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July Journeys: The Palm Beach Story (1942)
This month we take a vacation with movies featuring characters doing the same. RODNEY BOWCOCK : The Palm Beach Story is essentially the...

Samantha Glasser
Jul 185 min read


July Journeys: Lonesome (1928)
This month we take a vacation with movies featuring characters doing the same. RODNEY BOWCOCK : Lonesome (1928) tells a simple story...

Samantha Glasser
Jul 116 min read


July Journeys: Blondie Takes a Vacation (1939)
This month we take a vacation with movies featuring characters doing the same. SAMANTHA GLASSER : Dagwood (Arthur Lake) and Blondie...

Samantha Glasser
Jul 46 min read


Book Adaptations: A Summer Place (1959)
This week Samantha compares the novel and movie versions of A Summer Place . The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit is a book heralded for...

Samantha Glasser
Jun 275 min read


A Musical June: I'm From Arkansas (1944)
This month, we turn to a trio of musicals from the Golden Age of Hollywood, notable and seldom seen. SAMANTHA GLASSER : A group of...

Samantha Glasser
Jun 205 min read


A Musical June: Sunny Side Up (1929)
This month, we turn to a trio of musicals from the Golden Age of Hollywood, notable and seldom seen. RODNEY BOWCOCK : Well, here’s a plot...

Samantha Glasser
Jun 135 min read


A Musical June: Cover Girl (1944)
This month, we turn to a trio of musicals from the Golden Age of Hollywood, notable and seldom seen. RODNEY BOWCOCK: Cover Girl is a...
Rodney Bowcock
Jun 66 min read


Gather 'Round the Radio - A Salute to Cary Grant!
This time around, we present a trio of performances featuring Cary Grant. First up it’s Screen Directors Playhouse from January 20,...
Rodney Bowcock
Apr 251 min read


April Antics: Robert Benchley
RODNEY BOWCOCK : We round out our focus on comedy short subjects with something completely different than what we’ve reviewed before....

Samantha Glasser
Apr 186 min read


April Antics: Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle & Buster Keaton
This month we are watching short comedies. Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and Buster Keaton worked together under Arbuckle's company Comique,...

Samantha Glasser
Apr 117 min read


April Antics: Thelma Todd & Zasu Pitts
This month we are watching short comedies. For our first foray, we turn the focus to a trio of shorts featuring the short-lived comedy...

Samantha Glasser
Apr 46 min read


Book Adaptations: My Sister Eileen
"My sister Eileen and I, movie fans when we were five and six, respectively, would have scorned Mickey Mouse in our youth; we preferred...

Samantha Glasser
Mar 285 min read


Macabre March: The Frozen Ghost (1945)
For the month of March, we decided to spend some time with the supernatural and enjoy some ghost stories. Join us for MACABRE MARCH!...

Samantha Glasser
Mar 215 min read


Macabre March: The Unseen (1945)
For the month of March, we decided to spend some time with the supernatural and enjoy some ghost stories. Join us for MACABRE MARCH!...

Samantha Glasser
Mar 145 min read


Macabre March: Earthbound (1940)
For the month of March, we decided to spend some time with the supernatural and enjoy some ghost stories. Join us for MACABRE MARCH!...

Samantha Glasser
Mar 75 min read


Gather 'Round the Radio - Happy Birthday Jack Benny!
This week, we present a new infrequent feature at the Picture Show blog, where I will be sharing radio shows from my collection featuring...
Rodney Bowcock
Feb 263 min read


Gilbert Gottfried February: Freaks (1932)
In 2020 during the pandemic, Rodney introduced Samantha to Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast , which became a source of...

Samantha Glasser
Feb 216 min read


Gilbert Gottfried February: The Swimmer (1968)
In 2020 during the pandemic, Rodney introduced Samantha to Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast , which became a source of...

Samantha Glasser
Feb 146 min read


Gilbert Gottfried February: Of Mice and Men (1939)
In 2020 during the pandemic, Rodney introduced Samantha to Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast , which became a source of...

Samantha Glasser
Feb 77 min read


Book Adaptations: The Lost Weekend (1945)
In this bonus blog, Samantha compares the novel and the film versions of The Lost Weekend by Charles R. Jackson, the Academy Award winner...

Samantha Glasser
Jan 315 min read
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