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Caftan Woman's Choice: One for November on TCM
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Nov 2, 2012
In November, TCM is featuring many of the movies based on popular literary classics under the heading of "Great Adaptations". Tucked away in the schedule is The Little Princess starring Shirley Temple.
My girlhood copy of Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess or Sara Crewe was from th read more
The Val Lewton Blogathon: The 7th Victim
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Oct 31, 2012
"In case of emergency I'm grabbing the Val Lewton box set. The cats can fend for themselves." - Caftan Woman
Producer/writer Val Lewton ran his own B unit at RKO Studios for four years from 1942 to 1946 and left movie fans a slate of interesting and entertaining movies such as The Cat Pe read more
The Mummy in the Window
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Oct 26, 2012
Decorating with Boris
Whew! As the above picture indicates I have at long last completed the arduous task of decorating the old homestead for Hallowe'en.
My other scary tradition is to blare my big band albums while answering the door which has the effect of horrifying the should-ha read more
Favourite movies: Quartet (2012)
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Oct 12, 2012
Dustin Hoffman
Last month filmmakers and fans enjoyed another successful go round of the Toronto International Film Festivall (tiff). My sister Maureen aka Twitter's @missmccrocodile is a veteran Festival attendee. Her photographs of the annual event impart some of the excitemen read more
Caftan Woman's Choice: One for October on TCM
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Oct 2, 2012
By gum, this is a movie for the ages! Harold Brighouse's popular play Hobson's Choice as well as being continually produced since 1915, has been presented on screen many times. It is a winning play with memorable characters. The 1954 film directed by David Lean is a gem.
Henry H read more
What a Character! Blogathon: Canadian Edition, Miss Lucile Watson and Miss Maude Eburne
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Sep 23, 2012
Lucile Watson
May 27, 1879 - June 24, 1962
Quebec City, the historic French settlement, trading post and sometime capitol of New France and Lower Canada, was the birthplace of Rosine Mary Lucile Watson on May 27, 1879. Educated in one of the predominantly Catholic province's many convent s read more
Caftan Woman's Choice: One for September on TCM
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Sep 3, 2012
During my formative years as a credit reading television viewer one name above all stood for quality - Fielder Cook. The director of such classic TV movies as Earl Hamner's The Homecoming: A Christmas Story, Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys, A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story, read more
The Case of the Vacuous Victim or Caftan Woman vs. Garbage Truck Part II
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Aug 27, 2012
A long time ago - 10 months to be exact - at an intersection not far from here, some of you may recall my run-in with a garbage truck. Physically, the fracture of my nose is but a slight bump that doesn't give me any character at all. I have a few "Sailor Moon" scars on my forehead. read more
Classic Movie Blog Association Gene Kelly Centennial Blogathon: Black Hand (1950)
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Aug 21, 2012
The promotional material for MGMs 1950 release Black Hand
trumpeted Gene Kelly as “Sensational in his first great dramatic role”. The studio’s publicity department must have
forgotten Gene as the determined POW in 1943s The Cross of Lorraine. Perhaps they overlooked his read more
Broadway to Hollywood: Chaney, Huston and "Kongo"
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Aug 14, 2012
It's been quite a while since this blog has looked at the twists and turns of casting from Broadway to Hollywood. A recent screening on TCM of Tod Browning's 1928 thriller West of Zanzibar prompted this look at a two extraordinary actors.
Lon Chaney
April 1, 1883 - August 26, 1930
Lon read more
Caftan Woman's Choice: One for August on TCM
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Aug 3, 2012
Vacation From Marriage aka Perfect Strangers is a 1945 Academy Award Winner directed by Alexander Korda. The movie is based on a story by Clemence Dane, the British author born Winifred Ashton who took her pseudonym from the London church St. Clement Danes. Her popular works include Regi read more
Better Parenting Through Movies
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Jul 25, 2012
Janet and Gavin
The UK paper The Telegraph published a piece about the top ten films children must see before they are 9-1/2.
"The line-up, compiled by child psychologist Dr Kairen Cullen, was based not
only on entertainment value, but also the films' moral themes in order to
teac read more
I Love to Laugh!
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Jul 16, 2012
"I thought you said you were watching a silent movie!" My husband likes to shout that to me in the TV room when I'm raucously enjoying a comedy from the 1920s. While he is a fellow that likes to laugh, my sweetie isn't a huge fan of slapstick, and that is his prevailing image of silent c read more
The Best Hitchcock Films Hitchcock Never Made Blogathon: Experiment in Terror (1962)
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Jul 9, 2012
Suspense!
Thrills! A lovely and resourceful
heroine. A beautiful city location that
becomes a character. A familiar director
and composer combination. An intriguing
villain. An ordinary setting made
frightening. Sounds like a Hitchcock
film to me, but itR read more
Caftan Woman's Choice: One for July on TCM
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Jul 1, 2012
Ever since the beginning of Hollywood, the actual location or state of mind, Hollywood has enjoyed giving us an insider's view of itself. Sometimes heartbreaking as in the various versions of A Star is Born. Sometimes in the vein of an expose as in 1957s Four Girls in Town or 1952s The B read more
William Wyler Blogathon: Dead End (1937)
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Jun 26, 2012
Dead End: an end of a
road or passage from which no exit is possible
Pulitzer Prize winning playwright (Men in White) Sidney
Kingsley’s Dead End was a Broadway triumph in 1935-37 seasons running for 687
performances. Producer Samuel Goldwyn
paid $165,000 for t read more
Richard Conte, King of Noir
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Jun 19, 2012
Richard Conte
1910 - 1975
Nobility was born in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1910 when Richard Nicholas Peter Conte was born. The one time truck driver and singing waiter studied at the famed Neighborhood Playhouse. In 1939 Nicholas Conte made his Broadway debut in the short run Group read more
Caftan Woman's Choice: One for June on TCM
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on Jun 1, 2012
John Ford's 1948 epic Fort Apache is based on the short story Massacre by James Warner Bellah with a screenplay by Frank Nugent. Tremendous research went into this post-war production with its cavalry setting and myriad of characters. Following his experiences in WW2 director Ford felt a read more
Horseathon: Charlie Chan at the Race Track (1936)
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on May 27, 2012
Not a wholesome trottin' race, no!But a race where they sit down right on the horse!Like to see some stuck-up jockey boy settin' on Dan PatchMake your blood boil, well I should say.
Trouble, The Music Man
by Meredith Willson
"Professor" Harold Hill touched a nerve in his Iowan marks who did not read more
Favourite movies: The Italian Straw Hat (1928)
Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on May 17, 2012
Albert Prejean
Un chapeau de paille d'Italie was a very successful 1851 play written by Eugene Labiche and Marc Michel. Labiche's family had intended for him to follow a career in law, but in his heart he was an author and, with the blessing of his wife, he followed his heart to succes read more