If the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences handed out an Oscar in the category of "What Were They Thinking?" 1929's ha...

Beginning today, Sunday, August 2, 2009, and running through August 22, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. will be hosting a fi...

She had a face like a bulldog, if someone had been cruel enough to stamp on that bulldog with the heel of his boot—lantern jaw, bulbous nose...

My one hundredth posting—it's nice that it can be about one of the reasons I became a movie fan in the first place, the Marx Brothers. ...

The Marx Brothers' first movie, The Cocoanuts , was based on a stage play that has the distinction of being the only Irving Berlin music...

Now this is how you adapt a classic novel for the big screen. Being a (failed) writer myself, it has often struck me how few great movies h...

Six days after the April 3, 1930 Oscar ceremony in honor of the best movies of 1928-29—a public-relations debacle where a five-member panel ...

And last but not least, the number one box office draw of the Early Sound Era, Marie Dressler. No foolin'. Number one, and a personal f...

Just a couple more photos of Early Sound stars to remind you what you have to look forward to—this from 1934's The Black Cat , but of co...

From 1931's Blonde Crazy , e verybody's favorite picture of Joan Blondell ... or, well, mine anyway.