Classic Couple

This September, Turner Classic Movies (TCM) shines a light on The Idea of America, highlighting immigrants’ perceptions of The United States of America and what it means to be American, through the lens of the American movies they watched when they were young. Nine immigrants join TCM Primetime Host Ben Mankiewicz to discuss the movies […]

Our TCM Club got together on Saturday, August 27, 2022 at Vic’s Italian for pizza and pasta and a fierce classic movie team trivia contest. The competition was on as four teams of classic movie fans battled it out to take home the bragging rights as the winning team. One team emerged victorious after racking […]

Our TCM Club met on July 17, 2022 prior to the TCM Big Screen Classics 50th anniversary screening of Cabaret. We met at Panera Bread in Cary, NC for a few hours to play a Classic Couple custom version of “Classic Movies – This or That,” along with a general discussion of classic films. Everyone had […]

Throughout June and July 2022, TCM aired its limited series Follow the Thread. Inspired by The Met Exhibition, In America, An Anthology of Fashion, TCM host Alicia Malone was joined by special guests discussing the importance of costume design across the history of film. Oscar-nominated costume designer Deborah Nadoolman Landis joined the roster of special guests, […]

Hollywood costume designer Deborah Nadoolman Landis has worked with some of the most famous actors and entertainers, creating for them iconic looks known the world over. She graciously agreed to play a game where I gave her the name of a performer she costumed, and she gave me the first thing that came to mind. […]

Julien’s Auctions and TCM present the auction “Hollywood Legends” taking place over five days in Summer 2022: Friday, July 15, Saturday, July 16, Sunday, July 17 and Monday, July 18 in Beverly Hills and live online at www.julienslive.com. Featuring over 1,400 of Hollywood’s most iconic pieces from the Golden Age of Hollywood to contemporary film […]

On Friday, June 17, 2022, Tribeca 2022 held a retrospective screening of crime drama Heat (1995). The film in which Robert DeNiro plays a master criminal pursued by an obsessive Los Angeles detective played by Al Pacino was written and directed by Michael Mann and produced by Art Linson. Classic Couple attended the screening at […]

In this curated book collection, the grown children of some of Hollywood’s most famous actors share their childhood experiences, giving us a behind-the-scenes glimpse of Hollywood dads. CLASSIC COUPLE RECOMMENDATION: My Place in the Sun: Life in the Golden Age of Hollywood and Washington by George Stevens, Jr. In Search of My Father: A Portrait of […]

Every fan of dance in classic film is familiar with Fayard and Harold Nicholas and the Nicholas Brothers act. Between the 1930s and 1950s the Nicholas Brothers appeared in 30 films, mostly as a specialty act. Considered the greatest tap dancers of their day, it not all time, their performance to Cab Calloway and His […]

If you’re not familiar with Jack Garfein, you need to be. Documentary film The Wild One (2022) recounts the story of Jack Garfein’s life as Holocaust survivor, filmmaker and legendary acting coach. Jack was perhaps “the only person in history to stand face-to-face with both James Dean and Josef Mengele.” In The Wild One he […]