The Palace Theater located in upper Manhattan was bringing back classic film. That may […]
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Buster Keaton, Prohibition and WHAT! NO BEER? (1933)
It’s late 1932 and the repeal of prohibition is looming. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had made the ban on alcohol a central issue in his campaign and within a year’s time […]
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Madeleine Carroll set the standard in Hitchcock’s SECRET AGENT (1936)
It’s almost impossible to read about or discuss Alfred Hitchcock‘s body of work without the topic of the “Hitchcock Blonde” being mentioned. That is, the cool, oft aloof, sexy, stylish female […]
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Pre-Code Blogathon: THE CUBAN LOVE SONG (1931)
A pre-code directed by W. S. Van Dyke that’s set in Cuba with “The Peanut Vendor” sung throughout – how could I resist? Terry Burke (played by famous baritone, Lawrence Tibbett) […]
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Pre-Code Blogathon: THE DIVORCEE (1930) – It doesn’t mean a thing
“I’ve balanced our accounts.” Simple. Direct. Refreshing. In just a few words a woman lets her husband know she’s cheated on him, a few words that could define the pre-code […]
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Happy 80th to an American Institution –“Your Hit Parade”
It became a tradition for several generations of Americans. When radio was king music served as both an escape and a respite from hard times and war. One show, an […]
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CMBA Blogathon: Fabulous Films of the 1930s – Fritz Lang’s M
I grew up watching the films of the 1940s. Those were the ones that were on Television regularly and the productions that remain my movie comfort food. Until as recently as […]
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My Favorite Classic Movie: Chaplin’s CITY LIGHTS (1931)
A few days ago I was looking for a bottle of wine to take to a friend’s house and it caught my eye as I turned into the aisle where […]
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