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Royal Film Performance Series: The Bishop’s Wife (1947)
King George VI (blurry), Queen Elizabeth, and Princess Margaret.The movie shown at the second Royal Film Performance, like the first, had a religious tone to it. It was the now Christmas classic, The...
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Bette's Hats and Reviews: Way Back Home (1931)
For Bette Davis' final film of 1931 she was lent to RKO. While the critics didn't have anything nice to say about Way Back Home - VARIETY wrote "As entertainment, the film is unbelievably bad. It runs...
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Cinema Wedding Gowns: Spinout (1966)
Since the Star of the Month for July on Turner Classic Movies is Elvis Presley, I thought it would be fun to highlight a wedding scene from one of his films: Spinout (1966). The brides are Shelley...
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Recycled Costume Roundup - July
In 2018 I discovered a blog dedicated to recycled movie and television costumes from the Golden Age of Hollywood up to the present. If a person comes across a costume that was in two or more films they...
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Bette's Hats and Reviews: The Menace (1932)
I have not been able to find a copy of The Menace (1932). There is a photo of one hat on IMDb, which I have shared here. I do not know if there are any other hats. Of Bette's performance, VARIETY said,...
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Movies I Watched in July
New Moon (1940)It looks like I watched a ton of movies this month but I watched several of Tom Conway's Falcon movies, which are just over an hour. The best one so far is The Falcon in Mexico. The...
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Royal Film Performance Series: Scott of the Antarctic (1948)
The selection for the third Royal Film Performance was the biopic Scott of the Antarctic (1948), about the ill-fated 1912 South Pole Terra Nova Expedition led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott (as this is...
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Bette's Hats and Reviews: Hell's House (1932)
Bette Davis's second of nine movies made in 1932 was, according to her autobiography The Lonely Life, "aptly named Hell's House...which took about five minutes to make although it seemed like an...
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Cinema Wedding Gowns: The Hoodlum Saint (1946)
I've been revisiting a lot of "non-Loy" William Powell movies that I haven't seen in about six years and spotted this wedding gown in The Hoodlum Saint (1946). Esther Williams, who would have been 100...
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Bette's Hats and Reviews: The Man Who Played God (1932)
I have no idea if these were the true colors of the hat, but it's interesting to see nonetheless.It was early 1932 and Bette Davis thought her Hollywood career was over. Then a miracle happened....
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Recycled Costume Roundup - August
Movie costumes that have been used twice are quite often used yet a third time. After I posted last months inaugural roundup, I came across two of these "three-peats." They are both costumes that I...
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Movies I Watched in August
Western Union (1941)This month is my favorite month on TCM: Summer Under the Stars. There are always lots of great rarely-shown films to see and this year was no exception. The days with the most films...
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Royal Film Performance Series: That Forsyte Woman (1949)
This poster proudly heralds the film as "THE CHOICE for the Royal Film Performance."The fourth Royal Film Performance, which took place at the Odeon Cinema in Marble Arch, London on November 17, 1949,...
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Bette's Hats and Reviews: Special Feature!
Today, instead of the next movie in Bette Davis' filmography, I'm sharing two articles from Movie Magazines in which she is featured wearing - you guessed it - hats!The first if from the July 1932...
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The Ghost Goes West (1935)
If you've been following my blog for several years you might have noticed that I've only participated in one blogathon since 2018 (the National Classic Movie Day 2021 blogathon). When Gill of...
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Sunshine Blogger Award
Hamlette's Soliloquy was kind enough to nominate me for a sunshine blogger award recently so, without putting it off, here are the rules and the answers to her interesting questions :)List the...
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Cinema Wedding Gowns: H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941)
This month's wedding gown comes from H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941) starring Robert Young, Hedy Lamarr, and Ruth Hussey. The film has several flashbacks, one being the wedding between Young and Hussey. Being...
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Bette's Hats and Reviews: So Big! (1932)
After her success in The Man Who Played God, Bette Davis was quickly cast is So Big! starring Barbara Stanwyck. She was also cast in The Rich Are Always with Us starring Ruth Chatterton and, for one...
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Recycled Costume Roundup - September
This month I'm highlighting costumes worn by the same actress in two separate movies. One of the things I share on my blog Facebook page is screenshots of Eve Arden's costumes. A few months ago I...
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Movies I Watched in September
Setsuka Hara in Early Summer (1951)I basically spent this month finishing up all the movies I wanted to watch from Summer Under the Stars. Walpurgis Night (1935-Swedish) - Ingrid Bergman Calm Yourself...
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