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Who’s that girl?: Helen Broderick (1)
True Classics Posted by on Jun 27, 2012
Her name may not be well-known to modern audiences, but her face is immediately recognizable to classic film fans. Throughout the 1930s and 40s, actress Helen Broderick appeared as the wisecracking pal of numerous Hollywood stars, always bringing a shot of well-timed droll humor to every role. In ma read more
Like a fine wine… (1)
True Classics Posted by on Jun 25, 2012
Casablanca is my favorite film of all time. It’s one of those movies that I never tire of watching. In fact, one of my first dates with my husband was watching it while eating homemade pasta. Each year we have a tradition of watching this perfect film at least once together. Last year (7/15 read more
The little foxes that spoil the vines. (1)
True Classics Posted by on Jun 24, 2012
Early in the 1941 film The Little Foxes, there is a brief, exquisitely-crafted scene that tells us everything we need to know about these characters. The Hubbard family, having just finished dinner with a wealthy guest and potential business partner, has gathered in the parlor for a musical performa read more
“Queering” Disney. (1)
True Classics Posted by on Jun 22, 2012
Lord knows, I love me some Disney. I feel the need to state this upfront just to underscore how much I enjoy the Disney animated canon. I grew up with those films, watching them over and over again, singing the songs, pretending to be a princess (or one of the dancing ostriches from 1940′s Fan read more
The ladies they talk about. (1)
True Classics Posted by on Jun 21, 2012
With the publication of his 1994 biography of Barbara Stanwyck, Axel Madsen infuriated a legion of the actress’ fans by claiming that Stanwyck had been bisexual, as evidenced–he says–by a lifelong friendship with her publicist, Helen Ferguson. Indeed, Madsen provides little evidenc read more
Queer Blogathon: Sanitizing THE CHILDREN’S HOUR (1)
True Classics Posted by on Jun 18, 2012
Lillian Hellman (1905-1984) was an American writer made popular by her heart-wrenching 1934 drama The Children’s Hour, which was inspired by a true story. Hellman is, by some accounts, a champion of female independence. The play tells the story of two women who work hard to make their dream of cre read more
Who’s that girl?: Betty Furness (1)
True Classics Posted by on Jun 17, 2012
Betty Furness began her career as a movie starlet and ended it as an influential expert in consumer issues and a reporter for The Today Show. The story of how she got there is an interesting one, to say the least, marked by Furness’ self-professed inability to say “no” to any job read more
“I guess rich people are just poor people with money.” (1)
True Classics Posted by on Jun 13, 2012
Alfred Borden (Walter Connolly) is having a bad day. His business is in trouble; his wife, Martha (Verree Teasdale), is cheating on him with another man; his son, Tim (Tim Holt), would rather play polo than work; and his daughter, Katherine (Kathryn Adams), is in love with Mike (James Ellison), the read more
Remembering Ann Rutherford. (1)
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Jun 12, 2012
News came late this evening that actress Ann Rutherford has passed away at the age of 91. Born in Canada in 1920, Rutherford got her start in Hollywood as a teenager, acting in weekly serials. She made her feature-length screen debut in 1935 in Waterfront Lady. In the early years of her career, the read more
Between Day and Night (1)
True Classics Posted by Sarah on Jun 11, 2012
Three Comrades (1938) is a love story about a boy and a girl … and their two friends. When I originally read the description for this movie–“A World War I veteran and his two partners love a doomed woman in 1920s Germany”–I assumed that this would be just another film about a love read more
Who’s that girl?: Doris Davenport (1)
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Jun 10, 2012
Doris Davenport is not a name that is very familiar to movie fans, for she sadly did not have a very long-lasting career in Hollywood, having appeared in only a handful of films between 1934 and 1940. A beautiful actress who worked as a model to support herself in between roles, Davenport flirted wi read more
She’s a rich girl, and she’s gone too far. (1)
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Jun 8, 2012
In 1912, infant Dorothy Hunter (Miriam Hopkins) was orphaned when her parents drowned during the sinking of the Titanic. For years, her guardian, John Connors (Henry Stephenson), has shielded the young heiress from the glare of the media spotlight–few people even know what she looks like. Afte read more
Just a small town girl. (1)
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Jun 6, 2012
One day, the Kimbell family of tiny Duck Creek, Connecticut, sits down for dinner after church. As patriarch Gordon (Robert Keith) says grace, they are interrupted by visitors. Wealthy Rick Belrow Livingston (Farley Granger) and his tap-dancing Broadway star girlfriend, Lisa Bellmount (Ann Miller), read more
Love: A Storm of Unhappiness (1)
True Classics Posted by Sarah on Jun 4, 2012
I have always been intrigued by stories of self-sacrifice and characters who doom themselves by doing the so-called “right thing.” When watching movies, I find myself rooting for characters to follow their hearts, regardless of the consequences. Things that I would never approve of in the real world read more
The Poor Little Rich Girl: Mary Pickford and her wordsmith. (1)
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Jun 3, 2012
One of the most prolific partnerships to emerge in the silent film era was the one between movie star Mary Pickford and screenwriter Frances Marion. Director Clarence Brown once referred to their working relationship as “spontaneous combustion,” an apt description of the women’s un read more
I like blogging in June; how ’bout you? (1)
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Jun 1, 2012
[Bonus points for naming the song whose lyrics we borrowed for this post's title. ] Well, another month has come and gone, and what a month it was! For instance: ~*~ As we kick off a new month, there is a lot of fun stuff on tap that we hope you’ll enjoy, including our participation in three read more
Movie memories: Selections from the diary of a Mississippi girl, 1936. (1)
True Classics Posted by Brandie on May 31, 2012
During my senior year of college at Mississippi University for Women, I took an independent study course under the supervision of my mentor, Dr. Bridget Smith Pieschel. The subject was Women’s Autobiography, and my job was to transcribe and notate the diary of a former student of the school, M read more
Mother-daughter animated movie memories. (1)
True Classics Posted by Brandie on May 30, 2012
by Heather Dunn Schmitt My earliest memory of going to the movies is a foggy one, but it’s there. I was five years old, I think, and my dad piled all of us–my older sister, my younger brother, and me–into his 1966 Ford Mustang. We drove for what seemed to my young mind to be foreve read more
Movies with my grandmother. (1)
True Classics Posted by Brandie on May 29, 2012
by Lara Fowler I can trace my love for classic film back to one person. Inhabiting a small house in a quiet neighborhood just north of the Santa Clara Valley, my grandparents, Julian and Frances Polon, were both Los Angeles transplants. My grandmother, born Canadian, had moved to Los Angeles for nur read more
Memories of a big-screen family connection. (1)
True Classics Posted by Brandie on May 28, 2012
by Carolyn Camper Mann I can’t remember the first movie I went to in the small town where I grew up. However, I do remember a movie that was very special. We lived in Omaha, Nebraska in the early 1960s. My husband, Harry, was on an Air Force “Bootstrap” assignment to complete a Bachelor’ read more