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Podcasts for Classic Film Fans: March Roundup
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 30, -0001
For the first time in a long while, I think every podcast in my monthly round-up is new to this site. I love finding new shows, so if you've got a podcast, or one you enjoy that I haven't covered, please let me know in the comments!Rarified Heir Chris Lemmon March 9, 2021 This is a fa read more
Vera West: Universal's Queen of Ghoul Glamour
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 30, -0001
My latest video is about the talented and tragic Universal Studios costume designer Vera West. She was one of the first women to head a costume department at a major studio. While she made her mark in a variety of genres, her most influential work was in horror, including some of the most fa read more
Book Review--Summer Movies: 30 Sun-Drenched Classics
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 30, -0001
Summer Movies: 30 Sun-Drenched Classics John Malahy TCM/Running Press, 2021 When I first heard of Summer Movies: 30 Sun-Drenched Classics, I imagined a tribute to films like Gidget (1959) and Beach Blanket Bingo (1965), with maybe a few coming-of-age and summer camp comedies thrown in read more
Theater Streaming: Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland Fight the Power in Vietnam-era Documentary F.T.A. (1972)
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 30, -0001
Over the past few years of intensifying chaos in our world, I’ve often thought about the interviews Donald Sutherland gave to promote The Hunger Games, the first film in a franchise for which he portrayed the insidious President Snow. It was 2014 and he hoped that the film’s message woul read more
On Blu-ray: High-Stepping Co-eds in Good News (1947)
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 30, -0001
The sparkling collegiate musical Good News (1947) is a good fit for the talents of leads June Allyson and Peter Lawford, though it is briskly stolen by Joan McCracken in a supporting role and featured player Mel Torme. The film looks and sounds great on a new Blu-ray release from Warner Arch read more
Book Review--Mean..Moody...Magnificent! Jane Russell and the Marketing of a Hollywood Legend
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 30, -0001
Mean..Moody..Magnificent Christina Rice University Press of Kentucky, 2021 I’ve been eagerly anticipating Mean...Moody…Magnificent, because I couldn’t put down Christina Rice’s first biography, about Ann Dvorak. While this book is not the passion projec read more
Book Review: Shooting Midnight Cowboy
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 30, -0001
Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and The Making of a Dark ClassicGlenn FrankelFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021John Schlesinger was not in attendance at the 1970 Academy Awards ceremony when he won the best director Oscar for Midnight Cowboy (1969). He had his towering read more