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This is Part Two of our post from six months ago, a report of our first excursion out to Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx to pay our respects to the vaudeville stars, et al. Read that ac…
Tonight (tomorrow) at 12:45am (EST) Turner Classic Movies will be showing perhaps my favorite of the many cinematic versions of Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jeky…
Today is the birthday of legendary cinematic auteur Edward D. Wood, Jr. (Read our full article on this amazing individual here). Â We therefore devote today’s installment in our Hall…
Continuing our series of horror posts for the Halloween season, and seeing as how it is Wally Brown’s birthday, if you’ll excuse my using this expression in a zombie context, pos…
Sunday at 2pm at Pace University’s Schimmel Center: Harold Lloyd’s classic feature length silent comedy The Freshman (1925) with music by the one and only Ben Model. …
Tonight on TCM: several cool horror flicks about body parts run amok, gone AWOL, or gone awry! 8:00pm (EST): Mad Love (1935) An exquisite remake of the silent classic The Hands of Orlac.�…
Today is the birthday of Rube Marquard (1886-1980). Marquard was a legendary pitcher for the New York Giants, Boston Braves, Brooklyn Robins, and one non-defunct team, the Cincinnati Reds. H…
Tomorrow Morning at 8:30am (EST), Turner Classic Movies will be screening the Marx Brothers classic Horse Feathers. As you may have seen in my earlier post, several Marx Brothers movie…
Today is the birthday of the great character actor Edward Andrews (1914-1985). You probably don’t know the name, but I’ll lay dollars to donuts you know that FACE! God, how I lov…
Tomorrow, at Washington County Fairgrounds in Rhode Island, Swamp Yankee Days will once again see the light of day. I cannot tell you how happy I am that this relatively new annual festival,…
Filed under: Contemporary Variety, PLUGS, Vaudeville etc. Tagged: Brevities, Carol Bradshaw, Proctors, Schenectady, vaudeville
“It’s just like comedy!” Todd Robbins always quips in his act, and hearing about his new show True Nightmares , which premiers on Investigation Discovery next Wednesd…
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Well, you could have knocked me over with a feather. In honor of Nance O’Neil’s birthday and the Halloween season upon us, I thought I would do a little post about great screen a…
Filed under: Burlesk, PLUGS, VISUAL ART Tagged: Drink and Draw, The Parlor
Today is the birthday of Nance O’Neil (Gertrude Lamson, 1874-1965). O’Neil was a major stage and screen star of her day, called “the American Bernhardt“, managed by M…
Tomorrow at 6:00am (EST) on Turner Classic Movies, to kick off their day-long program of train movies, they will be showing Buster Keaton‘s The General (1927). Unthinkable as …
Today is the birthday of Paschal Beverly Randolph (1825-1875). Â I learned about this astounding person through genealogical research. I am distantly related to him through our mutual ance…
Continuing our month-long series of classic horror posts launched here, today we survey Universal Pictures’ Frankenstein franchise. As we know there have been countless reboots o…
Today is the birthday of Richard George “R.G.” Knowles (1858-1919). Technically, Knowles was Canadian by birth, though his parents were American and he was raised in America (his…
Continuing our month-long series of classic horror posts launched here, today we survey Universal Picture’s Dracula franchise. As we know there have been countless reboots of the…
When I said yesterday that the Americans didn’t take a back seat to the Germans in the business of morbidity and horror  even during the 1920s, I was thinking chiefly of director To…
Far be it from me to lay all the morbidity of the world at the feet of the Germans (after all, neither the English nor the Americans take a back seat to them in the category we are discussin…
Burlesque being what it is, there aren’t many dancers who came up through its ranks during the classical era who broke through to mainstream fame. Lili St. Cyr was one of the few who d…
Today is the 100th anniversary of the release date of the Charlie Chaplin comedy Shanghaied (1915). In this funny Esssanay comedy, Charlie plays a poor shlub who loves the daughter (Ed…
