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The Carole Lombard Memorial Blogathon: No Man Of Her Own (1932)

January 19, 2020

Directed by Wesley Ruggles, No Man Of Her Own is a fantastic and often overlooked pre-code about the unlikely romance between Clark Gable’s unscrupulous cardsharp Babe Stewart, and small-town librarian Connie Randall, played by Carole Lombard. It has no relation to the 1950 Barbara Stanwyck film of the same name.

This post is part of the Carole Lombard Memorial Blogathon hosted by In The Good Old Days Of Classic Hollywood and Carole & Co.

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2 Comments CATEGORIES: 1930s, Blogathon, Carole Lombard, Clark Gable, Paramount, Pre-Code

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The Second Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Blogathon: Top Hat (1935)

December 31, 2019

Directed by Mark Sandrich, Top Hat is a screwball musical comedy starring Fred Astaire as Jerry Travers, a dancer newly arrived in London to star in a major show, and Ginger Rogers as Dale Tremont, the woman who Jerry falls desperately in love with.

This post is part of The Second Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Blogathon hosted by Love Letters To Old Hollywood and In The Good Old Days Of Classic Hollywood

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The Third Annual Lauren Bacall Blogathon: Woman’s World (1954)

November 29, 2019

Directed by Jean Negulesco, Woman’s World is a corporate drama featuring Clifford Webb as automobile tycoon Ernest Gifford, who is searching for a new second-in-command after the recent death of his company’s general manager. In order to fill the role he brings three of the best men in the company to Gifford Motors’ New York headquarters, with a plan to select his successor after close observation of not only the men, but also their wives. The cast includes June Allyson and Cornel Wilde as Katie and Bill Baxter, Arlene Dahl and Van Heflin as Carol and Jerry Talbot, and Lauren Bacall and Fred MacMurray and Elizabeth and Sidney Burns.

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

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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

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5 Comments CATEGORIES: 1950s, Alfred Hitchcock, Blogathon, Cary Grant, Grace Kelly

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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

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4 Comments CATEGORIES: 1910s, Blogathon, Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, Douglas Fairbanks, Film History, Mary Pickford, United Artists

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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

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5 Comments CATEGORIES: 1940s, Blogathon, George Stevens, Katharine Hepburn, MGM, Spencer Tracy

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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

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4 Comments CATEGORIES: 1930s, Blogathon, Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, MGM, Pre-Code, Reginald Owen, Rouben Mamoulian

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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

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1 Comment CATEGORIES: 1940s, Blogathon, Buster Keaton, Judy Garland, MGM, Robert Z. Leonard, Van Johnson

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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

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2 Comments CATEGORIES: 1930s, Billie Burke, Blogathon, George Cukor, John Barrymore, Katharine Hepburn, Pre-Code, RKO

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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

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“I suppose you might call me the sophisticated t “I suppose you might call me the sophisticated type. I like to act with dialogue. Not with grunts.”⁣
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Happy birthday to Cary Grant #botd in 1904⁣
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“A woman has just as much right in this world as “A woman has just as much right in this world as a man, and can get along in it just as well if she puts her mind to it.”⁣
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Happy birthday to Carole Lombard #botd in 1908 (pictured July 1938)⁣
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"We had individuality. We did as we pleased. We st "We had individuality. We did as we pleased. We stayed up late. We dressed the way we wanted. I used to whiz down Sunset Boulevard in my open Kissel, with several red chow dogs to match my hair."⁣
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Happy birthday to Clara Bow #botd in 1905⁣
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‪“V stands for Vampire, and it stands for Veng ‪“V stands for Vampire, and it stands for Vengeance. The vampire I play is the vengeance of my sex upon its exploiters. You see, I have the face of a vampire, perhaps, but the heart of a feminist.”‬⁣
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‪Happy birthday to Theda Bara #botd in 1885‬⁣
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‪Olivia de Havilland on the set of In This Our L ‪Olivia de Havilland on the set of In This Our Life (1942)‬⁣
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‪Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine attend Ma ‪Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine attend Marlene Dietrich’s opening night party at the Rainbow Room in NYC, September 1962‬⁣
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‪“Do you know, people say I am a terrible flir ‪“Do you know, people say I am a terrible flirt. You know what made me that way? American pictures! They show a girl how to vamp!”‬⁣
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‪Happy birthday to Lupe Vélez #botd in 1908‬⁣
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‪“They need you. Without you, they have an emp ‪“They need you. Without you, they have an empty screen. So when you get on there, just do what you think is right and stick with it.”‬⁣
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‪Happy birthday to James Cagney #botd in 1899 ‬⁣
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‪“Put me in the last fifteen minutes of a pict ‪“Put me in the last fifteen minutes of a picture and I don't care what happened before. I don't even care if I was IN the rest of the damned thing - I'll take it in those fifteen minutes.”‬⁣
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‪Happy birthday to Barbara Stanwyck, pictured celebrating on set of Breakfast For Two, 1937‬⁣
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