Missed My Blog Anniversary...

That face you make when you realize you've missed your blog anniversary... again. 

October 8th marked nine years since I began this blog. In 2019 I shared a list with my favorite film from each year starting with 1928 and the following year I filled in a few blanks from years I had skipped because I either hadn’t seen any from that year or the ones I had seen I didn’t really care for. Here are a few more “blanks” I've filled in: 

1929 - The Love Parade 

1970 - (I need some recommendations for this year lol. The only 1970 film I've seen is Airport)

1971 - Fools' Parade - James Stewart, Kurt Russell

1974 - The Towering Inferno (could change)

CHANGE 1984 from Protocol (Goldie Hawn) to - Swing Shift - Goldie Hawn & Kurt Russell

CHANGE 1986 from The Three Amigos! to - Tough Guys - Burt Lancaster & Kirk Douglas, Eli Wallach

1991 - Oscar - Sylvester Stallone

2013 - Safe Haven - Jullianne Hough & Josh Duhamel

CHANGE 2018 from Like Father to - Destination Wedding - Keanu Reeves & Wynona Rider

2020 - The Lost Husband - Josh Duhamel

2021 - Jungle Cruise - Dwayne Johnson & Emily Blunt

2022 - Downton Abbey: A New Era

2023 - haven't seen any yet

One day I hope to start my different series up again and get back into hosting blogathons. Thank you to those who keep sticking around this barren landscape lol :/

Six Year Anniversary!

It has been six years since I began this blog. Last year I shared a list with my favorite film from each year starting with 1928. I had to skip a few years because I either hadn’t seen any from that year or the ones I had seen I didn’t really care for. This year I’m able to fill in a few of those “blanks:”

1929 - 

1930 - Wide Open - Edward Everett Horton 

1970 - 

1971 - 

1972 - A Warm December - Sidney Poitier 

1973 - Paper Moon - Ryan & Tatum O’Neal

1974 - 

1975 - Three Days of the Condor - Robert Redford & Faye Dunaway

CHANGE 1978 from Hooper to - Foul Play - Goldie Hawn & Chevy Chase 

1981 - Gallipoli - Mel Gibson (likely to change)

1984 - Protocol - Goldie Hawn (likely to change)

1991 - 

2013 - 

2020 - this would have probably been the new James Bond... (UPDATE 2025: No it wouldn't have been lol)

Five Year Anniversary

Last week I realized that my five year anniversary for this blog was coming up. This year has definitely been my worst yet, with me basically just posting what I watch every month. This year so far I've only hosted one blogathon, co-hosted two (and on my Olivia one I never even added or read all the entries) and joined two that I actually wrote posts for. Sigh. One day I hope to get back up to standard again.

Accurate depiction of how I feel about my blog.

Until then, I decided to share a list of my favorite movie from each year, like I did for my first anniversary. A few have changed and I've seen some films from years I hadn't before. I hope you'll enjoy and thanks to the few of you who continue to comment on my very rare posts.

1928 - The Cameraman - Buster Keaton
1931 - Platinum Blonde - Jean Harlow
1932 - No Man of Her Own - Carole Lombard & Clark Gable
1933 - The White Sister - Helen Hayes & Clark Gable
1934 - The Thin Man, It Happened One Night, The Count of Monte Cristo
1935 - I Live My Life - Joan Crawford & Brian Aherne
1936 - Libeled Lady & Theadora Goes Wild
1937 - Double Wedding & Lost Horizon
1938 - Bringing Up Baby, Four Daughters, The Divorce of Lady X
1939 - The Wizard of Oz & Goodbye Mr. Chips
1940 - Rebecca, Remember the Night, Third Finger Left Hand
1941 - Meet John Doe, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, They Died With Their Boots On
1942 - Cat People, Random Harvest
1943 - Shadow of a Doubt
1944 - Arsenic and Old Lace, The Uninvited
1945 - Christmas in Connecticut, I Know Where I'm Going
1946 - A Stolen Life, Nobody Lives Forever, The Best Years of Our Lives
1947 - My Favorite Brunette & Miracle on 34th Street
1948 - Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, Miranda
1949 - She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Battleground, Act of Violence
1950 - Rio Grande, Mister 880
1951 - His Kind of Woman, I'll See You In My Dreams - Doris Day & Danny Thomas
1952 - The Quiet Man
1953 - Roman Holiday
1954 - White Christmas, Three Coins in the Fountain, It Should Happen to You
1955 - We're No Angels, The Trouble with Harry, Sissi, Summertime
1956 - The Searchers
1957 - Tammy and the Bachelor, The Smallest Show on Earth
1958 - The Defiant Ones
1959 - Gidget, Rio Bravo
1960 - The Bellboy, Who Was That Lady?
1961 - The Parent Trap
1962 - Period of Adjustment
1963 - The Pink Panther, Sunday in New York, Donovan's Reef, McLintock, Lilies of the Field
1964 - 36 Hours, The Yellow Rolls-Royce
1965 - Cat Ballou, Help! The Beatles, That Darn Cat!
1966 - Not With My Wife, You Don't!

