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A Mulher que Soube Amar / Alice Adams (1935) Se você gosta de cinema clássico, já deve ter ouvido falar do renascimento da carreira de Katharine Hepburn em 1940, dois anos depois de ela ter sido chamada de “veneno de bilheteria”. Mas talvez você não saiba que este foi o segundo read more

My mother died on a Tuesday. March 22, 2016, to be exact. Less than two months ago. That day will always be etched in my memory due simply to its utter ordinariness. I had some free time that afternoon, and the weather was that rare perfect mix of brilliant sunshine and cool breezes (blessedly minus read more

A happy Mother's Day to all you moms out there -- thanks for bringing us into the world! -- so I thought I'd open this entry with this fan magazine pic of Carole Lombard and her mother, Elizabeth Peters, from the summer of 1931, not long after Carole married William Powell and honeymooned in Hawaii. read more

My mother died on a Tuesday. March 22, 2016, to be exact. Less than two months ago. That day will always be etched in my memory due simply to its utter ordinariness. I had some free time that afternoon, and the weather was that rare perfect mix of brilliant sunshine and cool breezes (blessedly minus read more

A happy Mother's Day to all you moms out there -- thanks for bringing us into the world! -- so I thought I'd open this entry with this fan magazine pic of Carole Lombard and her mother, Elizabeth Peters, from the summer of 1931, not long after Carole married William Powell and honeymooned in Hawaii. read more

The Philadelphia Story (1940), starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and James Stewart, is one of the classic movies airing on TCM this week. This week, TCM is airing great movies from stars like Katharine Hepburn, Fred Astaire, and James Cagney.  Plus, they are featuring films about Indi read more

There’s no real objective with this pool, except knowing your personal tastes. It is of course important for me to know what people think of my blog. So, I simly invite you to vote for your personal favourite blogathon hosted by The Wonderful World of Cinema. That’s a total of four. Of read more

Sabrina, Sabrina where have you been all my life?  ~ William Holden as David Larabee I never understood that incessantly observable trope that permeates all forms of media where the blonde is far superior to the brunette. Aside from being highly superficial, it’s simply not the case. If anythi read more

I’m excited to announce that I’ve been selected for membership in the Classic Movie Blog Association (CMBA). I’m honored and thrilled to be a part of this group of wonderful bloggers, and I’m looking forward to getting to know and learn from them. I also want to take this tim read more

Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), starring Audrey Hepburn, is one of the old Hollywood favorites airing on TCM this week. This week, TCM is airing great movies from stars like Audrey Hepburn, Bette Davis, and Mary Astor.  Plus, they are featuring films about siblings and old Hollywood's Europ read more

Mourning the death of a celebrity On April 28, 2016 By CarolIn Uncategorized I have met quite a few people in my life who have said that they don’t understand why people cry when a celebrity dies. ‘I mean, they’re just a singer/an actor/a writer/whateve read more

In anticipation of seeing the newly released third Barbershop movie, Barbershop: The Next Cut, I decided to go back and give the first two entries in the series a re-watch. I remembered liking them when they first came out, and thought I’d see how well they held up over time. The first film, s read more

It’s always interesting to just let yourself fall down the rabbit hole of the interwebs and see where you wind up. This time, the first link was a note that I got about The Founder, an upcoming movie starring Michael Keaton as Ray Kroc, the guy who… well, he didn’t exactly start Mc read more

There was nothing more studio publicity machines liked more than match-making for a bit of public attention. Even Paramount’s youngest star, Baby LeRoy, had the chance to find love with the equally famous pint-sized Shirley Temple. Photoplay magazine in 1934 took the opportunity of documenting read more

There was nothing more studio publicity machines liked more than match-making for a bit of public attention. Even Paramount’s youngest star, Baby LeRoy, had the chance to find love with the equally famous pint-sized Shirley Temple. Photoplay magazine in 1934 took the opportunity of documenting read more

Stagecoach (1939), starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne, is one of the old Hollywood favorites airing on TCM this week. This week, TCM is airing great movies from stars like Judy Garland, Sophia Loren, and Glenn Ford.  Plus, they are featuring films from director John Ford and German cinem read more

Fresh from the New York stage and with only one film (The Wiser Sex with Claudette Colbert) under his belt, Franchot Tone was assigned the role of Ronnie in the 1933 war drama Today We Live. The leading lady of the picture would be Joan Crawford, flapper-turned-dramatic actress, who was well-respect read more

Citizen Kane: A Flimmaker's Journey Harlan Lebo Thomas Dunne Books Release Date April 26 I had luck as no one had; afterwards, I had the worst luck in the history of cinema. But that is in the order of things. I had to pay for having had the best luck in the history of cinema. Never has a man been read more

D.O.A. is a wonderful example of a gimmick having nowhere to go. Edmond O’Brien is a small town accountant who decides to spend a week in San Francisco drinking and carousing (leaving girlfriend and secretary Pamela Britton back home). Out of the blue, he gets poisoned and has to solve his ow read more

Safety Last! (1923), starring Harold Lloyd, is one of the old Hollywood favorites airing on TCM this week.  This week, TCM is airing great movies from stars like Judy Garland, Jack Lemmon, and Lionel Barrymore.  Plus, they are featuring films about blondes and the Ziegfeld Follies. So, read more