Gloria Stuart, a well-respected actress and one of the remaining stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood, passed away yesterday at the age of 100. Most modern audiences, of course, know Stuart from her phenomenal performance as the older Rose DeWitt Bukater, whose narration frames 1997’s epic romance Titanic. Indeed, Stuart’s performance is the anchor…
This week for Saturday Morning Cartoons, we’re taking a look at Walt Disney’s second full-length animated feature–the best production of his animation studio’s early years, in my ever-humble opinion–the wonderfully magical Pinocchio, released by RKO in 1940. In this film, more so than in its predecessor, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, everything comes together…
Pop singer and occasional classic movie actor Eddie Fisher has passed away at the age of 82. Perhaps best known today as the father of Star Wars actress and snark-tastic writer Carrie Fisher and television stalwart Joely Fisher, Eddie Fisher was one of the most popular singers of the 1950s. His marriage to Debbie Reynolds…
As you can probably tell, we’ve been on a bit of a break the past few days, but we’ll be resuming regular posts tomorrow. In the meantime, here’s something pretty to look at … Excuse me while I sit here and stare all day.
As we kick off our salute to classic Disney animation (and our Saturday Morning Cartoons series!), there’s no better place to begin than with the one that started it all: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, released by RKO in limited theaters in 1937 and later across the country in 1938. I have to admit…
This evening, TCM is featuring three films labeled “code breakers,” movies whose provocative, mature themes and scripts contributed to the breakdown of the Production Code Administration’s influence in Hollywood. I’ve made my feelings about the Production Code clear in the past; censorship may seem to be a necessary evil to some, but in my eyes,…
A message from Brandie: As of today’s post, True Classics has reached the one-hundredth post milestone. Yay! Let’s raise a glass to that. When Carrie and I had the idea to start a classic movie blog, I don’t think either one of us thought we would be able to maintain it for long. At the…
Most critics–most modern critics, that is–rank Vertigo (1958) as Alfred Hitchcock’s directorial masterpiece. Influential movie critic Roger Ebert called the film “one of the two or three best films Hitchcock ever made.” Subsequent directors ranging from Martin Scorsese to Brian DePalma have reported being influenced by the film. And AFI has listed it in the…
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