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Tomorrow is Forever (1946) - Claudette Colbert & Orson Welles
This Valentine's Day let's discuss mature love in a classic movie. Not puppy love, not a new romance. Not a couple on the verge of infidelity or bickering constantly about their finances, but a couple...
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How Classic Movies Use the Conga, the Mambo and the Waltz to Shape the Story
In classic movies, you will often find the Conga, the Mambo, and the Waltz are each treated differently in the story. Each is almost like its own movie character. Each dance has its own reputation in...
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Ladies in Love (1936) - Dramedy with Constance Bennett and Loretta Young
Three young ladies are practical about romance. They share an expensive apartment to improve their future. In Ladies in Love (1936), (based on a play by Ladislaus Bush-Fekete) not one female lead is...
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Evil Under the Sun (1982) - An Agatha Christie Island Mystery
Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is back, this time solving mysteries at an exclusive island resort in the Adriatic for Agatha Christie's Evil Under the Sun (1982).Daphne (Maggie Smith) holds the...
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The Restless Years (1958)- Sandra Dee's Suburban Drama
This plot is a roller coaster ride. Twisting this way and that, introducing characters that you think are completely innocuous but are not (or vice versa), The Restless Years (1958) keeps your...
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2 Movie Music Cues (And How They Comment on the Scene)
Movie music can exist inside or outside of the characters' world.When there is a logical source for the sound (such as when Rhoda plays "Clare de Lune" on the piano in The Bad Seed), this is called...
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Mister Cory (1957): A Tony Curtis Drama
A poor man from Chicago becomes an unsuccessful busboy at a country club, then a prominent gambler in the big cities.Writer-director Blake Edwards presents an episodic, coming-of-age tale of a young...
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Guest Wife (1945): Comedy w/ Don Ameche & Claudette Colbert
A couple's second honeymoon to New York picks up an unwanted addition when the husband's best friend drops into their lives.Guest Wife (1945) would mark the second of three films in which Don Ameche...
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My Fair Lady's Problematic Ending
With the recent announcement that the newest remake of Lerner and Lowe's classic musical adaptation of Bernard Shaw's Pygmalionis "shelved," we dig up an old debate. The ending of My Fair Lady (1964)...
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Power-Mad Blogathon: Tyrone Power and Deborah
For two decades, his was the handsome face known by millions around the world as a king of swashbuckling movies and a romantic leading man. Tyrone Edmond Power would perform in adventures, such as The...
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How to Steal a Million (1966): A Comedy w/Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole
An art forger (Hugh Griffith) has given the copy of a famous statue to a museum. Now his daughter (Audrey Hepburn) must secretly retrieve it with the help of a mysterious man (Peter O'Toole) in this...
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15 Mother's Day Classic Movies
Celebrate motherhood with these classic movies.1. Always Goodbye (1938)A mother (Barbara Stanwyck) gives up her child, then meets him years later. Should she tell him her secret? Johnnie Russell stars...
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The Milkman in the Movies
World Milk Day is June 1st. What better excuse to discuss the milkman in the movies? There are many obsolete (or now rare) professions showcased in the movies; the person carrying bottles of cow juice...
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Is Eliza Really Professor Higgins' Fair Lady?
One more My Fair Ladyobservation. We've recently discussed Lerner and Lowe's My Fair Lady and its Bernard Shaw predecessor, Pygmalion -about a petulant linguist, Professor Henry Higgins and his pupil,...
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It's a Small World After All
Esther Williams and Cliff Robertson on the set of The Big ShowThe first film I screened on a phone was The Big Show (1961) with Esther Williams and Cliff Robertson. The palm-sized screen was much too...
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Driving Miss Daisy:The Play w/ Angela Lansbury and James Earl Jones
Have you seen Driving Miss Daisy (2014) the play? It's Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a mid-20th century, Atlanta matron Daisy Werthan and her chauffeur, Hoke. This filmed play stars...
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Ask Java: Classic Summer Movies for Children
Dear Java,My children are out of school for the summer and I would like recommendations for classic movies that they may watch occasionally in the next few months. We have a mix of boys and girls from...
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"Lucy Hunts Uranium"& It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
Don't have time to sit through the hilarious three hour "comedy to end all comedies" called It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)? Then take a gander at a shorter, yet strikingly similar story - "Lucy...
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2014 TCM Cruise
The 2014 TCM Cruise is shaping up nicely. They have just sent out a guest list which includes Shirley Jones, Tab Hunter, Ann Blyth and Diane Baker. Here's a gander:
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Three for the Show (1955)- A Musical w/ Betty Grable/Jack Lemmon/Marge and...
Known as Betty Grable's last musical, Three for the Show (1955) is a light romantic comedy with striking dances. It's meant to be frothy fun and it delivers.This film is a remake of Too Many Husbands -...
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