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SUtS: Ingrid Bergman
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Aug 5, 2010
Today it was pretty hard to choose which movie to recommend. So, let me start by saying just set your DVR up now and record the whole thing, call in sick, get popcorn, something. That said, I’ll get to Spellbound. To fully understand how much I liked this movie, I have to explain my history wi read more
SUtS: Woody Strode
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Aug 4, 2010
Woody Strode, a statuesque African-American film actor whose career spanned the 1940s and lasted until his death in 1994, worked with some of the biggest names in Hollywood during his fifty-odd years as a working actor. Yet he remains relatively unknown to the general public today. He never reached read more
SUtS: Ethel Barrymore
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Aug 3, 2010
I must admit that I wish I were suggesting another movie to you right now, a movie featuring the delightful Ethel Barrymore in one of her more effective supporting roles: 1947′s The Farmer’s Daughter, co-starring Loretta Young and Joseph Cotten. I adore this movie with every fiber of my read more
SUtS: Julie Christie
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Aug 2, 2010
Today, we present you not with a recommendation, but with our personal challenge (and a scandalous secret–shh!). You see, in the past, Carrie and I vowed (several times) to–finally–sit through the three-plus-hour David Lean-directed epic Dr. Zhivago, from 1965. Sad to say, neither read more
SUtS: Steve McQueen
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Aug 2, 2010
Run…. Don’t walk from… The Blob! I’m taking just a couple of quick minutes for The Blob. This film is interesting in that it has become so culturally relevant, not for the film itself, but for the previews. The ads for The Blob have infiltrated our culture in so many ways. Wh read more
SUtS: Basil Rathbone
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Aug 1, 2010
Most people are familiar with Rathbone in the persona pictured above, as the erstwhile detective Sherlock Holmes in a series of fourteen films spanning the years between 1939 and 1946. Carrie’s recommendations, listed below, will tell you a bit more about Rathbone’s most well-known role. read more
Uh-oh … it’s one of those monthly experiment-type things.
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Jul 31, 2010
So you may recall that February’s experiment in “let’s make a recommendation every day!” didn’t exactly work out the way I wanted it to. But as Fred and Ginger sang in one of their best, Swing Time, “pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again.&# read more
He came to the wrong house. Twice.
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Jul 4, 2010
I generally hesitate to spoil the ending of a film. It’s poor form to ruin a film before one has even had the chance to view it for him/her self. In many cases, it sours me on ever viewing the film in question; for example, when a friend (somewhat gleefully) spoiled the ending of The Sixth Sen read more
A lovely day for a Picnic.
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Jun 12, 2010
There is something about Bill Holden. It’s something that can be hard to define. Sure, he’s a handsome lad, but there were handsomer stars. And yes, he’s a talented actor, but there were those whose talents exceeded his. He excels in defying expectation on the screen. Holden is, i read more
Figures!
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Jun 11, 2010
From Jezebel … Alfred Hitchcock and the first recorded instance of a “that’s what she said” joke: It’s only appropriate, right? I mean, you only have to watch one of Hitchcock’s films to see how truly and delightfully bawdy he really was. read more
Sad.
True Classics Posted by Brandie on May 10, 2010
Lena Horne has passed away at the age of 92. Below is her incomparable performance of “Stormy Weather” from the similarly-titled 1943 film. We’ll return to regular posting next week. read more
Happy Birthday, Audrey! (1)
True Classics Posted by Carrie on May 4, 2010
Whether it’s Audrey or Katherine, let’s face it- I’m a Hepburn fan. With today being Audrey Hepburn’s birthday celebration on TCM, I naturally had to take some time out for a quick post. So, question of the day is obviously, “What’s your favorite Audrey Hepburn fi read more
Apologies.
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Apr 24, 2010
Again, I find the need to extend my apologies to all of you out there who read our little blog. Life has gotten crazy over the past month and posting has fallen by the wayside. I’ll be (hopefully) finishing the Hitchcock series this week, and we’ll be back on track with regular posts as read more
Hitch.
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Mar 29, 2010
Really, I shouldn’t have to say anything else, right? If you’re a classic movie fan, I can just utter the word “Hitch” and wait for the nods of comprehension. When one “outs” oneself as a Hitchcock fan, at least in my experience, the result is a long discussion/de read more
The Hays Code: Keeping Sex Off the Screen (But Not Out of Our Dirty-Minded Little Hearts) for More Than Three Decades.
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Mar 26, 2010
I was asked recently to give a brief overview of the Hays Code, to which I have referred repeatedly in some of my previous entries on this blog. The Motion Picture Production Code, known in Hollywood as the Hays Code (named after its creator, Will H. Hays), preceded the Motion Picture Association of read more
March is a month of Ginger and spice.
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Mar 21, 2010
Between mystery illnesses and miscellaneous bothers, it’s been a crazy couple of weeks, but hopefully we can get back into the swing of things this week. Another 31 Days of Oscar celebration has come and gone, and my resolution to post a recommendation a day kind of fell apart there in the mid read more
“And after you shot your husband, how did you feel?” “Hungry!”
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Mar 3, 2010
Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy starred in nine films together, some of them quite good (1942′s Woman of the Year, incidentally their first on-screen pairing), some quite forgettable (the same year’s Keeper of the Flame, anyone?), and still others slightly overrated (1967′s Gu read more
The stuff that dreams are made of.
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Mar 1, 2010
If you have never seen this movie, you have deprived yourself of something truly spectacular. You should fix that. Immediately. The granddaddy of film noir–the biggest and best of them all–The Maltese Falcon is one of those landmark films which ushered in an entirely new genre in movie-m read more
The calla lillies … they’re in bloom again.
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Feb 28, 2010
It has been a very busy two weeks around these parts, and my attention to my beloved classics has fallen by the wayside (though blogging itself has not; I’ve been helping with a blogging project for my alma mater’s historic alumnae association, and you can see the fruits of that labor he read more
Remembering Kathryn Grayson.
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Feb 18, 2010
Life has interrupted for the time being, so daily “31 Days of Oscar” recommendations are slowing down for the moment. But I must take a little time to remember the marvelous Kathryn Grayson, who passed away today at the age of 88. The lovely and tremendously gifted Grayson may be best r read more