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…
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,…
Between mystery illnesses and miscellaneous bothers, it’s been a crazy couple of weeks, but hopefully we can get back into the swing of things this week. Another 31 Days of Oscar celebration has come and gone, and my resolution to post a recommendation a day kind of fell apart there in the middle, didn’t it?…
True Classics 