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Stars at Twilight: “Christmas Eve” (1986)
At age 4 in 1917, she made her first film appearance as an uncredited fairy in “The Primrose Ring.” Actress Loretta Young performed in 94 films from 1917 to 1989 and was the star of the successful...
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Christmas with James Bond
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969) is a standout film within the James Bond franchise. It was the first James Bond film to not star Sean Connery and the only Bond film to star model-turned-actor...
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Comet Over Hollywood Holiday Special
Almost every Christmas for the past five years, I try to film a special Christmas video for the readers and supporters of Comet Over Hollywood. Last year’s video was a little violent, so this year we...
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A Christmas Tradition: Lionel Barrymore as Ebenezer Scrooge
Multiple actors have played Ebenezer Scrooge in numerous adaptations of Charles Dickens’ story “A Christmas Carol.” But one actor performed the role every year, creating a 20 year tradition. From 1934...
View ArticleHollywood Halloween: DIY Film Themed Costumes
If you’re like me (or any other classic film fan), the character or actor you want to dress as isn’t at Party City. There are only ill-fitting $80 Marilyn Monroe costumes from “Gentlemen Prefer...
View ArticleThanksgiving at the Hollywood Canteen
During World War II, communities pulled together to help out servicemen, and Hollywood was no exception. The Hollywood Canteen, located at 1451 Cahuenga Boulevard in Hollywood, CA, was a USO nightclub...
View ArticleChristmas Musical Monday: Babes in Toyland (1934)
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...
View ArticleChristmas Musical Monday: On Moonlight Bay (1951)
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...
View ArticleChristmas on Film: The Holly and the Ivy (1952)
Like most of us, I grew up on classic Christmas films—from White Christmas to The Bishop’s Wife to Christmas in Connecticut. And as I realized new-to-me pre-1968 Christmas movies were dwindling, I...
View ArticleChristmas Musical Monday: By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953)
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...
View ArticleChristmas on Film: The Cheaters (1945)
Last Christmas I was wrapping presents and watching made-for-TV Christmas movies on YouTube when—after finishing Susan Lucci’s Christmas Carol— this film began autoplaying. I was excited to find a...
View ArticleGinger Rogers’s Christmas Cake
Over the summer, I was surfing eBay for film memorabilia and came across a recipe for Ginger Rogers’s Christmas cake in a small food magazine, A & P Menu, which is “dedicated to food, menus and...
View ArticleChristmas Musical Monday: The Alcoa Hour presents The Stingiest Man in Town...
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...
View ArticleFor better or worse: Long Hollywood marriages
The joke in pop culture is that all marriages in Hollywood are brief and frequent. For Valentine’s Day in 2013, I created a list of 56 actors and actresses who had long, successful marriages. The list...
View ArticleReview: Horror stars keep us in “Suspense”
Complete with creepy organ music straight from a radio serial, “Suspense” was a live television program that aired from 1949 to 1954. The show followed a radio program of the same name, which is...
View Article“Holiday Affair” (1949) and interview with Gordon Gebert
After Robert Mitchum was released from jail for marijuana possession, his studio was looking to clean up his image. The answer was a romantic holiday comedy, “Holiday Affair” (1949). “At this time...
View ArticleMusical Monday: Shirley Temple’s Storybook “Babes in Toyland” (1960)
"Babes in Toyland" is often considered to be a Christmas story. The original operetta is Christmas themed and includes the song "Christmas Fair Waltz: Hail to Christmas." In the 1934 version, Laurel...
View ArticleWatching 1939: Miracle on Main Street (1939)
In 2011, I announced I was trying to see every film released in 1939. This new series chronicles films released in 1939 as I watch them. As we start out this blog feature, this section may become more...
View ArticleMusical Monday: Mister Magoo’s Christmas Carol (1962)
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...
View ArticleThe Christmas Tree (1969)
I’m on a constant quest for new-to-me Christmas movies. I search for them like I have a job in it with benefits. And that’s how I found Terence Young’s “A Christmas Tree” (1969), also titled “L’arbre...
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