by Danny Miller | Mar 31, 2015 | Features, What's Hot
The sixth annual TCM Classic Film Festival came to an end on Sunday night, and, as usual, it was a glorious, jam-packed four days for thousands of movie lovers who descended upon Hollywood. Eighty classic films were presented on the big screens of two historic movie...
by Danny Miller | Mar 23, 2015 | Features, What's Hot
On this day in 1904, Lucille Fay LeSueur (later known as Joan Crawford) was born in San Antonio, Texas. Some sources list the year of her birth as 1904, 1905, or even 1908, but a quick search of the San Antonio census records reveals the truth. By any measure,...
by Danny Miller | Mar 21, 2015 | Features, What's Hot
Today is the birthday of one of the most talented young actresses in the history of the movies. You may remember Virginia Weidler primarily as Dinah Lord, Katharine Hepburn’s precocious sister in MGM’s The Philadelphia Story, the girl who plays “Lydia the Tattooed...
by Danny Miller | Mar 19, 2015 | Features, What's Hot
One of the films I’m most looking forward to at next week’s TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood is George Stevens’ The Diary of Anne Frank starring Millie Perkins as Anne Frank and Diane Baker as her sister Margot. Both Perkins and Baker will be at the screening at...
by Danny Miller | Mar 17, 2015 | Features, What's Hot
A weekly feature in which my five-year-old son is let loose on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one of the most popular tourist attractions in Los Angeles, and chooses a star from among the more than 2,500 honorees. His “random” picks sometimes reveal unexplained...
by Danny Miller | Mar 13, 2015 | Features, What's Hot
As far as I’m concerned, some of the greatest films ever made were a result of the partnership between Michael Powell (1905-1990) and Emeric Pressburger (1902-1988) whose production company was known as The Archers. The British filmmakers collaborated over a period of...
