‘Restless Knights’ (1935) is the 6th short subject made by The Three Stooges for Columbia Pictures. It was photographed from Wednesday, December 19th through Saturday, December 22nd, 1934 and released on Wednesday, February 20th 1935. It features Walter Brennan as the Stooges father and Geneva Mitchell as the Queen–she’s the
‘Dunked In The Deep’ was the 126th short comedy made by The Three Stooges for Columbia Pictures. It was photographed from Tuesday, March 29 through Friday, April 1 1949 and released on Thursday, November 3rd of that year. (Much of the footage was reused six and a half years later
Here’s a short and somewhat curious excerpt from what appears to be a television program about Marilyn Monroe made shortly after her death. It features interviews with two of her directors–Jean Negulesco (who directed her in ‘How To Marry A Millionaire’) and George Cukor (who directed her in ‘Lets Make
Early next month (exact date to be determined soon) a documentary I’ve been working on over a rather embarrassingly long time-span about the actor Burt Young will finally make its debut. Titled ‘A Film About The Actor Known As Burt Young’, the doc is an examination of–and tribute to–the marvelously
I could never remember the name of the ‘The Inn Of the Sixth Happiness’ when I was a kid. I liked the movie but referred to it by several different variations when noting to somebody that it was soon to be on TV. ‘The Sixth Inn of Happiness’, ‘The Happy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvCkk6iAZxIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEDTuampIMg Decades may pass, styles of filmmaking may change, but the architecture of the Hollywood premiere/awards show remains the same. The stars get out of cars, stand on ‘the carpet’ to be admired and photographed, then go inside. That’s about it. Yesterday I posted the 1953 version of a premiere.
‘Three Dumb Clucks’ (1937) is the 22nd short made by The Three Stooges for Columbia Pictures. It was photographed from Monday, February 1 through Friday, February 5, 1937 and released on Saturday, April 17th of that year. Directed by Del Lord, the film offers Curly a potentially good opportunity to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X9UEu1qJRo To my intense frustration, some self-important copyright upholder has removed all traces of the musical numbers from The Marx Brothers maiden cinematic effort ‘The Cocoanuts’ (1929) from the wilds of YouTube. Why? Why why why? Is it an Irving Berlin estate kind of thing? (Possibly). A DVD reissue kind
The generally accepted word on the Marx Brothers films is that they constitute a clear case of downhillism, with the first five Paramount films being their supreme achievements, the first MGM (‘A Night At The Opera’) being the most successful yet also signifying the beginning of the end, and a
‘Monkey Businessmen’ (1946) is the 92nd short subject made by The Three Stooges for Columbia Pictures. It was photographed from Wednesday, January 30th through Saturday, February 2, 1946 and released on Thursday, June 20th of that year. The short is largely a painful experience to watch, due to Curly’s recent