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A New Christmas Memory
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Dec 11, 2013
Artistic Director Heather Dick formed the Sirius Theatrical Company in 1989 and, based in the Toronto neighbourhood of Mimico, the company produces plays and trains young and old to participate in the theatre. Last year I participated in a play writing workshop with the company in conjunction read more
CMBA Film Passion 101 Blogathon: Shane (1953)
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Dec 5, 2013
Award winning filmmaker and American Film Institute founder George Stevens Jr. was a teenager working for his father as a reader when he brought him Jack Schaefer's novel Shane as a film prospect. It was journalist Schaefer's first novel and it's a dandy. A western tale with the well-wor read more
Caftan Woman's Choice: One for December on TCM
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Dec 2, 2013
Perhaps you plan to have under your tree a box of chocolates for that unexpected guest or unplanned for gift exchange. It's not the most expensive candy touted in flashy ad campaigns, but familiar, satisfactory and gussied up for Christmas with a bow. TCM has such a box of treats waiting read more
The Baker's Song
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Nov 21, 2013
Fry's Cocoa smells like Christmas
Stir together flour, baking power, and salt in small bowl.
Vince Guaraldi on the stereo
Melt butter in a large saucepan. Remove from heat. Stir in cocoa.
Snow encrusted home-made woolen mittens
Blend in sugar, eggs, and v read more
What a Character! blogathon: Joyce Grenfell
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Nov 10, 2013
Joyce Grenfell
(1910 - 1979)
Looking back on the days when I trod the boards of community theatre,
those occasions where I got the part or at the very least got a
callback where the times when I used one of Joyce Grenfell's monologues
as an audition piece. Shaky though my accent gene read more
Caftan Woman's Choice: One for November on TCM
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Nov 1, 2013
Director Anthony Mann had the noir touch. It was evident in his early films such as Strangers in the Night, Two O'Clock Courage and The Great Flamarion, blossoming in the late 40s with T-Men, He Walked by Night and Side Street and highlighting his exemplary 50s westerns such as Winchester '73 read more
Favourite movies: Genevieve (1953)
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Oct 23, 2013
Genevieve is -
The best Ealing comedy not to come from that studio.
A quintessentially British film written by an American.
A film about motor cars whose leading man did not hold a driver's license.
A beloved classic that flopped at previews.
An Oscar nominated score whose composer's read more
The Great Imaginary Film Blogathon: Charlie Chan in Hollywood (1940)
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Oct 1, 2013
The Great Imaginary Film Blogathon hosted by Diana and Connie, the Metzinger Sisters, at Silver Scenes is underway. Classic film bloggers will never be accused of not having great imaginations! Check out the amazing movies that never were yet should have been.
CHARLIE CHAN IN HOLLYW read more
Caftan Woman's Choice: One for October on TCM
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Sep 29, 2013
What makes some movies, especially 1954s sci-fi classic Them! the type of film audiences can return to with no diminishing of pleasure? There is no shock value to the story by George Worthing Yates (The Tall Target, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers). First-run audiences would have read the r read more
Breaking News: Journalism in Classic Film Blogathon - Five Star Final (1931)
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Sep 21, 2013
Spoilers abound in this look at Warner Brothers Five Star Final for Breaking News: Journalism in Classic Film Blogathon sponsored by Comet Over Hollywood and Lindsay's Movie Musings.
Mervyn LeRoy
1900 - 1987
Mythologized, demonized, revered and lampooned, the gentlemen of the press make fo read more
Favourite movies: The Late George Apley (1947)
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Sep 13, 2013
John P. Marquand's popular Pulitzer prize-winning 1937 novel The Late George Apley skewered the pretentious upper class Bostonian of the early 20th century. The deceased fictional title character is given the biographical treatment by one of his Boston Brahmin peers and through that narrow len read more
Caftan Woman's Choice: One for September on TCM
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Sep 1, 2013
Odds Against Tomorrow was one of two films produced in 1959 by HarBel Productions, the other being the post-apocalyptic drama The World, the Flesh and the Devil.
Producer/actor/singer/activist Harry Belafonte stars in both highly
personal projects. Co-produced with the film's director read more
Caftan Woman's Choice: One for August on TCM
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Aug 1, 2013
MGMs fabled producer Hunt Stromberg (The Thin Man series, Pride and Prejudice, Ah, Wilderness!, etc.) returned to his independent filmmaker roots with 1943s Lady of Burlesque and for the next eight years gave us a number of nifty films we've enjoyed through the years (Too Late for Tears, Guest in th read more
Fiorello - 'Politics and Poker' - original Broadway version
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Jul 31, 2013
Fiorello!
Book by Jerome Weidman and George Abbott
Music by Jerry Bock and Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick
Directed by George Abbott and Choreography by Peter Gennaro
The show opened in November of 1959 and ran for 795 performances.
Tony awards
Best Musical
Best featured actor, Tom Bosley
Best directi read more
Barbara Stanwyck Blogathon: The Barbara Stanwyck Show (1960-61)
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Jul 18, 2013
Tonight, from Hollywood, The Barbara Stanwyck Show. After the announcement, Earle Hagen's dramatic and slightly melancholy theme begins and there she is, Miss Barbara Stanwyck, dressed to the nines in a gown from Werle. She smiles and welcomes us to the program, briefly outlining the epi read more
Me-TVs Summer of Classic TV Blogathon: My Three Sons
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Jul 15, 2013
This post is part of the Me-TVs Summer of Classic TV Blogathon hosted by the Classic TV Blog Association.
I could be having such fun with Me-TV because they are running My-Show, My Three Sons. The program ran from 1960 - 1972, that's 12 seasons of situation comedy shenanigans originally on read more
Dynamic Duos in Classic Movies blogathon: Roy Rogers & Dale Evans
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Jul 13, 2013
The Nerve of Some People is an adorable number from 1944s Lights of Old Santa Fe
that typifies the Roy Rogers - Dale Evans relationship in some 20
features made in the 40s for Republic Studios. The peppy song was
written by Jack Elliott, composer of such hits as Sam's Song, It's So Nice to read more
Caftan Woman's Choice: One for July on TCM
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Jul 2, 2013
My late father once told me "You have to watch Fritz Lang". I believe he meant that literally, but in recent years I've come to think of it as "you have to watch Fritz Lang because he's sneaky". Many of his films seem to tell a straight-forward story in a straight-forward way, but you'll read more
Funny Lady blogathon: Judy Holliday
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Jun 29, 2013
Judy Holliday
1921 - 1965
A baker's dozen of film performances and two bona-fide Broadway hits out of five shows does not seem the stuff of legend. When those film performances include one of the Academy's rare Best Actress Oscars for a comedic performance and the Broadway hit was a Tony read more
A Quarter of a Century!
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Jun 25, 2013
Dum-dee-dum-dum. It was Saturday, June 25, 1988. It was hot and hazy in Toronto. We were working the Marriage Watch out of St. Mark's United. The groom was Garry. I carried a bouquet. I was the bride. Dum-dee-dum-dum-dah.
Judge and Mrs. Hardy and childr read more