I can’t believe 2018 is half over…how did I miss May and June, it seems like the TCM Film Festival was just yesterday. Due to circumstances beyond my control I neglected signing up for the online free Mad About Musicals course offered by TCM. I believe I procrastinated signing up because I didn’t want to…
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La La Land Love for Classic Hollywood
It’s no secret to the die hard Classic Hollywood fans that Hollywood has been struggling.
Teen Beach Movie & West Side Story
Disney Channel brings us more old movie magic thanks to the success of Teen Beach Movie ( a mashup of Frankie & Annette , West Side Story, and Grease ) with Teen Beach Movie 2 and the Wet Side Story characters entering the real world this summer. Its a great time to intro the little ones in your life to…
My Little Ponies: Friendship is Magic and Music Man
Music Man plays at Club TCM at 8pm On TCM Film Festival DAY TWO, April 11th, 2014 My Little Ponies: Friendship is Magic, oddly incorporates a lot of Classic Film references throughout the show. There’s a Gone with the Wind scene, a Star Wars scene, and many more, including this one. Proof that The Music…
Deanna Durbin SPRING PARADE
Waiting here at Classic Hollywood for the release of Deanna Durbin’s long hidden film Spring Parade, we chose to contact Larry at the Library of Congress to see what was going on. This is the DISAPPOINTING answer we got… Spring Parade still sits on our shelves waiting for Universal Studios to release it. I have asked several times…
Dames
Dames (1934 Warner Brothers): Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler and Dick Powell James( Powell) is trying to get money from the rich Uncle Ezra for his new broadway show, but Uncle Ezra wants nothing to do with that one branch of his family tree who is not an upstanding moral citizen. In fact, upon swearing that…
Gold Diggers of 1933
Gold Diggers of 1933 (Warner Brothers): Joan Blondell, Ginger Rogers, and Dick Powell “I believe I can make this girl transfer her affection from him to me.” Down and out in the Depression, Ginger Rogers, Joan Blondell, and Dick Powell get it together to put on what they hope to be a successful show. But…
Thoroughly Modern Millie
January 31, 1921 Carol Channing Honoring Carol Channing as the crazy acrobatic mother in Thoroughly Modern Millie, just seems the best plan for any Birthday Celebration. Whether it be the stunts she’s doing with her many boyfriends, or her scratchy singing of Jazz Baby, she’s sure to get a place in your heart before the end…
Classic Hollywood Musical: Gigi
Gigi, Winner of 9 Academy Awards. One of our favorite musicals, sharing the spotlight with My Fair Lady and dare I say even The Sound of Music, begins with Maurice Chevalier’s “Thank Heaven for little Girls.” Memorable? Yes, but probably more so because this is a story about a young girl being raised to be…
‘New Year, New Decade, New Royal Wedding’
The original ‘Royal Wedding’ took place in November 1947, the MGM movie version starring Jane Powell and Fred Astaire as a brother sister dance act booked in London during the ‘Royal Wedding’ was released in 1951. Naturally the only part of the movie I had seen in the past was the ‘Fred dancing up the…
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