This news was like a punch to the gut. I really wish I had gotten to know Ron better. To echo what has already been said, he was very kind and helpful to me when I asked him questions about certain films I'm researching. He also very generously shared with me his Fox Movietone sound disks for Speake...

I became very interested in The Half Breed when I saw this fascinating presentation at the SF Silent Film Festival about the film and the various incarnations it went through (and Tracy gets a very nice mention here). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-u4bK6sSjc And my favorite Fairbanks Sr film is Th...

The rarely screened silent version of East is West starring Constance Talmadge and Warner Oland will be screened on Friday, January 13 at 7:30pm at the Library of Congress Packard Campus Theater. From the LOC A/V website: EAST IS WEST (Associated First National, 1922) Silent film comedienne Constanc...

This film is now available on 20th Century Fox's Cinema Classics manufacture-on-demand DVD line and I have to commend MoMA and Fox because the print looks beautiful; soooo much nicer-looking than the AMC recording from 1999. I recently read a MoMA press release from 1959 for their John Ford film ser...

I know it was released on VHS in the late 1980s with each of the three parts on three separate videos. My college library in south Georgia had the tapes so when I became a Keaton fanatic I'd spend my free time in the library watching the three parts repeatedly. Raymond Rohauer was heavily involved i...

Has anyone else here collected these wonderfully informative mass market movie star books? http://lynn-munroe-books.com/list58/pyramid.htm My mother bought me the Judy Garland book when I was little and lately I've been finding the others on eBay and Amazon. A very well-written series with lots of n...

A wonderfully informative article! Thank you for posting this! I became very interested in Larry Edmunds Book Shop when I bought a movie still on eBay and saw "Larry Edmunds Book Shop" with the address stamped on the back. I hope to visit that place at least once before I shuffle off this mortal coi...

Speaking of Runyon, finally saw The Big Street for the first time, with Henry Fonda as busboy Little Pinks, pushing showgirl/gangster's moll Lucille Ball in a wheelchair from New York to Florida. Worth seeing for a great supporting cast (Barton MacLane, Eugene Pallette, Agnes Moorhead, Ray Collins ...

Sinners' Holiday (1930) is a pretty good one that's most notable for being James Cagney's film debut. I think Warren Hymer was better as a serious gangster here than he was in Born Reckless but everyone's acting in that film seemed a bit off and awkward, in my opinion. Hold 'Em Yale (1935) is a rar...

https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/12400604_958099600910680_7928555366084116946_n.jpg?oh=a732d0a631bcc1542c5855ba14b1ce81&oe=57260E66 The great character actor Warren Hymer was born on this day in 1906. Warren was born into a theatrical family (his mother Eleanor was an actr...

Champagne For Caesar is a riot but I really enjoy the somewhat overlooked and underrated The Unholy Garden from 1931. Colman as a suave, sophisticated gentleman thief on the lam in the Sahara Desert along with his dame-crazy accomplice Warren Hymer (an odd pairing on paper but they make it work ver...

The Crosby Case is a really entertaining pre-code Laemmle-era murder mystery with a great cast (worth repeating). A pleasant surprise as the exit music from the 1931 Frankenstein plays over the cast introductions. It really deserves a proper clean up and DVD release. Also would love to see Her Firs...

The best!! R.A. was one of my earliest favorite actors (and first crush) after I saw him in King Kong in 1990. I was watching him last night in G-Men and loving the give n' take with Cagney.