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Who’s there? Um…yes, I know that’s pretty corny but I couldn’t help it.  Another fabulous blogger thought enough of Once Upon a Screen to honor it with the Liebster Award.  This is not this site’s first, I’m lucky to say, but it never gets old –…

Liebster Sunshine…Silently

June 13, 2013
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Judy FEAT

This is a slight revamp of a post I previously published to celebrate the legend of Judy Garland, the greatest entertainer of the 20th Century.  Judy would have celebrated her 91st birthday today.  I celebrate her always.  This one’s my heart. ________________________________________________________ There are people…

A Judy Garland tribute

June 10, 2013
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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 in Camden, New Jersey.  A new form of entertainment was born and Once Upon a…

The DRIVE-IN turns 80

June 5, 2013
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mmFEAT

It’s difficult to fathom an 87-year-old Marilyn Monroe.  The legend would have celebrated that birthday today, June 1st.  To honor the occasion I am re-posting the following tribute, which I originally published in honor of the 50th anniversary of her death last year.  I simply…

Marilyn – a career in pictures

June 1, 2013
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feat wb

I have a special affection for Warner Bros. (WB) – the studio that gave us Cagney, Davis and Bogart with a tough and gritty attitude, a realism no other studio could emulate – or dared to.  It’s the stuff that dreams are made of –…

Best of Warner Bros. 50-Film Collection

May 31, 2013
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duo

Laughs, love, danger and adventure – TIMES TWO!  It’s the Dynamic Duos in Classic Film blogathon! In a co-host gig with the fabulous Classic Movie Hub (@ClassicMovieHub), Once Upon a Screen (@CitizenScreen) is happy to announce this upcoming blogathon event dedicated to perilous, precarious and/or personable pairs. Dynamic…

Dynamic Duos in Classic Film blogathon

May 30, 2013
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feat rio

A man walks into a bar… Howard Hawks begins Rio Bravo with a beautifully orchestrated silent sequence.  Confidence and strength are palpable as the prolific and creative director goes back to his roots in silent film to start this highly regarded Western.  A few moments…

Howard Hawks’ RIO BRAVO

May 27, 2013
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coolkid

George Karl Wentzlaff was born on May 3, 1946 in Los Angeles, California.  He took (or was given) the stage name George Winslow and was billed as George “Foghorn” Winslow is several of the feature films he appeared in during the 1950s.  Films, I might…

Children in Films: The boy Winslow

May 25, 2013
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georgebailey

As far as blogging mentions go, this one’s just swell!  In appreciation to my friend Movies Silently who thinks enough of Once Upon a Screen to bestow upon it this sweet award I write this post… This lovely mention is yet another reminder of the…

Super Sweet Blogging Award

May 19, 2013
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FEAT hawks

He averaged a film a year for forty-three years.  He left us comedy gems, legends of the old West, brought together inspired casts that became the stuff of legend, and hailed the greatness of ordinary heroes.  He was Howard Hawks. Seetimaar-Diary of a Movie Lover is hosting…

Howard Hawks in his own words

May 15, 2013
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FEAT kate

“People have grown fond of me, like some old building.” Today I remember a Connecticut Yankee in Hollywood.  Katharine Hepburn would have turned 106 years old on this day and by way of this humble tribute I honor her. If there’s one, definitive who’s who…

The Great Kate

May 12, 2013
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dreams

“A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes – but a movie actor waits.” Mary Astor‘s friend, John Huston and actor, Humphrey Bogart went to her house one day with a script in hand.  The script, titled The Maltese Falcon, was written by Huston…

MARY ASTOR – the stuff that dreams are made of

May 8, 2013
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tcm

Ghosts and the rapidly beating hearts of film geeks collided. I was in heaven. We descended on Hollywood like moths to flames looking forward to a weekend filled with movies, Hollywood, friends and magic. And we got it all. The “we” is the thousands of…

