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via: http://www.doctormacro.com/Images/Posters/R/Poster%20-%20Roman%20Holiday_01.jpg Here’s a truly wonderful movie starring Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn: Roman Holiday (1953).  It was the first Hollywood film to be filmed and processed entirely in Italy.  So when Audrey Hepburn surveys read more

Holiday Directed by George Cukor Written by Donald Ogden Stewart and Sidney Buchman from the play by Philip Barry 1938/USA Columbia Pictures Corporation Repeat viewing   The other Grant/Hepburn pairing for 1938 is another comedy, but in a more sophisticated vein. Johnny Case (Cary Grant) is a f read more

Thanksgiving is next Thursday, and naturally, I’m getting excited. However, it’s not the upcoming feast that’s making me happy (although I would literally kill a family member if it got me a piece of pumpkin pie—with whipped cream, obviously. I’m not a total animal.) No read more

Running a penny arcade is a family affair for Ma Delano (Lucille LaVerne) and her grown children Jennie (Evalyn Knapp), Joe (Ray Gallagher), and Harry (James Cagney).  Mitch (Warren Hymer) runs a sideshow near the Delano’s arcade, but it’s actually a front for his bootlegging operation.  read more

Directed by and starring Jacques Tati, this is the original film that introduced the bumbling but kindly Mr. Hulot. He finds himself staying at a beach side hotel full of various different tourists. The film is not so much about plot but instead it focuses mostly on Hulot’s many antics. Whethe read more

Directed by and starring Jacques Tati, this is the original film that introduced the bumbling but kindly Mr. Hulot. He finds himself staying at a beach side hotel full of various different tourists. The film is not so much about plot but instead it focuses mostly on Hulot’s many antics. Whethe read more

(Image: Wichita Orpheum) The favorite film: Roman Holiday, a 1953 romantic comedy directed by William Wyler and released by Paramount Pictures The synopsis: Princess Ann is feeling stifled by the confines of her royal family’s conventions. While on a publicity tour of Europe, Ann makes a plan read more

This is my entry in the Mary Astor Blogathon hosted by Tales of the Easily Distracted and Silver Screenings . Click here for all who agree that there is just something about Mary! Cary Grant is Johnny Case and Katharine Hepburn is Linda Seton in the film version of the Philip Barry play "Holiday read more

  You really mustn’t go into Holiday expecting a Bringing Up Baby or a Philadelphia Story; that’s what I expected when I watched this.  Instead of wacky hijinks and poking fun at the stuffy upper-crust, director George Cukor imbues the wealthy with personality, fears, weaknesses, an read more

Well now the holidays are over (boo!). Pretty Clever Film Gal transformed the yule tide season into one mega Bond-a-thon. In late November, I had never seen a single Bond movie. Now I only 5 titles plus Skyfall left.  As a matter of fact I holidayed so hard it’s almost a relief to get back to read more

Well now the holidays are over (boo!). Pretty Clever Film Gal transformed the yule tide season into one mega Bond-a-thon. In late November, I had never seen a single Bond movie. Now I only 5 titles plus Skyfall left.  As a matter of fact I holidayed so hard it’s almost a relief to get back to read more

Candice Bergen read more

Paulette on Christmas morning read more

Though Vincent Minnelli's Meet Me in St. Louis was set at the turn of the century, there was much in the film that translated to its 1944 audience. As World War II continued to rage on, the movie brought tremendous comfort by showing an idealized America and a family sticking together thro read more

Merry Christmas from Thelma! read more

Martha Sleeper Marilyn Monroe Norma Shearer read more

Coming into the home stretch of 25 Days of Christmas 2012, and the final three movies cannot come sooner.  It’s not that I hate Christmas movies, it’s just I lost a day and the whole slate of films ran away with me.  Today’s film is another first-time viewing for me; the 1949 film read more

Janet stuffing her stocking read more

Nancy Carroll being very creative read more

I've seen all sorts of searches for holiday-themed posts in my stats the past couple of weeks, so I thought I'd make it easy and make one big post with my best holiday stuff. So here are the reviews, cartoons and clips on Classic Movies that most get me into the spirit of the season: Movie Reviews read more