TCM Classic Film Festival 2023 Part One At this point, it’s not a coincidence that I always seem to kick off the first evening the the TCM Classic Film Festival with a pre-Code feature. That programming slot is clearly an...
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (George C. Wolfe, 2020) (first view) Wolfe – a highly-accomplished and renowned theatre director – brings his stage background to bear in helping fill each minor role with real life, not letting the film scapegoat anybody....
In Name Only (John Cromwell, 1939) (first view) If anyone told me there was a 30s movie with Carole Lombard, Cary Grant, and Kay Francis, my first guess wouldn’t necessarily be a life-and-death melodrama, but here we are. Everyone is...
Title: Arsenic and Old Lace Year: 1944 Director: Frank Capra Cast: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Jack Carson, Raymond Massey Synopsis: A noted bachelor shocks everyone with an engagement notice. When he informs his kindly old pair of aunts, things take...
Title: Bringing Up Baby Year:1938 Director: Howard Hawks Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Walter Catlett, May Robson Synopsis: A bookish paleontologist, Dr. Huxley (Grant), is working tirelessly to reconstruct the skeleton of a brontosaurus. However, things get sticky two days...
When you think of Frank Capra, you probably think of many things, mostly big and emotional ones, but you don’t think of subtlety. That certainly holds true for his 1944 adaptation of the popular stage play Arsenic and Old Lace (actually filmed...
In this episode, West returns to the composer/filmmaker collaborations of Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Hitchcock and plays music from their 1959 film North By Northwest. Plus, an update from the Musical Notation Action Newsdesk! Music in this episode includes: “The...
Cary Grant NORTH BY NORTHWEST, THE PHILADELPHIA STORY, NOTORIOUS, BRINGING UP BABY, SUSPICION, HIS GIRL FRIDAY, ARSENIC AND OLD LACE As he famously told Newsweek in 1990, “Everybody wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.”...
