Recommendations For TCM’s Summer Under the Stars …. August 2020 …. Part 1
Each year the month of August brings the TCM Summer Under the Stars spotlight where 24 continuous hours are devoted to one actor or actress. Sure we get some of […]
Richard Widmark In The Movies : From A to Z
From the moment he stepped on to movie screens in 1947, Richard Widmark, was branded a villain thanks to his Oscar nominated performance as a cold blooded killer in Kiss […]
Elizabeth Taylor In the Movies : From A to Z
From a child star to a Hollywood legend, Elizabeth Taylor, stepped out from the screen to become a personality known the world over. Be it her many marriages or movie […]
Kirk Douglas 1916-2020 : He Cast a Giant Shadow
More often than not when pressed by friends and associates who know I’m a student of movie history I name two actors as my all time favorites. Kirk Douglas being […]
Sharing the Screen With Kirk Douglas
Count the candles. 103. Yes Kirk Douglas is 103 years young today. Each year since starting up Mike’s Take On the Movies I set aside December 9th to celebrate the […]
The Lady Gambles (1949)
The lady in question? Barbara Stanwyck. Long before James Caan starred as the addicted, Gambler, or Philip Seymour Hoffman captivated me as a gambling junkie in Owning Mahoney, Miss Stanwyck, […]
Remembering Doris Day
A heavy heart today. It’s while at my office earlier today that I overheard the radio playing Que Sera Sera in the showroom where I’m employed. My heart skipped a […]
Looking Back at 2018 …. Where Does The Time Go?
Here I am a full 5 years into Mike’s Take On the Movies and hopefully still displaying a passion for classic movies from 1999 back to the silent era. I […]
Man’s Favorite Sport? (1964)
While the legendary Howard Hawks may not be remaking his own Rio Bravo here as he kind of did with El Dorado, he freely borrowed a classic bit from his […]
