Barbara Stanwyck

Barbara Stanwyck is remembered primarily as the matriarch of the family known as the Barkleys on the TV western "The Big Valley" (1965), where she played Victoria, and from the hit drama "The Colbys" (1985). But she was known to millions of other fans for her movie career, which spanned the period from 1927 until 1964, after which she appeared on television until 1986. It was a career that lasted for 59 years.

The Brady Bunch

Heres the story about a man named Brady... Released in 1969 and lasting until 1974 this series has lasted the ravages of time and can still be seen in syndication all over the world today. I cant think of anyone that has never seen at least one episode of The Brady Bunch.

Starring Robert Reed, Florence Henderson, Ann B. Davis, Maureen McCormick, Eve Plumb, Susan Olsen, Barry Williams, Christopher Knight, Mike Lookinland, and Allen Melvin.

The Maltese Falcon

Released in 1941 The Maltese Falcon tells the story of A private detective who takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette. This is definettly a case where Boggie gets the bird !!

Starring Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter Lorre, Barton MacLane, Lee Patrick, Sydney Greenstreet, and Ward Bond.

Vincent Price

Actor, writer, and gourmet, Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. was born in St Louis, Missouri. He traveled through Europe, studied at Yale and became an actor. He made his screen debut in 1938, and after many minor roles, he began to perform in low...-budget horror movies such as The House of Wax. He achieved his first major success with The House of Usher. He was always known for his distinctive, low-pitched, creaky, atmospheric voice and his quizzical, mock-serious facial expressions. He went on to star in a series of acclaimed Gothic horror movies, and will always be a Nostalgic Movie Icon. Happy Birthday Vincent (May 27, 1911).

John Wayne

Nostalgic movie legend John Wayne, was born today on May 26th 1907. He was one of the cinema's greatest stars. But he was also one of the cinema's greatest problems. His image as an icon of American individualism and the frontier spirit has overshadowed his career to such an extent that it is almost impossible for viewers and writers to separate Wayne the legend from Wayne the actor and Wayne the man.

Topper Returns

Now you can watch movies at www.reelstarnostalgia.com This months movie Topper Returns was released in 1941. Starring Joan Blondell, Roland Young, Carole Landis, Billie Burke, Dennis O'Keef, H.B. Warner, and Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson. Topper is once again... tormented by a fun-loving spirit. This time, it's Joan Blondell, who was accidentally murdered while vacationing at the home of her wealthy friend, Ann Carrington (Landis), the intended victim. With Topper's help, Joan sets out to find her killer with the expected zany results.

Way Out West

In the movie Way Out West Stan and Ollie head for the western town of Brushwood Gulch. Their mission is to find a woman named Mary Roberts in order to deliver her a deed to a valuable gold mine left to her by her father. Unfortunately, thei...r problems start as soon as they arrive in town when they realize they upset the wife of the town's Sheriff while on the coach they hitch a ride on, and they must catch the next coach out of town...or else. Their problems continue when Mickey Finn, Mary's guardian, learns why they're here, and has his wife, Lola Marcel, play Mary in order to hijack the deed from them. However, before leaving town, they encounter the real Mary Roberts and are forced to get the deed back. What ensues from there is more hilarity then you could ever image.

It was released in 1937. Starring Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Sharon Lynn, James Finlayson, and Rosina Lawrence.

Saturday Night Fever

For those of us old enough or Nostalgic enough to remember Saturday Night Fever it was released in 1977. Starring John Travolta, and Karen Lynn Gorney, it was a smash box office hit in the disco era. The music from the film gave the Bee Gee...'s many number one hits on the Billboard charts, and their music was played on just about every disco, easy listening, and rock, radio station in America. On this day we want to give our condolences to the brothers Gibb for their brother Robin who passed away but left his mark in music history.

At The Cannes Film Festival

Movie news this morning on Yahoo... At 74, Jane Fonda looks -- dare we say -- hot! In a body-hugging bronze, sparkling Atelier Versace gown, Fonda looks every bit as fit as the starlets half her age who were at the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday.

Jane Fonda

Lady Jayne Seymour Fonda was born in New York City in 1937 to legendary screen star Henry Fonda and New York socialite Frances Seymour Brokaw. She began her acting career at the age of 17 when she was prompted by Joshua Logan to appear with her father in the 1954 Omaha Community Theatre production of "The Country Girl". Over the years she has made several films and has been Controversial both on and off screen. Shes a talented lady and a Nostalgic Movie Icon.

Trail To San Antone

For all the Gene Autry fans out there... Trail To San Antone was released in 1947. The story was about Gene helping out a crippled jockey. When a wild stallion runs away with the speedy mare that was planed for the jockey to ride, Gene ends up taking off in an airplane to bring them back.

