“My name’s Copper. I’m a hound dawg.” I love this part of The Fox and the Hound–the whole scene. Rewatching it to do this blog, I really started to think how depressing it really is, though. Many Disney films start with something sad, particularly the loss of a parent or something similar. This is backwards.…
In celebration of Women’s History Month, True Classics is taking a look at some of the women who helped shape the movie industry through their contributions behind the camera. Last week, we examined the roles of some of the women directors who made their mark both in the silent era and after the advent of…
Hands held high/Touch the sky./ You mean everything to me. My experience with The Rescuers (1977) happened a little backwards. I grew up with the audiotape (you know, the ones where they use clips from the film and narrate the story), but I was older before I actually saw the movie. So when I watch…
Throughout the month of March, we’ll be celebrating the behind-the-scenes roles of women during the classic film era. Earlier this week, we took a look at some of the first women to step into the role of director during the silent film period. Today, we’ll look at a few of the women who claimed the…
Today, March 8, is the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, which falls, appropriately enough, at the start of Women’s History Month. Though it’s not a nationally-recognized holiday here in the United States (as it is in several countries across the world), it is nonetheless a day in which we celebrate women–our achievements, our lives, our…
Winnie the Pooh has been a family favorite as far back as I can remember–from my Winnie the Pooh books and my brother’s toys to calling my sister Eeyore when she was in a particularly pessimistic mood. We also grew up watching the various spinoff shows that aired in the late 80s and 90s (to…
In the mid-1930s, the screwball comedy was still a relatively new subgenre of film. Many critics label It Happened One Night, released in 1934, as the first “screwball” picture ever produced, and subsequent films such as Twentieth Century (also 1934) and Hands Across the Table (1935) built upon the elements that would become typical tropes of…
Lovely, talented, and always gracious, classic film actress and popular pin-up girl Jane Russell passed away yesterday at the age of 89. Russell’s start in Hollywood came at the hands of millionaire Howard Hughes, who was enamored by her beautifully voluptuous figure, displayed to such winning effect in her debut film, 1943’s The Outlaw. Her languid…
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