Sunday, November 25, 2018
Sunday, November 4, 2018
Remake This: "Stage Door" (1937)
"Stage Door," a great feat of the mostly female-film predating "The Women" (1940), and its ambitions did not do so well for the late 1930s box office. Reviews were mixed. Hepburn was given her first positive review after a slew of unpopular roles which would end up considering her as "box office poison" as of 1938. Ginger Rogers wowed the critics with her dramatic portrayal of dancer Jean Maitland over her already famous abilities. The Times called the film "rowdy and aggressive [...] but for all of that it is a film of unusual insight and characterization. The dialogue is brilliant, with typical American point and brevity, but nearly always spiteful and cruel, for these girls are the product of a hard environment."
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| Anne Hathaway as Terry Campbell |
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| Elisabeth Moss as Jean Maitland |
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| Christoph Waltz as Anthony Powell |
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| Abbie Cornish as Linda Shaw |
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| Barbara Parkins as Anne Luther |
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| Daniela Vega as Kay Hamilton |
#WomanEmpowermentWednesday Claudette Colbert as Bea Pullman in "Imitation of Life" (1934)
Bea Pullman is a widow and single mother just working as a saleswoman for maple syrup like her husband. But her black housekeeper Delilah (Louise Beavers), also a single mother, has a secret pancake mix that soon puts the both of them as business partners to a restaurant then chain. As the years progress, Bea becomes the ultimate career woman of the '30s although with status, comes a different way she treats Delilah although no less loving for a woman of her time.
#ManCrushMonday 6 Times When Ernst Lubitsch Nailed Life
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| Ninotchka (1939) |
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| Trouble in Paradise (1932) |
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| Design for Living (1933) |
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| The Shop Around the Corner (1940) |
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| Ninotchka (1939) |
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| To Be or Not To Be (1942) |
#WomanEmpowermentWednesday Dorothy Spencer
In 1924, Dorothy Spencer moved from her position at the Consolidated-Aller lab to Fox's editing department. With Barbara McLean, Spencer spent most of the '30s working as apart of Fox's team as a cutter then began working with Otho Lovering. It is with Lovering that gained the both of them an Oscar nomination for "Stagecoach" (1939). In the 1940s, Spencer would go solo and edited two of Hitchcock's films in "Foreign Correspondent" (1940) then "Lifeboat" in 1944. But it was for Ernst Lubitsch which she would edit the most films for including "To Be or Not to Be" (1942). By the 1960s, she had worked on 60 films, gaining two nominations then two more in "Cleopatra" (1963) and "Earthquake" (1974). In 1989, she finally gained an American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award as well as a Golden Scissors Award for "Earthquake."
#ManCrushMonday #VeteransDayEdition John Sweet in "A Canterbury Tale" (1944)
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Life imitated art for John Sweet in Powell and Pressburger's "A Canterbury Tale" (1944). The American army sergeant was serving in the U.K. during WWII when "The Archers" (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger) discovered him in their attempts to make a film with relative unknowns. The role of G.I. Bob Johnson fit Sweet like a glove as 1/3 of the pilgrims who find themselves on an emotional then physical journey to Canterbury. Accidentally getting off the wrong stop in the fictional Chillingbourne, Bob finds himself involved in a mystery involving another assaulted female victim of "The Glue Man." He throws himself into the mystery in attempting to forget about his out of contact girlfriend whom he hasn't got a letter from in months. Sweet would end up donating his $2,000 paycheck for the film to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Saturday, November 3, 2018
Turner Classic Movies Christmas Schedule 2018
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| Beyond Tomorrow (1940) |
Saturday, December 1
Christmas Classics
7:00 pm Beyond Tomorrow (1940)
8:45 The Bishop's Wife (1947)
11:00 Crack-Up (1946)
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| Holiday Affair (1949) |
Sunday, December 2
Christmas Classics
7:00 pm The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
9:00 Holiday Affair (1949)
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| Holiday Inn (1942) |
Saturday, December 8
Christmas Classics
7:00 pm Holiday Inn (1942)
9:00 The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)
11:00 Too Late for Tears (1949)
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| It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947) |
Sunday, December 9
Christmas Classics
7:00 pm It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947)
9:15 O. Henry's Full House (1952)
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| 3 Godfathers (1949) |
Saturday, December 15
Christmas Classics
7:00 pm Trail of Robin Hood (1950)
8:30 3 Godfathers (1949)
11:00 Talk About a Stranger (1952)
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| Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) |
Sunday, December 16
Christmas Classics
7:00 pm Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
9:00 Little Women (1994)
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| Cover-Up (1949) |
Monday, December 17
Christmas Crime
7:00 pm Lady on a Train (1945)
9:00 Lady in the Lake (1947)
11:00 Fitzwilly (1967)
1:00 am Crooks Anonymous (1966)
2:45 Cover-Up (1949)
4:15 Backfire (1950)
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| Beware, My Lovely (1952) |
Saturday, December 22
Christmas Classics
7:00 pm Remember the Night (1940)
9:00 Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
11:00 Beware, My Lovely (1952)
12:45 am Period of Adjustment (1962)
2:45 A Carol for Another Christmas (1964)
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| All Mine to Give (1957) |
Sunday, December 23
5:00 am Scrooge (1935)
6:30 A Night at the Movies: Merry Christmas (2011)
7:30 Bush Christmas (1947)
9:00 Beware, My Lovely (1952)
10:45 O. Henry's Full House (1952)
1:00 pm Susan Slept Here (1954)
3:00 All Mine To Give (1957)
5:00 Holiday Inn (1942)
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| The Holly and the Ivy (1952) |
Christmas Classics
7:00 The Holly and the Ivy (1952)
9:00 A Christmas Carol (1951)
11:00 King of Kings (1927)
1:45 Fanny and Alexander (1982)
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| The Great Rupert (1950) |
Monday, December 24
5:00 am Beyond Tomorrow (1940)
6:30 Little Women (1933)
8:30 The Great Rupert (1950)
10:00 Babes in Toyland (1934)
11:30 The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
1:15 pm Holiday Affair (1949)
3:00 Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
5:00 Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
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| A Christmas Carol (1938) |
Christmas Eve
7:00 The Bishop's Wife (1947)
9:00 A Christmas Carol (1938)
10:30 In the Good Old Summertime (1949)
12:30 am Meet John Doe (1941)
2:45 Desk Set (1957)
Tuesday, December 25
5:00 am Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)
7:00 3 Godfathers (1949)
9:00 Bundle of Joy (1956)
11:00 Bachelor Mother (1939)
12:30 Fitzwilly (1967)
2:30 The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)
4:45 It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947)
6 More of the Best Dressed Dresses
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Bette Davis in Walter Plunkett in "Of Human Bondage" (1946)
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| Rita Hayworth in "Cover Girl" (1944) |
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| Fay Wray in "Doctor X" (1932) |
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| Rita Hayworth in Jean Louis/Marcel Vertes in "Tonight and Every Night" (1945) |
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| Claudette Colbert in Travis Banton in "Imitation of Life" (1934) |
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| Rita Hayworth in Jean Louis in "Affair in Trinidad" (1952) |