Turner Classic Movies has become the hub for all lovers of old movies across the country. Many of us schedule our lives around the commercial free programming the channel offers us. This feature will include a breakdown of what a classic film enthusiast can recommend of TCM’s daily offerings. Margaret Perry has loved old movies … Continue reading
Turner Classic Movies has become the hub for all lovers of old movies across the country. Many of us schedule our lives around the commercial free programming the channel offers us. This feature will include a breakdown of what a classic film enthusiast can recommend of TCM’s daily offerings. Margaret Perry has loved old movies … Continue reading
We journey back to 1940 for tonight’s Christmas film, a film featuring two huge stars of day; it’s Remember the Night. I found this movie via Wikipedia and only knew it was the first film pairing up Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck, four years later they’d go on to make the film noir classic Double Indemnity. This film is a … Continue reading
As one comment on the Facebook page read when I alluded to my less-than-positive review of this film of this film, it may be time to get out your pitchforks readers. It’s not that I didn’t like The Shop Around the Corner. It’s just not my favorite Ernst Lubitsch film. One issue is that I’m just not a Jimmy … Continue reading
This post was originally published by Margaret Perry on The Great Katharine Hepburn on October 31, 2012. “I wanted to remind people that the lowest types of humanity have within them the capacity for extreme self-sacrifice. The dwarfed, misshapen beggar of the streets may have the noblest ideals.” (Lon Chaney) “He someone who acted out … Continue reading
This post was originally published by Margaret Perry on The Great Katharine Hepburn on October 13, 2012. “Gigi” is the shortest title of any movie to have won the Academy Award for best picture. The day after the film won nine Oscars at the 1959 Academy Awards, telephone operators at the studio answered the phones with a cheery “M-Gigi-M!” The original … Continue reading
This post was originally published by Margaret Perry on The Great Katharine Hepburn on September 26, 2012. Sidney Lumet‘s 1974 film adaptation of Agatha Christie‘s classic crime novel Murder on the Orient Express is on of the few versions of her stories of which the author approved. Lumet (director of Katharine Hepburn masterpiece Long Day’s Journey Into Night (1962)) assembled an all-star … Continue reading
This post was written in conjunction with the What A Character! blogathon hosted by Once Upon a Screen, Outspoken and Freckled, and Paula’s Cinema Club and was originally published by Margaret Perry on The Great Katharine Hepburn on September 22, 2012. Louise Beavers‘ career as one of the best character actresses of classic Hollywood spanned from 1927-1960. She is unfortunately best … Continue reading
This post was originally published by Margaret Perry on The Great Katharine Hepburn on September 14, 2012. Kristen over at Journeys in Classic Film is hosting the Universal Backlot Blogathon this weekend to celebrate 100 years of Universal Studios films: “Have a review of a film that used the backlot (either completely or just for a scene counts)? Interested in the … Continue reading
“As murder follows murder, beautiful Maria is the obvious suspect; bumbling Inspector Clouseau drives his boss mad by seeing her as plainly innocent.” Directed by: Blake Edwards, Rated: PG, 102 minutes I hate to admit it, but I’ve never seen an entire Pink Panther movie and the only part of Peter Sellers’ career I’ve seen … Continue reading
The Cinematic Katzenjammer 