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Classic Movie Gift Guides
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Dec 20, 2011
A few classic movie bloggers posted great gift guides this year. I thought I’d gather them together for last minute shopping ideas:
Immortal Ephemera
Frankly My Dear
Out of the Past
This one is awfully cute:
Via Margutta 51
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Dec 19, 2011
I’ve already shared this on Twitter, but I wanted to make sure you all saw the wonderful story of Louis Armstrong’s first Christmas Tree. He was 40 when he got it!—
Mental Floss
This is an adorable gallery of actresses in holiday outfits. Some of those promo shots are so silly! read more
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Dec 18, 2011
There, but for the grace of God, goes God
-Herman Mankiewicz, about Orson Welles
My personality is that of an egotisical adventurer
-Orson Welles
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Dec 16, 2011
The auction of Elizabeth Taylor’s jewels and clothing broke records. That second link is a gallery of some of the amazing things that were sold—
MSN Entertainment,
The Guardian
At least Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law will not be in a remake of Some Like it Hot. Hopefully the whole thi read more
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Dec 14, 2011
It’s that TCM Remembers time of year. Sniff (via Laura’s Miscellaneous Musings )
Tomorrow on TCM there will be a 24-hour festival of movies preserved by the George Eastman House, including a rarely-seen Kubrick flick making its television debut--
Criterion Cast
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Dec 13, 2011
Van Heflin (1910-1971)
Dick Van Dyke (86)
Larry Parks (1914-1975)
Lillian Roth (1910-1980)
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Dec 12, 2011
This is a fascinating interview with Lizabeth Scott, recorded in 1996. She is so grand that she essentially performs her answers, and yet she is down-to-earth as well--
YouTube
(via The Night Editor)
Shirley Maclaine remembers Elizabeth Taylor. I never realized they were friends, but I can see ho read more
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Dec 11, 2011
First picture I've ever seen in which the male lead has bigger tits than the female.
-Groucho Marx, about Samson and Delilah (1949, Starring Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Dec 9, 2011
RIP Harry Morgan. Out of everything he did, I was most touched by his wordless performance in Moonrise (1948). Here's a few interesting facts about his life—
Mental Floss
This Claudia Cardinale interview made me grin several times. She tells so many great stories--
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Dec 7, 2011
RIP Dev Anand, early Bollywood matinee idol. I loved him best in Jewel Thief (1967)--
The Guardian Tribute, Obituary
This is a tough, but interesting movie quiz. It’s part of the promotion for a fascinating PBS documentary that I’ll be previewing in a couple of weeks—
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Dec 5, 2011
Grace Moore (1898-1947)
Otto Preminger (1906-1986)
Emeric Pressburger (1902-1988)
Walt Disney (1901-1966)
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Dec 5, 2011
I’ve never been interested in jewelry, but something about Elizabeth Taylor’s collection fascinates me. Maybe it’s the passion she had for collecting them or the gaudy size of so many of the jewels. She had such lovely dresses too. I love her yellow wedding dress--
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Dec 4, 2011
I am a wife-made man.
-Danny Kaye
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Dec 4, 2011
Deanna Durbin (90)
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Dec 2, 2011
This story about a man meeting his childhood crush Jane Powell gave me a perma-grin-- The Guardian
R.I.P. Judy Lewis, the once secret love child of Loretta Young and Clark Gable, though inheriting her father’s ears made it a very poorly-kept secret. Her autobiography was very well writte read more
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Dec 2, 2011
Warren William (1894-1948)
Julie Harris (86)
Ray Walston (1914-2001)
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 30, 2011
This is a beautiful tribute to Robert Osborne. It's great that he is back!--
Noir Girl
Another great tribute, this one to Kay Francis. Lots of lovely pics-- A Person in the Dark
Shopping and department stores as mythologized by the movies--
Movie Morlocks/TCM
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 28, 2011
I love the way Anna Kendrick writes about her experiences watching The Women (1939)--
The Guardian
This interesting post has lots of scans of an issue of Screen Book from 1929. It features Broadway Melody--
Allure
A review of 7th Heaven (1927), one of the swooniest movies ever.--
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 27, 2011
I felt like an impostor, taking all that money for reciting ten or twelve lines of nonsense a day.
-Errol Flynn
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 25, 2011
Ricardo Montalban (1920-2009)
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