Bogart ” The Petrified Forest.”   I have always heard it said that it was Leslie Howard we have to thank for giving us  Humphrey Bogart, that is true to an extent.  Leslie Howard was a very close friend of  Bogart. Howard was offered a role in “The Petrified Forest,” 1936, but threatened to refuse the role unless the studio signed on Bogart to play Duke Mantee in the film. Well Bogart got the part and it was this...

Cary Grant…Gorgeous, just gorgeous! Classic Movie Trivia is a new category being added to this blog as of today! Have you ever wondered how someone landed a role, started their Hollywood career, or got their first break in tinsel town? Search no more! We want to give you morsels of Hollywood history from time to time. If you know of one, please let me know. I will research it, and give you the credit for the lead! Enjoy these morsels...

Rick’s Bar   This post is Classic Movie Gab’s contribution to The Movie Projector’s James Cagney Blogathon   We all have dreams, but sadly many times they don’t come true for many of us. It’s what we do with disappointments that matter in the end. That is the topic of this beautiful film, “The Time of Your Life,” (1948) starring Jimmy Cagney, William Bendix, and Jimmy’s real life sister, Jeanne Cagney and...

  This post is Classic Movie Gab’s contribution to the Classic Movie Blog Association’s Fabulous Films of the 1940s.   I have been acquainted with many fem fatales in my classic movie journey, but I don’t think anyone can beat the one in “Too Late for Tears,” (1949) This film noir gem stars, Lizabeth Scott and Arthur Kennedy who play Jane and Alan Palmer a middle class couple who don’t make much money, just...

  Fear of death… We all have thought of death or dying at some points in our lives and when we do, the fear can be gripping. It really does not matter what you believe in terms of the afterlife, it still scares us. Maybe it’s the fear of the unknown…is it going to hurt, etc.? And on and on. Yea, it’s a gloomy topic, but Yield to the Night, (1956) addresses, and very well I might add, the issue of capital punishment....

The Convo… Doing bad for a greater good… Val Lewton’s “The Body Snatcher,” (1945) opens up in Edinburgh circa 1860′s. A sinister coach driver John Gray, played fabulously by Boris Karloff, supplies bodies for Dr. Wolfe MacFarlane (Henry Daniell) and his unaware  assistant Donald Fettes (Russel Wade) for dissecting and lecturing. Although grave digging at the time was illegal, Dr. MacFarlane over looks that...