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I Live My Life
MacGuffin Movies Posted by RBuccicone on Dec 19, 2011
I Live My Life (1935) Over the past couple of years I have absorbed A LOT of Joan Crawford movies. I tend to DVR them any chance I get, which has led me through an array of great and mediocre flicks. What I have observed in many of her basic romance plots is that the woman often plays the read more
The Fighting 69th
MacGuffin Movies Posted by RBuccicone on Dec 16, 2011
The Fighting 69th (1940) One of the reasons I started blogging about the classic movies I am constantly watching is because I tend to forget what I have seen. Often movie titles reveal little about a movie’s actual plot and many of the scenarios blend together to the point that I found read more
Feature: Name that Movie Poster 3
MacGuffin Movies Posted by RBuccicone on Dec 13, 2011
Welcome to the third installment of Name that Movie Poster. Can you guess what movie the poster advertised despite my having concealed its title and key players’ names? If you cannot guess off the bat, tell me the quiz is too hard and I’ll give you a hint. To see if your skills of deduc read more
Feature: 6 Degrees of Separation
MacGuffin Movies Posted by RBuccicone on Dec 9, 2011
Olivia de Havilland Judy Garland Certain members of the Classic Movie Blog Association are engaging in a game of classic actor Six Degrees of Separation by which we try to connect two seemingly unconnected stars through the other actors they have worked with (think of the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon read more
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
MacGuffin Movies Posted by RBuccicone on Dec 7, 2011
My favorite women are those beautiful stars who make me laugh. These actresses seemed to be drawn to co-starring with the enduringly funny William Powell just as much as I am drawn to them. Myrna Loy made an endless number of features opposite Powell and Carole Lombard starred with and married read more
Night at the Opera
MacGuffin Movies Posted by RBuccicone on Dec 6, 2011
I must not be most people because “most people” find A Night at the Opera to be the best Marx Bros. movie. Although I concede this MGM-produced picture is more accessible than the men’s Paramount-produced movies, I like the the zanier nonsense plots than I do this normal read more
I Walked with a Zombie
MacGuffin Movies Posted by RBuccicone on Dec 5, 2011
Sometimes the best films result from the most undesirable circumstances. One could say this is true of Alfred Hitchcock‘s many films that were created under the restrictions of a tight Production Code and producer oversight. That can also be said of I Walked with a Zombie. Director Jacqu read more
Final Tribute & Brush Roper
MacGuffin Movies Posted by RBuccicone on Dec 1, 2011
My latest foray into the 1955-56 television series Screen Directors Playhouse involved a rather pointless drama and decent, if not annoying, comedy. In The Final Tribute Larraine Day as small-town nurse Joyce Carter narrates the story of the new doctor in town. This Dr. Kent (Dan O’Herli read more
Feature: Name that Movie Poster 2
MacGuffin Movies Posted by RBuccicone on Nov 29, 2011
Welcome to the second installment of Name that Movie Poster. Can you guess what movie the poster advertised despite my having concealed its title and key players’ names? If you cannot guess off the bat, tell me the quiz is too hard and I’ll give you a hint. To see if your skills of dedu read more
Ziegfeld Girl
MacGuffin Movies Posted by RBuccicone on Nov 28, 2011
Ziegfeld Girl (1941) Lana, Hedy and Judy Filed under: Comedy, Musical, Romance Tagged: | Charles Winninger, Gasser, Hedy Lamarr, Jackie Cooper, Jimmy Stewart, Judy Garland, Lana Turner, Louis B Mayer, Philip Dorn, Robert Leonard read more
Hot Cargo & The Titanic Incident
MacGuffin Movies Posted by RBuccicone on Nov 25, 2011
Sex and contraband. That’s the way to get ahead in “the Orient”, according to a January 1956 episode of the Screen Directors Playhouse, Hot Cargo. Yvonne De Carlo is Pearl, a bar waitress who deals with the advances of drunken men when her ship captain husband is away transporting read more
The Scarlet Empress (1)
MacGuffin Movies Posted by RBuccicone on Nov 24, 2011
The Scarlet Empress (1934) If there ever was a woman to play the ruthless empress of Russia, Catherine the Great, it would be Marlene Dietrich. Much of The Scarlet Empress, however, is marked by the rather innocent time in the young royal’s life, which brings out a delightful side of Dietrich read more
What to Watch Thanksgiving: Musicals
MacGuffin Movies Posted by RBuccicone on Nov 23, 2011
Musicals tend to be very family friendly fare, which is possibly why Turner Classic Movies has sprinkled several throughout the day and night Thursday, Thanksgiving Day. At the top of my list is Judy Garland‘s great Meet Me in St. Louis. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) I feel like the plot of thi read more
Feature: Name that Movie Poster
MacGuffin Movies Posted by RBuccicone on Nov 22, 2011
Everyone likes to be quizzed on their movie expertise and I think that is especially true for we classic movie buffs. To that end, I am creating a new recurring game: Name that Movie Poster. I will provide for you an edited movie poster that has both the title and the credits removed from it. Quiz read more
Forsaking All Others
MacGuffin Movies Posted by RBuccicone on Nov 21, 2011
Forsaking All Others (1934) I think we all remember Joan Crawford for the roles in which she played commanding women, perhaps because she was one off screen, but when she was still fiddling about with basic romantic comedies, she was not foreign to the lovesick-gal-chasing-after-a-lover-type read more
Feature: Stop the Presses — Police reopen Natalie Wood drowning case
MacGuffin Movies Posted by RBuccicone on Nov 18, 2011
The Associated Press reported this morning that the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office will reconsider the death of Natalie Wood whose drowning in 1981 that was originally ruled accidental. The star’s death off the coast of southern California while yachting at night with husband Rober read more
Matchmaking Mama
MacGuffin Movies Posted by RBuccicone on Nov 5, 2011
Matchmaking Mama (1929) Carole Lombard made probably just as many or more silent movies and shorts as she did talkies, but unfortunately, the hilarity in Matchmaking Mama has nothing to do with her role. This short subject features Lombard as a socialite with an eye for men, any men. Her mother (Da read more
Mabel’s Married Life & Face on the Barroom Floor
MacGuffin Movies Posted by RBuccicone on Nov 4, 2011
Mabel’s Married Life (1914) Life is rough for the Tramp, but perhaps some of his follies can be blamed on his excessive drinking. Charlie Chaplin in his first year making movies subjected his star character to a lot of bar time. In the short Mabel’s Married Life, Chaplin collaborated wi read more
The Haunted House (Buster Keaton)
MacGuffin Movies Posted by RBuccicone on Nov 3, 2011
The Haunted House (1921) If you need a criminal hideout, what better place to set up than a “haunted house”? At least that’s what a gang of baddies think in The Haunted House short silent film. Buster Keaton is a bank teller, and I think we can say right off that this is read more
What to Watch — Nov. 16: Nothing Sacred
MacGuffin Movies Posted by RBuccicone on Nov 2, 2011
Turner Classic Movies will air a new Technicolor print of the Carole Lombard vehicle Nothing Sacred Nov. 16 as part of the month’s tribute to blonde actresses. The version TCM has been airing has been a rather grainy version, the color on which looks more like a black and white film that has read more