Beyond writing about the hometowns of classic cinema’s greatest stars, I also like to contribute to current conversations about classic film. The following section features my posts written for various blogathons.
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- 5 Favorite Films of the ’50s
- 5 Movies on an Island Blogathon
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- Book Reviews
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- A Front Row Seat
- Agent Josephine
- Aline MacMahon
- Ann Blyth: Actress. Singer. Star.
- Anna Held and the Birth of Ziegfeld’s Broadway
- Anne Bancroft: A Life
- Anvils, Mallets & Dynamite
- Barbara La Marr: The Girl Who Was Too Beautiful for Hollywood
- Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge
- Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker’s Life
- Buzz: The Life and Art of Busby Berkeley
- Camera Man
- Captain of Her Soul: The Life of Marion Davies
- Cary Grant, the Making of a Hollywood Legend
- Charles Boyer: The French Lover
- Citizen Welles
- Clarence Brown: Hollywood’s Forgotten Master
- Competing with Idiots
- Dan Duryea: Heel with a Heart
- Deanna Durbin, Judy Garland, and the Golden Age of Hollywood
- Deanna Durbin: A Hollywood Fairy Tale
- Dear Bob…
- Fay Wray and Robert Riskin
- Film’s First Family
- Glamour Ghoul: The Passions and Pain of the Real Vampira, Maila Nurmi
- Hal Wallis
- Ida Lupino: A Biography
- Jayne Mansfield
- Jean Gabin
- Jessica Lange
- Joan Crawford: The Essential Biography
- Jobyna Ralston: A Life in Pictures
- John Gilbert: The Last of the Silent Film Stars
- José Ferrer: Success and Survival
- Lawrence Tierney
- Marion Davies: A Biography
- Marlene
- Maureen O’Hara: The Biography
- Mean…Moody…Magnificent!: Jane Russell and the Marketing of a Hollywood Legend
- My Place in the Sun
- Natalie Wood: A Life
- Nazimova: A Biography
- Olivia de Havilland: Lady Triumphant
- Otto Preminger
- Patricia Neal: An Unquiet Life
- Phantom Lady
- Robert Riskin
- Robert Taylor: Male Beauty, Masculinity, and Stardom in Hollywood
- Seen from the Wings: Luise Rainer. My Mother, The Journey
- Shari Lewis & Lamb Chop
- She Damn Near Ran the Studio
- The Boys
- The Brief, Madcap Life of Kay Kendall
- The Brothers Mankiewicz
- The First King of Hollywood: The Life of Douglas Fairbanks
- The Ice Cream Blonde: The Whirlwind Life and Mysterious Death of Screwball Comedienne Thelma Todd
- The Lady from the Black Lagoon
- The Life of Dick Haymes
- The Queen of Technicolor
- The Savvy Sphinx
- The Sweet Smell of Success
- The Woman Who Dared
- Truly, Madly
- Twilight Man
- Warrior Audrey Hepburn
- What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?
- Wild Bill Wellman
- Ziegfeld and His Follies
- Cookbooks
- Essay Collections
- Backwards and in Heels
- But Have You Read the Book?
- Crooked, but Never Common
- Danger on the Silver Screen
- Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir
- Girls on Film
- Rock on Film
- Summer Movies: 30 Sun-Drenched Classics
- TCM Underground
- The Essential Directors
- The Female Gaze
- The Real James Dean: Intimate Memories from Those Who Knew Him Best
- Viva Hollywood
- Misc. Nonfiction
- 20th Century-Fox
- Alfred Hitchcock: The Legacy of Victorianism
- Broadway Goes to War
- Cecil B. DeMille’s Hollywood
- City of Dreams
- Columbia Pictures
- Day at a Time
- Engulfed: The Death of Paramount Pictures
- Fading Fame
- Hitchcock and the Censors
- Hollywood at the Races
- Hollywood Victory
- How Did Lubitsch Do It?
- Immortal Films
- Killing John Wayne: The Making of The Conqueror
- Lost in the Dark
- Magic in the Dark
- Making The Best Years of Our Lives
- Marlene Dietrich’s ABC’s
- Marlene Dietrich: Photographs and Memories
- Oscar Wars
- Perplexing Plots
- Radical Innocence
- Rare Birds
- Robert Wise: The Motion Pictures
- Starstruck: My Unlikely Road to Hollywood
- Street with No Name
- The Films of Douglas Sirk
- The Golden Age of Musicals of Darryl F. Zanuck
- The Hollywood Motion Picture Blacklist
- The Lost World of DeMille
- The MGM Effect
- The Star-Spangled Screen
- This Was Hollywood
- Vitagraph: America’s First Great Motion Picture Studio
- Warner Bros.
