I am so excited to post about one of my absolute favorite Christmas classics: White Christmas. Starring Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye as two former soldiers who met during WWII, this film has everything that makes the classics (and Christmas movies) great–comedy, music, very talented cast, quotable script, misunderstandings, and of course, a happy…
Cary Grant as an angel … well, if that’s not the most obvious casting ever. And yet initally, our favorite dreamboat was actually cast in the role of a despairing bishop in the 1948 film The Bishop’s Wife. It wasn’t until filming was already underway that Grant realized he was more suited for the angelic…
Since we won’t be posting a full Saturday Morning Cartoons write-up this weekend, here’s a couple of awesome Disney Christmas shorts featuring everyone’s favorite waterfowl, Donald Duck. The first, 1942’s “Donald’s Snow Fight,” features Donald declaring snow “war” on his nephews, Huey, Dewey, and Louie. Donald’s legendary mischievousness is nothing compared to what those three…
The classic movie world sadly lost two players this week: director Blake Edwards and actress Neva Patterson. Blake Edwards is best known as a deft director of comedies such as 1959’s delightful Operation Petticoat and The Pink Panther series (beginning with the eponymous film in 1963), which introduced the world to the bumbling Inspector Clouseau,…
Though our humble blog tends to focus on the classics (which we generally categorize as pre-1970s movies, with a few notable exceptions), this does not mean we thumb our nose at so-called “modern” film. Quite the opposite, in fact. Well, except for crap like Transformers. Or The A-Team. Or Jackass 3-D. And so on. I,…
Merry Christmas! In the spirit of the season, True Classics will be doing a number of reviews of some of our favorite Christmas movies. This is not exactly the beginning of that series, but I have to say A Charlie Brown Christmas is still on my list. It’s a great Christmas movie, but that’s another…
Let me just start by saying I absolutely adore this week’s movie. Part of the three-way tie for my affections, there is just something about this story that has always struck a chord with me (maybe it’s the spaghetti), but I remember wearing out a copy of the VHS as a kid. Lady and the…
This 1952 Disney short, “Pluto’s Christmas Tree,” always makes me giggle. Gotta love a pair of smart-assed chipmunks.
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