Many, many thanks.

The gang here at True Classics was thrilled to learn that we have been nominated for five CiMBA awards from the Classic Movie Blog Association! The nominated posts are: Best Film Review (Drama): “I’m an advertising man, not a red herring.”  Best Classic Movie Article: Censorship and a Streetcar, Part I and Part II. Best…

C’mon, give us a smile.

Tuesday, October 4th, marks silent screen icon Buster Keaton’s 116th birthday. TCM has already named Buster their “Star of the Month” and will be featuring a number of his beloved films and shorts on Sunday nights, beginning this evening with a showing of one of the actor’s most popular (and best) movies, The General (1926).…

“It all went wrong, and I don’t know why. That’s what I want to know–why!”

In 1949, twenty-eight year old British actress Deborah Kerr starred opposite screen veteran Spencer Tracy in Edward, My Son. Though Kerr had already won critical acclaim for a handful of popular films in her native England–among them I See a Dark Stranger (1946) and Black Narcissus (1947)–Edward was only her third American film, and in my mind, presented the young actress with…

Oh, how I love you, Mr. Grant.

This month, the subject of the LAMB’s Acting School 101 is none other than Cary Grant. Naturally, we had to submit several of the entries we’ve written about the suave actor over the past year or so. Head on over the LAMB to see all of the submissions! It’s wuv. Twu wuv.