Monday, June 29, 2020

Doris Day in Hitchcock and Hitchcock-Lite

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In regard to his two versions of The Man Who Knew Too Much  (1934 and 1956), Alfred Hitchcock famously quipped: "Let's just say tha...
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Thursday, June 25, 2020

The Five Best Greer Garson Performances

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As Paula in Random Harvest . 1.  Random Harvest  - At the end of World War I, an entertainer named Paula (Greer Gardson) falls in love w...
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Monday, June 22, 2020

Burt Lancaster and Ossie Davis Take on The Scalphunters

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Burt Lanaster as Joe Bass. When easygoing trapper Joe Bass (Burt Lancaster) takes a shortcut through Kiowa land, he is confronted by a p...
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Sunday, June 14, 2020

Alastair MacLean's The Guns of Navarone

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A long movie that doesn't seem long is a carefully-crafted motion picture. Such is the case with The Guns of Navarone  (1961), which clo...
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Thursday, June 11, 2020

Seven Things to Know About Robert Lansing

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1. Robert Lansing was born Robert Howell Brown, but had to change his name when he joined the Actors' Equity Association because another...
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Monday, June 8, 2020

The Alternate TV Series Title Game (British Edition)

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Here are the rules: We will provide an "alternate title" for a classic television series and ask you to name the actual show. Most...
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Thursday, June 4, 2020

Wee Geordie Throws a Hammer!

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Bill Travers as the adult Geordie. Young Geordie MacTaggert doesn't like to be called "wee' by the other lads in his rural ...
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Monday, June 1, 2020

Rodgers and Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song

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Miyoshi Umeki as Mei Li. My elementary school chorus teacher introduced me to the Broadway musicals of Rodgers and Hammerstein. To be sp...
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Thursday, May 28, 2020

Seven Things to Know About Connie Stevens

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1. Connie Stevens was married and divorced twice by the age of 31. Her first marriage was to actor James Stacy (from the TV series Lancer ) ...
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Monday, May 25, 2020

Murder Must Advertise

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My introduction to Dorothy L. Sayers' aristocratic amateur detective, Lord Peter Wimsey, was via the 1972-75 TV series broadcast in the ...
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Thursday, May 21, 2020

John Wayne and Kim Darby Show Their True Grit

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John Wayne as Rooster Cogburn. The year 1969 was a remarkable one for the Western genre. The biggest hit of the year was the revisionist...
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Friday, May 15, 2020

6 from the '60s Blogathon for National Classic Movie Day

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To celebrate National Classic Movie Day on May 16th, we are hosting the 6 from the '60s Blogathon. Per its title, each participant has l...
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My Picks for the 6 from the '60s Blogathon

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This is our entry for the 6 From the '60s Blogathon in celebration of National Class Movie Day. Since the 1960s was an incredible decad...
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Thursday, May 14, 2020

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

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Rex Harrison and Gene Tierney. A year after her husband's death, widow Lucy Muir has made the bold decision to move to the coastal v...
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