Otto Preminger, director Gregory Ratoff, producer William Perlberg and Ernst Lubitsch on the set of Ratoff's WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? (1945). Preminger and Lubitsch filmed cameos, but only Preminger's (as a Hessian officer) made it into final cut of wacky World War II time-travel musical (1 of 5)

If you liked THE SILVER CORD, don't miss Mary Morris in her only (and unforgettable) film role, recreating her Broadway triumph as a sadistic Fifth Avenue matriarch. Creepy late pre-code opened 5/4/34. NY TV debut 6/5/61. Never repeated. youtube.com/watch?v=qQEB...

Ad for a Manhattan art house that operated from 1931 to 1987 on Manhattan's Upper West Side appeared 86 years ago in the New York Times.

Even if you can live with an AI Uncle Henry, digitally repainted "realistic'' skies and a re-recorded and re-orchestrated score, there's this (from USA Today): "The time required to convert the film also necessitated editing from its original run time of 102 minutes to 75."

Even if you can live with an AI Uncle Henry, digitally repainted "realistic'' skies and a re-recorded and re-orchestrated score, there's this (from USA Today): "The time required to convert the film also necessitated editing from its original run time of 102 minutes to 75."

New York Times 3/18/43. JOURNEY INTO FEAR, which was debuting in fairly wide release, was also playing at Times Square's RKO Palace on a double bill with Monogram's SILVER SKATES starring Kenny Baker, Patricia Morison and Belita (Jepson-Turner).

Times Square, 2/22/33. Watch Buster Crabbe as a "Naked White Giant with his civilized sweetheart in his arms!'' youtube.com/watch?v=XRu6...

NY TV debut 6/24/50 at 10 pm on WCBS' "Premiere Playhouse.'' Tay Garnett's comedy whodunit bowed 5/16/40 in Times Square, with Ruth Terry also appearing in person. On same day, it was supporting BROADWAY MELODY OF 1940 at Loews Metropolitan in Brooklyn. Public domain www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHei...

My most controversial -- and influential -- review was posted at my former employer's website ten years ago today, just hours after it was written. There were originally hundreds of comments appended, almost all of them negative. nypost.com/2015/06/24/g...

CNN says it will be available to livestream even for those without a cable log-in. www.cnn.com/good-night-a...

Highly recommend tonight's LIVE broadcast of "Good Night, and Good Luck'' from Broadway's Winter Garden Theatre tonight on CNN. The play version is somewhat different than the movie (George Clooney, not David Straitharn, is playing Edward R. Murrow this time around) but it couldn't be more timely!

Back in 1983, the Empire State Building decided to celebrate the 50th anniversary of KING KONG with a giant rubber replica attached to the building for a week. What could go wrong? Watch these hilarious vintage TV clips! www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWXs...

that channel 7 reporter is having the time of her life covering this stupid story and that's what I miss about local newscasts

NY TV debut 4/21/65 at 5 pm on WCBS' "The Early Show.'' And the boys meet Anita Ekberg and young Harry Shearer! No kidding. Lower half of 4/24/53 Brooklyn double bill.

NY TV debut 4/21/55 at 7:30 pm on WOR's "Million Dollar Movie.'' Orson Welles' adaptation, independently produced by Charles K. Feldman and distributed by Republic Pictures, opened 12/27/50 at a Manhattan art house.

NY TV debut 4/21/50 at 11:15 pm on WPIX's "Night Owl Theater.'' Tay Garnett directed Pathe thriller made before studio's merger with RKO. 2/22/30 at Manhattan's fabled 5,140-seat Hippodrome, which was reduced to showing minor features along with an RKO vaudeville bill on stage. Demolished in 1939.

Back in 1983, the Empire State Building decided to celebrate the 50th anniversary of KING KONG with a giant rubber replica attached to the building for a week. What could go wrong? Watch these hilarious vintage TV clips! www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWXs...

NY TV debut 4/20/60 at 5:30 pm on WCBS' "The Early Show.'' Finally arriving on the tube more than three years after Channel 2 began rolling out its "pre-'48" MGMs, J. Walter Ruben's well-cast gangster drama opened 6/7/35 at Loews' Manhattan flagship.

