Movies 'Til Dawn BLOG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cfzpay0lqGwhttp://large,%20burled%20maple%20Capeheart%20radio-phonograph%20unit–similar%20to%20the%20one%20in%20Owney’s%20penthouse%20suite—stood%20in%20the%20corner,%20playing%20a%20record–Roger%20Woolf%20Kahn’s%20orchestra’s%20rendition%20of%20‘You’ve%20Got%20Me%20Crying%20Again.’ I’m closing up this week’s look at period Football stuff with a second rendition of the DeSylva/Brown&Henderson’s infectious hit 20s tune ‘Varsity Drag’. It’s performed by Abe Lyman and his orchestra and if you don’t dig 1920s music (and lets face it, few people do–you have to be a

On this Xmas/Hanukah/Kwanza/whatever day, please enjoy “Should Married Men Go Home” (1928), a lovely old L&H silent with some fascinating views of a very different Los Angeles than the one that I am currently in as I write this. More silent L&H comedies as the final week of 2024 grinds

On Friday I posted a colorized look at footage shot in Paris in the 1920s. The same person who restored that footage–their YouTube handle is NASS–also did this look at New York City in 1911 and it is equally evocative and fascinating. We see a city in transition–it still feels

Now, you must understand that i didn’t set out looking for today’s video. Nor did it turn up in my YouTube morning menu based on any recent searches. Still it’s such a curiosity that I had to listen to it and share it with you. This is a recording of

Apparently my posts of the past few days haven’t been going out on their usual nightly basis due to wonky WordPress issues. But that’s all in the past now so instead of posting something new I’ll re-post a few that you may have missed. The theme was a terrific fifteen

In yesterday’s post, mention was made of the disastrous life and death of starlet Barbara Payton, a blonde bombshell who drank herself to death after plowing her way through a pile of men–some husbands, some producers, some tricks–consuming drugs and making a public nuisance of herself and in general alienating

Today’s offering is, I’m sorry to say, a major bummer. And yet, like a good train wreck, it’s perversely enjoyable to watch. Bluntly titled “Golden Age Actors and Singers Who Died In Poverty”, this mini-doc covers the sad endings of a number of stars of the…er…Golden Age.  The familiar cases

Yesterday I posted a mini-documentary on the demolition of the Savoy-Plaza Hotel, created by a YouTube channel called ‘Old Money Mansions’. Here’s another of their demo docs, this one about the rise and fall of the once magnificent Pennsylvania Station, which met its end in 1963 (though it appears to

As mentioned in yesterday’s post, Lucy and Ricky Ricardo occupied two different apartments in the brownstone building owned by Fred and Ethel Mertz. The differences are subtle–aside, of course, from the window that the second one has overlooking the street. Above is a lovingly crafted video taking us on a

Behold this nifty behind-the-scenes look at the then-innovative technique used to shoot ‘I Love Lucy’. Desi Arnaz was visionary in his understanding that the shows would eventually have resale value and that simply keeping kinescopes–literally films of the live show as seen on a screen during its transmission–wasn’t going to