It’s the end of another year, and it’s time to remember the ones we’ve lost over the past twelve months … the icons of film who have sadly passed on. TCM’s annual “Remembers” video is, as always, extremely well done–evocative, heartfelt, and beautiful (and, as always, putting the efforts of the annual Academy Awards “in…
One of our very favorite bloggers, Rachel–the eponymous Girl with the White Parasol–has crafted a movie meme just in time for the new year. With a dozen fascinating queries, there’s no way I can turn down a chance to throw in my two cents! Without further ado … 1. What is your all-time favorite Grace…
We three (self-titled) “Wise Ladies” of True Classics, Carrie, Nikki, and Brandie, wish a very merry Christmas and the happiest of holidays to you and yours. Make sure to take some time this weekend to eat, drink, and be merry (and maybe catch up on your reading, like our good pal Snoopy here). We hope…
It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947) has become a recent favorite of mine, as I only saw it for the first time two years ago. But now it doesn’t feel quite like Christmas until I sit down and enjoy the holiday adventures of the film’s motley crew of misfits. Aloysius T. McKeever, or “Mac” (Victor…
This post is my contribution to the “Dueling Divas” blogathon hosted by Backlots. Go check out the other great entries that have been posted over the past three days! Arguably, the two biggest dancing female stars of the 1930s–at least on the silver screen–were a sharp-tongued witty dame with legs to there, and a precocious,…
“Aw, come on, Dad. This could be the miracle that saves the Simpsons’ Christmas. If TV has taught me anything, it’s that miracles always happen to poor kids at Christmas. It happened to Tiny Tim, it happened to Charlie Brown, it happened to the Smurfs, and it’s going to happen to us!” –Bart Simpson This…
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