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Warner Archive: Brian Donlevy, Robert Walker and the True Story of the Atomic Bomb
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 2, 2015
This is the story of how the atom bomb was developed--with allowances for dramatic effect and national security of course. A triumph of science which led to unfathomable destruction. MGM faced a delicate task in telling this story. As expected, it contains a heavy dose of propaganda, but the tale i read more
Quote of the Week: Orson Welles on the Movies
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 1, 2015
The trouble with movies today...is that all of us are too much in love with them and there's no damn cure for it.
-Orson Welles, 1981
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Warner Archive: Christopher Plummer's First Leading Role in Wind Across The Everglades (1958)
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Oct 30, 2015
In his second film role and first lead, Christopher Plummer faces off against Burl Ives in the Florida-set Wind Across the Everglades. Fascinating location shooting and an unusual cast add interest to this unusual, rambling drama, now available on DVD from Warner Archive.
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Book Review--The Ice Cream Blonde: The Whirlwind Life and Mysterious Death of Screwball Comedienne Thelma Todd
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Oct 28, 2015
The Ice Cream Blonde: The Whirlwind Life and Mysterious Death of Screwball Comedienne Thelma Todd
Chicago Review Press
Michelle Morgan, 2015
Available November 1
It's always complicated to explore the lives of stars who die young. For all they had to offer the world, actresses like Sharon Tate, Jea read more
Warner Archive: Ann Sothern and Zachary Scott in the Thriller Shadow on the Wall (1949)
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Oct 26, 2015
I have adored actress Gigi Perreau ever since I saw her remarkable performance in a bit part for Enchantment (1948). She played an orphaned girl (who would incidentally grow up to be Teresa Wright) and her ability to project heartbreak, courage and charm with just a few words both touched and impres read more
Quote of the Week: Clark Gable on Carole Lombard
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Oct 25, 2015
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Sometimes I wonder how Carole would take things the way they are today, and I always come up with the same answer–with a laugh. She’d get through it better than me.
- Clark Gable,in the fifties
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Warner Archive: Helen Hayes in a Pair of Pre-Codes
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Oct 20, 2015
In her short Hollywood career, Helen Hayes was an unusual screen presence. Though the tiny actress was understated, placid and almost entirely lacking in glamour, she was also quietly powerful, and always exuded unassuming confidence. Though she would ultimately win two Academy Awards, Haye's s read more
Warner Archive: William Powell and a Land-Bound Esther Williams in The Hoodlum Saint (1946)
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Oct 9, 2015
William Powell, Esther Williams and Angela Lansbury in a love triangle. Who thought up that one? I love all three of them, but I'd never put them together. It was this curious casting that led me to The Hoodlum Saint, now on DVD from Warner Archive.
Set in the years after World War I, Powell is Ter read more
Book Review--Keepers: The Greatest Films--and Personal Favorites--of a Moviegoing Lifetime
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Oct 7, 2015
Keepers: The Greatest Films--and Personal Favorites--of a Moviegoing Lifetime
Richard Schickel
2015, Alfred A. Knopf
I hadn't intended on reviewing Richard Schickel's recent book, in which he reminisces about favorite movies he's seen over the years. However, by the time I'd read a few chapters, I read more
Warner Archive: In Murder, My Sweet, Dick Powell Takes a Beating on Blu-ray (1944)
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Oct 5, 2015
Murder, My Sweet will never sparkle on the screen. It's made of muck and sleaze, and it'll stay that way, but it is darkly grand in a sharp new Blu-ray release from Warner Archive.
This quintessential film noir was crooner Dick Powell's stab at another screen life. He knew he was getting too loose read more
Warner Archive: Gene Kelly Dances in Television Extravaganza Jack and the Beanstalk (1967)
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Oct 2, 2015
Eight-year-old Bobby Riha and Gene Kelly are a charming pair in the 1967 Hanna-Barbara television production of Jack and the Beanstalk, now available on DVD from Warner Archive.
This animation and live action hybrid musical features high spirited dance numbers and pleasing, if not especially memora read more
Book Review--The First King of Hollywood: Douglas Fairbanks
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Sep 30, 2015
The First King of Hollywood: The Life of Douglas Fairbanks
Tracey Goessel
2015
Gatsby on a jungle gym.
-Critic Michael Sragow, about Fairbanks
In an epic new biography, pioneering film star Douglas Fairbanks finally gets an in depth exploration of his eventful life. This entertaining book is heavy read more
Book Review--I Lost it at the Video Store: A Filmmakers' Oral History of a Vanished Era
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Sep 24, 2015
I Lost it at the Video Store: A Filmmakers' Oral History of a Vanished Era
Tom Roston
The Critical Press, 2015
What video stores and the proliferation of videos did was to democratize access to movies and film history.
-Tim Blake Nelson
There were once video stores I'd gone to so often that I'd me read more
Quote of the Week: Sophia Loren
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Sep 20, 2015
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I often feel as young as I did back then….aging can even be fun if you know how to spend your days, if you're satisfied with what you've achieved, and you're still curious about the world around you.
-Sophia Loren
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Book Review--Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die: James Dean's Final Hours
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Sep 15, 2015
James Dean Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die
Keith Elliot Greenberg
Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, 2015
The cult of James Dean has endured decades longer than his life, which barely extended into adulthood. His short, but eventful twenty-four years have been the subject of endless analysis a read more
Warner Archive: The Lighter Side of Kay Francis in The Feminine Touch (1941)
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Sep 11, 2015
After all melodrama I sniffled through in the pair of Francis flicks I reviewed earlier in the week, I needed something lighter, and I got it with The Feminine Touch. Francis takes a supporting role in this comedy about jealousy in romantic relationships now available on DVD from Warner Archive.
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Warner Archive: Kay Francis in I Found Stella Parish (1935) and Confession (1937)
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Sep 9, 2015
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There is no movie genre that makes me ugly cry more profusely than the maternal sacrifice melodrama. Perhaps Barbara Stanwyck has played the most famous of these mothers in Stella Dallas (1937), where she stood in the rain, an outcast, looking through the window at her daughter's wedding, e read more
Warner Archive: Three Talkies Starring John Gilbert
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Aug 26, 2015
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The legend that silent film star John Gilbert's voice did not record well on film is one of the most notorious in Hollywood history. It has always overshadowed what was in fact an admirable career in both silents and talkies.
However, in the decades since his decline, the Gilbert's read more
Book Review--The Making of The Other Side of the Wind: Orson Welles's Last Movie
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Aug 18, 2015
Orson Welles began filming The Other Side of the Wind in 1970. He died fifteen years later, the film incomplete. It was to be his masterpiece, as important to him as Citizen Kane (1941), if not more so. The Making of The Other Side of the Wind, reveals the whole fascinating, frustrating story of its read more
Summer Under the Stars--Ann-Margret: My Story
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Aug 13, 2015
This post is my contribution to the Summer Under the Stars blogathon, hosted by the brilliant Kristen at Journeys in Classic Film.
When announcements about special guests for TCM Classic Film Festival 2015 begin trickling out, one of the most squeal-worthy for me was that Ann-Margret would make be read more