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…
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“Road to” Movie Must-See: Road to Bali (1953)
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…
Hunter Becomes Hunted: The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
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…
Backlot Chapter Outing: Hello, Dolly!
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”…
Raleigh/Cary Backlot Chapter Live-Tweeting TCM Summer Under the Stars Programming
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…
Tidbits: Hello, Dolly! (1969)
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…
Roaring Twenties Sex Symbol Clara Bow: My Lady of Whims (1925)
Clara Bow ruled the box-office in the 1920s, with 1925 the year she appeared in the most films—15 in all. Almost half of her 1925 films are lost, but My Lady of Whims survives. Originally seven reels, the surviving shortened version offers a powerful glimpse of Bow’s star power at the age of 20. My…
Backlot Chapter TCM Trivia Gathering
On Saturday, July 27 the Raleigh/Cary TCM Backlot Chapter hosted a Chapter social gathering at Vic’s Italian Restaurant & Pizzeria. Eighteen Chapter members and significant others enjoyed delicious food along with some friendly competition in a TCM trivia contest. Two copies of the book TCM Classic Movie Trivia: Featuring More Than 4,000 Questions to Test…
TCM Big Screen Classics Screening Meet Me in St. Louis in December
Recently announced, TCM has added a new Big Screen Classic title to its 2019 lineup. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) is returning to select theaters for a special 75th anniversary event. Showings on Sunday, December 8 and Wednesday, December 11. Meet you there! “Meet me in St. Louis, Louis, Meet me at the fair,…
Backlot Chapter Outing: Glory
The Raleigh/Cary TCM Backlot Chapter gathered today to see the TCM Big Screen Classics 30th Anniversary screening of Glory. For some it was their first time seeing the film. For all it was impactful to see such a remarkable movie on the big screen. Before leaving the theater, the Chapter saluted TCM for providing the…
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