NY TV debut 4/20/40 at 8:30 pm on NBC's "experimental'' W2XBS, first US station with regularly scheduled programs. Future Mr. and Mrs. James Mason in a Hitchcockian thriller directed by her then husband Roy Kellino and produced by the three of them. 10/1/39 at Manhattan's 55th Street Playhouse.

2/19/52 at 4 pm on WJZ/7's "Hollywood Movietime.'' Poverty Row adaptation of 1930 Broadway play opened 9/27/32 at the Gates and several other Loews neighborhood houses in Brooklyn that previously offered vaudeville bills. NY TV debut 9/28/49 on WPIX. youtube.com/watch?v=68Nh...

When even vaudeville and a Laurel and Hardy short isn't going to be enough to put over the new movie at your 5,200-seat Manhattan movie palace on 9/22/33, a miracle or two won't hurt.

Underrated Stanwyck melodrama; a favorite of my pal @loulumenick.bsky.social

NY TV debut 3/8/65 at 12:55 am on WCBS' "The Late Late Show.'' Lavish musical vehicle for transatlantic stage star Laye opened 1/8/31 in Times Square. It was just another Goldwyn antique buried in the wee hours by the time it hit TV 34 years later.

NY TV debut 3/8/65 at 11:20 pm on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' Roy Ward Baker's forgotten noir opened 10/1/52 in Times Square before supporting Howard Hawks' MONKEY BUSINESS as both films began rolling out on the theatre circuit on October 17.

NY TV debut 3/8/60 at 7:30 pm on WOR's "Million Dollar Movie.'' Producer Mark Hellinger's greatest triumph, a prototypical noir (directed by soon-blacklisted Jules Dassin), opened in Manhattan 3/5/48 -- two months after Hellinger's premature death from heart failure at the age of 44.

NY TV debut 3/8/55 at 7:30 pm on WOR's "Million Dollar Movie.'' Lewis Milestone's sophisticated indie comedy was oddly booked by distributor MGM into the Rialto, a Times Square venue whose heavily male audience preferred thrillers and slapstick comedies.

NY TV debut 3/7/40 at 3:30 pm on W2XBS. Novello reprises role in remake of Hitchcock's THE LODGER (1927). 4/19/35 on double bill at Times Square's Criterion with a new title and BEHIND THE GREEN LIGHTS, a Poverty Row melodrama. Remade again in 1944, 1953 and 2009. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6Tm...

NY TV debut 3/7/60 at 12:45 am on WCBS' "The Late Show Late Show.'' Frank Tuttle's comedy arrived 4/24/31 at the Times Square and Brooklyn Paramounts, which also offered stage shows. June Collyer, sister of Bud, was married to Erwin from 1931 until his death in 1967 rarefilmm.com/2019/11/dude...

NY TV debut 3/7/55 at 11:30 pm on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' William L. Shirer, future author of the bestselling "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich,'' plays "himself'' in independently produced oddity that arrived 9/29/51 in Times Square. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8apD...

NY TV debut 3/4/65 at 1:05 am on WCBS' "The Late Late Show.'' The five Colmans in Channel 2's Goldwyn package all premiered after "The Late Show.'' King Vidor's turgid romantic drama opened on Christmas Eve 1932 in Manhattan.

NY TV debut 3/4/65 at 11:20 pm on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' Humphrey Bogart's company produced dramatic co-feature on 1/16/52 Downtown Brooklyn double bill.

NY TV debut 3/4/55 at 7:30 pm on WPIX's "The First Show.'' Pseudo-sequel filmed in English in Mexico arrived 10/21/50 in Times Square.

NY TV debut 3/4/50 at 8 pm on WATV's "Mystery Film Theater.'' Alfred Zeisler's thriller not-bad contemporary riff on "Crime and Punishment'' topped 3/26/46 double bill at Times Square's New York Theatre with Monogram's BORDER BANDITS, a Johnny Mack Brown western.

