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TMP Recommends: Five Films on TCM, February 18 – 24
The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on Feb 17, 2015
Welcome to this week’s installment of TMP recommends! Here are five films you should keep an eye out for in the next seven days on TCM.
(Screen capture by Lindsey for TMP)
Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
Airing on TCM: February 19, 3:00 AM EST
Jack Lemmon gives one of his best dramatic performan read more
It’s Love Again (1936)
The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on Feb 16, 2015
Elaine Bradford (Jessie Matthews) is a talented young singer and dancer who is hoping her big break on the stage will come soon.
Elaine meets Peter Carlton (Robert Young), a gossip columnist who is also struggling in the work realm. He’s got a deadline to meet, and nothing at all written.
Pete read more
The Beloved Brat (1938)
The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on Feb 15, 2015
Roberta Morgan (Bonita Granville) is a spoiled girl from a rich family. Though she has every material thing she could want in the world, she’s very unhappy. Her dad (Donald Crisp) is busy with work, her mom (Natalie Moorhead) is busy with society life, and Roberta feels very alone.
As a result read more
Something to Sing About (1937)
The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on Feb 14, 2015
Terry Rooney (James Cagney) is working as a band leader in New York. He puts on unique performances in which he not only leads the band, but shows off his stellar dancing skills as they play.
Terry will be leaving the Big Apple behind to seek stardom in Hollywood. He has been invited to star in his read more
Young and Willing (1943)
The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on Feb 13, 2015
Six friends are sharing a New York City apartment. They’re all actors, struggling to find work. Three are men, and three are women: Norman Reese (William Holden), George Bodell (Eddie Bracken), Tony Dennison (James Brown — but not the James Brown), Marge Benson (Barbara Britton), Kate Be read more
Classic Quiz: Vol. 1
The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on Feb 12, 2015
Welcome to a new feature on TMP — the Classic Quiz! One of my favorite types of film book to collect is the trivia book, so I thought I’d begin sharing questions from the ones that I own. Each Classic Quiz will contain five questions, with the answers revealed at the beginning of the nex read more
Big Business Girl (1931)
The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on Feb 11, 2015
Claire “Mac” McIntyre (Loretta Young) is a smart woman — a State university graduate, with big dreams that go far beyond marrying and raising a family.
That doesn’t mean she can’t find love. She has found it, in fact, with Johnny Saunders (Frank Albertson). But when he& read more
TMP Recommends: Five Films on TCM, February 11 – 17
The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on Feb 10, 2015
It’s Tuesday, which means it’s time for another installment of “TMP Recommends,” the weekly series in which I share five films you should be watching on TCM over the next seven days. As always, the schedule is subject to change. These dates/times come from the US version of t read more
Haunted Honeymoon (1940)
The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on Feb 9, 2015
Lord Peter Wimsey (Robert Montgomery) has been working as a detective, but he’s planning to give up the business. He is marrying Harriet Vane (Constance Cummings), a crime novelist, and both of them have vowed to steer clear of society’s dark underbelly in the future.
(Image via Movie We read more
One year, one film: 1926 – The Scarlet Letter
The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on Feb 8, 2015
One year, one film: 1926
The film:
The Scarlet Letter, dir. Victor Sjostrom (credited as Victor Seastrom)
starring Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Henry B. Walthall, Karl Dane
Rating:
Recommended | Highly Recommended | MUST-SEE
(Image via moviegoods.com)
A wonderful contribution to the Gish Sisters Blog read more
Second looks: Rita Hayworth as ‘Miss Sadie Thompson’ (1953)
The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on Feb 7, 2015
World War II is coming to an end. At a South Pacific military base, Sgt. Phil O’Hara (Aldo Ray) and his cohorts — all members of the U.S. Marines — are waiting to be discharged.
While they wait, the men carry out a series of mundane tasks that are required of them during peacetime, read more
TMP Reads: Ava Gardner – The Secret Conversations
The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on Feb 6, 2015
It was either write a book or sell the jewels in order to make ends meet, and Ava Gardner chose to write a book.
But she couldn’t do it on her own. She hired Peter Evans to listen to stories of her life, and to ghostwrite the book for her.
In a series of lengthy interviews — some in pers read more
TMP Recommends: Five Films on TCM, February 4 – 10
The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on Feb 3, 2015
Welcome to this week’s installment of “TMP Recommends,” where I share five of the best flicks airing on TCM over the next seven days! There is a ton of good stuff playing this week, and it was difficult to narrow my recommendations down to just five. As always, the schedule is subj read more
Collection Update: January 2015
The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on Feb 2, 2015
Yesterday we recapped the month in viewing. Now, let’s take a look at what I added to my collections this month! This update includes DVD, Blu-ray, movie-related book, and vintage fan magazine acquisitions.
Movies/TV
Not too many additions on the movie/TV collection front this month, but I did read more
The Fast and the Furious (1955)
The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on Jan 30, 2015
Frank Webster (John Ireland) has escaped from prison, and he’s on the run. At a roadside stop, he meets Connie Adair (Dorothy Malone), a young woman with a sports car who is heading to Mexico to compete in a cross-border race.
A trucker has stopped at the same restaurant as Connie and Frank. read more
Could it be a movie?: Lending a Paw by Laurie Cass
The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on Jan 29, 2015
Minnie Hamilton, a librarian working in the public library of a Michigan resort town, is followed home by a cat one day. Unable to get rid of her little shadow, she decides to take him in, and she names him Eddie.
Eddie’s got an adventurous spirit, and on the first day that Minnie is set to op read more
Pitfall (1948)
The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on Jan 28, 2015
John Forbes (Dick Powell) is an insurance agent who lives a standard suburban life. He and his wife (Jane Wyatt) are raising their son (Jimmy Hunt) in the Los Angeles area, and John makes enough money for them to live quite comfortably.
(Image via Amazon)
John’s not particularly happy with his read more
TMP Recommends: Five Films on TCM, January 28 – February 3
The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on Jan 27, 2015
Here are five recommendations for what’s coming up on TCM in the next week!
(Image via Movie Poster Shop)
The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)
Airing on TCM: January 30, 4:15 am EST
In this espionage comedy, Doris Day stars as Jennifer Nelson, a widowed woman who works in the PR department of a space read more
The Violent Men (1955)
The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on Jan 26, 2015
This film was viewed for the Barbara Stanwyck Filmography Project. To read more reviews from this project or check out the progress so far, visit TMP on Listography!
John Parrish (Glenn Ford) is a veteran of the American Civil War. He’s spent the past three years recovering from the war and wo read more
One year, one film: 1925 – The Unholy Three
The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on Jan 25, 2015
A note from Lindsey: Welcome to the first installment of “One year, one film,” a new series in which I’ll be highlighting one film that I love from each year over a 40-year period, 1925 through 1965! I’ll also talk a bit about whether my pick ranked highly with contemporary v read more