- What Price Hollywood?
- Novels
- Picture Books
- Biographies
- California
- Connecticut
- Editorials
- 5 Favorite Foreign Classic Horror Films
- A Powerful Legacy: My Afternoon with Taryn
- A Screen Deco Reflection
- Academy Awards
- Blondie: From Strip to Screen
- Dolores Del Rio: The Face of Deco
- Duo Spotlight: Laurel & Hardy
- How I “Met” James Cagney
- Lucille Ball: Fashion Icon
- My 2021 Top Ten
- Remembering Mickey Rooney
- Rochester and Jack: Breaking Racial Barriers
- Sights and Sounds Reunited: The Vitaphone Project
- Spotlight on Gene Kelly: The Chicago Years
- Style is Eternal: Art Deco Fashion
- The Wilde Ones: The Twin Careers of Lyn and Lee Wilde
- Events
- Festivals
- Buster Keaton Convention 2017
- Chicago International Film Festival
- Coronado Island Film Festival 2020
- Heartland International Film Festival
- Noir City Chicago
- Red Skelton Festival 2019
- TCM Film Festival 2019
- TCM Film Festival 2020
- TCM Film Festival 2021
- TCM Film Festival 2022
- TCM Film Festival 2023
- Film Reflections
- Films of the 1910s
- Films of the 1920s
- Films of the 1930s
- 42nd Street (1933)
- Baby Face (1933)
- Born to Dance (1936)
- Double Wedding (1937)
- Duck Soup (1933)
- First Love (1939)
- Gold Diggers in Paris (1938)
- Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
- Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
- Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936)
- Grand Hotel (1932)
- Happiness Ahead (1934)
- Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)
- Libeled Lady (1936)
- Love Me Tonight (1932)
- Mad Love (1935)
- Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)
- Modern Times (1936)
- Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
- Sons of the Desert (1933)
- Swing Time (1936)
- Tarzan and His Mate (1934)
- The Music Box (1932)
- The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
- The Public Enemy (1931)
- The Singing Marine (1937)
- Vanity Street (1932)
- Films of the 1940s
- Buck Privates (1941)
- Du Barry Was a Lady (1943)
- Good News (1947)
- Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
- Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945)
- Laura (1944)
- Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
- Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
- Mr. Lucky (1943)
- Portrait of Jennie (1948)
- Samson and Delilah (1949)
- The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944)
- The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
- The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
- The Big Street (1942)
- The Talk of the Town (1942)
- The Uninvited (1944)
- This Time for Keeps (1947)
- Trapped (1949)
- Films of the 1950s
- Film Reviews
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- Play Reviews
- Recipes
- Ann Blyth’s Blueberry Muffins
- Ava Gardner’s Blueberry Buckle
- Betty White’s Applesauce Loaf
- Boris Karloff & Vincent Price’s Guacamole Recipes
- Ginger Rogers’s Fruit Muffins
- Greta Garbo’s Swedish Meatballs
- Irene Dunne’s Vinegar Chocolate Cake
- Janet Gaynor’s New England Pumpkin Pie
- Judy Holliday’s Stuffed Tomatoes
- Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies
- Mary Ann’s (Dawn Wells’s) Famous Coconut Cream Pie
- Sylvia Sidney’s Cherry Pudding
- The Three Stooges’ N’yuk N’yuk N’yams
- Rhode Island
- Serials
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Travels
- Autry Museum of the American West
- Betty White Centennial
- Cemeteries
- Calvary Cemetery
- Eden Memorial Park
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park–Glendale
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park–Hollywood Hills
- Gate of Heaven Cemetery
- Glen Haven Memorial Park
- Hillside Memorial Park
- Hollywood Forever Cemetery
- Holy Cross Cemetery
- Kensico Cemetery
- Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery
- San Fernando Mission Cemetery
- Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery
- Westwood Village Memorial Park
- Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising
- Grauman’s Chinese Theatre Forecourt
- It’s A Wonderful Life Exhibition
- Motion Picture Studios
- Oakridge Estate
- The Great American Songbook Foundation
- The Hollywood Heritage Museum
- The Hollywood Museum
- The Joel and Frances McCrea Ranch Foundation
- The Library of Congress
- The Road to Tara: The Legacy of Gone with the Wind in Atlanta
- Turner Classic Movies
- Utah
- Virginia
- Washington
- Washington, D.C.
- Wisconsin
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