Monday, April 25, 2022

The Movie Quote Game (Bette Davis Edition)

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This month, we're focusing on quotes from Bette Davis films. We will list a quote from a famous Bette Davis movie and ask you to name it...
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Monday, April 18, 2022

My Name Is Julia Ross

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Nina Foch as Julia Ross. After reviewing Gun Crazy , the Cafe's staff decided to seek out more of director Joseph H. Lewis' wor...
Monday, April 11, 2022

Seven Things to Know About Barbara Eden

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1. Born Barbara Jean Morehead in 1931, she was using her stepfather's last name, Huffman, as a young actress in Hollywood. In her autobi...
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Monday, April 4, 2022

Rosemary Clooney's Red Garters

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Rosemary singing the title song. For years, I assumed that Red Garters  was Rosemary Clooney's follow-up to White Christmas . In rea...
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Monday, March 28, 2022

The Movie Quote Game (Westerns Edition)

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This month, we're focusing on quotes from Western films. We will list a quote from a famous Western and ask you to name it. Try to answe...
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Monday, March 21, 2022

Master of the World, or 6,000 Feet in the Air

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Vincent Price as Robur. Jules Verne was a hot property in the late 1950s and 1960s, with movie theaters filled with big-budget adaptations o...
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Monday, March 14, 2022

The Quiller Memorandum

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George Segal as Quiller. When two of its agents are murdered in Berlin, the British intelligence agency MI-6 employs an American spy to loca...
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Monday, March 7, 2022

The Four Favorite Noirs Blogathon in support of National Classic Movie Day

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To celebrate National Classic Movie Day on May 16th, we are hosting the Four Favorite Noirs Blogathon. Per its title, each participating blo...
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Monday, February 28, 2022

The Wild Geese: Action in Africa

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Richard Burton as Faulkner. When an African dictator's actions threaten to lower British copper prices, influential banker Sir Miles Mat...
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Monday, February 21, 2022

The Movie Quote Game (Alfred Hitchcock Edition)

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This month, we're focusing on quotes from Alfred Hitchcock films. We will list a quote from one of his movies and ask you to name it. Tr...
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Monday, February 14, 2022

Abbott and Costello's The Time of Their Lives

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Bud and Lou in one of their few scenes together. One of Abbott and Costello's most atypical films ranks among their best. The Time of Th...
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Monday, February 7, 2022

Seven Things to Know About Richard Long

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1. In his film debut, Richard Long played the adult illegitimate son of Claudette Colbert and Orson Welles in the 1946 drama Tomorrow Is For...
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Monday, January 31, 2022

Sandy and Bobby Have That Funny Feeling

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Sandra Dee dressed for success. Imagine a Doris Day-Rock Hudson romantic comedy with Sandra Dee in the Doris role, Bobby Darin in lieu of Ro...
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Monday, January 24, 2022

The One That Got Away

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Hardy Krüger as von Werra. It'd be hard to make up a story as exciting and unlikely as The One That Got Away  (1957), the true tale of a...
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Monday, January 17, 2022

The Alternate Movie Title Game (Vincent Price Edition)

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Here are the rules: We will provide an "alternate title" for a Vincent Price film and ask you to name the actual film. Most of the...
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Monday, January 10, 2022

Mad Max Ventures Beyond the Thunderdome

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Mel Gibson as Max. The third film in director George Miller's post-apocalyptic Mad Max  series faced a daunting task from the outset...
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Monday, January 3, 2022

Seven Things to Know about Yvonne Craig

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1. Yvonne Craig studied ballet at age 16 as the youngest member of The Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. After three years, she left the company ...
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Monday, December 27, 2021

Top Ten Posts of 2021

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As the year draws to a close, the Classic Film & TV Café traditionally ends it with a countdown of our ten most viewed posts. We publish...
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Monday, December 20, 2021

The Movie Quote Game (Holiday Edition 2021)

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This month, we're focusing on quotes from holiday movies--films that revolve around or take place during holidays. We will list a quote ...
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Monday, December 13, 2021

Sean, Gina, and $50 Million

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Sean Connery as Tony. Wheelchair-bound Charles Richmond mistreats his servants, bullies his adult nephew, and fosters tyranny wherever he go...
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