M.A.S.H.

M.A.S.H. was released in 1970. Telling the story of a moble surgical hospital stationed in Korea in the 1950's. Starring Donald Sutherland, Elliot Gould, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman, Robert Duvall, and Gary Burghoff. They used humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.

A little known fact is that out of the entire cast of M.A.S.H. only Gary Burghoff, went on to star in the Television series.

Charlies Angels

Charlies Angels premired on ABC in 1976 and ran until 1981. The television series was about a wealthy mystery-man who runs a detective agency via a speaker-phone and his personal assistant, Bosley. His detectives were three beautiful women, who ended up in a variety of difficult situations. Starring Kate Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, and Jaclyn Smith.

Shirley Temple

Shirley Temple is no longer a child star, but at one time she was the most popular actress in America. She held this title for five years in a row! So this posting is for the little girl who made so many people happy during the Depression, with her smile and her dancing and her precociousness.

The Lone Ranger Rides Again.

The Lone Ranger is coming out as a remake in 2013. Starring Armie Hammer as the Lone Ranger and Jonny Depp as Tonto. The story has been told in movies, radio, and on television since 1927. But for all of us Nostalgia fans can there be any other Lone Ranger than Clayton Moore ?

The Better Batgirl ?

The Legend Ends but the Dark Knight Rises.
It's coming this summer to a theater by you. 
Due to the different age groups of Batman fans out there, our question today is... Who was the better Batgirl ? Alicia Silverstone or Yvonne Craig ?

Yvonne Craig played Batgirl in the 1966 Television Series.

Alicia Silverstone played Batgirl in the 1997 Movie Batman and Robin.

Both were good portrails of Batgirl however it seems that everyone has their favorite.
Who was yours ?










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Arsenic and Old Lace

Arsenic and Old Lace was released in 1944. Cary Grant plays a drama critic that learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden's aunts are homicidal maniacs, and that insanity runs in his family. Directed by Frank Capra and Starring Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson, Peter Lorre, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair, and Edward Everett Horton. It's a comic free for all.

West Side Story

Westside story is the award winning adaptation of the classic romantic tragedy, Romeo and Juliette. The feuding families become two warring New York City gangs- the white Jets led by Riff and the Puerto Rican Sharks, led by Bernardo. Their hatred escalates to a point where neither can coexist with any form of understanding. But when Riff's best friend (and former Jet) Tony and Bernardo's younger sister Maria meet at a dance, no one can do anything to stop their love. Maria and Tony begin meeting in secret, planning to run away. Then the Skarks and Jets plan a rumble under the highway - whoever wins gains control of the streets. Maria sends Tony to stop it, hoping it can end the violence. It goes terribly wrong, and before the lovers know what's happened, tragedy strikes and doesn't stop until the climactic and heartbreaking ending. Released in 1961. Starring Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris, and Tucker Smith.

The Sound Of Music

In 1930's Austria, a young woman named Maria is failing miserably in her attempts to become a nun. When the Navy captain Georg Von Trapp writes to the convent asking for a governess that can handle his seven mischievous children, Maria is given the job. The Captain's wife is dead, and he is often away, and runs the household as strictly as he does the ships he sails on. The children are unhappy and resentful of the governesses that their father keeps hiring, and have managed to run each of them off one by one. When Maria arrives, she is initially met with the same hostility, but her kindness, understanding, and sense of fun soon draws them to her and brings some much-needed joy into all their lives -- including the Captain's. Eventually he and Maria find themselves falling in love, even though Georg is already engaged to a Baroness and Maria is still a postulant. The romance makes them both start questioning the decisions they have made...

Released in 1965. Starring Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, and Richard Haydn.

At The 1965 Oscar Awards.

A great image of Julie Andrews standing next to Sidney Poitier the night Julie recieved the Oscar for The Sound Of Music in 1965.

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The Shootist

Released in 1976 The Shootist was John Waynes last movie before he died. It tells the story of  J.B. Books a dying gunfighter who spends his last days looking for a way to die with a minimum of pain and a maximum of dignity. Starring John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Jimmy Stewart, Ron Howard, and Harry Morgan, it was yet again The Duke at his best.

The Adventures Of The Batman

The Legend Ends but the Dark Knight Rises. It's coming this summer to a theater by you. But is anyone here old enough to remember when it was at the theaters in the 50's as a weekly chapter in the Adventures Of The Batman ?

