STAGE DOOR (1937): A Feminist Perspective
Because Katharine Hepburn’s star text in so many of her film roles reads as a liberated feminist, the audience becomes tempered to the idea of whole groups of women being autonomous. Before STAGE DOOR...
View ArticleDavid Lean’s SUMMERTIME (1955)
Jane Hudson (Katharine Hepburn) has finally earned herself a personal holiday in Venice, Italy. An unmarried professional, she travels alone, hoping to discover she knows not what in this exotic new...
View ArticleConservatism in Revolution: The Gish sisters in D. W. Griffith’s ORPHANS OF...
This post is written in conjunction with the Summer Under the Stars Blogathon hosted by Sittin’ on a Backyard Fence and ScribeHard on Film. It is also my contribution to Eternity of Dream‘s Speechless...
View ArticleThe Strength of CHRISTOPHER STRONG (1933)
The famous moth costume I’d forgotten how much I like Dorothy Arzner‘s CHRISTOPHER STRONG (1933). The plot isn’t very good, and Hepburn’s acting is a bit flat at times, but the Lady Cynthia Darrington...
View ArticleGary Cooper: BALL OF FIRE (1941)
This post is written in conjunction with the Summer Under the Stars Blogathon hosted by Sittin’ on a Backyard Fence and ScribeHard on Film. A full day of Gary Cooper films will air on TCM on August 26....
View ArticleI Never Will Forget Jeanette MacDonald…or SAN FRANCISCO (1936)
This post is written in conjunction with the Summer Under the Stars Blogathon hosted by Sittin’ on a Backyard Fence and ScribeHard on Film. A full day of Jeanette MacDonald films will air on TCM on...
View ArticleIT’S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD (1963): Universal Backlot Blogathon
Kristen over at Journeys in Classic Film is hosting the Universal Backlot Blogathon this weekend to celebrate 100 years of Universal Studios films: “Have a review of a film that used the backlot...
View ArticleTRAVELS WITH MY AUNT (1972): A Katharine Hepburn Original?
Sunday night at 8:00pm EST, Turner Classic Movies will be showing a Maggie Smith classic, George Cukor‘s TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT (1972). When I first saw this movie, I thought it was one of the funniest...
View ArticleLouise Beavers, What A Character!
This post is written in conjunction with the What A Character! blogathon hosted by Once Upon a Screen, Outspoken and Freckled, and Paula’s Cinema Club. Louise Beavers‘ career as one of the best...
View ArticleMURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (1974): A Lauren Bacall Classic
Lauren Bacall boards the Orient Express MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (1974) will be airing tonight on Turner Classic Movies at 2:15 am EST as TCM continues to celebrate Lauren Bacall every Wednesday...
View ArticleThank Heaven For GIGI (1958)
“GIGI” is the shortest title of any movie to have won the Academy Award for best picture. The day after the film won nine Oscars at the 1959 Academy Awards, telephone operators at the studio answered...
View ArticleGUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER? (1967): Love, Controversy, and Progress
Turner Classic Movies will conclude their month of Spencer Tracy today, 29 October, with an evening of the four films he made with director Stanley Kramer. GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER (1967) was...
View ArticleThe Battle of the Little Princesses: Novel vs. Film
A Little Princess is one of my all-time favorite books. I think I read it at least once a year. When I read it for the first time, I loved the ending so much that I just kept reading the last few...
View ArticleDESK SET (1957): A Happy Hepburn Christmas
Walter Lang’s DESK SET (1957) is one of Katharine Hepburn’s few “Christmas movies.” You could possibly count LITTLE WOMEN (Cukor, 1933) or Anthony Harvey’s THE LION IN WINTER (1968), but DESK SET...
View ArticleBRINGING UP BABY (1938) or “Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant Go Leopard...
Friends often ask me which Katharine Hepburn film is my all-time favorite. I usually hem and haw and feed them a line about how there is a Hepburn film for every occasion. Sometimes I say that the one...
View ArticleEpic Fail: Operation IRON PETTICOAT (1956)
“I believe, I hope, audiences have forgotten I ever made that film. I try not to say bad things about pictures I chose to make and took money for making them, but this one doesn’t count.” (Katharine...
View ArticleCMBA Film Passion 101 Blogathon: THE WOMEN (1939)
This post is written in conjunction with the Classic Movie Blog Association (CMBA) Film Passion 101 Blogathon. Old movies were a natural part of my childhood. My parents have always enjoyed classic...
View ArticleWhy LITTLE WOMEN (1933) is a very big deal
“There’s one thing George and I agree on. Actually, we agree on almost everything. I don’t know anything we don’t agree on. One thing we really agree on is, we love LITTLE WOMEN. We loved doing it. And...
View Article10 Things to Love about WITHOUT LOVE (1945)
Harold S. Buquet’s WITHOUT LOVE (1945) is without doubt one of Katharine Hepburn’s most underrated films. She plays a Jamie Rowan, a scientist’s daughter who rents out part of her Washington DC home to...
View ArticleA Bible and a Gun: ROOSTER COGBURN (and the Lady) (1975)
This post is part of the Build-Your-Own-Blogathon hosted by the Classic Film and TV Cafe. It follows Jennifer Garlen‘s post about BEND OF THE RIVER (1952), which is another Western that takes place in...
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