TCMFF…abide and endure

May 5, 2013
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donovan

If you happened upon this blog and noticed my rather schizophrenic post wherein I noted my plans for the Turner Classic Movies Film Festival (TCMFF) prior to the event, you would have seen that Frank Capra’s, 1929, The Donovan Affair was not my first choice…

TCMFF Highlight…THE DONOVAN AFFAIR

April 29, 2013
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Tonight I saw LEGEND up close…and with neither time or energy, I still must share… He seemed to fumble somewhat through his notes as he recanted the many “guys” that paved the way for other “guys” to make it. I’d heard him give a similar…

At AFI…the legend of Sidney Poitier

April 25, 2013
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2013

On the record, off the QT, and not very hush-hush… is the fact thousands of us will soon converge on Hollywood for the 2013 Turner classic Movies Film Festival (TCMFF).  Off to Hollywoodland we go, eager to watch some of the greatest stars to ever…

…not very hush-hush…TCMFF

April 21, 2013
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monroe

A bit ago I finished casting my votes for this year’s LAMMY Awards.  For anyone not familiar with The LAMMYS, it’s a yearly awards event hosted and presented by The Large Association of Movie Blogs (The LAMB).  The event dictates that members of The LAMB choose…

Once Upon a Screen…A LAMMYS Nominee

April 20, 2013
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Turner Classic Movies released the schedule for the upcoming TCM Film Festival (TCMFF) over a week ago. Then there was frenzy.  Twitter was instantly abuzz and I was in the midst of it, reading everything and anything I could get my hands on.  Many bloggers…

What dreams may come…TCMFF

April 13, 2013
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versatile_thumb

I never know exactly how to start posts that result from another blogger’s appreciation of whatever might be presented on Once Upon a Screen. It never fails to blow me away and certainly never gets old. Today is no exception and I am as thrilled…

Versatile Blogger

April 10, 2013
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two step

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 superstardom when he appeared in William Wellman‘s, Other Men’s Women (1931).  His next film, Wellman’s, The…

OTHER MEN’S WOMEN – James Cagney Blogathon

April 8, 2013
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Reblogged from cinematically insane: (UPDATES are in italics.) This is something I look forward to – and dread – all year long. Now that the schedule for the upcoming TCM Classic Film Festival has finally been released, the impossible choices must begin. And, with more…

UPDATE #4: My Obsessive-Compulsive Guide to the TCM Classic Film Festival

April 8, 2013
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thrill poster

Beverly Boyer makes her debut as spokeswoman for “Happy Soap” by declaring, “I’m Beverly Boyer and I’m a pig” and then proceeds to stammer through a sweet family story about how much her young daughter enjoys the product.  Everyone laughs and she’s humiliated but old…

Day and Garner in THE THRILL OF IT ALL

April 6, 2013
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Reblogged from Citizen Screenings: When Michael of It Rains…You Get Wet asks me to blog about something, I jump!  Even if it results in a major movie migraine! Not only is It Rains…You Get Wet a wonderful blog wherein its author pens insightful film commentary,…

Springtime Movie Quiz

March 17, 2013
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calla

A couple of weeks back, in the midst of the 31 Days of Oscar blogathon frenzy, Jim of The Draconic Verses (@DraconicVerses) tagged me with a Liebster Award.  I’m lucky to have received a couple of these mentions from other bloggers during the life of Once Upon…

A Draconic Liebster mention

March 10, 2013
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kinopoisk.ru

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 an entertaining, popular way to attract audiences to theaters for a “full” experience, one might…

Scarface: The Shame of a Nation

March 9, 2013
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"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul." - Marilyn Monroe
I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door. - Joan Crawford
There once was a time in this business when I had the eyes of the whole world! But that wasn't good enough for them, oh no! They had to have the ears of the whole world too. So they opened their big mouths and out came talk. Talk! TALK! - Norma Desmond, SUNSET BOULEVARD
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