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If It's Tuesday, Then It Must Be Grace Kelly..a short story

All Good Things Posted by monty on Jan 22, 2013

Just a short little story about Grace on my weekly series dedicated to her. Now it takes awhile to get to Grace but bear with me. It was many years ago when I was in the army and stationed in Germany. I was age 22 and it was my first time away from home. My girlfriend back home, Amy had broken up w read more

Watch It: Road to Morocco (1942) (1)

Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on Jan 20, 2013

Road to Morocco is an 1942 American comedy film about two fast-talking guys tossed up on a desert shore and sold into slavery to a beautiful princess. The movie is the third of the “Road to …” films starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour, and also features Anthony Quinn and read more

Watch It: Road to Singapore (1940) (1)

Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on Jan 20, 2013

Road to Singapore is a 1940 American comedy film directed by Victor Schertzinger and starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour. Based on a story by Harry Hervey, the film is about two playboys trying to forget previous romances in Singapore, where they meet a beautiful woman. Distributed b read more

Watch It: Road to Bali (1952) (1)

Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on Jan 20, 2013

Road to Bali is a 1952 American comedy film directed by Hal Walker and starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour. Released by Paramount Pictures on November 1, 1952, the film is the sixth of the seven Road to … movies. It was the only such movie filmed in color and was the first to feature read more

Watch It: Road to Hong Kong (1962) (1)

Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on Jan 20, 2013

The Road to Hong Kong is a 1962 American comedy film directed by Norman Panama and starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Joan Collins. This was the last in the long-running Road to … series and the only episode not produced by Paramount Pictures, though reference to the other films in the series are read more

Watch It: Road to Morocco (1942) (2)

Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Jan 20, 2013

Road to Morocco is an 1942 American comedy film about two fast-talking guys tossed up on a desert shore and sold into slavery to a beautiful princess. The movie is the third of the “Road to …” films starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour, and also features Anthony Quinn and read more

Watch It: Road to Singapore (1940) (2)

Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Jan 20, 2013

Road to Singapore is a 1940 American comedy film directed by Victor Schertzinger and starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour. Based on a story by Harry Hervey, the film is about two playboys trying to forget previous romances in Singapore, where they meet a beautiful woman. Distributed b read more

Watch It: Road to Bali (1952) (2)

Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Jan 20, 2013

Road to Bali is a 1952 American comedy film directed by Hal Walker and starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour. Released by Paramount Pictures on November 1, 1952, the film is the sixth of the seven Road to … movies. It was the only such movie filmed in color and was the first to feature read more

Watch It: Road to Hong Kong (1962) (2)

Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Jan 20, 2013

The Road to Hong Kong is a 1962 American comedy film directed by Norman Panama and starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Joan Collins. This was the last in the long-running Road to … series and the only episode not produced by Paramount Pictures, though reference to the other films in the series are read more

Could it be a movie?: Stories from Ellery Queen’s (Part 2)

The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on Jan 15, 2013

Welcome to “Could it be a movie?,” a segment in which TMP reads stuff and tells you whether or not the written materials would make good movies. In this installment, we look at two stories from a 1979 issue of Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. “Early Warning” Who wrote i read more

Watch It: Fatty and Mabel Adrift (1916) (1)

Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on Jan 9, 2013

Fatty and Mabel Adrift was released on January 9, 1916 by Keystone. Arbuckle plays a naive farm boy marrying his sweetheart, Normand. The pair honeymoons – with Fatty’s dog Luke in tow – at a cottage on the seashore. At high tide that night, Fatty’s romantic rival, played by read more

Watch It: Fatty and Mabel Adrift (1916) (2)

Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Jan 9, 2013

Fatty and Mabel Adrift was released on January 9, 1916 by Keystone. Arbuckle plays a naive farm boy marrying his sweetheart, Normand. The pair honeymoons – with Fatty’s dog Luke in tow – at a cottage on the seashore. At high tide that night, Fatty’s romantic rival, played by read more

If It's Tuesday, Then It Must Be Grace Kelly (1)

All Good Things Posted by monty on Jan 8, 2013

Been awhile since I did a post on Grace Kelly for my Tuesday series, so here we go. And it's kind of a cross between this and another of my recurring series, By The Numbers. I just wanted to shed some light on how much love I have for Grace. With some numbers and stats. Posts written about Grac read more

"It may suit Hepburn to stay on to receive the applause of the multitudes. She is the egomaniac of all time and her whole life is devised to receive the standing ovation that she has had at the end of her great personality performance. As the play nears its end and she is sure of her success, she becomes raged, the years roll off

Please Go Away: A Katharine Hepburn Blog Posted by Amber S. on Jan 3, 2013

‘…Such a strange flower…’: Cecil Beaton on Katharine Hepburn in ‘Coco’ This excerpt is from Beaton’s personal diaries, which I highly recommend any lover of Old Hollywood read. As you can see here, Beaton did not like Kate AT ALL, but he also shot read more

Watch It: The Outlaw and His Wife (1918) (1)

Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on Jan 1, 2013

Happy new year to all! I know you’re feeling a little sluggish today and I just read that NetFlix is suffering outages! What’s a movie fan to do? Well, you can watch Victor Victor Sjöström’s The Outlaw and His Wife (1918). You may also know the film as Berg-Ejvind och hans hustru, read more

Watch It: The Outlaw and His Wife (1918) (2)

Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Jan 1, 2013

Happy new year to all! I know you’re feeling a little sluggish today and I just read that NetFlix is suffering outages! What’s a movie fan to do? Well, you can watch Victor Victor Sjöström’s The Outlaw and His Wife (1918). You may also know the film as Berg-Ejvind och hans hustru, read more

Les Misérables: I Dreamed A Dream, But This Wasn’t It

ScribeHard on Film Posted by ScribeHard on Dec 27, 2012

Prior to seeing Tom Hooper‘s Les Misérables, my knowledge of the source material could be written on a piece of paper the size fortune cookie fortune … and in cursive … with a crayon. That’s no exaggeration: Victor Hugo novel; big stage hit; France.  (As a slave to pop cultu read more

It will be Cary Grant vs. Cary Grant for favorite Screwball film

All Good Things Posted by monty on Dec 25, 2012

The two semi-final matches were very close but in the end, two Cary Grant films edged out two William Powell films to set up an all Cary Grant final match in the favorite screwball film tourney. Overall top seed Bringing Up Baby beat The Thin Man 13-10 while 2nd seed His Girl Friday slid by the oth read more

Could it be a movie?: John Cheever’s “The Enormous Radio”

The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on Dec 16, 2012

(Image: The Story Prize) Welcome to “Could it be a movie?,” a segment in which Lindsey reads stuff and tells you whether or not the written materials would make good movies. In this installment, we look at a great American short story by John Cheever. “The Enormous Radio” Who read more
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