So lucky Canadians (well those who live in Toronto) are getting an awesome film retrospective of James Mason's work. I am so jealous. We never have anything cool like this here. No I am not counting Metropolis/Breathless because that is playing across the country. I mean something that is dedicated to Classic Film/Film History that is special to ( Read more... )

Okay so I have a real thing for voices, especially unique ones. Some people go for looks for me it is all in the voice. And yeah this is just me squeeing about classic actors again. ;)

So here are a few of my favorites:

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I still plan to do favorite classic actresses and directors one of these days but I just watched Roberta with Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, & Irene Dunne and it made me think of this. Well that means the first one should be obvious, actually they are all pretty obvious. :D

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A couple days ago (January 18th to be exact) was Cary Grant's birthday. Which I sadly forgot until I was reminded by kittenbiscuits ♥

Today happens to sadly be the day Audrey Hepburn passed away ;____________ ( Read more... )

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I am bored so a random Cary Grant post:

I can never decide between Notorious and North by Northwest. They are both incredible but in different ways.

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Just watched this classic film from 1941 Bedtime Story on TCM. Now normally I would have ignored this film because it's sort of forgotten and I don't really know the director well. Not to mention I am just so-so when it comes to Loretta Young. But the film stars my love Fredric March and I knew I would regret not watching one of his films when I ( Read more... )

I already shared This Awesome Classic Film Tribute so I thought I would share a few other music tributes I enjoy for classic Films.

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On one of the classic LJ communities someone made a list of their top 10 movies from the 1930's. I don't think I would be able to make a top 10 of my favorite movies because there are just too many. The 1930's is one of my favorite periods for movies (with Hawks, Capra, and Lubitsch probably coming on top as my favorite directors for that period ( Read more... )

I've been a long time fan of Hitchcock. Although liking Hitchcock is not really anything special because he is probably the most popular and well known "classic" director ( Read more... )