This Week in Movie History: Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life, Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Mike Nichols’ The Graduate starring a young Dustin Hoffman.
Read more →This Week In Movie History, 12.16.12
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This Week In Film History, 09.02.12
September 5, 1901: William McKinley, the first U.S. president to be captured on film, is shown at the Pan-American Expo in Buffalo, one day before his assassination. September 5, 1916: In response to the outcry over The Birth of a…
Read more →Fred Astaire: Born In Top Hat And Tails
Fred Astaire They say that the mark of the great ones is that they make their accomplishments look so effortless, and that certainly applies to this inimitably graceful figure who defined the musical film genre for generations with his polish,…
Read more →Guest Review: Monkey Business
This 1952 exercise in foolishness, directed by Howard Hawks, is constructed well enough to make itself likeable, even charming. The star-studded cast doesn’t hurt anything either—Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers and Charles Coburn all get their chances to jump around and use…
Read more →The Major and the Minor: Classic Movie Review
Guest blogger Brandie Ashe presents a look at 1942′s The Major and the Minor, starring Ginger Rogers and Ray Milland: The film is a must-see, if only for the slightly disturbing sexual undertones that inevitably make the uninitiated viewer squirm…
Read more →The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939): Movie Review
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939) The nine films Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers made together at RKO between 1933 and 1939 are some of the most magical and sublime movies ever made. They’re also among the wittiest….
Read more →Serenade Me, Mr. Powell: 20 Million Sweethearts (1943)
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Ginger Rogers is a triple threat. She can sing, act and dance. She even won an Oscar for her 1941 performance in Kitty Foyle. I taped several of her films that I haven’t seen (I’m trying to see all of…
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