Essays

This list is in chronological order (e.g. the most recently added essays are at the bottom):

• The Blonde Bombshell
• Great Boxing Movies
• Miracle on 34th Street (1947) (photo)
• Political Campaign Films
• Tennis and Film (photo)
• Message Pictures
• MGM vs. Warner Bros.
• Great films snubbed by the Academy Awards
• 100 Years at the Movies (1994)
• Films about Fathers
• Mary Poppins (1964) (photo)
• Howard Hughes, The Film-Maker
• Comparative Review of the three “Maltese Falcon” movies
• The Sound of Music (1965)
• Classic Movie Kisses
• Memorable Film Debuts
• Memorable Final Performances
• Great Everyman Actors
• Essential Character Actors (photos)
• Hollywood Remakes
• Movie Dentists
• RKO B Westerns
• Claudette Colbert
• Gary Cooper
• Irene Dunne (photo)
• Stairways for Death
• Movie Mothers
• John Wayne
• Courtroom Dramas
• Burt Lancaster
• Ernst Lubitsch
• Submarine Movies
• Runaway Brides and Other Interrupted Weddings
• Oscar and the Oldest Profession
• Lead Actors in Oscar’s Best Picture Winners
• Academy Awards – Supporting Actress Category
• Actresses in Oscar’s Best Picture Winners
• Sentimental Oscar winners and nominees
• Best Picture Winners?
• Susan Hayward (photos)
• Classic Movie Absurdities
• Films about Faith
• John Qualen (photo)
• Movies about Taxes or the I.R.S.
• Classic Teacher Movies
• Pygmalion Movies
• Katharine Hepburn (photo)
• World War II Propaganda Movies
• Leon Ames
• A Walk in the Sun (1945)
• Chariots of Fire (1981) – a rarity (photo)
• Henry O’Neill (photo)
• Strike Up the Band (1940)
• Music Pioneers of Film
• Hypnosis and the Movies
• Paul Muni (photo)
• Hitchcock-like Movies
• Virginia Weidler
• Directing Musicals
• Cameo Performances (movies that were loaded)
• Edward G. Robinson
• Movies about the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
• End of the World-Last Man on Earth dramas
• The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959) (photo)
• One Hit Wonders of the Academy Awards
• Jean Arthur
• Dynamic Duos – Studio Era Pairs
• Films set in China
• Classic Film Starter Kit
• An Ethical Analysis of Executive Suite (1954)
• Road House (1948)
• Disney’s LL Remake Trilogy (photos)
• Unmerited Hero Worship
• Acting for an Oscar
• Character Actors Before Their Time
• Happy 15th Anniversary TCM!
• Jack Carson
• Robert Ryan
• Sports Movies and the Academy Award for Best Picture
• Getting Naked or Crying for an Academy Award or nomination
• Life With Father (1947)
• Sherwood Pictures’ Films about Faith
• Leadership examples in Classic Film
• Tearjerkers