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Hello you awesome classic film fans! Let me start off by saying that today I celebrate my birthday (a lady never reveals her age and I ain’t gonna!) and there’s no better way than to celebrate with you all. On top of that, it’s hard to believe in November I’ll be celebrating read more

Summer comes to a close and that means TCM (and I) start gearing up for the fall. I know I sound like a broken record, but where did the year go? September is my birthday month and since I’m the birthday girl I’m giving you twelve titles to watch with me this month on TCM! Any films I sh read more

The lovely Ben-Hur episode I had planned for everyone ended up vanishing into cyberspace leaving me scrambling for a last minute replacement. Thankfully that came in the form of two interviews with classic film authors Peter Winkler (author of Real James Dean: Intimate Memories From Those Who Knew H read more

As Method acting rose to prominence, cinema took notice and started gobbling up stage-plays, giving Method actors a playground for their finest work as well as retaining a print of the play for posterity. The early-1950s saw a litany of stage-esque stories, all of which start melding together with t read more

This week, in honor of TCM’s month-long Summer Under the Stars, I give some history on the popular August theme (thanks to Yacov Freedman of TCM Backlot for helping!). Later, I’m joined by Marion Davies biographer Lara Fowler to count down the three days you should make time for during S read more

Written as part of the Summer Under the Stars Blogathon As an actress, Esther Williams films fit into a cookie-cutter mold: Beautiful girl goes to a place, sees musicians play music, and swims in the finale. Directors more flamboyant than others were able to work within this formula to mold story an read more

Below the cut you’ll find all the blogs currently scheduled to participate and the given days they’ll be posting. I will be updating this list daily throughout the month, posting links as they come in. Here’s to a great blogathon! August 1 – Edward G. Robinson Once Upon a Screen reviews Five read more

Summer is winding down, the kids are going back to school. You could say that, for those who enjoy the summertime, the circus is leaving town. But that’s no reason to get morose because TCM has the best theme month of the year (in my opinion) in August: Summer Under the Stars! In this special read more

I talk with Dwight Hurst about the 1968 sci-fi adventure Planet of the Apes in honor of TCM’s recent nationwide screening of the film.  https://www.podbean.com/media/player/pazkr-612bce Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. read more

The final week of the July Four gets musical with those lovable scamps Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney. The third film the two musical dynamos made, Babes in Arms was Warner Bros. biggest moneymaker for the year, beating out the other Judy Garland movie out, a little film called The Wizard of Oz that read more

Doris Day tested her image’s bounds as Ms. Wholesome when she took on the role of torch singer Ruth Etting in Love Me or Leave Me. We’ll never know for certain, but Day’s break from convention could explain why she wasn’t nominated for an Academy Award as this is Day’s read more

Originally published January 28th, 2015 Second-wave feminism (you’ve already stopped reading, haven’t you?) wouldn’t crop up for another couple of years, but that’s not to say Hollywood wasn’t doing its part showing women were sick, tired, and unwilling to take it anymo read more

Originally published March 21st, 2012 Calamity Jane was the latest film I watched for my Women in Film class and this movie is frustrating.  It’s cute and has some good songs and Doris Day is beautiful no matter how hard she tries, but the issue of femininity and female competition over men re read more

https://www.podbean.com/media/player/z3qqv-60cf41 The luminous Olivia de Havilland turned 100 on July 1st and I sit down with Olivia fan Nora Fiore to discuss her life and career while citing our top three favorite de Havilland features. Want to share your own? Email me at ticklishbiz@gmail.com and read more

It’s my honor to announce I’ll be hosting the TCM Summer Under the Stars Blogathon for a second year in a row, running the entire month of August! There’s an absolutely amazing lineup of stars this month. Complete details, including how you can win some fabulous prizes and the star read more

You wouldn’t expect me to devote a week to Van Johnson and avoid reviewing his work with Esther Williams, would you? Actually, he and Williams teamed up so frequently I could have devoted this week to their films alone, but in the interest of fairness I went with one. The second of six films read more

This week is devoted to actor Van Johnson! Originally published March 16th, 2015. The addition of a wide-screen format can provide a grander sense of scope for particular films. The best example I always use is the phenomenal Todd-AO transfer of Oklahoma! But, as much as a wider screen allowed for, read more

In this inaugural episode of Ticklish Business I’ll be bringing you audio from the 2016 TCM Classic Film Festival starting with Angela Lansbury interview with Alec Baldwin. You’ll also hear my red carpet interviews with TCM General manager Jennifer Dorian, Daryl Hickman, and Leonard Malt read more

I belatedly close out Hitchcock week with the film that tore his professional relationship with actress Tippi Hedren. Hedren, despite the issues she’s recounted of working with the director, cites Marnie as her best work and there’s no denying she’s above and beyond her role in The read more

ORIGINALLY POSTED JANUARY 2013 I haven’t watched Rebecca in a few years, so at this point I’m declaring that Notorious is my favorite Alfred Hitchcock film (at the moment). There’s just so much to say about it, and yet I really don’t want to reveal too much so that you’ll go out and watch read more