Clik here to view.
Elizabeth Taylor's Self-Help Book: Elizabeth Takes Off [Book Review]
Even Hollywood legends have tough times. Personal problems become public news, whether you like it or not. Actor Elizabeth Taylor most certainly did not like becoming the butt of jokes for her weight...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Joan Crawford by Anna Raeburn [Book Review]
In 1986, Little, Brown and Company published a coffee table book of one of Hollywood's brightest stars of the 20th century titled simply Joan Crawford. Interspersed between full-page images of Crawford...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Classic Movie End-of-the-Year Giveaway [Closed]
UPDATE: We have randomly chosen a winner - Randi C. We have sent an email for the winner to claim the prize. Thanks to all who participated.Java's Journey is here to give away classic movie-related...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Toast of the Town 5
Let's take a look around the web for classic movie talk, resources and blog posts.Another Old Movie Blog reviews Easy Living (1937) with Jean Arthur In the Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood discusses...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bob Dorian, Host of AMC Talks of Robert Osborne, Host of TCM - 2009 Interview...
Many might recall Bob Dorian, the host of the television channel American Movie Classics back in the 1980s and 1990s. AMC predates Turner Classic Movies - the now more famous channel. However, the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Heiress (1949) and Say Anything (1989) | Now and Then, Part 2
The Heiress (1949) is an Academy-Award- winning adaptation of a Broadway play and a novel by Henry James. The film features Olivia de Havilland as a wealthy woman who does not know whether a man...
View ArticleClik here to view.
On Jerry Lewis
Comedian and filmmaker Jerry Lewis died Sunday August 20, 2017. Here's a roundup of Lewis articles featured here at Java's Journey.The Bellboy (1960) - A review of the experimental film that was put...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Classic Movie Makeovers | From the Draft Files
From the Draft file folder of this old blog, I find bits and pieces of unfinished ideas. Here is one about classic movie makeovers, which would inspire the article on Gene Kelly's multiple makeovers in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
VHS Cover for Two Sisters from Boston (1946) | From the Draft Files
Pouring through the draft section of my blog, I find a few bits and bobs of ideas here and there that seem amusing, tonally odd, or incomplete. Here is one. I have never published this blog post from...
View ArticleClik here to view.
On Modern Movie Costumes | From the Draft Files
Here's another post from the draft files of this old blog. This one comes from about 2013. I never published it... Until now. As you know, I'm a slob. (Read A Slob Recants) Although classic movies have...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cinematographer James Wong Howe has a Google Doodle.
Google Doodle celebrates Academy Award-winning cinematographer James Wong Howe (1899-1976) today May 25, 2018. Howe's work includes The Thin Man (1934).The Google Doodle story includes a remembrance...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Crazy Rich Asians (2018)- Fun Future Classic
Crazy Rich Asians (2018) opened on August 15th to great fanfare. Based on Kevin Kwan's best-selling novel and starring Constance Wu as Rachel Chu, this movie follows a Chinese-American economics...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Leonard Bernstein's 100th Birthday Celebration with a Google Doodle
August 25, 2018 marks 100 years since composer Leonard Bernstein's birth. Known for many projects, including his composition of award-winning scores, the composer/conductor/educator/polymath is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Doris Day inspires home renovation
Sometimes old movies are inspiring. I'm considering the purchase of a fixer-upper- a house that needs renovation. I thought of the work and wondered how to do it all, and whether it is more trouble...
View ArticleClik here to view.
All About Eve: The filmed play
I had planned this big ALL ABOUT EVE blog post, featuring the new play that is based on the J.Mankiewicz film, and produced by the National Theatre in London and broadcast around the world into...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Deanna Durbin and Her VHS Tapes
Ah! The 1990s! VHS was at its peak in my childhood home. VHS- Video Home System - the case in which a series of images and sound were made on magnetic tape and held on reels.By this point, every new...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Apartment Shopping in the Movies
Have you ever gone apartment shopping in the movies? Just seeing what you like in the film and try to recreate it at home, or put it on your list of things to renovate later?Katharine Hepburn's...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Classic Movie Star Look-a-Likes for Ads
A while ago I found these print ads for Armstrong Laminate. It looks like real wood but isn't. So they are using people who look like classic films stars to stand on the fake wood.Brilliant! There is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Jerry Lewis is No Joke to the French [Vintage Article]
I found this article about comedian Jerry Lewis: "Jerry Lewis is No Joke to the French" by Stanley Meisler Montreal Gazette January 23, 1984. (Read it here on Google News.)In it, we see Lewis wearing...
View ArticlePeter Bogdanovich discusses his career in TCM podcast "The Plot Thickens"
Turner Classic Movies has started a podcast called The Plot Thickens. TCM host and journalist Ben Mankiewicz interviews director Peter Bogdanovich for the first season. This season is called "I’m Still...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Classic remakes in 2020
Although many movies this year have moved their release dates to 2021 or have made them available for streaming, there are at least two classic movie remakes that still plan to be released in 2020...
View ArticleEnd of the year
Many stars have died in 2020. Here are a few:Olivia de Havilland ~New York Times Tribute - "Olivia de Havilland, a Star of ‘Gone With the Wind,’ Dies at 104"~ Town & Country Magazine -"We Became...
View ArticleWilliam Goldman calms me
William Goldman is an American screenwriter known for The Princess Bride and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.He's known for saying, "No one knows anything," meaning Hollywood pretends it knows what...
View ArticleMGM Star Dean Stockwell has died
Dean Stockwell, MGM star, died November 9, 2021. He was 85.Read more from the New York Times here:www.nytimes.com/2021/11/09/arts/television/dean-stockwell-dead.amp.html?shem=ssmm
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tyrone Power roundup
Time for a Tyrone Power roundup. Below find links to posts about the star of The Mark of Zorro (1940), his life and work. Tyrone Power's Biography - Searching for My Father, Tyrone Power by Romina...
View Article