Laurie's Classic Movies Blog September 2007 Archive

Charming Lois Maxwell, whose Miss Moneypenny flirted with Agent 007 but never succumbed to his legendary charms (on screen at least) has passed away at the age of 80 in ... Read More

Just when you thought you'd seen it all, here's 15 minutes of undiscovered Charlie Chaplin footage premiering next month. Unfortunately for those of us who don't have ready coin ... Read More

There's a new exhibit at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor that sheds light on Orson Welles and his ability to adapt a wide range of material into creative ... Read More

Ten terrific classic masterpieces are now available for direct download from Google, including one of my favorite old screwball comedies, Frank Capra's It Happened One Night. I'm really hoping that as ... Read More

This looks really facsinating - an exhibit at the Block Museum at Northwestern University, in Evanston, just north of Chicago, that focuses on how Alfred Hitchcock collaborated with the whole ... Read More

Nobody does heart like Norman Jewison, from Fiddler on the Roof and Moonstruck to one of my oldest faves, The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming. Versatile, too. The ... Read More

Jane Wyman, the first actor to win an Oscar in a role that required not a single spoken word, has died at age 93. Wyman, who took home the Academy Award ... Read More

Rejoice, fans of classic movies and classic rock. Help! is on the way. After a long absence from the home video shelves due to disputes over rights, the madcap, way-ahead-of-its ... Read More

American Movie Classics favors us this month with a whole week of Alfred Hitchcock in prime time, starting with his masterpiece of voyeurism, the tense Rear Window, on Sunday, ... Read More

It's starting to seem like there are far more remakes out there than original movies, and now they've decied to re-do one of the all-time great Cold War science fiction ... Read More