Hollywood Revue Posted by Angela on August 8, 2011

William Marble’s (Charles Laughton) financial problems are hardly a secret.  He can’t go anywhere without someone asking him to pay up on a bill or someone whispering about how he can’t afford to buy his own drinks.  Things really come to a head when his boss finds out about a...   read more

Hollywood Revue Posted by Angela on August 7, 2011

Hat check clerk Louis Blore (Red Skelton) works in a nightclub where one of the star performers is May Daly (Lucille Ball). Louis is in love with May, but he has some competition from dancer Alec Howe (Gene Kelly). May loves Alec and Alec loves her, but unfortunately for both...   read more

Hollywood Revue Posted by Angela on August 6, 2011

Happy 100th birthday to Lucille Ball!  Lucy is easily one of the most beloved pop culture icons of all time. You’d be hard pressed to find someone who can’t recognize her picture, name one of her films, or describe one of the many classic scenes from I Love Lucy.  Everyone...   read more

Hollywood Revue Posted by Angela on August 6, 2011

The Lemp family is a family of musicians.  Adam (Claude Rains), the family patriarch, is a music professor and his daughters Emma (Gale Page), Ann (Priscilla Lane), Kay (Rosemary Lane), and Thea (Lola Lane) are all talented musicians as well.  But despite all the talent the daughters have, Kay is...   read more

Hollywood Revue Posted by Angela on August 5, 2011

Like so many other girls, Kiki (Norma Talmadge) longs to be a famous performer, but instead she’s out on the streets selling newspapers.  But Kiki is a pretty smart gal, and when she overhears a chorus girl getting fired, she seizes the opportunity to see the show’s producer Victor Renal   read more

Hollywood Revue Posted by Angela on August 4, 2011

Tommy Connors (Spencer Tracy) is a big shot gangster and when he’s sentenced to time in Sing Sing, he expects to be as much of a big shot in prison as he is out of prison.  He arrives to a crowd of photographers and his lawyer friend Joe Finn (Louis...   read more

Hollywood Revue Posted by Angela on August 3, 2011

By day, Louise Mauban (Luise Rainer) is a regular, albeit promising, dramatic school student.  But by night, she’s always out on the town living the high life with her boyfriend Marquis Andre D’Abbencourt (Alan Marshal).  Well, not really.  That’s just what she tells all her classm   read more

Hollywood Revue Posted by Angela on August 2, 2011

It’s never a small event when there’s a prison break.  But for the town of Tarl, Texas, it proves to be a life altering event for many of its residents when Bubber Reeves (Robert Redford) and another inmate make a break for it.  While they’re running, the other convict kills...   read more

Hollywood Revue Posted by Angela on July 29, 2011

It’s that time of year again!  Let Summer Under the Stars commence!  I love this year’s line-up.  Even though there are plenty of the usual SUTS suspects like Bette Davis, Cary Grant, and Jimmy Stewart, more than half of this year’s stars have never been part of SUTS before.  And   read more

Hollywood Revue Posted by Angela on July 25, 2011

In Casablanca, everyone comes to Rick’s.  In Born to Dance, everyone comes to Jenny Saks’ (Una Merkel) Lonely Hearts Club in New York.  Jenny is married to Gunny Saks (Sid Silvers), but she barely knows him since he’s a sailor who has been away with the Navy for four years. ...   read more

Hollywood Revue Posted by Angela on July 15, 2011

I’ve read quite a few biographies on classic Hollywood figures, but Irving Thalberg: Boy Wonder to Producer Prince by Mark Viera is really quite different from all of them.  Mainly, I was impressed by how this book does not waste time.  By the page five, Irving is meeting Carl Laemmle,...   read more

Hollywood Revue Posted by Angela on July 12, 2011

Dear Netflix, Did you hear something?  If you think you heard some cheering off in the distance, that was the sound of Blockbuster employees and independent video store owners everywhere cheering with delight when you announced your outright stupid new pricing plans today. But those are probably the   read more

Hollywood Revue Posted by Angela on July 10, 2011

When Julius Caesar (Claude Rains) comes to visit Alexandria, one of the first things he does is see the Sphinx.  While basking in the Sphinx’s glory, he meets a strange, silly young girl who urges him to hide before the Romans find and eat him.  After talking to this girl...   read more

Hollywood Revue Posted by Angela on July 9, 2011

It’s not uncommon for people to want to spend time with their families when they’re under pressure.  So when Jean Rice (Joan Plowright) is overwhelmed from dealing with a fiancé who wants to move to Africa and her brother being off in Egypt fighting in a war, she takes a...   read more

Hollywood Revue Posted by Angela on July 5, 2011

Hope everybody had a nice holiday weekend!  Even though it’s still early in July, I’ve been planning a couple of fun things for August and September.  Let’s start with my August plans.  As you already know, August is always Summer Under the Stars Month on TCM.  The great thing abou   read more

Hollywood Revue Posted by Angela on June 29, 2011

TCM for July is one of those months that’s kind of odd, but I can’t help but love the fact that it’s odd just because where else are you going to see this kind of schedule?  I challenge you to find another network where you can see a night dedicated...   read more

Hollywood Revue Posted by Angela on June 27, 2011

Life hasn’t been easy for Rick Martin (Kirk Douglas). His parents were killed when he was young, leaving his sister to care for him. He didn’t have any friends, he wasn’t a good student, but one night he finds himself at a church and he discovers that he does have...   read more

Hollywood Revue Posted by Angela on June 22, 2011

Julien Tavernier (Maurice Ronet) and Florence Carala (Jeanne Moreau) are in the middle of a sordid affair.  The only thing standing in the way of them being together is Simon Carala, Florence’s husband and Julien’s boss.  As is the case in so many movies, they hatch a scheme to kill...   read more

Hollywood Revue Posted by Angela on June 19, 2011

So, yesterday was a very busy day here.  Now that the auction is over, I just thought I’d post a few things here to wrap things up: I’ve really got to applaud Debbie Reynolds for all the work she put into maintaining this collection over the years.  Not only did...   read more

Hollywood Revue Posted by Angela on June 18, 2011

Even though I’m broke and can’t afford to actually bid on anything in today’s auction, there’s so much amazing stuff up for sale today that I can’t resist trying to follow the auction as best I can.  So I figured I’d try my hand at live blogging and cover the...   read more