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Today TCM announced the dates and theme for the 2020 TCM Classic Film Festival. Held April 16-20, the theme for the 2020 TCMFF is Grand Illusions: Fantastic World on Film. TCM describes the theme as: You’re invited on a wondrous journey to enchanted worlds of fantasy and stories beyond belief. From myths and magical creatures […]

In advance of the Raleigh/Cary TCM Backlot Chapter social on August 24, TCM host and author extraordinaire Alicia Malone graciously sent Chapter members a video message in thanks for reading and discussing her book Backwards & In Heels. Chapter members gathered together to watch the surprise message. You too can watch the message by clicking […]

On Saturday, August 24, the Raleigh/Cary TCM Backlot Chapter hosted a Chapter social gathering at Vic’s Italian Restaurant & Pizzeria. Eleven Chapter members and significant others enjoyed pizza and pasta at a social focused on TCM host Alicia Malone’s book on the history of women in film, Backwards & In Heels.   Chapter member Tina […]

The “Road to” series of seven comedy films featuring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour spanned from 1940 to 1962. Each movie was set in an exotic location designed to spoof popular film settings—from “natives in the jungle” and “Arabian desert nights” to “hijinks on the high seas” and “treasures of the Orient.” Since […]

What do you do when you’re making King Kong and you’ve got time on your hands? You film King Kong during the day and you make another movie at night. That’s just what King Kong (1933) directors Ernest B. Schoedsack and Merian C. Cooper did. Using the same King Kong jungle sets, Schoedsack and Cooper […]

Put on your Sunday clothes when you feel down and out Strut down the street and have your picture took Dressed like a dream, your spirits seem to turn about That Sunday shine is a certain sign that you feel as fine as you look The Raleigh/Cary TCM Backlot Chapter put on its Sunday “movie-going” […]

The Raleigh/Cary TCM Backlot Chapter is having a banner month in August! Several chapter members are live-tweeting during TCM’s Summer Under the Stars programming from our Chapter Twitter account: @TCMBacklotRDU. Just last night, Chapter member Lora, live-tweeted during The Killers as part of TCM’s programming in tribute to Ava Gardner. Many TCM fans and TMC […]

Readying to see the TCM Big Screen Classics 50th anniversary presentation of Hello, Dolly! (1969). Below are some tidbits related to the lead role of Dolly. Title character Dolly is supposed to be a widow some years older than love interest Horace Vandegelder. However, in the 1969 film the age gap between Barbra Streisand and […]