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On How ‘The Foxes of Harrow’ Is Definitely Not Like ‘Gone With the Wind’ 26 Aug 2013 | 09:01 pm
To cap this year’s Summer Under the Stars series, TCM devotes the last day of August to British actor Rex Harrison, best remembered as Professor Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady. Harrison’s extensive car...
When Your Hometown Goes to the Movies 25 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
Today is Clark Gable’s day at TCM and where I grew up, Gable was an icon. Yes, yes, I know, he’s an icon everywhere, period. But I grew up in Charleston, South Carolina (“Charleston born and Charles...
Buster Keaton, Red Skelton, and Clark Gable: Together at last 24 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
On Sunday night, TCM will be screening a lesser-known romantic comedy from 1938 called Too Hot to Handle. Regular readers of this blog with encyclopedic memories may recall that I wrote about this a ...
Seeing Things, or “It’s one damned thing after another!! 23 Aug 2013 | 11:56 pm
I used to love in movies when characters would play the “free association” game. You know the bit… the psychiatrist guy presents to the patient a series of seemingly innocuous, unrelated words for whi...
Clark Gable & Joan Crawford: The Affair that Nearly Burned Hollywood Down 23 Aug 2013 | 03:53 am
One of the most notorious affairs in Hollywood history was undoubtedly the romantic liaison between Clark Gable and Joan Crawford that blossomed on the backlot of MGM. The two stars appeared in no les...
Stage and Screen: An Uneasy Marriage 21 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
Today is William Holden’s day and you might notice something if you look at his credits, particularly Golden Boy, Our Town, Born Yesterday, Stalag 17, The Moon is Blue, Sabrina, The Country Girl and P...
You Were Meant For Me: Penny Serenade (1941) 20 Aug 2013 | 07:15 pm
Penny Serenade (1941) is the third and final film Cary Grant and Irene Dunne made together. The Awful Truth (1937) and My Favorite Wife (1940) are screwball comedies of re-marriage, and Penny Serenade...
Lions in My Lap 19 Aug 2013 | 09:03 pm
While living in Chicago during the 1990s, I suddenly found myself unemployed. To keep active while searching for another job, I became a volunteer at the Field Museum, the city’s world renowned natura...
The Brat Pack of Classic Hollywood 18 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
As today is Natalie Wood’s day on TCM, I can’t help but ruminate on how her career is one of the better examples of a child actor turned adult actor out there. She didn’t grow into puberty and out of...
Zip a Dee Doo Dah 17 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
While celebrating my 20th wedding anniversary at Walt Disney World a couple of weeks ago, I had occasion to think about racist content in family movies. No, no–hold on, bear with me. I was having a gr...