1967 - Barefoot in the Park

1968 - Funny Girl

1969 - Support Your Local Sheriff, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

1976 - Rocky
1977 - Smokey and the Bandit
1978 - Hooper
1979 - Rocky II
1980 - The Blues Brothers, My Bodyguard

1982 - Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

1983 - Mickey's Christmas Carol

1985 - Clue
1986 - The Three Amigos!
1987 - Moonstruck & The Princess Bride
1988 - Funny Farm
1989 - See No Evil, Hear No Evil & When Harry Met Sally
1990 - Home Alone

1992 - Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
1993 - Robin Hood Men in Tights & Sleepless in Seattle
1994 - Maverick
1995 - Apollo 13
1996 - Down Periscope
1997 - Conspiracy Theory
1998 - You've Got Mail
1999 - The Mummy
2000 - Gladiator
2001 - Ocean's 11
2002 - Signs & The Bourne Identity
2003 - Shanghai Knights
2004 - Elf & National Treasure & Ocean's 12
2005 - Mr. and Mrs. Smith
2006 - Casino Royale, Deja Vu, The Holiday
2007 - Becoming Jane
2008 - The Young Victoria & 27 Dresses
2009 - Sherlock Holmes, Star Trek
2010 - Tangled
2011 - The Adjustment Bureau & Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
2012 - This Means War, Skyfall

2014 - Maleficent
2015 - The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Spectre
2016 - Hell or High Water
2017 - Our Souls at Night (Netflix)
2018 - Like Father (Netflix)
2019 - Downton Abbey

The Fourth Annual Olivia de Havilland Blogathon is Here!!!

Today Dame Olivia de Havilland celebrated her 103rd year here on earth!!! We are so lucky that she is still with us and I'm a honored to be able to celebrate her incredible life and career with this little blogathon and for Crystal from In the Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood for co-hosting with me.

I will try to update this post daily with the entries and hopefully will have time to read them this weekend.

Here are the entries:

Realweedgiemidget Reviews kicks off the day with Olivia's appearance on The Love Boat.

Pale Writer tells us about a less pleasurable experience of Olivia's character in The Snake Pit (1948).

The Stop Button delves into The Heiress (1949).

Photo by Samantha Ellis

Musings of a Classic Film Addict share's Olivia's recipe for Salade Nicoise.

Movies Meet Their Match is pleasantly surprised with The Proud Rebel (1958).

To Be Updated!!

Wrapping Up "Carole Lombard: The Profane Angel" Blogathon

Here are the final posts to this highly successful Blogathon. I know Carole would be honored to see the wealth of love and honor she has been given these past few days commemorating her amazing life and career that was cut shot by a tragic accident. And I know she will continue to live on in our hearts and in the hearts of countless new fans in the future.

Final Posts:

As you can see, Carole is very sad this Blogathon is over.

The Wonderful World of Cinema looks at The Contagious Dynamism of Carole Lombard in My Man Godfrey.

 

Movie Rob covers two movies: To Be or Not To Be (1942) and Made For Each Other (1939).

My wonderful co-host In the Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood closes things out with her beautifully written Carole Lombard Tribute.

A huge thank you to everyone who took part in this Blogathon!!!

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3

I hope to see you all at my next Blogathon, John Garfield: The Original Rebel, running from March 3rd to 5th.

Carole Lombard: The Profane Angel Blogathon Day 3

I can't believe it's already the third day of the Blogathon! I can't wait to read all of the fantastic entries on this lady I love so much ♥

The Posts:

Whimsically Classic talks about the friendship between comedy queens Carole Lombard and Lucille Ball.

 

Wolffian Classic Movies Digest tells us what happens when mystery and screwball meet in The Princess Comes Across (1936).

 

 

The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog tells us how Carole elevates the film Lady By Choice (1934).

Classic Movie Hub gives us this lovely Carole Lombard and Clark Gable Pictorial.

Cinema Cities tells us about one of Carole's greatest films To Be or Not To Be (1942).

Karavansara also writes about this last film of Carole's, To Be of Not To Be (1942).

 

Phyllis Loves Classic Movies (that's me) looks into Carole Lombard's Star Sapphires.

Realweegiemidget Reviews tells us hoe Lombard's Little Lie Leads to Love in Nothing Sacred (1937).

Old Hollywood Films discusses Carole Lombard: Screwball Queen.

The Flapper Dame discusses Carole's amazing acting abilities in In Name Only (1939).

Christina Wehner discusses Carole's believable performance in Made For Each Other (1939).

 

Day 1 | Day 2 | Wrap-up

Carole Lombard: The Profane Angel Blogathon Day 2

After a very successful Day 1, we are back for Day 2! Here are the posts:

I can't get enough of Baby Carole ♥

As one of your hosts, here is my first post on Carole Lombard's Childhood Home and the Great Flood of 1913.

