Grace Kelly: TO CATCH A THIEF, THE SWAN
Grace Kelly on TCM: Part I
Thanks to Kelly’s Oscar win, The Country Girl is interesting as a historical curiosity — it’s the sort of "gutsy" and "realistic" film adaptation of a respected stage play that was very popular among the filmgoing elite of the 1950s (e.g., Tea and Sympathy, A Hatful of Rain), but that I generally find both lame and artificial. Bing Crosby’s drunk is about as convincing as Kelly’s frumpish housewife (a role that should have gone to original choice Jennifer Jones), but that didn’t prevent a number of Academy members from making sure Crosby, director George Seaton, and the film itself received Academy Award nominations. Seaton, in fact, did win an Oscar for his [...]
by Andre Soares | November 5, 2009
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Tags: Classic Movies, George Seaton, Grace Kelly, Green Fire, High Society, The Country Girl, The Rockingham Tea Set, The Swan, To Catch a Thief, Turner Classic Movies
Frank Sinatra on TCM
Bobby-soxer-turned-blue-haired-matron idol Frank Sinatra will have his "Summer Under the Stars" day on Friday, Aug. 28.
Turner Classic Movies will show twelve of the actor-singer films, the best of which is On the Town, a zesty musical about three sailors and their three girls (four, if you include Alice Pearce) spending a day together in New York City. The three guys — Sinatra, Gene Kelly, and Jules Munshin (above) — are all likable and fine, but it’s the female quartet that does it for me: in addition to Pearce, there’s Vera-Ellen, Betty Garrett, and Ann Miller. In my view, those women are the ones who should have been the superstars of Hollywood musicals of the ’40s and ’50s. Anyhow, Kelly [...]
by Andre Soares | August 23, 2009
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Tags: Classic Movies, Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, High Society, On the Town, Shirley MacLaine, Some Came Running, Summer Under the Stars, The Kissing Bandit, Turner Classic Movies
