Mykki Newton and Classic Movie History

Ken Curtis is best remembered for playing a roughly groomed, primitive philosopher deputy with a lexicon all his own. As Marshal Matt Dil...

This is embarrassing to me now, but I can freely admit that during my entire childhood and into the early years of my adult life, I thoug...

When a severed head starts talking to you, you can bet your torso things are not going to go your way. It’s one thing to battle a giant e...

J. Carrol Naish mastered every acting medium of his day…stage, film, radio, and television. His career spanned five decades until his dea...

1920 might have been the first year the art of filmmaking, storytelling, and acting come together in abundance in cinema. So many films r...

There are many classic Science Fiction producer/directors who are more revered and influential than Bert I. Gordon, but there are none mo...

“I'm Anna May Wong. I come from old Hong Kong. But now I'm a Hollywood star.” -Anna May Wong (1936) It has been 101 years since a high sc...

There have been many Scream Queens in the history of American film. Fay Wray was the first and maybe the most famous, although her career...

It may seem a bit odd to start a story about an actor near the end of his acting career, but that is where my fascination with Tim Holt b...

So many African-American artists have made significant contributions to the history of American cinema, but every so often their work tra...

Being an actor is a tough way to make a living. Actors’ Equity and the Screen Actors Guild estimate that only 10-15% of their members mak...

During the middle part of the turbulent 1960s, America was in a weird place. The television picture perfect image of a wholesome American...

Far from the lavish musicals of MGM and way down the tracks from the ornate entrance of Paramount Pictures stood the working-class studio...

If you’re not going to obey Andy Williams’ musical rules of holiday fun, then you’re just going to shortchange yourself on the most wonde...

Glenn Ford was once voted the number one American movie star, despite the fact he was Canadian. He served in two wars a generation apart....

Late one night in the summer of 1968, when I was 9-years old and alone in my parent’s den lighted only by the glow of our black and white...

She was nominated for an Oscar four times. She won an Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards. She was once the most sought after and high...

Kenneth Tobey appeared in hundreds of feature films and television shows of almost every genre, but to Monster Kids he is best remembered...

He is an intense blasphemer, a Nietzschean-style philosopher, and a homicidal maniac looking for the perfect woman. That almost sounds li...

Dangerous females in classic films are always my favorite characters, but when the actress is dangerous in real-life…ah, now that takes t...