Robert Mitchum

Little Known Movie Star Fact... Movie great Robert Mitchum was born August 17th 1917 in Bridgport Connecticut. Because of a troubled childhood he had an early contempt for authority and it led to many discipline problems. Robert spent a good portion of his teen years adventuring on the open road. It was on one of these trips at the age of 14 that he was charged with vagrancy and sentenced to a Georgia chain gang.

Bay Watch

This long-running series follows the adventures of a team of lifeguards on a crowded resort beach. Veteran lifeguard Mitch Buchannon watches over the younger lifeguards that come and go with each passing season as they keep the beaches safe for vacationers. Frequently he must take action to save them from the raging seas and from the raging tempers that sometimes flare up between the young guards in this stressful job.

The series ran from 1989 - 2001 and starred David Hasselfoff, Pamela Anderson, Alexandra Paul, Kelly Packard, Brooke Burns, and Jeremy Jackson.

Alice

A greasy-spoon diner in Phoenix, Arizona is the setting for this long-running series. The title character, Alice is an aspiring singer who arrives in Phoenix with her teenaged son Tommy, after the death of her truck-driver husband. Alice is hired at a diner owned by Mel who was a gravel-voiced, male-chauvinist fry cook. She works at Mel's Diner as a waitress while awaiting her big break at fame. Alice's fellow waitresses are the raucous, red-headed Flo and the naive, temperamental, less attractive Vera. Flo is later replaced by Belle, a Southern blonde, who is herself soon replaced by the spunky, curly-haired Jolene. Alice and her friends experience several interesting years together at Mel's Diner, which is frequented by quirky truck drivers, repairmen, and other blue collar types and by several Hollywood celebrities, who appear as themselves.

Released in 1976 this series starred Linda Lavin, Beth Howland, Vic Tayback, Phillip McKeon,  Polly Holliday, Celia Weston, and Marvin Kaplan.

The X-Men

For all us comic book fans out there... The X Men movie was released July 14th 2000. It followed the story line of the Nostalgic Marvel Comic series that was made in 1963.  Directed by Bryan Singer. It told the story of the mutant team of X-Men. How they came to be, and their protection of the world from the evil mutants. 

Starring Hugh Jackman, (Wolverine) Patrick Stewart, (Proffesor Xavier) Ian McKellen, (Magneto) Rebecca Romijn, (Mystique) and Halle Berry. (Storm)

The Bridge On The River Kwai

The Bridge On The River Kwai was released in 1957. It tells the story of Col. Nicholson and other english soldiers that were being held cative in the Burma Jungle. Col. Nicholson who after settling his differences with a Japanese P.O.W. camp commander, co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors.  As the bridge was being built he was completely oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it. Starring William Holden, Alec Guinness, and Sessue Hayakawa.

The Fountainhead

The Fountainhead was released in 1949. It's the story of an uncompromising, visionary architect that struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards. Starring Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, and Raymond Massey it definetly is a nostalgic must see movie.

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Hello Dolly

Released in 1969 Hello Dolly tells the story of  a matchmaker named Dolly Levi who takes a trip to Yonkers, New York to see the "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire," Horace Vandergelder. While there, she convinces him, his two stock clerks and his niece and her beau to go to New York City. In New York, she fixes Vandergelder's clerks up with the woman that Vandergelder had been courting, and her shop assistant. All this while Dolly herself has designs of her own on Mr. Vandergelder.                   Directed by Gene Kelly and Starring Barbara Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford, and Louis Armstrong.

The Andy Griffith Show

Was life ever this simple ? The Andy Griffith Show seemed to make it that way. Debuting in 1960 Andy and his son Opie live with Andy's Aunt Bee in Mayberry NC. With virtually no crimes to solve, most of Andy's time is spent philosophizing and calming down his cousin Deputy Barney.

The Awful Truth

Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance. This was The Awful Truth. Released in 1937. Starring Irene Dunne, and Cary Grant.  Directed by Leo McCarey.

Marty

Released in 1955 Marty tells the story of two lonely people who have almost resigned themselves to never being truly loved. This image is behind the scenes with the director and cast. Directed by Delbert Mann and starring Ernest Borgnine as Marty.

The Maltese Falcon

Released in 1941 The Maltese Falcon tells the story of A private detective who takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette. This is definitely a case where Boggie gets the bird !!

Directed by John Huston and starring nostalgic screen greats Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, Ward Bond, and Sydney Greenstreet.

Gentlemen Perfer Blondes

The story of two singers. Best friends Lorelei Lee (Marilyn Monroe) and Dorothy Shaw (Jane Russell) travel to Paris pursued by a private detective hired by Lorelei's fiancé's disapproving father to keep an eye on her, a rich, enamoured old man and many other doting admirers. Everyone finally comes to the conclusion that Gentlemen Perfer Blondes !