Back to Golden Days covers the sad topic of Carole's Lombard's Final Hours.

Carole and Co gives us the update on Fireball (the revised edition).

Critica Retro tells us about the surprisingly unpredictable Now and Forever (1934).

The Stop Button talks about Carole's rare dramatic performance in Vigil in the Night (1940).

Day 1 | Day 3 | Wrap-up

 

Have you signed up for my next Blogathon yet?  John Garfield: The Original Rebel runs from March 3rd to 5th.

Carole Lombard's Childhood Home and the Great Flood of 1913

Carole Lombard: Class, Beauty, Comedienne extraordinaire. And the Hoosier Tornado.

Lombard was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, known as the Hoosier State. Although she only lived there until the age of six before moving to what would become the movie capitol of the world, her family definitely had an impact on the community.

Carole was born on October 6, 1908. Her first home was a two story wood and brick house located at 704 Rockhill Street. The house was quite nice, as the Peters - Lombard's birth name was Jane Alice Peters - were of the upper-middle class. In fact, I recently discovered that the house still stands and you can visit it!

Above is a screenshot from Google Maps that shows the house as it currently looks. It was recently repainted, as shots from the side street are older and show it in a blue color. It's a lot larger than in looks from the front!

The house is owned by Cora and Rick Brandt and is a Bed & Breakfast. It is not currently operating but if you are in the area you can email the owners and they will show it to you. I'm guessing it will open up again in the future.

The furnishings in the house are not the original pieces, but the house has been decorated in a 1940s style and its' walls are covered in photos of Lombard, her family, and Clark Gable. You can see several pictures of the interior by someone who actually got to stay there when it was open as a B&B. Click here to view them.

Even as a young child, movies were an important part of little Jane's life, as she frequently attended the nearby theater with her mother Bessie. However, the most exciting event happened in 1913 when there was a major flood in the area over the Easter weekend. As the Peters home was located on a high hill, it became a command post for the area, with Bessie and her children helping with relief for those affected. Over the course of the flood, 5,500 houses and businesses were damaged and 15,000 people were left homeless. The work Bessie did to help made her a hero in the eyes of her children and the bridge over the Saint Marys River next to the house now bears the Lombard name. Here are some photos of the actual flood. You can read a day-to-day account from the newspapers here.

Photos of one of Carole's Hollywood Homes

This post is part of the Carole Lombard: The Profane Angel Blogathon hosted by myself and Crystal of In the Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood. Please check out all of the other posts celebrating this one-of-a-kind woman.

The "Carole Lombard: The Profane Angel" Blogathon Has Arrived!

After months of waiting, the Carole Lombard: The Profane Angel Blogathon has at last arrived!!!For the next three days, many of us Classic Movie Bloggers will be honoring the memory of the "Queen of Screwball," the "Profane Angel," the "Hoosier Tornado," the one and only: Carole Lombard. Taken from us far to soon, this revolutionary actress is beloved by many and it is because of her legacy to film that Crystal of In the Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood and I are honoring her on the 75th anniversary of her death. With posts ranging from her films, her husbands, her legacy, and her Patriotism, it promises to be an amazing three days. So without further ado, THE POSTS:

Carole forgot her Blogathon started today.

Silver Screenings starts us off with what happens when Carole Lombard takes on the High-Profile Illness in Nothing Sacred (1937).

Oh, to be those hands!

Love Letters to Old Hollywood tells us what happens when Lombard and MacMurray fall head over heels in... Hands Across the Table (1935) .

"But we're not in Penny Serenade!"

Wide Screen World compares Made For Each Other (1939) with Penny Serenade.

"You can tell the Hays Code to go to..."

Mike’s Take On The Movies gives us a dose of Pre-Code Lombard in her film Virtue (1932).

"We are good friends, aren't we Bill?"

 

That William Powell Site gives us a double dose of Carole with Carole Lombard – Immortal AND Bill and Carole: Post-Divorce BFFs.

 

"I want to be alone. Wait, that's Garbo."

 

The Old Hollywood Garden tells us about the criminally underrated Twentieth Century (1934).

 

"Oh Godfrey, isn't it sweet how they love us so?"

 

Taking Up Room tells us about Carole's forgotten man in My Man Godfrey (1936).

"I hope Robert doesn't find out he wasn't my first choice..."

A Shroud of Thoughts tells us what happens when the Master of Suspense and the Screwball Queen get together to make Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941). 

Past Posts:

Here is a post I wrote for the Hot and Bothered Blogathon on Sinners in the Sun (1932) starring Lombard, Chester Morris, and in one of his early rolls - Cary Grant.

Here is Carole Lombard modeling some chic summer fashions.

Have a past post on Carole you would like to share?

Day 2 | Day 3 | Wrap-up

I would also like to invite you to participate in my next Blogathon, John Garfield: The Original Rebel, running from March 3rd to 5th.