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Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Comique comedy Back Stage (1919) starring Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, with Buster Keaton and Al St. John. By now, the backs…
Tomorrow morning at 8:45am (Eastern) Turner Classic Movies will be showing a great forgotten classic, 1935’s Ruggles of Red Gap. (I really don’t care if old movie buf…
Tonight at 5:45pm on Turner Classic Movies:  Rollercoaster. One of the last of the original 1970s cycle of disaster movies, owing debts especially to Earthquake and Two Minute Wa…
Today is the birthday of the great comic actor Jane Curtin (b. 1947). Believe it or not, despite the fact that she has continued to work steadily and prominently down to the present day, my …
Today is the anniversary of the release of The Laurel and Hardy Murder Case (1930), directed by James Parrott.  This is not the team’s best work, and I don't think it's just …
Today is the anniversary of the New York City premiere of the Universal horror classic The Phantom of the Opera (1925). This handily one of the first silent movies I was ever exposed to and …
Today is anniversary of the release date of the Laurel and Hardy silent comedy short Should Married Men Go Home? (1928), co-directed by James Parrott and Leo McCarey. Like so many …
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the D.W. Griffith film, Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916). Perhaps the most spectacular motion picture ev…
Today is the birthday of the once ubiquitous comedy professional Howard Morris (1919-2005). I find it a little crazy (and surely incorrect) that his Wikipedia entry and his official page bot…
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Charlie Chaplin comedy The Count (1916). This movie shows Chaplin at the top of his game as a straight up comedian, chock full o…
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Harold Lloyd comedy Luke Joins the Navy (1916). This short dates from the time when Lloyd was still performing as “Lonesome Lu…
As we noted earlier, today is the birthday of African American character actor Mantan Moreland. A fitting time for a shout-out for the first movie I ever saw him in, Spider Baby (made …
We’re about ten days out from the closing of the NYC Fringe edition of I’ll Say She Is. As any theatre person will tell you, it takes days and days to mop up in the afterma…
Filed under: Indie Theatre, Irish, Jews/ Show Biz, LEGIT, EXPERIMENTAL & MUSICAL THEATRE, PLUGS Tagged: Allan Lewis Rickman, origin, Samuel Beckett, Shane Baker, Waiting for Godot, Yiddi…
Well, you might not be surprised to learn after all yesterdays hoopla that we were rather disappointed in the History Channel’s new bio-pic of Houdini starring Adrien Brody. “Jun…
Today marks the anniversary of the release date of the silent classic The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923). The film, starring Lon Chaney in one of his tour de force roles, is often said to ha…
Today is the anniversary of the US premiere of the Harold Lloyd comedy feature Why Worry? (1923), directed by Sam Taylor. I often ask myself the question, “Why Called This?” But …
Today is the birthday of the late Yvonne De Carlo (Margaret Yvonne Middleton, 1922-2007). Now,there are many posts I’d love to write about her: * She was a beauty queen, pin-up, dancer…
Today is the anniversary of the release date of that mysterious classic Lost Horizon (1937). This film is (like the best-selling 1933 James Hilton novel it is based on) is a sui generi…
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Douglas Fairbanks feature His Majesty, the American (1919). His Majesty, the American was the first film ever to be released by U…
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Buster Keaton short One Week (1920), co-directed by Eddie Cline. This film (the first of Keaton’s solo shorts to get a public …
We are very excited here at Travalanche. Part one of the two-part Houdini special starring Adrien Brody in the title role airs tonight at 9pm Eastern. Houdini is one of our favorite repeat t…
Today is the birthday of Glenn Anders (1889-1981). If you’re like me, he’s one of your favorite things about Orson Welles’ The Lady from Shanghai (1947) . Then com…
Filed under: Music, PLUGS, Singers, Uncategorized, Women Tagged: Birdland, Mae West, Molly Ryan
Today is the birthday of Al G. Barnes (Alpheus George Barnes Stonehouse, 1862-1931). Originally from an Ontario Canada farm, legend has it that Barnes started his first show in 1895 with jus…
