Classic Couple

Extending a warm welcome to the newest members of the Raleigh/Cary TCM Backlot Chapter: John, Scott, Tina, Jane, Cathy, Jake, Gloria, Linda, Lydia, Suzanne, Sheila, Karen, Diana, Amanda and Alexandria. 15 new members since the beginning of 2019.

Special Guest Blog By Caroline Lappetito, Raleigh/Cary TCM Backlot Chapter Member “Lots of chocolate for me to eat…warm face, warm hands, warm feet! Ohhhh wouldn’t it be loverly?” “I’m an ordinary man…but let a woman in your life…I shall never let a woman in my life!” “I could have danced all night, I could have […]

We could have danced all night. Given we just saw the TCM Big Screen Classics 55th Anniversary showing of My Fair Lady (1964)! The Raleigh/Cary TCM Backlot Chapter enjoyed our outing today to see the classic musical My Fair Lady, winner of eight Academy Awards in 1965. It’s easy to see how My Fair Lady […]

In the 1930s and 1940s, a Saturday matinee typically offered audiences a serial film, animated cartoons, newsreels and a couple of feature films. The serial Western enjoyed its heyday as moviegoers followed the adventures of a central hero from film to film, sometimes week after week. Between 1928-1950 twenty-five films featured The Cisco Kid as […]

Hers: Kami’s Take Street of Shadows (1953) is part of the February 2019 lineup on The Film Detective. For us, it’s a new classic movie discovery and one we wanted to collaborate on writing about as the Classic Couple. Street of Shadows is the original name of a British film noir set in the streets […]

In preparation for seeing the TCM Big Screen Classics 55th Anniversary showing of My Fair Lady (1964), I cast around for some trivia about the cast. Controversy about the leading roles abounds. Still, the resulting film garnered the following Oscar wins at the 1965 Academy Awards: Best Picture – Jack L. Warner Best Actor in a […]

A Walk in the Sun (1945) is part of the February 2019 lineup on The Film Detective. For me, it’s a new classic movie discovery. The film begins in 1943 on a landing barge, with a group of infantry soldiers from Lee Platoon of the Texas Division awaiting their upcoming landing on a beach near Salerno, […]

Special Guest Blog By Lisa Bistreich-Wolfe Since I was a child, my favorite movie has always been The Wizard of Oz. I watched it every year when it aired on TV, and my family complained that they had to listen “in stereo” as I recited/sang the entire production. Needless to say, when I learned there […]

The House of Gucci just unveiled its Spring/Summer 2019 campaign in a fashion brand tour de force called Gucci Showtime. It’s a trip back to the heyday of 1940s and 1950s movie musicals delivered in a series of song and dance vignettes scored with There’s No Business Like Show Business by Irvin Berlin. Images and video […]