Julie Andrews has one of the most varied careers of any woman in Hollywood. She enjoyed great success as a child singer on the European vaudeville circuit in the late 1940s and early 50s. She then became a major Broadway star throughout the 1950s with such hit musical productions as […]
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Do you promise that your detectives shall well and truly detect the crimes presented to them, using those wits which it may please you to bestow upon them and not placing reliance on, nor making use of Divine Revelation, Feminine Intuition, Mumbo-Jumbo, Jiggery-Pokery, Coincidence or the Act of God? I […]
*I will continue to accept posts throughout this week and add them to the roster, but only posts submitted by midnight of May 12, 2014 will be eligible for the random prize drawing. Thank you for everyone who has participated in this blogathon – you’ve made it AWESOME! The time […]
“The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights” (Gloria Steinem) International Women’s Day has been observed since the turn of the 20th century, back when the early feminist movement was […]
“There’s one thing George and I agree on. Actually, we agree on almost everything. I don’t know anything we don’t agree on. One thing we really agree on is, we love LITTLE WOMEN. We loved doing it. And we love the film we made.” (Katharine Hepburn in Chandler, 83) LITTLE […]
George Cukor was nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Director, ultimately winning in 1965 for MY FAIR LADY (1964). His first nominations were for two of the 10 films he made with Katharine Hepburn, LITTLE WOMEN (1933) and THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940). Although Cukor was known primarily as a […]
Until a couple years ago, I more or less ignored the Academy Award nominations in the short film categories. But every year watching the Oscars, I’d be intrigued by the snippets they’d show of the short films, and I’d make a resolution to watch them the next year. Luckily, year […]
2013 proves to be a fairly competitive year for the Academy Awards, with big names and titles vying for the top spots. British director Steve McQueen‘s film 12 YEARS A SLAVE about the real life experiences of Solomon Northup has been nominated for nine Oscars, and it deserves every one. […]
Katharine Hepburn was nominated for a whopping 12 Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role, more than any other actress in her time. Although Hepburn won the Oscar for four of her film roles (MORNING GLORY (1933), GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER (1967), THE LION IN WINTER (1968), […]
Shirley Temple was only four years old when she made her first short picture for Universal Studios in 1932. She was featured in several shorts between 1932 and ’34 with a group of other child actors. One of her more popular shorts was entitled “Kid in Hollywood,” in which Temple […]
When Garson Kanin published Tracy & Hepburn: An Intimate Memoir in 1972, Katharine Hepburn was furious and refused to talk to him for years. But after time went by and many of her friends started passing away, including Kanin’s wife and writing partner Ruth Gordon, Miss Hepburn came to value his […]
portrait of Katharine Hepburn and her four Oscar statuettes Katharine Hepburn was nominated for the Academy Award for Actress in a Leading Role 12 times, a record that has only been beaten in recent years by Meryl Streep, although treep has only won three of her nominations while Hepburn has […]
This post is written in conjunction with Classic Chops – Blonde Bombshells, hosted by The LAMB. Mae West made some of the raciest films of the studio era, single-handedly necessitating the instigation of censorship in the motion picture industry. This voluptuous blonde almost exclusively played over-sexed madams on screen, but […]
One of the coolest things about Katharine Hepburn is her athleticism. She just loved standing on her head and could do so well into old age. I’ve never been able to stand on my head. One of the many ways I am not as cool as Katharine Hepburn. Alas.
This post is written in conjunction with the Life, Love, and the Movies blogathon hosted by My Filmviews. This blogathon is a lot like the 7×7 Link Award or the Liebster Award. These awards are handed to new bloggers so that they can share a little about their movie experience […]
This post is written in conjunction with the True Classics’ 4th anniversary Saturday Morning Memories blogathon: “The rules are simple: on your own site, post a brief piece about one beloved cartoon short that you remember from childhood. If you can find a video and embed it on your site, […]
FROZEN (2013) is a great example of how Disney can unfold non-traditional plot lines without antagonizing traditionalists. The story is loosely, and I do mean loosely, based on Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Snow Queen” (1845). The seven stories of “The Snow Queen” constitute Andersen’s longest fairy tale about a boy and […]
Did you know that Schuyler Grant (pronounced “Skyler”), who played Diana Barry in the Anne of Green Gables TV movies, was Katharine Hepburn’s grand-niece? Schuyler Grant is the granddaughter of Katharine Hepburn’s younger sister Marion, who married her high school sweetheart Ellsworth Grant. The couple had two sons, Schuyler’s father […]
This post is written in conjunction with the Classic Movie Blog Association (CMBA) Film Passion 101 Blogathon. Old movies were a natural part of my childhood. My parents have always enjoyed classic films, so I grew up with AMC, Turner Classic Movies, and movies from our own VHS collection. My […]
“I see their ugliness and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both.” This line, read by the narrator Death, is meant to refer to mankind generally. But for Brian Percival’s THE BOOK THIEF (based on Markus Zusak’s novel), this statement more aptly applies to Nazi-era […]
When I was an au pair in England last year, I had a really deep conversation with the bright little 10-year-old boy I was taking care of. As a fellow blogger, Louis couldn’t understand how I could find enough feministy film stuff to write about. So I took Louis over […]
Katharine Hepburn narrated the words of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt for this 1941 short film entitled “Women in Defense” and produced by the Office for Emergency Management – Film Unit. In this clip, Hepburn describes the many ways women were involved in the war effort, from a science and engineering […]
This post is written in conjunction with the second annual What a Character! blogathon hosted by Kellee at Outspoken and Freckled, Aurora at Once Upon a Screen, and Paula at Paula’s Cinema Club. Read my contribution to last year’s blogathon about black character actress Louise Beavers. Classic film fans will immediately […]
Lady Macbeth is Shakespeare’s sister (must read). Imagine her as a precocious young child. She can read, so we know she has some level of education. She knows the whos and whats of court life. She wants to be involved in what is going on around her. She is not […]
This home movie was made by Katharine Hepburn’s husband, Ludlow “Luddy” Ogden Smith during the first years of their marriage, before Hollywood, fame, professional makeup artists, and costume designers came on the scene. Miss Hepburn would have been in her early 20s at the time. She’s a cutie-patootie, and she […]