Margaret Perry Posted by MargaretPerry on July 31, 2013

This post is written in conjunction with the Summer Under the Stars Blogathon hosted by Sittin’ on a Backyard Fence and Scribe Hard on Film. Full listings for SUTS programming on Turner Classic Movies can be found HERE. “What an odd fellow. Very generous and thoughtful. Sweet to me. And   read more

Margaret Perry Posted by MargaretPerry on July 23, 2013

This post was written in conjunction with the 2013 Summer Reading Classic Film Book Challenge hosted by Out of the Past. This is my second summer book review. A few months ago, “Movies and the Battle of the Sexes” showed up in my mailbox – a fellow-classic movie lover requested...   read more

Margaret Perry Posted by MargaretPerry on July 21, 2013

Just this past December, I profiled TCM’s then star of the month, Barbara Stanwyck, or “Babs from Brooklyn.” The sassy broad is back again for the Barbara Stanwyck Blogathon, hosted by The Girl with the White Parasol. Barbara Stanwyck played her share of angelic mothers and the lik   read more

Margaret Perry Posted by MargaretPerry on July 7, 2013

My first contribution to the 2013 Summer Reading Classic Film Book Challenge (Out of the Past) will be about my least favorite Katharine Hepburn biography. Actually, “Knowing Hepburn and Other Curious Experiences” by James Prideaux is less a Hepburn biography and more a Prideaux autobiog   read more

Margaret Perry Posted by MargaretPerry on July 3, 2013

Women are being funny again, how about that! The premise of THE HEAT is simple, and very familiar: two mismatched cops are forced to work together against their will, and in the process of fighting the forces of evil, they bond and become best buds. The plot would be clichéd if it weren’t...   read more

Margaret Perry Posted by MargaretPerry on June 12, 2013

“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 Hepburn, Chandler 216) When THE IRON PETTICOAT was released in the middle of...   read more

Margaret Perry Posted by MargaretPerry on May 24, 2013

Women throughout history have cast aside their cumbersome petticoats, crinolines, corsets, and bustles in favour of more practical bifurcated garments. Although we are still navigating the complexity of the body-image standards to which women are being held today, can you imagine being arrested for   read more

Margaret Perry Posted by MargaretPerry on May 15, 2013

“Mother with her real savvy of life. She adored [father]. She adored us. She was deep. She was witty. Some say I am like her. I hope so, I’d be so proud.” (Hepburn 27) As much as I admire Katharine Hepburn the film actress, the real heroine of that family...   read more

Margaret Perry Posted by MargaretPerry on April 6, 2013

Yours Truly at the Tower of London, Summer 2008 In the autumn of 2008 I travelled with a group of students and two professors from my college to England for a Shakespeare abroad. After about a week in Oxford, we went to London to take acting classes at the Globe...   read more

Margaret Perry Posted by MargaretPerry on March 15, 2013

“At Home With Kate: Growing Up in Katharine Hepburn’s Household: An Intimate Portrait” is a bit of a highfalutin title for this humble volume. The book is written by the daughter of Katharine Hepburn’s cook/housekeeper at the NYC residence, so the author did not actually &#82   read more

Margaret Perry Posted by MargaretPerry on February 25, 2013

So I showed up to work today and everybody’s all up in my grill asking me what did I think of the Oscars. What did I think of the Oscars!? What did I think of the Oscars!? They were lame. That’s what I thought of the Oscars. 1.) Seth MacFarlane You...   read more

Margaret Perry Posted by MargaretPerry on February 20, 2013

‘Tis the season to watch movies, fa la la la laaaaa la la la la! The holidays might be over, but ever movie lover knows that January and February are the most exciting months in the cinematic calendar. This year the 85thAcademy Awards ceremony will be held on February 24,...   read more

Margaret Perry Posted by MargaretPerry on February 20, 2013

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 I saw last is my favorite. Other times I’ll list a top...   read more

Margaret Perry Posted by MargaretPerry on February 16, 2013

If truth be told, I wasn’t expecting much when I phoned up my friend and asked her if she wanted to go see THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY with me. I was more interested in chatting to her over dinner than I was in getting to the theatre on time....   read more

Margaret Perry Posted by MargaretPerry on February 4, 2013

“Say anything about me, darling, as long as it isn’t boring.” “My father warned me about men and booze, but he never mentioned a word about women and cocaine.”  Tallulah Bankhead, who passed away in 1968 at the age of 66, would have turned 111 years old last Thursday. I   read more

Margaret Perry Posted by MargaretPerry on January 31, 2013

I am always interested in a book profiling strong women from history. There is something so desirably important about remembering, and reminding others, that women were active participants in every stage of history since the dawn of time. Not only did women participate in world events, they were ins   read more

Margaret Perry Posted by MargaretPerry on January 30, 2013

Director Tom Hooper adopted a huge legacy when he agreed to make yet another version of Victor Hugo’s classic French tale. There are two French film versions of the story: the epic Raymond Bernard production of 1934 and the lesser-known 1958 film directed by Jean-Paul Le Chanois. Hollywood presented   read more

Margaret Perry Posted by MargaretPerry on January 28, 2013

Katharine Hepburn’s brand of feminism can be traced back to the philosophies and practices of Bryn Mawr College, one of the Seven Sisters Colleges of the East. Both Hepburn and her mother attended the college which was seen by many to embody the feminist ideals of its first dean and...   read more

Margaret Perry Posted by MargaretPerry on January 14, 2013

Secondly, the level of an actress’s feminist tendencies is not inherently indicative of her strength of character. Nor does it in any way quantify or qualify her abilities as a performer. For example, some may call Joan Crawford a feminist because she worked so hard to earn a fantabulous caree   read more

Margaret Perry Posted by MargaretPerry on January 9, 2013

Religion Roman Catholic. Young attended Ramona Convent Secondary School as a teen and contributed to a number of Catholic charitable causes during her career. Marlene Deitrich once said of Young, “Every time she sins, she build a church. That’s why there are so many Catholic churches i   read more