5 of the Best Bromances

Tony Curtis and Cary Grant

in "Operation Petticoat" (1959)

Cary Grant and James Stewart 

in "The Philadelphia Story" (1940)

Henry Fonda, William Powell, and Jack Lemmon in "Mister Roberts" (1955)

Humphrey Bogart and Leslie Howard

in "Stand-In" (1937)

Cary Grant and Ronald Colman

in "The Talk of the Town" (1942)

#WomanEmpowermentWednesday Billie Burke

• Was paid the largest salary of either gender for her work in 1916's "Peggy." ($40,000/8 weeks)
• The wife of the notoriously difficult Florenz Ziegfeld
• Founded the Ziegfeld Club, which helped the showgirls who had fallen on hard times
• Financially backed some of the Ziegfeld Follies
• Filmed over 80 movies, including "The Man Who Came to Dinner," "Topper," and "The Wizard of Oz"

#ManCrushMonday Robert Mitchum in "The Grass is Greener"

I do not blame Deborah Kerr's married Lady Rhyall for falling for Robert Mitchum's Delacro in this movie. He is tall, dark, handsome with a boyish and American fish in a British pond sensibility. Perhaps it is even Mitchum's willingness to return to comedy after the obligatory "Holiday Affair" that makes his character. Either way, it's hot. 

with Cary Grant and Jean Simmons 

with Moray Watson

Lady-spiration: Katharine Hepburn

"If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased."

"We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers, but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change."

"Never complain. Never explain."

"Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother."

"Life is hard. After all, it kills you."

"To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time."

"Lie is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.And you don't do that by sitting around."

9 Times When Ingrid Bergman Was Magnificent

in "Gaslight" (1944)

in "The Bells of St. Mary's" (1945)

in "Joan of Arc" (1945)

with Gregory Peck in "Spellbound" (1945)

with Charles Boyer in "Gaslight" (1940)

in "The Bells of St. Mary's"  (1945)

from "Indiscreet" (1948)

in "Notorious" (1946)

in "Casablanca" (1942)

#ManCrushMonday Jack Buchanan in "The Band Wagon"

As famed theater actor Jeffrey Cordova, there's absolutely no reason why Jack Buchanan's character would be remotely attractive. He's lost in a world of Oedipus Rex and bomb-like special effects, he won't let another's word in edgewise. In short, Cordova's bit of a jerk. But Jack Buchanan manages to teeter between a Laurence Olivier-type then to a shameless song and dance man. Versatility can be sexy!

A Love Letter to... Marilyn Monroe

Do I really need to say anything?

in "Don't Bother to Knock" (1952)

in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" (1953)

in "The Misfits" (1961)

in "The Prince and the Showgirl" (1957)

with Milton Greene organizing Marilyn Monroe Productions, 1954

in "How to Marry a Millionaire" (1953)

with Richard Widmark in "Niagara" (1953)

All the Times James Cagney Crushed it in "Yankee Doodle Dandy"

1942's "Yankee Doodle Dandy" was a triumph for James Cagney. Although woefully typecasted as a gangster, Cagney is brilliant in this bio-pic of songwriter George M. Cohan, proudly born on the 4th of July and wrote many songs still in the public consciousness. For an hour and 26 minutes, Cagney sings, tugs at your soul, and even dances Cohan's signature wooden-legged style. In short, crushed it.

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