Ha! And ooh, that sounds like All Quiet on the Western Front style humor, Hardwicke!

It's a joke Mark Twain included in an essay on how to tell a funny story. Interestingly, it was one of his examples on how not to tell one, but I still think it's pretty good.

During a battle, a soldier whose leg had been shot off told another soldier about his injury, and asked him to carry him to the rear. The other soldier picked him up and started carrying him. Bullets and cannon-balls were flying all around, and a cannonball hit the wounded man, and knocked his head ...

Heston was a better actor than some give him credit for. When I was a kid, he was my absolute fave. I agree. I think it's mostly because a lot of people know him only from a few of his movies, such as The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur , and think that he was only capable of playing that one particul...

Errol Flynn as the title character in Captain Blood . His portrayal raised the bar for portrayals of pirates of the dashing, heroic type, and swashbuckling heroes in general. It also led to him getting more swashbuckling roles, which he played equally well. Some of my other favorites include: Errol ...

Hardwicke, I am so glad that you are enjoying Photoplay too! It is so addictive, though I am not sure that the stories are real (much less the "unique advertising" aimed at women readers). In any case they are fun, and the pictures and art work in the magazine are wonderful time capsules....

Wow, those are a great find! They look very rare. The first one does look like her, the second is definitely her and Tommy, and I think the third one is her and Tommy as well. Here are a few more things I found in Photoplay : And that's some youngster Glenda Farrell has. Always up to something. Cou...

Going off to war: http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt270/CineMaven/CINEMAVEN%20FAVORITE%20MOVIE%20LINES/CLARKGABLEasRHETTBUTLER.gif “Kiss me, Scarlett. Kiss me. Once.” ( The embrace, the close-up, his “ once ” is barely audible. It’s tender, gently pleading. It’s Gable! He’s asking for a kiss tha...

http://i1361.photobucket.com/albums/r665/hbenthow/Glenda%20Farrell%20Resized/13482334_zpsf9fc3d18.jpg After finding out about an archived collection of vintage movie magazines in another thread ( http://silverscreenoasis.com/oasis3/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=4198#p63291 ), I looked through some scann...

Due to my fondness of classic movies (and the first half or so of the 20th century in general), I am also fond of modern-day movies and television shows that recapture a classic style or feel. So, I decided to create a thread about them. Whether they be homages, throwbacks, or simply movies and show...

Best:

"Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make!" (Dracula)

Worst:

"I'm going to kill you all kinds of dead." (The Spirit)

Wow! That's a great resource. I'm skimming through the 1935 Photoplay collection, and I'm already finding a lot of interesting information. By the way, I recently found an an archive of many Classic Images magazine articles on Archive.org's Wayback Machine. While the archived Classic Images articles...

You can see more about the Glenda Farrell-Henry Ross Preserve here: http://www.pclt.net/view-preserve/glenda-farrell-henry-ross-preserve/ Thank you for the link. That page has a nice photo, and another page on that site has this interesting piece of information: In 1977, Dr. Henry Ross donated 38 a...

Wow. I'd never heard of the Glenda Farrell-Henry Ross preserve.

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I have some great news! One of my biggest sources for information about Glenda Farrell is a 1998 article from Classic Images magazine called Glenda Farrell: Diamond in the Rough . It doesn't cover quite everything, of course, (I had to find out quite a few things from some other sources) but it does...

Today I watched "Sweeney Todd: Demon Barber of Fleet Street" (1935). In some ways, it was an enjoyable movie. In some ways, it was very irritating. The irritating parts first. Although there was much verbal play about Sweeney Todd's razor, he never used it on his victims. He killed them b...