Golden Age Cinema Lover Gifts

Shirley Temple...The later years.. - 'Animal crackers in my poop...'

Screenwriters pitch movie to studio boss: 'It's a reinterpretation of Bicycle Thieves, that classic of Italian neo-realism. We're calling it, Dude, Where's My Chopper?'

Herman Mankiewicz

King Kong uses fly spray against the pesky planes on top of the Empire State Building

"Gone with the wind with cats" "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." "Me neither, who cares—let's take a nap."

"Housekeeping?!"

'I have a feeling we are not in Kansas anymore.'

Buster Keaton

Jimmy Cagney.

"Citizen Kane first draft... Citizen Kane By Orson Welles & Herman J. Mankiewicz Int. Kane's bedroom Kane's old voice Call a freaking ambulance! Rosebud..."

Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, in all the solar systems, in all the galaxies, in all the universe, she walks into mine.

"You funnin' me, bub?"

A 1920's film director with hand-cranked camera and megaphone.

Queen Kong

I'm Spartacus.

Stan Laural & Oliver Hardy.

I hope that "golden showers" dossier about Trump is true. That'd be awesome. How so, little buddy? Well, I was always a big fan of the cold war. I loved "Red Dawn" and "War Games" and "James Bond" and all those really cool cold war movies. If it's true that our new president is actually being blackmailed by the Russians, we might finally have a real "Manchurian Candidate." I've calculated that the number of "Twilight Zone" episodes that might still come true has just grown by half a dozen. I hop

Ask Sadie! I just read an article where Daisy Ridley said J.J. Abrams wrote drafts for Episode VIII and Episode IX. And then Rian Johnson THREW THAT OUT and went a whole different direction. This makes me lose all faith in Star Wars. Am I overreacting? **Actual reader question. Excellent question. This reminds me of the time I saw Gone with the Wind on opening day. I was the invited guest of an elderly veteran of the Civil War. He couldn't stop yammering about how seceding from the union didn't

Fred Astaire

Jack Nicholson

"I'm just gonna reach in my back pocket real slow-like and turn off my ringer."

"Whatcha watching, Dad?"

Hitchcock's The Birds

Lumiere brothers caricature

To paraphrase Humphrey Bogart in "Casablanca," "Of all the comic strips in all the newspapers in all the world, you walk into mine." ? ? ?

Laurel and Hardy

'Business was slow, slower than a fat tortoise with a limp. The phone hadn't rung for so long I thought it must be out of order. The new competition was good, very good. Who was this 'Google' guy?'

Interesting encounters in history.

Al Pacino

'You know, it's kind of nice turning off the sound, turning on closed caption, and listening to piano music.'

Romy Schneider

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2001: A Space Odyssey - Updated

The Pride of Frankenstein

Fredrich March as Dr. Jekyll