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The Awful Truth …the matter of Mr. Smith
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...
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Set a thief… To Catch a Thief
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...
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The Hitchcock Signature
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...
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High Society in The Philadelphia Story
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...
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Myrna Loy – the little things
“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...
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Cary Grant’s greatest co-star, Irene Dunne
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’,...
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7 x 7 Award – My favorite posts
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...
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SHE DONE HIM WRONG, Will Hays
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...
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A happy anniversary…Once Upon a Screen
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...
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My Movie Alphabet
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...
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Cary Grant: The Road to Suspicion
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...
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Howard Hawks in his own words
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...
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Children in Films: The boy Winslow
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...
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Lux Radio Theater, “I Confess”
A special post honoring the anniversary of Cary Grant’s birth date this week. As it aired on September 21, 1953, the Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock’s, “I Confess.”Filed under: Audio,...
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“His Girl Friday” Live Radio Performance
Starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell, live on radio reprising their film roles, Walter Burns and Hildy Johnson. Filed under: Audio, Gallery Tagged: Cary Grant, Hildy Johnson, His Girl Friday, Old...
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Screen Guild Theater – July 4th Triple Feature
A special post honoring Independence Day – Screen Guild Theater radio adaptations of three classics. Yankee Doodle Dandy: Starring: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, Jeanne Cagney, Richard...
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Cary Grant and Grace Moore in “Madame Butterfly” (OTR)
Greetings from Hollywood, Ladies And Gentleman…… Lux Radio Theater presents… “Madame Butterfly” Starring: Cary Grant, Grace Moore Original Air Date: March 8, 1937 Episode Number: 123Filed under: Audio...
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Carole Lombard on the radio
In celebration of the great talent that was Carole Lombard on the anniversary of her birthday, here are two Lux Radio Theater productions in which Carole reprised roles she portrayed on the silver...
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Happy Vintage Halloween!
To celebrate the joys and terrors of All Hallows’ Eve – bwahahahahahaha bwahahahahaha – a Once Upon a Screen Happy Vintage Halloween card. A vintage gallery: Vintage sounds of terror: A compilation of...
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‘Lux Presents Hollywood’ Christmas Classics
Christmas is twenty days away, which makes it a great time to start celebrating the holiday season in earnest on Once Upon a Screen. To kick off the celebrations here are three Lux Radio Theater...
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