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Feminist Fridays: The Women of The Maltese Falcon
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Sep 9, 2011
Chapter Three of Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon is titled, appropriately enough, “Three Women.” It opens with Sam Spade chastising his exhausted secretary, Effie Perine, for allowing Iva Archer, his dead partner’s widow, into the office. Spade is impatient with the wom read more
“I don’t mind a reasonable amount of trouble.”
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Sep 8, 2011
As part of our week-long celebration of the 70th anniversary of The Maltese Falcon (1941), today we are taking a look at the third and final film version of Dashiell Hammett’s pulp crime novel. For a brief introduction to this movie, check out our post on Falcon from last year. For a more in-depth read more
“Bugle, bugle, who’s got the bugle?”
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Sep 7, 2011
As part of our week-long celebration of the 70th anniversary of The Maltese Falcon (1941), today we are taking a look at the second film version of Dashiell Hammett’s pulp crime novel. For a brief introduction to the 1941 film, check out our post on Falcon from last year. For a more in-depth read more
“You have a lot of trouble with your women, don’t you, Sam?”
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Sep 6, 2011
As part of our week-long celebration of the 70th anniversary of The Maltese Falcon (1941), today we are taking a look at the first film version of Dashiell Hammett’s pulp crime novel. For a brief introduction to the 1941 film, check out our post on Falcon from last year. For a more in-depth sy read more
“What’s this bird, this falcon, that’s everybody’s all steamed up about?”
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Sep 5, 2011
“Samuel Spade’s jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting ‘v’ under the more flexible ‘v’ of his mouth. His nostrils curved back to make another, smaller, ‘v.’ His yellow-gray eyes were horizontal. The ‘v’ motif was picked up again by thick read more
Pioneers of Animation: J. Stuart Blackton
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Sep 3, 2011
For the next few weeks, we’re going to dedicate our semi-weekly “Saturday Morning Cartoons” feature to the men who set the stage for the art of animation in American film-making–the largely forgotten pioneers whose innovative work eventually inspired and facilitated the creat read more
Coming attractions.
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Sep 1, 2011
September promises to be a busy month here at True Classics! Not only are we signed up to participate in several blogathons hosted by some of our favorite classic film bloggers, but we have some interesting posts on tap. Here’s a taste of what the upcoming month will bring … October mar read more
Quick note.
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Aug 25, 2011
I recently volunteered to contribute two posts to the “Top 70 Musicals of All Time” countdown over at Wonders in the Dark. My first contribution is up today: Walt Disney’s Pinocchio, ranked no. 67! Go check it out and join the animated (pun intended) discussion in the comments! read more
Who’s that girl?: Mary Nash
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Aug 24, 2011
Sometimes an actress so thoroughly embodies a character that it becomes her signature role, the one for which she is mainly recognized (and sometimes at the expense of an otherwise extensive career). In many ways, I find this to be the case with Mary Nash. By the time Nash starred as Katharine Hepbu read more
A couple of miscellaneous notes.
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Aug 21, 2011
Add another fun blogathon to the pantheon: Terry of A Shroud of Thoughts is hosting a 95th birthday bash for British actress Margaret Lockwood on September 15th. I’ve signed up to submit a post for this event, and am planning to write a review of the 1943 film The Man in Grey, in which Lockwoo read more
“I was saved by a flying wild man in a loincloth!”
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Aug 20, 2011
1999 marked a turning point for the Walt Disney Animation Studios in more ways than one. It was the ten-year anniversary of the release of The Little Mermaid, which had heralded the company’s veritable rebirth in the subsequent decade. It saw the release of Toy Story 2, the third critically-ac read more
Feminist Fridays: Madonnas and whores on the China Seas.
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Aug 19, 2011
Of the six films in which Jean Harlow and Clark Gable appeared together, China Seas is one of the pair’s better outings. By this time in her life, at the tender age of 24, Harlow had come into her own as an actress, demonstrating the combination of sharp-edged femininity and self-assurance tha read more
Who’s that girl?: Joyce Compton
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Aug 17, 2011
If you’re a classic movie fan, you’ve probably seen Joyce Compton in dozens of minor film roles–she played a wide variety of nurses, waitresses, and random girlfriends in almost two hundred movies throughout her three-decades-long career. But she wasn’t merely relegated to th read more
We’re just all participatory like that.
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Aug 15, 2011
We may have vowed not to host another blogathon for at least another year, but that doesn’t mean we won’t be participating in what other folks have to offer. If our growing “to do” list is any indication, there will be no dearth of inspiring, interesting topics from which to read more
“You don’t meet a girl like that every dynasty.”
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Aug 13, 2011
Well, folks, we’re back with another, long-delayed installment of Saturday Morning Cartoons! What can I say–it’s been a busy summer. We still have two films left to cover in our examination of the “classic” Disney canon–the final two movies released during the per read more
Play it on the G-string.
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Aug 11, 2011
“I wasn’t naked. I was completely covered by a blue spotlight.”
–Gypsy Rose Lee The roots of modern theatrical burlesque can be found as early as the mid-nineteenth century, emerging first in the deceptively-straitlaced Victorian period in England, and then traveling across read more
You’re Welcome, Michael.
True Classics Posted by Carrie on Aug 9, 2011
I’m deviating a little from our usual, and hopefully Nikki and Brandie will just let me get away with it. I’m getting ready to go to Dragon Con (anyone else going? Anyone? Anyone? … Okay, then), so if it isn’t an Anne McCaffrey book or Joss Whedon, I haven’t been partic read more
Our heartfelt gratitude.
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Aug 7, 2011
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again–classic film bloggers are some of the best folks I know. Carrie, Nikki, and I cannot thank you enough for all of the contributions to the Loving Lucy blogathon yesterday. The number of folks who shared their love for Lucy exceeded our wilde read more
Why We Love Lucy.
True Classics Posted by Carrie on Aug 6, 2011
I may be breaking some rules here by not doing a particular film, but I like the general approach. More importantly, I couldn’t choose a movie to feature and haven’t had the time (sad …) to rewatch any of them, as I would want to do before posting. Instead, I decided to just talk a read more
For your Lucy-related reading and viewing pleasure.
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Aug 6, 2011
I’ve been a fan of Lucille Ball since I was a kid. I remember watching episode after episode of I Love Lucy on Nick at Nite (when it actually showed classic television, that is …) and laughing constantly. Even if it was an episode I’d seen a dozen times, it still felt fresh and fun read more