NY TV debut 3/4/50 at 6:30 pm on WABD's "Western Theater.'' Listed as SAGA OF THE WEST, independent production released through Fox opened 2/21/35 at Times Square's Criterion.

NY TV debut 3/3/65 at 9 pm on "NBC Wednesday Night at the Movies.'' "Any resemblance to RUGGLES OF RED GAP is purely accidental,'' Daily News' Wanda Hale wrote in ⭐️⭐️⭐️ review when musical remake opened 8/30/50 in Times Square. "The comedy is now a farce.''

NY TV debut 3/3/60 at 7:30 pm on WOR's "Million Dollar Movie.'' Tay Garnett's Korean War drama arrived 9/19/52 in Times Square. Unlike the other major studio libraries available to TV at this point, RKO's included so-called "post-'48" titles

NY TV debut 3/3/55 at 7:30 pm on WOR's "Million Dollar Movie.'' James Mason's Hollywood debut was one of many box office flops on series' first season, all leased from the Bank of America. Enterprise Studios' independent production distributed by MGM opened 2/17/49 in Manhattan.

NY TV debut 3/3/55 at 9 pm on WOR's "Fortune Theater.'' Dubbed for television, Italian drama opened 5/25/49 in Manhattan.

NY TV debut 3/3/50 at 8 pm on WPIX's "Premiere Theatre.'' For some reason, Victor Saville's spy thriller was not included in the London Film package that Channel 11 bowed during the 1948-9 season. 8/21/37 at Times Square's Central Theatre.

NY TV debut 3/3/45 at 8 pm on WNBT. Producers Releasing Corporation's 61-minute vehicle for ethnic comedian supported first entry in Columbia's whodunit series 2/6/41 at the Brooklyn Strand.

NY TV debut 3/1/50 at 8 pm on WABD's ... Kay Francis' penultimate feature, part of her three-film star/producer deal with Monogram, opened 11/21/45 at a still-operating legit theater that then showed movies during dull periods.

NY TV debut 3/1/65 at 11:20 pm on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' This week's second Hopkins-McCrea movie for Goldwyn escapes burial on "The Late Late Show'' by dint of Robinson and Hawks. 10/12/35 at Sam's favorite Manhattan launchpad.

Y TV debut 3/1/60 at 11:15 pm on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' Channel 2's very slow rollout (it began 12/1/56) of its 700 or so pre-'48 MGMs continues with James Stewart's musical debut. Eleanor Powell was in person or 12/4/36 Manhattan opening.

NY TV debut 3/1/55 at 11:15 pm on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' S. Sylvan Simon's indie noir topped 1/5/48 Brooklyn double bill with Columbia's Cinecolor swashbuckler THE PRINCE OF THIEVES starring Jon Hall as Robin Hood. Copyright not renewed in 1977. youtube.com/watch?v=ttU6...

NY TV debut 2/28/70 at 11:30 pm on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' The Brinks heist. 1/21/55 in Times Square, supported by eight vaudeville acts.

NY TV debut 2/28/60 at 11:15 pm on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' One of Universal's last B's, a noir, supported an MGM A beginning 4/4/46 across the East River from Manhattan.

NY TV debut 2/28/45 at 8 pm on WNBT. Four-reel silent spoof opened 4/9/1916 in Times Square.

NY TV debut 2/27/65 at 1 am on WCBS' "The Late Late Show.'' Third of five films teaming Hopkins and McCrea offers glimpses of producer Goldwyn's Beverly Hills mansion, currently owned by...Taylor Swift. 11/22/35 in Manhattan.

NY TV debut 2/27/65 at 11:20 pm on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' Former Bernie Schwartz first showed off his acting chops as a deaf boxer. 3/27/52 in Times Square with Curtis and Sterling making personal appearances on opening day.

US TV debut 2/27/65 at 9 pm on "NBC Saturday Night at the Movies.'' Capra's first for Paramount was strange musical remake of his BROADWAY BILL (1934) that not only brought back much of supporting cast from original but also recycled footage. 4/10/50 at the Times Square Paramount.