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Amor Eletrônico (1957) / Desk Set (1957) Muitas profissões desapareceram no último século, em especial por causa de mudanças na tecnologia. Entre essas profissões, temos condutores de coches, telefonistas, ascensoristas, cortadores de gelo e pessoas que empilhavam os pinos de boliche após read more

Despite being an adaptation of a stage play and having one main set, Desk Set shouldn’t be stagy. The single main location–and its importance–ought to be able to outweigh the staginess. Desk Set does not, however, succeed in not being stagy. It puts off being stagy for quite a while, but not foreve read more

Desk Set Directed by Walter Lang Written by Phoebe and Henry Ephron from a play by William Marchant 1957/USA Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation Repeat viewing/Netflix rental Bunny Watson: Whether the person is male or female. It is 1957 and Katharine Hepburn once again plays a desperate old m read more

I love everything about this poster... except that man that's supposedly Spencer Tracy. It reminds me of some other actor, but I can't quite put a finger on it. Anyway, despite touting for years that Katharine Hepburn is my everything, including on this blog, I have yet to review one of her films. H read more

via: http://www.moviepostershop.com/desk-set-movie-poster-1957 Unless otherwise noted, all images are my own. My Great Classic Films for Date Night got me thinking about fantastic screen teams, which naturally led me to Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. Their real life love translated brilliantly read more

via: http://www.moviepostershop.com/desk-set-movie-poster-1957 Unless otherwise noted, all images are my own. My Great Classic Films for Date Night got me thinking about fantastic screen teams, which naturally led me to Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. Their real life love translated brilliantly read more

What is Christmas without reviewing this wonderful Tracy and Hepburn movie for Monty’s Christmas movie month, so for my second Christmas and holiday movie review to be exhibited on “All Good Things” I’m providing a detailed account of “Desk Set”, the eighth of the read more

Walter Lang’s Desk Set (1957) was destined to be a film of distinction for several reasons, not the least of which was the talent and popularity of its two stars.  Alone, each is often mentioned as the greatest actor to have ever appeared on the silver screen.  Together they made a screen team read more

Walter Lang’s DESK SET (1957) is one of Katharine Hepburn’s few “Christmas movies.” You could possibly count LITTLE WOMEN (Cukor, 1933) or Anthony Harvey’s THE LION IN WINTER (1968), but DESK SET stands out as a film that really captures the Christmas spirit, at least read more

DESK SET (1957): A Happy Hepburn Christmas Walter Lang's DESK SET (1957) is one of Katharine Hepburn's few "Christmas movies." You could possibly count LITTLE WOMEN (Cukor, 1933) or Anthony Harvey's THE LION IN WINTER (1968), but DESK SET stands out as a film that really captures the Chris read more

DESK SET (1957): A Happy Hepburn Christmas Labels: Desk Set (1957), Joan Blondell, Spencer Tracy, Walter Lang Walter Lang's DESK SET (1957) is one of Katharine Hepburn's few "Christmas movies." You could possibly count LITTLE WOMEN (Cukor, 1933) or Anthony Harvey's THE LION IN W read more

I’m slowly working my way through the films Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn made together.  It’s going slowly because I’m finding the movies in various places because I lack the money to buy the Tracy/Hepburn box set!  I’ve seen Adam’s Rib and Guess Who’s Comi read more

I’m not a huge fan of video games, but this bizarre world inadvertently provided me with a very handy term that describes a scenario that’s fraught with potential disaster: Situation Alley. In the video world, that means a roadway simply packed with accidents waiting to happen. Unsuspecting flocks read more

When we watch Desk Set, we admire Bunny Watson’s wit; Ruthie’s cuteness; Sylvia’s willowy mix of elegance and spunk–but we can’t help grinning when sassy Peg (Joan Blondell) sashays onto the scene with her Roman-boy haircut, her swinging hoop earrings, and those nearly read more

Okay, you’ve taken the quiz and know your Star Style… (Wait, you have taken the quiz… well, shake a leg, honey, it’s 2012! There’s not a moment to lose. Take it right here!) And now, you’re wondering, how does my Star Style translate into a modern, wearable wardro read more

The Desk Set’s “Sylvia” is a lovely, delightfully mischievous, thoroughly elegant creature. As played by Dina Merrill, Sylvia is flirtatious without being crass, funny without being a joker, smart without being nerdy, and has buckets of feminine wiles–and it goes without sayi read more

Though it was given a less than festive-sounding name, Walter Lang's Desk Set is one of my favorite holiday films.  It takes place in December 1957 at the fictional Federal Broadcasting Company (FBC), surely only a slight cover for the real National Broadcasting Company (NBC).  Based read more

Bunny Watson (Katharine Hepburn) and Peg Costello (Joan Blondell) are both happily employed by the Federal Broadcasting Network in the research department.  If anyone needs to know something, anything from the names of Santa’s reindeer to information about the movie King Solomon’s Mines read more

Filmed in truly glorious Technicolor, this is probably the lightest of the Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn movies I’ve seen so far. ( I only have a couple of the ones they made together still to go.) This time there’s no real sense of conflict – although obviously the romantic comedy plot read more

Amor Eletrônico (1957) / Desk Set (1957) Muitas profissões desapareceram no último século, em especial por causa de mudanças na tecnologia. Entre essas profissões, temos condutores de coches, telefonistas, ascensoristas, cortadores de gelo e pessoas que empilhavam os pinos de boliche após read more