GREAT OLD MOVIES

Jane Russell and Ralph Meeker THE FUZZY PINK NIGHTGOWN  (1957). Director: Norman Taurog. Movie star Laurel Stevens (Jane Russell of F...

Christine Kaufmann and Jason Robards MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE  (1971). Director: Gordon Hessler. In Paris around the turn of the cen...

NOT SINCE CARRIE: Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops . Ken Mandelbaum. St. Martin's Press; 1991. This very entertaining survey o...

Steve Cochran I MOBSTER  (1959). Produced and directed by Roger Corman. I Mobster  traces the rise and fall of gangster Joe Sante (St...

Freddie Stewart JUNIOR PROM  (1946). Director: Arthur Dreifuss. " You're all acting like a bunch of drips !" At Whitn...

Tom Courtenay and Dirk Bogarde KING AND COUNTRY  (1964). Director: Joseph Losey. During WW1, British private James Hemp (Tom Courtena...

MYRNA LOY: THE ONLY GOOD GIRL IN HOLLYWOOD . Emily W. Leider. 2011; University of California Press. This absorbing, well-written and we...

Jayne Mansfield and Dan Duryea THE BURGLAR  (1957). Director: Paul Wendkos. Nat Harbin (Dan Duryea) leads a small gang of criminals, ...

Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride MA AND PA KETTLE GO TO TOWN  (1950). Director: Charles Lamont. Pa Kettle (Percy Kilbride) wins anoth...

Rory Calhoun and Linda Darnell BLACK SPURS  (1965). Director: R. G. Springsteen. In Texas in 1885 Santee (Rory Calhoun of Night of th...

Ann Blyth and Claudette Colbert THUNDER ON THE HILL  (1951). Director: Douglas Sirk. In Norfolk county, England, Sister Mary (Claude...

Perry Como and Vivian Blaine DOLL FACE  (1945). Director: Lewis Seiler. "Doll Face" Carroll (Vivian Blaine) is a top burles...

John Ericson PRETTY BOY FLOYD  (1960). Director: Herbert J. Leder. Charles Arthur Floyd (John Ericson) gets some bad breaks due to th...

HAYWIRE.  Brooke Hayward. Originally published in 1977; updated 2011. Random House. Brooke Hayward is the daughter of actress Margaret ...

Emma Stone as Abigail Hill THE FAVOURITE  (2018). Director: Yorgos Lanthimos. Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) supposedly rules England but...

Art Garfunkel and Candice Bergen CARNAL KNOWLEDGE   (1971). Director: Mike Nichols. Screenplay by Jules Feiffer. In college post-WW2,...

Pat Boone and Dick Sargent BERNARDINE  (1957). Director: Henry Levin. Some high school pals in a club imagine the perfect woman and f...

Myrna Loy as Becky Sharp INDECENT  (aka Vanity Fair /1932). Director: Chester M. Franklin. " I do hope I'm going to give sat...

Dina Merrill and Larry Blyden WHAT MAKES SAMMY RUN? NBC Sunday Showcase  1959. Director: Delbert Mann. " You're intelligent ...

Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone  LA LA LAND  (2019). Written and directed by Damien Chazelle. Mia (Emma Stone of The Amazing Spider-Man )...

HAPPY HALLOWEEN . We've got a fresh crop of Halloween horrors this week at Great Old Movies : two Brian De Palma shockers; a modern...

Who's the bigger bitch? Vincent Price and Carol Ohmart HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL  (colorized/1959). Produced and directed by William Ca...

Best Buddies? Chucky and little Alex Vincent CHILD'S PLAY  (1988). Director: Tom Holland. A very nice widow named Karen Barclay (...