Blogathon

The Fifth Wonderful Grace Kelly Blogathon: To Catch A Thief (1955)

November 12, 2019

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, To Catch A Thief stars Cary Grant as former cat burglar John Robie, now retired in the French Riviera, who comes under suspicion when a thief impersonating his modus operandi begins stealing the jewels of wealthy tourists. Grace Kelly is Frances Stevens, a nouveau riche American heiress, in her third and final collaboration with the famed director.

This post is part of the Fifth Wonderful Grace Kelly Blogathon, hosted by Musings of a Classic Film Addict, The Flapper Dame, and The Wonderful World of Cinema

CMBA 10th Anniversary Blogathon: 100 Years of United Artists

October 16, 2019

On February 5th 1919, four of the most powerful players in the movie business officially joined together to form the United Artists Corporation. D.W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks were unparalleled in terms of their creative and financial successes, and they’d decided that the time had finally come for them to seize control of their own creative destinies.

This post is part of the Classic Movie Blog Association 10th Anniversary Blogathon

The Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn Blogathon: Woman of the Year (1942)

October 11, 2019

Woman of the Year is a romantic comedy directed by George Stevens, featuring the first on-screen pairing of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. They star as Tess Harding and Sam Craig, rival reporters at the New York Chronicle, who fall and love and rush into marriage despite the marked differences in their lifestyles.

This post is part of the the Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn Blogathon hosted by In The Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood and Love Letters To Old Hollywood

The Costume Drama Blogathon: Queen Christina (1933)

September 14, 2019

Directed by Rouben Mamoulian, Queen Christina is a pre-code historical biopic which stars Greta Garbo as the eponymous monarch, who struggles to balance the wishes of her subjects and advisors with her own desires. John Gilbert plays Antonio, a handsome Spanish envoy who becomes the queen’s great love.

This post is part of The Costume Drama Blogathon hosted by Moon in Gemini

The Van Johnson Blogathon: In The Good Old Summertime (1949)

August 26, 2019

Directed by Robert Z. Leonard (with un-credited assistance from Buster Keaton), In The Good Old Summertime is a Technicolour musical reworking of Ernst Lubitsch’s The Shop Around The Corner (1940), starring Judy Garland as Veronica Fisher, and Van Johnson as Andrew Larkin, the shop workers who do not realise they are each other’s anonymous pen pal.

This post is part of the Van Johnson Blogathon hosted by Love Letters To Old Hollywood

The Fifth Annual Barrymore Blogathon: A Bill of Divorcement (1932)

August 15, 2019

A Bill of Divorcement is a pre-code drama following a day in the life of a dysfunctional English family at Christmastime, starring Katharine Hepburn in her big-screen debut as Sydney Fairfield, Billie Burke as her mother Meg, and John Barrymore as her father Hilary, who escapes the mental hospital he has spent twenty years in due to shell shock.

This post is part of the Fifth Annual Barrymore Trilogy Blogathon, hosted by In The Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood and Pale Writer

The Noirathon: Barbara Stanwyck in the 1940s

July 31, 2019

Barbara Stanwyck was not only one of classic Hollywood’s most prolific actresses, but also one of its most versatile. Throughout the 1940s and 50s she starred in a number of noir pictures and, despite the heavy conventions of the genre, turned in remarkably different performances in each. In this post I’ll be looking at three of her noir films from the 1940s, and how they demonstrate her unique and chameleon-like talent for the genre.

This post is part of the Noirathon

The Joan Bennett Blogathon: Arizona To Broadway (1933)

July 20, 2019

Directed by James Tinling, Arizona To Broadway is a pre-code romantic crime drama starring James Dunn as prolific conman Smiley Wells, and Joan Bennett as Lynn Martin, who becomes embroiled in his schemes.

This post is part of the Joan Bennett Blogathon hosted by In The Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood

The Daphne du Maurier Blogathon: Rebecca (1940)

June 30, 2019

Rebecca, the classic thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, stars Laurence Olivier as the brooding and mysterious Maxim de Winter, and Joan Fontaine as his second wife, haunted and tormented by the lingering presence of the first Mrs de Winter, who seems to haunt every inch of the grand Manderley Hall which the de Winters call home.

This post is part of the Daphne du Maurier blogathon hosted by Pale Writer

Clark Gable Blogathon: Possessed (1931)

June 16, 2019

Directed by Clarence Brown, Possessed is a romantic drama starring Joan Crawford as Marian Martin, a factory girl determined to make a better life for herself in the big city, and Clark Gable as Mark Whitney, her mentor in high-class living and the object of her affections.

This post is part of the Clark Gable blogathon hosted by Love Letters To Old Hollywood