Margaret Talbot, author of The Entertainer: Movies, Magic and My Father's Twentieth Century , will be introducing the best of her fat...

A look ahead at the Monty's March Madness Favorite Actress Tournament, part of which we'll be hosting here at the Monkey. Voting beg...

You know, the more I think about it, the more I realize that James Cagney's performance in The Public Enemy was some sort of line in th...

Be sure to look for a Joan Blondell double feature on Turner Classic Movies early Thursday, June 9, 2011, with Night Nurse at 6 a.m. EDT, f...

I've already written about most of the Hollywood sex symbols of the pre-Code era—Jean Harlow, Joan Blondell, Marlene Dietrich, or if you...

Joan Blondell ( The Gold Diggers Of 1933 ) Jean Harlow ( Red Dust , Dinner At Eight and Bombshell ) Miriam Hopkins ( Trouble in Paradise a...

Or should I say Blondell crazy? Joan Blondell, that is, who was the winner of the latest Monkey Poll, "Of the previous winners of the ...

While Katie-Bar-The-Door is home sick and I'm working on my essay for best supporting actress of 1932-33, how about a poll? Of the prev...

The poll for best song of 1932-33 quickly turned into a neck-and-neck contest between "We're in the Money" from Gold Diggers o...