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Robert Osborne “Playing Favorites” (1)
True Classics Posted by Sarah on May 8, 2012
What’s the next best thing to watching Robert Osborne on TCM? Listening to him on Siriusly Sinatra on my hour drive home from work! Robert Osborne has style … tell us something we don’t know, Sirius! I’m not surprised to learn that Mr. Osborne has such good taste in music, co read more
The growth of a classic film fan. (1)
True Classics Posted by Brandie on May 8, 2012
by Angela Petteys My earliest movie memory isn’t of going to a movie theater, but of watching a movie at home. One night when I was about three years old, my mom and dad decided to rent a movie and order pizza for dinner and the movie they decided to rent was E.T. (1982). I remember asking my mom read more
Memories of dancing hot dogs and cuddly aliens. (1)
True Classics Posted by Brandie on May 7, 2012
by Kym Golden Gore I have two “first movie memories.” I was three years old when my parents went to the drive-in to see Grease (1978). They took my brother and me with them. We were dressed in our pajamas. We had a white Ford Pinto with blue interior, and my parents laid the seats down a read more
Hey there, hi there, ho there, you’re as welcome as can be! (1)
True Classics Posted by Brandie on May 6, 2012
I am beyond pleased to announce that we have a new member of the True Classics crew! Sarah is a dear friend and fellow classic film fanatic, and I am happy to welcome her aboard! You can find out more about her and her favorite films on her personal profile page. And look for her first post soon! We read more
It’s going to be a blogathon bonanza! (1)
True Classics Posted by Brandie on May 5, 2012
This summer is shaping up to be a great time for classic film bloggers to participate in some really interesting events. Over the next three months, a number of blogathons are scheduled on some wide-ranging topics, and we here at True Classics could not be any more excited to throw our collective ha read more
A budding cinephile in 1960s New York City. (1)
True Classics Posted by Brandie on May 4, 2012
by John Greco I first became aware of movies as a young kid watching “B” westerns on TV with my father on Saturday afternoons; Johnny Mack Brown westerns always come to mind when I think of this. There were plenty of other cowboy films in the 1950s; showing westerns was popular back then read more
Dear Mr. Osborne. (1)
True Classics Posted by Brandie on May 3, 2012
(with apologies to Judy Garland and co.) ♫♫ Dear Mr. Osborne, ♫♫ I am writing this to you and I hope that you will read it so you know My heart beats like a hammer and I stutter and I stammer whenever you’re on TCM to introduce another show-ing … I guess I’m just another read more
B-movies and busting ghosts in Texas. (1)
True Classics Posted by Brandie on May 3, 2012
by Melinda Massie I was honored when Brandie asked me to share my first movie-going experience. She knows my love for classic films. However, as I thought about it, I became a touch nervous as well, because I realized I wasn’t actually sure what my first memory was! Growing up, my family and I didn’ read more
Mississippi movie memories from the 1930s and beyond. (1)
True Classics Posted by Brandie on May 2, 2012
by Mary Libby Payne Growing up on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, I reveled in any air conditioning, and the only AC in our town was in the Paramount Theatre. I have a vague recollection of the first movie my sister talked about from those years in the 1930s when I was a preschooler. I was terribly read more
Recalling those memorable, moving shadows on the screen: a month-long event. (1)
True Classics Posted by Brandie on May 1, 2012
For the past year and a half, in my non-blogging life, I’ve been working as a ghostwriter, helping people compose and edit their memoirs. Listening to the stories of decades long past, learning about life in different cultures, hearing about those universal struggles that ultimately define us read more
Helloooooooooooo, nurse. (1)
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Apr 30, 2012
We’re wrapping up our April of Barbara Stanwyck flicks with a look at one of my favorite pre-Codes, the 1931 drama Night Nurse, co-starring Joan Blondell and a villainous, non-mustachioed Clark Gable. Stanwyck stars as Lora Hart, an aspiring nurse who finagles a probationary training position read more
Wait ’til you get a view of sweet Betty. (1)
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Apr 26, 2012
In 1918, Max Fleischer, the innovative mind behind early Walt Disney Studios rival Fleischer Studios, began producing a series of silent cartoon shorts called Out of the Inkwell. Much like earlier efforts by animation pioneers such as Winsor McCay, many entries in this series combined live-action wi read more
Buying Barbara Stanwyck. (1)
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Apr 25, 2012
Joan Gordon (Barbara Stanwyck), a nightclub singer in New York City, intends to marry Don (Hardie Albright), the scion of a wealthy family. But Don’s father discovers that Joan had been the mistress of a bootlegging gangster, Eddie Fields (Lyle Talbot), and forbids the union. Resentful of the read more
Stella Dallas, or: All Your Tears Are Belong to Us (1)
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Apr 21, 2012
Stella Martin (Barbara Stanwyck), the ambitious daughter of a factory worker, falls for Stephen Dallas (John Boles), an executive at the factory whose former fiance, Helen (Barbara O’Neil) has recently married another man. Stella finagles a meeting with Stephen and the two of them begin dating read more
“You even have to murder a man politely!” (1)
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Apr 13, 2012
Sometimes, a film comes along that seems to think of itself as far cleverer than it may actually be. I find this to be particularly true when considering some of the more popular films to come out of the past decade; ever since 90s hits like The Usual Suspects (1995) and The Sixth Sense (1999) delig read more
A Brief Interruption for a Google Doodle (1)
True Classics Posted by Carrie on Apr 9, 2012
If you saw today’s Google Doodle, then as a classic film fan, you may already know all I’m going to say in this post. Today's Google Doodle- clever, no? Getting my computer set up at work today, I couldn’t help but notice the precursor to the projector on today’s Google page. read more
A bit of breakfast (for two). (1)
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Apr 8, 2012
“Butch,” the loyal valet of playboy shipping heir Jonathan Blair, enters his employer’s bathroom one morning, chattering away about the bright, beautiful day. He asks Jonathan what he would like to wear, only to have the shower door fly open as a shower-capped Valentine Ransome pok read more
A month of Stany goodness. (1)
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Apr 4, 2012
At last count (as in, I just counted five minutes ago), I have twenty-two unwatched films on the DVR, all of which I have recorded from TCM over the past two months. And though it wasn’t by design, I realized recently that five of these movies feature Barbara Stanwyck. To top that off, I also read more
Perils, Pitfalls, and Predicaments Galore: The Silent Serial Queens (1)
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Mar 30, 2012
The serial film has deep roots in cinema. These short subjects–the features before the features, as it were–told an extended, continuous story, shown in weekly or monthly “episodes” that were stretched out over a period of time. Over the years, many of these serials gained th read more
A few things of interest … (1)
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Mar 27, 2012
First of all, my contribution to “March-in-March,” the wonderful tribute to Fredric March hosted by Sittin’ on a Backyard Fence, has been posted! I’ve taken a look back at 1942′s I Married a Witch, in which March notoriously clashed–on screen and off–with te read more