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Classic Films in Focus: BLITHE SPIRIT (1945)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Jan 4, 2013
While Noel Coward's 1941 play remains a community theater favorite, the 1945 film adaptation offers viewers a chance to see the story performed by professionals under the direction the brilliant David Lean, best remembered today for his work on such classics as The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), L read more
Classic Films in Focus: BLITHE SPIRIT (1945)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Jan 4, 2013
While Noel Coward's 1941 play remains a community theater favorite, the 1945 film adaptation offers viewers a chance to see the story performed by professionals under the direction the brilliant David Lean, best remembered today for his work on such classics as The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), L read more
Goodreads Giveaway for BEYOND CASABLANCA
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Jan 2, 2013
If you're interested in winning a free copy of Beyond Casablanca: 100 Classic Movies Worth Watching, there are three copies up for grabs in my Goodreads Giveaway. Goodreads is a great site for book lovers, and it's free to create a profile. The Giveaway runs from now until January 31, at which point read more
Classic Films in Focus: MIRANDA (1948)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Jan 2, 2013
Mermaids must have been a hot topic in 1948 because that year saw not one but two mermaid movies, Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid and Miranda. The 1947 debut of live mermaid shows at Weeki Wachee Springs in Florida had something to do with it, although the Cornish setting of Miranda is far less tropical read more
A Year at the Movies: 2012 in Review
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Jan 2, 2013
Like many film fans, I like to keep lists of all the movies I watch, not just for bragging rights but also to remind me what I have seen and what I still need to watch. Here's the 2012 list of films, which is mostly classics (of course), liberally seasoned with movies I watched with the other read more
Classic Films in Focus: MIRANDA (1948)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Jan 2, 2013
Mermaids must have been a hot topic in 1948 because that year saw not one but two mermaid movies, Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid and Miranda. The 1947 debut of live mermaid shows at Weeki Wachee Springs in Florida had something to do with it, although the Cornish setting of Miranda is far less tropical read more
Goodreads Giveaway for BEYOND CASABLANCA
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Jan 2, 2013
If you're interested in winning a free copy of Beyond Casablanca: 100 Classic Movies Worth Watching, there are three copies up for grabs in my Goodreads Giveaway. Goodreads is a great site for book lovers, and it's free to create a profile. The Giveaway runs from now until January 31, at which point read more
Classic Films in Focus: MIRANDA (1948)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Jan 2, 2013
Mermaids must have been a hot topic in 1948 because that year saw not one but two mermaid movies, Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid and Miranda. The 1947 debut of live mermaid shows at Weeki Wachee Springs in Florida had something to do with it, although the Cornish setting of Miranda is far less tropical read more
Classic Films in Focus: MR. PEABODY AND THE MERMAID (1948)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Dec 31, 2012
Mermaid movies turn up every now and then; the most famous is certainly Splash (1984), with Daryl Hannah and Tom Hanks, and among the more recent you'll find the modern tween fairy tale, Aquamarine (2006). Long before either of these films, however, dapper William Powell fell for a mermaid of his ow read more
Classic Films in Focus: SUSPICION (1941)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Dec 30, 2012
Alfred Hitchcock had broken into the American movie-making scene with Rebecca in 1940 and then quickly turned out a number of additional films, including the 1941 romantic thriller, Suspicion, which reunited the director with Rebecca star Joan Fontaine. This second outing with Hitchcock would win Fo read more
Classic Films in Focus: SUSPICION (1941)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Dec 30, 2012
Alfred Hitchcock had broken into the American movie-making scene with Rebecca in 1940 and then quickly turned out a number of additional films, including the 1941 romantic thriller, Suspicion, which reunited the director with Rebecca star Joan Fontaine. This second outing with Hitchcock would win Fo read more
Classic Films in Focus: SUSPICION (1941)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Dec 30, 2012
Alfred Hitchcock had broken into the American movie-making scene with Rebecca in 1940 and then quickly turned out a number of additional films, including the 1941 romantic thriller, Suspicion, which reunited the director with Rebecca star Joan Fontaine. This second outing with Hitchcock would win Fo read more
Classic Films in Focus: THE TROUBLE WITH ANGELS (1966)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Dec 29, 2012
Why does Hollywood love nuns? For an industry generally obsessed with sex and skin, the motion picture business has produced a remarkable number of movies about those black clad, celibate sisters over the years, including serious dramas like The Song of Bernadette (1943) and Doubt (2008), romantic m read more
Classic Films in Focus: MODERN TIMES (1936)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Dec 28, 2012
Long past the point where Hollywood had turned to sound, Charlie Chaplin continued to believe in the silent film, although Modern Times (1936) does make use of sound in its own unique way. This would be the final appearance of the Tramp character whom Chaplin had first introduced in the Keystone com read more
Classic Films in Focus: MODERN TIMES (1936)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Dec 28, 2012
Long past the point where Hollywood had turned to sound, Charlie Chaplin continued to believe in the silent film, although Modern Times (1936) does make use of sound in its own unique way. This would be the final appearance of the Tramp character whom Chaplin had first introduced in the Keystone com read more
Classic Films in Focus: MODERN TIMES (1936)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Dec 28, 2012
Long past the point where Hollywood had turned to sound, Charlie Chaplin continued to believe in the silent film, although Modern Times (1936) does make use of sound in its own unique way. This would be the final appearance of the Tramp character whom Chaplin had first introduced in the Keystone com read more
Classic Films in Focus: CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT (1945)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Dec 24, 2012
Although not as well-known, perhaps, as It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) or White Christmas (1954), Christmas in Connecticut (1945) is a holiday charmer justly beloved by many classic movie fans. Headliner Barbara Stanwyck makes an engaging heroine in this comedy of yuletide romance, but the real read more
Classic Films in Focus: CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT (1945)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Dec 24, 2012
Although not as well-known, perhaps, as It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) or White Christmas (1954), Christmas in Connecticut (1945) is a holiday charmer justly beloved by many classic movie fans. Headliner Barbara Stanwyck makes an engaging heroine in this comedy of yuletide romance, but the real read more
Classic Films in Focus: CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT (1945)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Dec 24, 2012
Although not as well-known, perhaps, as It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) or White Christmas (1954), Christmas in Connecticut (1945) is a holiday charmer justly beloved by many classic movie fans. Headliner Barbara Stanwyck makes an engaging heroine in this comedy of yuletide romance, but the real read more
Classic Films in Focus: DON'T BOTHER TO KNOCK (1952)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Dec 14, 2012
Marilyn Monroe is best remembered today for her work in musical comedies like Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) and Some Like It Hot (1959), but the blonde bombshell appeared in darker films, as well, among them the 1952 psychological thriller, Don't Bother to Knock, in which Monroe plays a mentally d read more