Family Movie Night Menus from Leonard and Jessie Maltin

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Richard Arlen (September 1, 1899 – March 28, 1976)

33 days until THE WORLD COMES TO HOLLYWOOD for #TCMFF

Joan Blondell with a giant butterfly hair clip in Havana Widows.

Love the look! #HavanaWidows #TCMParty

English only sometimes though. 😂 France is by far the most anti-English language country I’ve been to, but that’s not super surprising.

As someone who worked at videostores for a decade, I remember discovering this one back then and cherishing its weirdo vibes. Worth a nostalgia watch for sure.

Baffled by who the audience for AI-tainted classic films is. If you're into old movies, you're probably also into the mythology of old movies, which means that the ones left unfinished, studio-butchered, or lost are bittersweet warnings to you, not objects waiting for a saviour technology to arrive.

Elephant statue.

Doing Disney Paris this week for my kids’ spring break and I was tickled to see their Adventure Land Hollywood area having an homage to the elephants from INTOLERANCE that used to be at the Hollywood and Highland mall. They’re gone, but their legacy endures.

"I drank down this intoxicating account in avid gulps, my eyes bulging with revelation at every turn." — Guy Maddin on THE CURSE OF QUEEN KELLY by Pamela Hutchinson.

The full, astonishing saga of silent cinema's most scandalous unfinished masterpiece out March 27th from SPB.

The fabulous Joan Blondell is on #TCM all day today. If that doesn’t make you want to call out sick from work I don’t know how to help you. #TCMParty

Lew Ayres marches off to his death in ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1930).

Lewis Milestone's ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1930) screens today at Regal cinemas.

A multiplex chain playing a powerful anti-war film during a stupid, unnecessary war is coincidental, but it sure feels prescient.

Tix are $7.99. Catch this Oscar winner on the big screen if you can. #FilmSky

A Girl Friday Mystery Buy books online and find book series such as A Girl Friday Mystery written by Emily J. Edwards from PenguinRandomHouse.com

If you're in the mood for books that:
🔎 Don't glamorize the upheaval of the 1950s
🔎 Don't add to your existential dread
🔎 *Do* include a diverse cast of people solving crimes

Check out the Girl Friday mystery series: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/GFM/a...

Merna Kennedy “pretends she’s the ‘gun moll’ just to demonstrate how attractive outlawry can be.” Photo by Ray Jones, 1930.

But Have You Read the Book? Romance Edition: 40 Love Stories That Inspired Our Favorite Films by Kristen Lopez Essayist Lopez follows up But Have You Read the Book?: 52 Literary Gems That Inspired Our Favorite Films with an enjoyable, stra...

BUT HAVE YOU READ THE BOOK, VOL. 2 isn't out until July but the folks at @publisherswkly.bsky.social have read it and called it "energetic" and "entertaining!" So be sure to pre-order your copy now.

www.publishersweekly.com/9798894142296

Missed his birthday yesterday. Photographer Edward Weston.

James Cagney, 1933. ⬇️

Myrna Loy poses on the set of Stamboul Quest (1934). Photo by Ted Allan.

Tuesday movie:

OH MY GOD in his Big Picture interview steven spielberg says he would show Two For The Road to screen potential gfs…. the exact same kind of sicko i am this is so gratifying u have no idea

psst: criterion flash sale tomorrow

A glamorous black and white portrait of Joan Crawford. She is wearing a form-fitting, shimmering gown with a high neckline, standing gracefully with her hands clasped together.

✨ A shimmering moment of beauty, courtesy of birthday star Joan Crawford, photographed by George Hurrell. ✨

Powell shares a shower with another man. The man is rubbing Powell's chest. ([sing] we all go down to the YMCA) The Alamy watermark is all over the picture though I would sincerely love to see the company document how it owns a copyright on this image.

Figured it was a good night to rewatch HIGH PRESSURE (32) on Criterion Channel. William Powell's Warners pre-Codes are always so interesting, always in stark contrast to his time at MGM. He's still charming and witty, but less debonair and more of a sly, quick-witted horndog.

Dixie Dugan: From Showgirl to Comics Icon Louise Brooks,Dixie Dugan,comics,Show Girl,J. P. McEvoy,John H. Striebel

Dixie Dugan: From Showgirl to Comics Icon announced louisebrookssociety.blogspot.com/2026/03/dixi...

Oh, awesome! I’ll have to check it out. Thanks!

The Limitlessness Of Our Hopes The mood in the air isn’t so good. You know what I’m talking about. Call it cynicism, call it disillusionment, call it fear, call what’s ca...

Elliott Gould, James Brolin and Hal Holbrook in CAPRICORN ONE. New at Mr. Peel's Sardine Liqueur. mrpeelsardineliqueur.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...

I’ve got a long one for you today! I had so much fun talking with author, critic and film historian @pamhutch.bsky.social about QUEEN KELLY, Louise Brooks, C. A. Lejeune, HÄXAN, and so much more!

Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/silent-fil...

Leonard "Chico" Marx was born on March 22, 1887 #botd #MarxBros

Poster for Strictly Dishonorable (1931). Illustration by pulp artist Alfred Skrenda. (Thread)

I’m sorry, losing someone to cancer is the worst. Sending you good thoughts.

The Universal Monsters addressed the male loneliness epidemic way before it hit the mainstream media.

#TheMummysHand #Svengoolie