Best American Silent Movies
6. The Crowd – 1928 – King Vidor, Director
Cast: Eleanor Boardman [Mary Sims], James Murray [John Sims], Bert Roach [Bert], Estelle Clark [Jane], Daniel G. Tomlinson [Jim], Dell Henderson [Dick], Lucy Beaumont [Mary’s mother], Freddie Burke Frederick [John Sims Jr.], Alice Mildred Puter [daughter]; Sidney Bracey [John’s supervisor], Johnny Downs [John Sims, age [...]
She Knows No Secrets, But Has One
Carly Simon’s third albums, it is also one of her most popular, has the title No Secrets. The album also has You’re So Vain a song that has a big secret. Who is so vain and may think the song is about him?
Carly Simon was born on June 25, 1945. She was born [...]
Mama Don’t Take – Kodak Did
It was the summer of 1973 when Paul Simon begged ‘Mama, don’t take my Kodachrome away’. Mama has finally taken it away. Mama is Kodak and they have announced that they will discontinue Kodachrome film.
Kodak first introduced the film, which was the first successfully mass-marketed color still film using a subtractive method, [...]
Top Movies of 1973
Clint Eastwood returns as Dirty Harry Callahan in Magnum Force. And like all of the Dirty Harry movies there is a catch line or sentiment that appears throughout the film. In this one it was, “A man has to know his limitations”.
The story of star-crossed lovers played by Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand [...]
The Lights are Bright
Even though I have never seen a show in a Broadway Theatre or for that matter seen many shows anywhere, in fact I may have appeared in more shows than I have seen, I have been a fan of Broadway since the early 1970s.
Most of my experience has been through Cast albums and [...]
The Music of Ozzie Nelson and Harriet Hilliard
Depending upon one’s age will depend on how you remember the entertainment couple Ozzie and Harriet Nelson. Most will know of them from the TV series The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet one of the shows popular in early television. Others will know them as the father to Ricky Nelson, who also appeared on their [...]
What Will You Be Watching on June 12th
This is not a trick question advertising a special TV show, but the simple fact that June 12, 2009 is the date that over the air television will stop broadcasting the analog TV signals, that have been in use since the beginning of television, and start broadcasting completely in digital.
There has been many rumors about [...]
Ben Bernie – Yowsah
If you were living in the 1930’s there’s a good chance that one of favorite musical stars would have been Ben Bernie. He’s not a common known artist today, but one phrase of his you may have heard, “Yawsah, Yawsah, Yowsah.”
Ben Bernie was born on May 30, 1891. By the age of 15 [...]
Top Movies 1979
The Jerk took Steve Martin from a stand-up comic and comedy writer to a movie star. And the role rags-to-riches-to-rags that Martin played fit him perfectly. Not surprisingly when considering that he also was one if the writers of the movie.
10 was the brainchild of Blake Edwards and starred a little [...]
With a Huff and a Puff
In eight minutes on May 27, 1933 Walt Disney retold an old story. It was on that day that Disney’s Silly Symphonies version of the Three Little Pigs was released.
The cartoon produced by Disney and directed by Burt Gillet played in movie theaters for months, in a time when shorts were played [...]
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