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Halloweek: Die! Die! My Darling! (1965) – original title “Fanatic”
This week, Comet Over Hollywood is celebrating Halloween with slightly more offbeat horror films. Starting in the 1960s with Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” (1962),...
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Halloweek: “The Watcher in the Woods” (1980)
This week, Comet Over Hollywood is celebrating Halloween with slightly more offbeat horror films. (This contains spoilers to explain alternate endings) When I was growing up, there were two movies my...
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Comet Over Hollywood celebrates fans
ATTENTION! This holiday season, I want to give back to all of you who help celebrate classic Hollywood every day. What I’m doing: Each week of December, I will have a prize drawing for one of Comet...
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Mother’s Day with Comet’s Mama
Comet Over Hollywood is working to bring back our video feature. Our first video back from our lengthy hiatus is in celebration of Mother’s Day. As I have written many, many times before, my parents...
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Father’s Day with Comet’s Dad
Father’s Day from Comet Over Hollywood! This year, we have a few words from my dad. As we did on Mother’s Day, I have a video of telling about his film love and introducing his children to classic...
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Musical Monday: “Let Freedom Ring” (1939)
It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 500. To celebrate and share this...
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Halloweek: Mr. Boogedy (1986)
Many of us have movies that we watched repeatedly as children. For my two older sisters and myself, it was the made-for-TV Disney horror comedy “Mr. Boogedy” (1986). My sisters saw it when it...
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Review: Bride of Boogedy (1987)
A year after “Mr. Boogedy” (1986) aired, the Wonderful World of Disney aired its 1987 sequel, “Bride of Boogedy.” In the sequel, the Davis family is now comfortably settled at their newly renovated in...
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A “Wild Christmas” with Mae West
Mae West, known for her buxom figure, long Gibson-girl like gowns and sultry voice, slinked through 1930s films throwing around phrases like “Why don’t you come up and see me sometime?” But after only...
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Christmas on Film: “And So They Were Married” (1936)
Before twin Hayley Mills were trying to get their parents together in “The Parent Trap” (1961), Jackie Moran and Edith Fellows worked to keep their parents apart in “And So They Were Married” (1936)....
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Baby, It’s Not a Christmas Song
What started out as a song to get party guests to leave is now a Christmas favorite that has come under some scrutiny in recent years. “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” has evolved into a song never left off a...
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Musical Monday: Shower of Stars presents A Christmas Carol (1954)
It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 500. To celebrate and share this...
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Christmas on Film: Junior Miss (1945)
The same year Peggy Ann Garner performed her award winning role in “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,” the 13-year-old actress found herself in a coming of age comedy, “Junior Miss” (1945). Similar to “And So...
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Cary Grant’s “Christmas Lullaby”
Cary Grant is often noted as one of the best and most attractive actors of all-time. His film resume includes some of Hollywood’s best films such as Alfred Hitchcock’s “Notorious” (1946) to the comedy...
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A Gift from Comet Over Hollywood
Almost every Christmas for the past four years, I try to film a special Christmas video for the readers and supporters of Comet Over Hollywood. This year — as my gift to you — my mother and I...
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Christmas on Film: “We’re No Angels” (1955)
Guardian angels can come in many forms, and in the film “We’re No Angels” (1955), help arrives from three convicts. Early Christmas Eve, Joseph (Humphrey Bogart), Albert (Aldo Ray), Jules (Peter...
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Mr. New Year’s Eve: Guy Lombardo
“Auld Lang Syne” was his theme song. They called him Mr. New Year’s Eve, and he was part of America’s New Year’s tradition for nearly 50 years. Before Dick Clark and Ryan Seacrest counted down to 12...
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Brief Encounter: Short Hollywood Marriages
Hollywood marriages are often butt of jokes since they are often extremely short or numerous. While Comet Over Hollywood previously identified more than 70 lengthy and successful Hollywood marriages,...
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On the Small Screen: The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet — Halloween Party
Throughout the Halloween season, Comet Over Hollywood is spotlighting Halloween episodes of classic television shows. “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet”— “Halloween Party” Season 1, Episode 5 Air...
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On the Small Screen: The Paul Lynde Halloween Special (1976)
Comet Over Hollywood is spotlighting Halloween episodes of classic television shows. The Paul Lynde Halloween Special Air Date: Oct. 29, 1976 In the 1960s and 1970s, TV specials were abundant. It seems...
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