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Holy Moly Discovery: The Searchers (1956) The glorious red, white, and blue colour scheme that is present throughout the film. Holy moly folks. HOLY MOLY! If you've read my previous post detailing my new admiration for the western movie genre, you'll know that I asked you, my readers, to r read more

TCM's 'Summer Under the Stars' so far ... There are a couple things I've learned so far from watching TCM's annual Summer Under the Stars (SUTS) festival: I kinda like westerns, I'm a bit disappointed that I didn't enjoy Min and Bill (1930) as much as I thought I would, and I really love lookin read more

Breaking News: I *heart* westerns! Henry Fonda AND Gene Tierney?! I'm sold! Right! So, here's the thing ... Not too long ago I said that I couldn't stand watching westerns. I had always avoided them like the plague because the few times that I had tried watching a western film or two, they read more

Holy Moly Discovery: From Here To Eternity (1953) A sweaty Montgomery Clift digs for his dinner. Welcome to the very first "Holy Moly Discovery" post! I created this tag line to introduce you to films that have really had an OMG!-impact on me. The first of which is one of the films I watche read more

Film Fave: The Big Sleep (1946) Humphrey Bogart supports the delicious Martha Vickers. The last time I watched The Big Sleep (1946) was on Thursday August 1, 2013. This is one of my all-time favourite classic films so I try to watch it at least once every three to four months. Quite frankly read more

TCM's Summer Under the Stars 2013 Summer Under the Stars 2012: One of the days I was most excited about last year! There are three months out of the year that I eagerly await on TCM: February, August, and December. Fans and avid watchers of TCM will know why, but if you're wondering, here a read more

Weekend Movie Re-cap: Carole Lombard Marathon Carole Lombard in all her glory (& many feathers). I had a little bit of a Carole Lombard move marathon this past weekend! I wasn't in the best of moods owing to the fact that a pesky migraine refused to subside for much of Saturday and Sund read more

The wedding dress that I've always wanted! Claudette Colbert & Walter Connolly star in It Happened One Night (1934). From the moment I saw Claudette Colbert emerge on screen wearing her silk wedding dress in It Happened One Night (1934) I knew right then and there that I had found my ow read more

A one-sided affair! Yes, this post is about the wonderful, captivating Claudette Colbert. But, more importantly, did you notice anything about the pictures I posted? Come on, think hard. Yup! You got it! Colbert liked to have only the left side of her face photographed in both studio s read more

Barbara Stanwyck Blogathon: Sparkle & Shine Sometimes a girl just needs a little sparkle in her life. Enter Barbara Stanwyck in Ball Of Fire (1941), wearing one of the most memorable costumes in Hollywood history (yes, that's right, you've guessed it) - Barbara Stanwyck as Sugarpuss O'Shea read more

Dynamic Duos in Classic Film Blogathon: Cooper & Stanwyck "We're sexy and we know it." Although Barbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper made only two films together - Ball of Fire and Meet John Doe (both released in 1941) - they're one of my all-time favourite screen teams. I could sit here and w read more

Happy Independence Day! Hope all of my American readers have a fantastic July 4th long weekend! Party hard and stay safe everyone! Enjoy! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! Rita-Hayworth-style! Written by Vanessa Buttino at 7:16 AM Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Face read more

Happy Canada Day! Wishing all of my fellow Canadians a very happy and safe Canada Day! I'm afraid it's back to work tomorrow, sadly :( Norma Shearer born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1902. Written by Vanessa Buttino at 4:56 PM Email ThisBlogThis!Share to Twitte read more

The demise of Google Reader! I've asked Joan Blondell to man the phones for me :D Just a quick note to you all about the end of Google Reader: see that handy little "Followers" widget on the right-hand side of my blog? Well, that'll disappear come July 1st (tomorrow - eep!), so those of y read more

Funny Lady Blogathon: Una Merkel Wide eyes + button nose + pert mouth = the cutest face you ever did see. I have never laughed so hard whilst watching a classic film as I did at Una Merkel's wisecracks in Warner Brothers' backstage musical 42nd Street (1933). In between bouts of laughter, read more

Stardust Spotlight: Gary Cooper Let me tell you why I love Gary Cooper so much. Ummmm ... I think we should all stop and stare for a few minutes. Now, his name has been bandied about on my blog numerous times - enough for you all to think I'm slightly obsessed with the man, which I am read more

How we react to the death of a beloved star The unexpected and very tragic death of actor James Gandolfini on June 19, 2013 got me thinking about something: if I had been alive during the passing of stars like Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, or Humphrey Bogart how would I have felt? Better stil read more

Lovely to look at: Loretta Young Seriously? I could look at Loretta Young all freaking day. It's that face. Those eyes. Those cheekbones. Her lips. Who are some of the stars you find lovely to look at? Tell me in the comments section below! Written by Vaness read more

Stardust Spotlight: Never Gonna Dance from Swing Time (1936) Good God, I've never seen anything more beautiful than this: The first time I watched Swing Time (1936) was back when I was in high school. I was probably 17 years old and I had just discovered Fred and Ginger. Prior to his, I read more

Weekend Movie Recap! Another weekend, another great line-up of classic films! Never in my life have I watched so many (new-to-me) classics in a row as I have within the past month! It's been one heck of a ride, let me tell you. I've been DVRing and buying off of Amazon like crazy (bad Vanes read more