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I'll Have What She's Having By Daniel M. Kimmel Ivan R. Dee, 294 pp., illustrated, $26.95 In classic Hollywood romantic comedies, the hero and heroine "meet cute." Film critic and chronicler Daniel Kimmel ...

The life and times of the lively, lovely actress Claudette Colbert have been chronicled in the new book Claudette Colbert: She Walked in Beauty .

Q. As a youngster growing up in Iowa in late 1940s and 1950s, a favorite family outing was going to "Ma and Pa Kettle" movies.

YOU know that famous hitchhiking scene from It Happened One Night , the one where Clark Gable can't get anyone to stop so Claudette Colbert takes over and gets them a ride right away? That's repeated in Bottle ...

From Brad Pitt to Barack Obama, alpha males everywhere are rediscovering the vest.

Question: As a youngster growing up in Iowa in late 1940s and 1950s, a favorite family outing was going to "Ma and Pa Kettle" movies.

The premiere of the movie "Drums Along the Mohawk" was a major event in the Mohawk Valley in 1939.

"Even cartoon characters had to behave: Betty Boop stopped being a flapper and started wearing a longer skirt." The Code In Depth ... From film historian David P. Hayes, a complex Web interactive on the ...

Let's time-travel to 1945, when the publishing industry was rocked by the humorous yet painfully honest autobiography of a rural housewife who came out of nowhere.

On July 30th, 1954, Elvis Presley made his professional debut in Memphis. It was his first concert to be advertised.

Love old or unusual movies but never know when they're on? Here are four to watch this week: Since You Went Away : This is my favorite among the fine "keep the home fires burning" films of World War II.

1938 - 1939: The Avon was designed by New York City architect William Hohauser, and built by the F.D. Rich CompanyJune 15, 1939: The Avon was opened by owner and operator Samuel Weiss Amusements with movie "It's A Wonderful World" starring James Stewart and Claudette Colbert1967: Weiss Amusements leases Avon Theatre operations to the Trans-Lux Corportation1979: Avon Theatre building is sold to Robert N. Rich, Frank D. Rich, Jr., and Lawrence Gochberg and the Trans-Luxas lessee converts the Avon into a 2-screen cinema1991: Crown Theatres purchases the Trans-Lux chain and takes over Avon Theatre operationsNovember 1999: The Avon Theatre is shut down2001: Royce Foundation purchases the Avon and embarks on a restoration projectFebruary 13, 2004: Avon Theatre reopens as a not-for-profit art house cinema, co-founded by Chuck and Deborah Royce

Love old or unusual movies but never know when they're on? Here are four to watch this week: Since You Went Away : This is my favorite among the fine "keep the home fires burning" films of World War II.

' Radio City Music Hall had all flags fluttering as it premiered So Proudly We Hail on June 22, 1943.

Aside from a periodic retro renaissance or two, doughnuts have been mostly shunned as empty-calorie abominations of a low-brow American palate.

A delight! Universal, under their Cinema Classics label, has released a plain-wrap edition of director Mitchell Leisen's romantic comedy classic, Midnight , starring Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John ...

It is late August 1939. American columnist Augusta "Gusto" Nash, played by the incomparable Claudette Colbert in the 1940 movie "Arise, My Love," is sitting in a French railway car taking her from Paris to her ...

I was inspired to pull out a video I recently recorded of BLUEBEARD'S EIGHTH WIFE after reading a brief post at Classic Ramblings , and the movie did not disappoint. via Laura's Miscellaneous Musings

“It would be easy to say that Youth Without Youth is many things at once, but bolder and truer to say that it is about everything and nothing, at all times”

"Had it been even marginally successful, Raoul Walsh 's 1930 epic western, The Big Trail might have changed the course of film history." Dave Kehr explains in the New York Times . via GreenCine Daily

THE PALM BEACH STORY' Preston Sturges' 1942 romantic screwball comedy, starring Claudette Colbert and Joel McCrea, will fill the screen at the Historic Asolo Theater during Monday Night Movies at 7 p.m. at the ... via HeraldTribune.com