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…
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…
I love introducing people to classic film, particularly younger people. Hook ’em young, I always say. Okay, so I don’t always say that. But I should. And so it’s now my new motto. Getting back to the point … Last night, I introduced Jamie, my friend Michelle’s seventeen-year-old son, to the uber-hilarious 1963 farce, It’s…
Adam’s Rib (1949) March 3rd, 11:30AM EST Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy starred in nine films together, some of them quite good (1942’s Woman of the Year, incidentally their first on-screen pairing), some quite forgettable (the same year’s Keeper of the Flame, anyone?), and still others slightly overrated (1967’s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, incidentally…
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