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Monday Serenade: Lena Horne
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Aug 3, 2009
It surprises me that the musical Words and Music (1948) is not more beloved. The pace may be a bit draggy, but it’s an amazing showcase for an impressive group of performers, including: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, and Cyd Charisse. I am particularly fond of this rendition of Where read more
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Aug 3, 2009
Harold Lloyd gets the star treatment on TCM--The Kitty Packard PictorialA fabulous gallery of classic actresses in sunglasses—Classic Hollywood NerdJohn Barrymore: sweet prince of irony—Bright Lights Film Journal1960: another great movie year—David BordwellA Captain Blood remake. . read more
Quote of the Week (307)
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Aug 2, 2009
Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.-Lucille BallImage Source read more
Saturday Morning Cartoon: Balloon Land (1935)
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Aug 1, 2009
The air-filled inhabitants of balloon land battle the pin cushion man in this delightfully bizarre Ub Iwerks cartoon. read more
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Jul 31, 2009
Belafonte blazed a trail with Odds Against Tomorrow--Sun TimesTo the motion picture production code on its 75th birthday—Green CineThe Red Shoes: restored and resplendent—The Kitty Packard PictorialCowgirl Virginia Carroll dead at 95—IMDBImage source read more
Three Pre-code Musicals
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Jul 30, 2009
If you enjoyed the six pre-code musicals on TCM yesterday, I have a few more to suggest:42nd Street (1933)This essential Busby Berkeley-choreographed extravaganza was filmed the same year as Gold Diggers of 1933 and Footlight Parade. Ruby Keeler is the ingénue who becomes a star overnight, read more
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Jul 30, 2009
TCM’s ‘Summer Under the Stars’ Begins—About.comThe elements of movie-watching: from Kinotescope to broadband-AMC BlogHere’s an interesting post about The Trial of Mary Dugan (1929)—Talkie King read more
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Jul 29, 2009
Stars with pluck—Big HollywoodBigger than cinema: Nicholas Ray—The FilmLinc Blog70 years ago in Oscar history: hello Mr. Chips--LA TimesI love this picture of Audrey Hepburn with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis—Coolness is TimelessMadame Tussauds is coming to Hollywood—BookFHR.co read more
TV Tuesday: James Cagney and Pat O'Brien
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Jul 28, 2009
In this excerpt from a 1981 interview on the BBC talk show Parkinson, Pat O'Brien is moved to tears as he discusses his 55-year friendship with James Cagney. I love how O'Brien holds Cagney's hand. The obviously deep affection between the two is incredibly moving. read more
Monday Serenade: Bette Davis
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Jul 27, 2009
I love this simultaneously awful and adorable clip of Bette Davis singing What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? on The Andy Williams Show in 1962. She just bludgeons the song, which is pretty goofy in the first place, but her enthusiasm and lack of self-consciousness are incredibly endearing. In read more
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Jul 27, 2009
Some Like it Hot turning 50 at The Del—About.comGreat gallery of screen couples—Trouble in ParadiseI’m No Angel: Ain’t it the Truth—Classic Movies DigestImage Source read more
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Jul 26, 2009
The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.-Charlie ChaplinImage Source read more
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Jul 26, 2009
Katharine Hepburn and Kent State—Gratuitous ViolinsPhilip French’s screen legends: Margaret Rutherford—The GuardianThe Wizard of Oz at 70—The GuardianImage Source read more
Saturday Morning Cartoon: Monkey Melodies (1930)
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Jul 25, 2009
Monkeys frolic in the jungle in this light-hearted Silly Symphony cartoon from Disney. The tune the birds sing in the beginning is Monkey and Chimp (Abba Dabba Dabba). Check out the lyrics:Way down in the congo land sitting in a coconut tree,there was a monkey and a chimp--and Lordy how she read more
The Often-Imitated Carmen Miranda
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Jul 23, 2009
Carmen Miranda, the Brazillian Bombshell: unique, vivacious and topped with fruit. She is best known for being a giddily cheerful representative of Brazil in a series of colorful Fox Studios musicals in the 1940’s. Though Miranda was often second banana to stars like Alice Faye and Betty Grabl read more
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Jul 23, 2009
Richard Burton: in from the cold—The IndependentWhere in the world is M. Hulot?—David BordwellPolice seize 'La Dolce Vita' cafe for Mafia tiesAssociated PressTarzan actress Brenda Joyce dies—IMDB read more
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Jul 21, 2009
Review of David Niven biography—Independent.ieKatharine Hepburn’s journals—Pauls Valley Daily DemocratThe Gone With the Wind museum—The StateCecil Beaton sketches become fabrics and wallpaper (beautiful pictures!)--If It's Hip It's HereContemporary art group to remake 60s cla read more
Monday Serenade: Helen Morgan
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Jul 20, 2009
Piano sitter and sad-eyed 1920-30’s singing sensation Helen Morgan sings her classic torch song The Little Things You Used to Do in the 1935 musical Go Into Your Dance. Stars Ruby Keeler and Al Jolson also appear in the clip. read more
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Classic Movies Posted by KC on Jul 20, 2009
Sherlock Holmes’s staying power-The Boston GlobeEd White, Jimmy Stewart among aviation inductees—Associated PressAldrin hosts TCM tribute to first lunar landing—Seattle TimesStarlet Dreams: Irene Ware—Silents and TalkiesHollywood starts pajama vogue—Hollywood HeydayAnit read more
Le Voyage Dans la Lune (1902)
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Jul 20, 2009
As we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing today, don’t forget that Georges and Gaston Méliès filmed a trip to the moon over one hundred years ago! Loosely based on the novels From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne and The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells, read more