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Hesitate Reviewing a Famous Film?
Do you ever hesitate reviewing a famous movie just because you don't believe you can add anything to the conversation? If you're simply echoing someone else's writing, your piece is superfluous.That's...
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Hot Enough for June (1964) - Dirk Bogarde as a Spy
The Man Who Knew Too Little meets The Cold War meets 007The James Bond craze (among other things) sparked many spy films in the 1960s. The suave, sophisticated man of mystery who knew the right thing...
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It's the Little Things
When Walter Neff, insurance salesman (Fred MacMurray), overtly flirts with Mrs. Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck), mentioning her prominently-displayed anklet, Phyllis tucks one ankle behind...
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The Happiest Millionaire (1967)
A lovely Disney film for the entire family.In The Happiest Millionaire, Fred MacMurray plays Anthony Biddle - an alligator-loving, boxing enthusiast millionaire of the early 20th century from a famous...
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Tim Burton Directs Disney's Live Action Remake of DUMBO
Tim Burton - director of many hits, including Batman with Michael Keaton, and more recently the Johnny Depp film Alice in Wonderland- is prepared to convert yet more cartoon characters into live...
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Classic Movies for St. Patrick's Day
For St. Patrick's Day, a link fest.Tyrone PowerRead mini reviews of 7 Classic Movies for St. Patrick's DayRead about Tyrone Power's acting lineage, which stretches back to the first Tyrone Power from...
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Please Don't Eat the Daises (1960) - Doris Day
Free love, hippies and substance abuse may dominate popular ideas of the 1960s, but the culture that they countered was still around and held sway at the box office. With the fall of the studio system...
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The Heiress (1949): Why Not Disinherit Catherine?
Dr. Austin Sloper (Ralph Richardson) disapproves of the man his daughter Catherine (Olivia DeHavilland) loves. In the third act of the movie he threatens to alter his will again as he does in the 1st...
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100 Classic Movie Blog Post Ideas
Sometimes when writing classic movie blog posts month after month, you hit a wall. You’ve written some great standard reviews and you want to mix things up a little. You don’t want to give up on the...
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The Desk Set (1957) with Katharine Hepburn
When William Marchant's play The Desk Set hit Broadway in 1955, it was a smash hit starring Shirley Booth. In 1957, Twentieth Century Fox released a film version starring Katharine Hepburn.The story...
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15 Classic Movie Review Resources
You have watched the film and you have written a rough draft of a review. Now you want to add interesting bits of movie trivia to the mix. Where do you go?This post updates an earlier post (9 Classic...
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The Rumba in Classic Movies
We have discussed how the Conga, the Mambo and the Waltz are presented in classic films, now let's turn our eyes to the Rumba."The Rumba has its roots in the Cuban son. The Rumba consists of two quick...
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Friday Link Roundup
Click on the images below for links to classic movie-related blog posts or other places throughout the web which may be of interest to you.TCM Classic Film Festival 2015| Laura's Misc. MusingsDebbie...
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Is Your Classic Movie Blog Mobile-Friendly?
Google.com has become synonymous with searching online; it is even used as a verb. ("What's the name of that guy in that film? Never mind. I'll Google it.") So when this giant of information makes...
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The Sound of Music (1965) on the Big Screen
TCM Presents and Fathom Events have showcased some of the finest films in American cinema for the last 4 or 5 years, bringing your favorites and mine to the big screen, as they were meant to be seen....
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Link Roundup
Here are links to classic movie-related places throughout the web which may be of interest to you.Are you on a Gloria Swanson kick this week? So am I. Love the actress'lengthy interview with Bryce Boyd...
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Publish Your Classic Movie eBook on Amazon
In conjunction with its spring blogathon, the Classic Movie Blog Association has released an ebook titled "The Fabulous Films of the 1930s"on Amazon.com - the largest online bookseller in the world....
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Fabulous 1930s Films Blogathon: Pygmalion (1938)
By the turn of the 1930s, motion pictures had emerged from their silent days into the age of the “talkies.” However, films still emphasized the visual; speech often seemed an...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty: 1947 and 2013
In 1947, The Samuel Goldwyn Company brought to the screen James Thurber's short story, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, about a milquetoast husband who escapes his nagging wife and dull life through...
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Enjoy the Show
Being a clumsy idiot, I tripped and sprained my ankle the other day, leading to swelling. After realizing I will not be able to run very fast in an emergency, I remembered James Stewart in a wheelchair...
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