Classic Couple

How to pre-festival. Go to the Academy Museum. Take lots of pictures; soak in the exhibits. Have lunch with your TCM Club members who are also attending TCMFF. Get your TCMFF passes and swag. Hang about Hollywood. Meet up with your friends again for dinner. Call it a great day!

Premiering Fall 2022: Trailblazing actress Pam Grier shares her remarkable life story with Turner Classic Movies’ (TCM) host Ben Mankiewicz in season four of the award-winning TCM podcast The Plot Thickens. “The word ‘iconic’ is overused in this industry, but Pam has been a true revolutionary regarding the depiction of Black women in Hollywood,” said […]

Classic Couple asked award-winning film historian and author Cari Beauchamp what she’s most looking forward to during the TCM Classic Film Festival April 21-24, 2022. A prolific writer, Cari has authored six books on film history including Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood and is an Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker. […]

Classic Couple recently asked TCM host Eddie Muller what he’s most looking forward to during the TCM Classic Film Festival April 21-24, 2022. Here are Eddie’s TCMFF picks and plans. Classic Couple: What films/events are you personally looking forward to experiencing at the 2022 TCM Film Festival and why? Eddie Muller: Looks like I’ll be very busy […]

Classic Couple recently asked TCM host Dave Karger what he’s most looking forward to during the TCM Classic Film Festival April 21-24, 2022. Here are Dave’s TCMFF picks and plans. Classic Couple: What films/events are you personally looking forward to experiencing at the 2022 TCM Film Festival and why? Dave Karger: First and foremost, I’m so happy […]

Thrilled to share that six members of our TCM Club are attending the TCM Classic Film Festival (TCMFF) April 21-14, 2022. With spouses as plus-ones, our group numbers eight. We’re looking forward to making new memories with long-time good friends at the festival. A couple of club members have sorted out their must-see films and […]

On April 6, 2017, we were scheduled to be at the 2017 TCM Classic Film Festival. It would have been our fifth TCMFF, and we were beyond excited to fly to LA. On April 3rd, life had other plans for us. The Monday before the festival, as I was headed into work as an IT […]

Our TCM Club met in May to discuss all things TCM Classic Film Festival 2021. Everyone was eager to discuss their experience attending the virtual festival programming airing on TCM and HBO Max. Most of us tuned into the opening night showing of West Side Story (1961) and enjoyed the pre-film discussion with stars Rita […]

Love them as we do, it’s just difficult to understand the mother who raised you until you yourself become an adult. Only then can you gain a perspective of what life was really like. In this curated book collection, the grown children of some of Hollywood’s most famous actresses share their childhood experiences, giving us […]

Fame (1980) airs on TCM during the TCM Classic Film Festival on Sunday, May 9, at 11:45pm ET with an introduction from star Debbie Allen.