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Since we're on a Cliff Robertson kick...
ViaYours truly has been on a Cliff Robertson kick. You start to notice a pattern over the course of some of his performances. Robertson onscreen brings an atmosphere of risk. You are both drawn to him...
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Toast of the Town 4
Let's take a look around the web for classic movie talk, resources and blog posts. Journeys in Classic Film discusses the "three little girls in blue" movie called The Best of Everything with Joan...
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Jack Lemmon in The Notorious Landlady (1962)
Scotland Yard suspects a landlady of being a female Bluebeard. They ask her tenant to become an informant. Kim Novak and Jack Lemmon star in this morbid comedy, The Notorious Landlady (1962).Though a...
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W.C. Fields in You're Telling Me (1934)
If the Katharine Hepburn film Alice Adams were seen from the father's perspective, the film might be this one -You're Telling Me (1934).Films like this (about a poor young lady who dates a wealthy man)...
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David Niven is TCM's Star of the Month- October 2015
Let's delve into bits of trivia about TCM's Star of the Month for October 2015 - David Niven.October 12, 1939 - Ed Sullivan for The Pittsburgh Press is thoroughly charmed by the young actor from...
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What the Butler Saw (1950) - A Hammer Production
After traveling around the world, an Earl and his butler return to England with a stowaway - an island princess who loves the butler.The Film Has Its Moments of Hilarity Lapis and Bembridge momentarily...
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Evergreen (1934) - An Art Deco Extravaganza
A struggling actress of the 1930s impersonates her legendary stage star mother.Edwardian music hall star, Harriet Green (Jessie Matthews), retires to marry a marquis (Ivor McLaren) in Evergreen (1934)....
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Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953) w/ Robert Wagner
An underwater Romeo and Juliet story.Beneath the 12-Mile Reef follows two sponge fisherman families who war over a dangerous, deep reef that has the best sponges. Meanwhile, a young man from one family...
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An Affair to Remember (1957) w/ Cary Grant
A shipboard romance docks on dry land. It's saccharine sweet, but you love it anyway.Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr play two strangers onboard the luxury liner, the S.S. Constitution (the movie would...
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The Experiment Concludes
.. and she limps over the finish line!The experiment to blog 6 days per week about classic movies for one month is now over. Yours truly will return to weekly features.The best thing about publishing...
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Forever Female (1953) w/Ginger Rogers
If All Above Eve were told as a zany comedy, this film might be it. Forever Female (1953) follows the career of a (Shall we say "mature?") Broadway actor named Beatrice Page (Ginger Rogers) who...
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Make Mine Mink (1960) w/ Terry-Thomas
A motley crew of London apartment dwellers become mink thieves.An altruistic Dame (Athene Seyler), a former Army major (Terry-Thomas), an etiquette teacher (Hattie Jacques) and a nervous pot mender...
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Madame Bovary (1949) w/ Jennifer Jones
Gustave Flaubert's controversial novel of an unfaithful wife comes to life with the help of MGM Studios inMadame Bovary (1949).Emma (Jennifer Jones) loves excitement. She has married a small-town...
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Pillow Talk (1959) w/ Doris Day
StoryPillow Talk follows an interior decorator named Jan (Doris Day) who shares a party line with a rude man named Brad (Rock Hudson) who hogs the phone with romantic calls to other ladies at all...
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Harold Hill and Hamilton
In The Music Man, Harold Hill's theme song is "76 Trombones," which has the same melody as Marian's song,"Goodnight, My Someone."The movie (as well as its stage version) creates a moment when the two...
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January Favorites
Every time you blog, older posts are buried in your archives and often are not read again. So today, we are combing through our classic movie archives like Scout in To Kill A Mockingbird, opening her...
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Marge Champion's Documentary is Available to Watch Online
The Marge Champion and Donald Saddler documentary Keep Dancing (2009) is on Vimeo for a short while as of January 27, 2016. Watch it here: https://vimeo.com/153283760We've discussed before that Marge...
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Toast of the Town - Ben-Hur Remake/Robert Osborne/Citizen Kane/Film Preservation
BEN-HUR With the news of a remake of Ben-Hur (coming out in August 2016), what could be better than a look to the past to get our bearings?Musician-composer Stewart Copeland discusses with Valley...
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5 Classic Movies on an Island Blogathon
Which five movies would you choose to take with you on a deserted island? Clearly, if you could prepare, you'd throw out the movies and take survival guides and other useful items. But this is...
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Robert Wagner's You Must Remember This (Book Review)
In 2008, movie legend Robert J. Wagner released an autobiography, Pieces of My Heart, which details his life from childhood to the present day. In 2014, the star of Prince Valiant released a memoir...
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