They’re almost here. The perilous, precarious and/or personable pairs.
As the Dynamic Duos in Classic Film blogathon, co-hosted with the fabulous Once Upon a Screen (@CitizenScreen) draws near, it’s time to share the planned schedule. I can hardly contain my excitement at the incredible list of bloggers and topics that will be featured. As you see below, it’s an impressive list – one that far exceeded my expectations in number, artist, genre and participant. I’m so excited, in fact, that I want to look up, into the clouds as if John Gilbert were nibbling on my neck….oh.
Participating Blogs / planned schedule:
Saturday, July 13th
Silver Screenings – Bob Hope & Bing Crosby in a “Road” picture
Comet Over Hollywood – Gary Cooper and Walter Brennan
The World’s Funniest Dissertation – Laurel and Hardy
Vienna’s Classic Hollywood – Thelma Ritter and Connie Gilchrist
Cinemalacrum – Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo in Godard’s Breathless
Cinematic Catharsis – Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee in Horror of Dracula
Terrible Movies – Godzilla and Mothra
We Recycle Movies – Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson
Critica Retro – Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp film depictions
Silver Scenes – Walter Pidgeon and Greer Garson
Hero Histories – The Lone Ranger & Tonto – film incarnations – Part 1
Secret Sanctum of Captain Video – The Lone Ranger & Tonto – Part 2
The Joy and Agony of Movies – Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck
Furious Cinema – Lemmon and Matthau in The Odd Couple
Lindsay’s Movie Musings – Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda’s friendship
The Great Katharine Hepburn – Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant
Lime Reviews and Strawberry Confessions – Charlie Chaplin and Claire Bloom in Limelight
The Stop Button – Lon Chaney Jr and Bela Lugosi
The Vintage Cameo – Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra
Virtual Virago – Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney
Shadows and Satin – Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake
Krell Laboratories – Special Japanese legends Pairings
Wide Screen World – Tom and Jerry
Durnmoose Movie Musings – Abbott & Costello (Part 1)
Maegan hosted on Citizen Screenings – Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton
Classic Movie Hub – Groucho Marx and Margaret Dumont
Once Upon a Screen – Crawford and Gable
Sunday, July 14
The Hollywood Revue – Greta Garbo and John Gilbert
Outspoken & Freckled – Nick and Nora Charles
Bogie Film Blog – Humphrey Bogart and Peter Lorre
Picture Spoilers – Dynamic Duos in Libeled Lady
Stardust – Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck
Caftan Woman – Roy Rogers and Dale Evans
Thrilling Days of Yesteryear – Martin and Lewis
Movies Silently – Vilma Banky & Ronald Colman in The Winning of Barbara Worth
Greg McCambley on Once Upon a Screen – Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles in The Third Man
Durnmoose Movie Musings – Abbott & Costello (Part 2)
Weird Flix – Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello, 50th Anniversary of Beach Party
The Man on the Flying Trapeze — Clark Gable and Jean Harlow, focus on Hold Your Man
The Baz – Errol Flynn and Basil Rathbone
Film Flare – Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren
The Jeanette MacDonald Blog – Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy
Classic Movie Man – Irene Dunne and Cary Grant
Be Careful! Your Hand! – Maleficent and her crow Diablo from Disney’s Sleeping Beauty
Noir and Chick Flicks – Carole Lombard and Cary Grant
Movie Mom – Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins
The Motion Pictures – Cary Grant and Joan Bennett in Big Brown Eyes and Wedding Present
She Blogged by Night – Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi
Hitless Wonder Movie Blog – Evelyn Ankers and Lon Chaney Jr.
Movie Classics – Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Western Comics Adventures – The Lone Ranger & Tonto – Part 3
The Last Drive In – Bette vs. Joan, “Get Back in the Chair Blanche”
The Last Drive In – Bette vs. Joan, “I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on Fire”
Trocadero Baby – Farley Granger and Robert Walker in Strangers on a Train
goosepimply allover – Doris Day and Rock Hudson
The Nitrate Diva – Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich
Viv and Larry — Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier (on-screen and off-screen)
Citizen Screenings – Batman (1966)
Before I go I must express my thanks to all of you fabulous bloggers for making this event so special so borrowing the words of George M. Cohan I say…“My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.”
Um…OK. I guess that’s corny. Let me instead offer some advice…“Plastics.” Or a wistful thought, “Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.”
Don’t tell me I never gave you anything!
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If you’d like to take part and haven’t signed up, it’s not too late. Here are the details:
When: July 13 – 14
Just follow these simple steps:
Either via email to either host –
Annmarie @ClassicMovieHub of Classic Movie Hub classicmoviehub@gmail.com
Aurora @CitizenScreen of Once Upon a Screen citizenscreenclassics@gmail.com
Or in the comment section of this post make note of the following:
- The Name and URL of your blog
- Your email address
- Your Twitter tag if you have one
- Your choice of film/characters/personalities, etc. (Although all entries are welcome, there are so many wonderful Duos to be discussed, we prefer no repeats)
- Your post date preference if you have one (either July 13 or 14)
- AND, please help us promote the event by placing one of the banners included in this post on your site along with a link to the host sites.
Banners:
One more thing – there are many more classic film events planned this summer. For details visit the new Events Calendar featured at Classic Movie Hub.
Happy blogging!
Annmarie
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