Classic Movies Posted by KC on September 3, 2014

Source Alan Ladd (1913-1964) Mantan Moreland (1902-1973)   read more

Classic Movies Posted by KC on September 3, 2014

The lavishly-filmed Maya stars Jay North in a television role worlds apart from his famous turn as Dennis the Menace. Shot on location in India, it was an expensive show, and so-so ratings could not justify the cost beyond a single season. It's an unusual and interesting program though, and...   read more

Classic Movies Posted by KC on September 1, 2014

Source Yvonne De Carlo (1922-2007) Betty Blythe (1893-1972) Johnny Mack Brown (1904-1974)   read more

Classic Movies Posted by KC on August 31, 2014

Source James Coburn (1928-2002) Richard Basehart (1914-1984) Alan Jay Lerner (1918-1986) Fredric March (1897-1975)   read more

Classic Movies Posted by KC on August 31, 2014

Image She is an urchin pretending to be grown up, having the time of her life in Mother’s moth-eaten finery, tottering about in high-heeled shoes and sipping ginger ale as though it were a champagne cocktail. -Cecil Beaton, about Marilyn Monroe Quote Source   read more

Classic Movies Posted by KC on August 30, 2014

Source Joan Blondell (1906-1979) Fred MacMurray (1908-1991) Shirley Booth (1898-1992) Raymond Massey (1896-1983)   read more

Classic Movies Posted by KC on August 29, 2014

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Classic Movies Posted by KC on August 29, 2014

Source Preston Sturges (1898-1959) Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982) Sylvia Fine (1913-1991) Barry Sullivan (1912-1994)   read more

Classic Movies Posted by KC on August 28, 2014

Source Charles Boyer (1899-1978) James Wong Howe (1899-1976) Donald O’Connor (1925-2003)   read more

Classic Movies Posted by KC on August 27, 2014

Source Tuesday Weld (70) Martha Raye (1916-1994)   read more

Classic Movies Posted by KC on August 27, 2014

Watching the newly-released Blu-ray of Out of the Past (1947) took home viewing to a new level for me. It's jaw dropping beauty can be described endlessly, but is best experienced. The picture is sharp and clear, but shimmers with just the right amount of grain to warm the images....   read more

Classic Movies Posted by KC on August 25, 2014

Source Alice White (1904-1983) Ruby Keeler (1909-1993) Van Johnson (1916-2008) Mel Ferrer (1917-2008)   read more

Classic Movies Posted by KC on August 24, 2014

She had a huge amount of charisma. You have no idea. She walked into that room and you could feel her energy. You could just feel it. It was kind of overwhelming. -Margalo Ashley-Farrand about Kay Francis. She met her at age four, when the actress was having an affair...   read more

Classic Movies Posted by KC on August 23, 2014

Source Vera Miles (85) Gene Kelly (1912-1996) Barbara Eden (80)   read more

Classic Movies Posted by KC on August 22, 2014

Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) Cecil Kellaway (1893-1973) Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003) Image Source   read more

Classic Movies Posted by KC on August 22, 2014

Image For those of you who use the Watch TCM app, this is a great capsule review round-up of the Lee Tracy films shown yesterday--Acidemic The rediscovered footage for Orson Welle's Too Much Johnson is now streaming online at the National Film Preservation Foundation!--National Film Preservation F   read more

Classic Movies Posted by KC on August 19, 2014

Source Colleen Moore (1900-1988) Collier Young (1908-1980)   read more

Classic Movies Posted by KC on August 18, 2014

Source Marcel Carné (1909-1996) Shelley Winters (1920-2006) Criswell (1907-1982) Robert Redford (77) Max Factor (1904-1996) Alan Mowbray (1896-1969) Travis Banton (1894-1958)   read more

Classic Movies Posted by KC on August 18, 2014

I was excited when Warner Archive released several Joe E. Brown movies recently. I'd always liked the comic actor, who was best known for his astonishingly large mouth, but I'd only seen him in two of his later films, Some Like it Hot (1959) and Hollywood Canteen (1944). His appearance...   read more

Classic Movies Posted by KC on August 17, 2014

Never deny. Never explain. Say nothing and become a legend. -Jeanne Eagels Quote Source, Image Source   read more