by Lesley Gaspar | Nov 14, 2015 | 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, Actors, Barbara Stanwyck, Blogathons, Child stars, Classic movies, Dickie Moore, Ernst Lubitsch, film noir, Howard Hawks, Josef von Sternberg, Marlene Dietrich, Pre-Code films, Shirley Temple
Where all parents are strong and wise and capable, and all children are happy and beloved? ?H.I.,?Raising Arizona It?s an intense little face. The Cupid?s Bow mouth and tiny, turned-up nose sit beneath large, dark, deeply?serious eyes. Dickie wasn?t just cute, he was...
by Lesley Gaspar | Oct 19, 2015 | 1940s, Blogathons, Classic movies, Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell, Romance, Wendy Hiller
Joan (Wendy Hiller) is so bent on getting to Kiloran she doesn’t realize she’s already there. Torquil MacNeil (Roger Livesey), the laird of Kiloran, is as likely to be called Kiloran as Torquil. I Know Where I?m Going (1945) gets under people’s...
by Lesley Gaspar | Sep 24, 2015 | 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, Classic movies, Dickie Moore, Josef von Sternberg, Marlene Dietrich, Pre-Code films, Shirley Temple
TCM?s tribute to Dickie Moore starts this morning at 6:15 a.m. Dickie Moore?was one of those very rare people you can watch grow up onscreen, starting when he was 11 months old. That?s when he made his screen debut, playing John Barrymore as a baby in?Beloved...
by Lesley Gaspar | Sep 20, 2015 | 1940s, Bernard Herrmann, Blogathons, Classic movies, Gene Tierney, George Sanders, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Rex Harrison, Romance, Women's Films
??Where have you been all my life?? That?s how I feel when I see a movie for the first time and fall totally in love with it.?The Ghost and Mrs. Muir?was a movie I had certainly heard of, but I knew the title from the Hope Lange TV series of the same name in the...
by Lesley Gaspar | Jun 9, 2015 | 1940s, Blogathons, Charles Coburn, Classic movies, George Stevens, Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea
I Like a Man That Takes His Time ”You look like a high-type, clean-cut, nice young fellow.” What’s really hard with a movie this delightful is to write just about one scene, even a scene this great. A brief digression: I’m posting this an hour before leaving for...
by Lesley Gaspar | Dec 26, 2013 | 1940s, Classic movies
An unassuming postwar holiday romance set in New York City, the first clue that?Holiday Affair?broke the Jell-O mold of its genre comes via its leads, wholesome but definitely sexy?Janet Leigh?and sexy but definitely unwholesome?Robert Mitchum. Maureen O?Hara is of...
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