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…
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…
There’s so much that could be said about the extraordinary career of Cary Grant, arguably the greatest of all movie stars and one of the most important actors in cinema history. Today I delve into the part of his career that led him to meet…
So how many times have I said that I hate lists in posts? OK. Many. I will never do so again. I ran into Mettel Ray Movie Blog and saw a great blogathon idea that entails creating and commenting on the mother of all lists. …
Lo and behold Once Upon a Screen turns one year old! I’ve been congratulating several bloggers, some of my favorites, as they’ve celebrated momentous milestones on their blogs of late all the while regretting I didn’t make note of when I started Once Upon a…
I recently watched Lowell Sherman’s, She Done Him Wrong (1933) starring the incomparable Mae West. While watching, I couldn’t help but think of the film in regards to its connection to The Motion Picture Production Code ( also referred to as The Production Code, simply The Code…
I was tagged by three great bloggers, Kari at What Happened to Hollywood, Kristina at Speakeasy and Stephen at Classic Movie Man (thank you!) for what seems to be a “tag-you’re-it” blog award. To me it means the world that other, very highly regarded bloggers even think of…
Irene Dunne and Cary Grant made three pictures together. Far too few for this fan. Those were, Leo McCarey’s, The Awful Truth (1937), Garson Kanin’s, My Favorite Wife (1940) and George Stevens’, Penny Serenade (1941). The first post I ever did for a blogathon was…
“Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.” Today is Myrna Loy day on Turner Classic Movies (TCM). This would have been her 107th birthday and I can’t resist jumping on the blogging bandwagon and dedicating a post to…
For the most part, I am not a fan of film remakes and am certainly against the remaking of great classic films. There’s just no need for it. Remakes are very rarely any good – especially when compared to the originals. My feeling is leave our…
For the Love of Film: The Film Preservation Blogathon III _____________________________________________ Everyone knows that all Alfred Hitchcock films have a lot in common, all that is Alfred Hitchcock. The mark he left on each of his movies is indelible and undeniable, comparable to the mark…
I sit on a lazy Saturday afternoon watching the beauty of Hitchcock. Not the man (necessarily), but his work. He is so deliberate, the master manipulator – I am putty in his hands! To Catch a Thief never comes to mind when I consider my…
Divorce. An ugly business. It turns love into hate and dependency into burden. Facts that are never truer than when young ones are involved – when they are forced to choose between those they love most. Mr. Smith, or Smitty, as his friends and family…
