Mykki Newton and Classic Movie History

J. Carrol Naish mastered every acting medium of his day…stage, film, radio, and television. His career spanned five decades until his death in 1973 at the ag...

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

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

“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 school girl from Los A...

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 was far more divers...

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 began. I was one of t...

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

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 make a living at being ...

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

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

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 wonderful time of the yea...

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. He was a skilled mo...

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 Zenith, I started w...

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 highest paid supporting ...

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

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

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

Which one of your children do you love the most? Yeah, that is a question no one should ever ask a parent. The only answer should be, “I love all my children...

Let’s get straight to the point. Humphrey Bogart is the greatest male movie star in the history of motion pictures. It’s not just me saying that, The America...

When I watch a classic film that was made more than a century ago, I am amazed and grateful…grateful to organizations such as The National Film Preservation ...