Classic Films

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is my favorite cable channel because it remains the last non-premium channel to be commercial free. I have many favorites that are popular with the masses and a few that are strange, unusual or bizaar by standards of most critics. More details soon.

Little Women – 1934 – Katherine Hepburn. Directer by George Cukor.

 The most melodramatic version in my opinion but a perfect roll for Kate Hepburn to exaggerate as the tomboy, Jo, in the famous coming-of-age story by Louisa May Alcott. The sets are marvelous in the depiction of the 1860’s Connecticut, with furnishing depicting the wealth of the elderly homeowners like the Lawrences next door, the less opulent home of the March women and the simple, clean boarding house of Mrs. Kirke in New York.

Anything Hitchcock except The Third Man (that zither music is obnoxious) and Something about Harry. I even like Rope, 39 Steps and Mr and Mrs Smith.

The Blue Dalia-Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake

The Big Clock- Ray Milland

Mutiny on the Bounty – Humphery Bogard

The Uninvited – Ray Milland

The Times of our Lives – Abbott and Costello

Arsenic and Old Lace – Cary Grant

The Canterville Ghost – Charles Laughton

Harvey – Jimmy Stewart

Random Harvest – Greer Garson

Gaslight – Ingrid Bergman

My Favorite Wife – Cary Grant

Double Indemnity – Fred MacMurray

It Happened One Night – Clark Gable

Reep the Wild Wind – John Wayne

Laura – Gene Teirney

The Crimson Pirate – Burt Lanchaster

You Can’t Take it With You – Jimmy Stewart

Dark Passage – Bogart and Bacall

Leave Her to Heaven – Gene Teirney

The Canterville Ghost – Charles Laughton

My Man Godfrey – Carol Lombard

Holiday – Katherine Hepburn

Tarzan – Johny Weismueller

Mrs. Miniver – Walter Pigeon

The African Queen – Bogart and Hepburn

Night and Day – Cary Grant

Roberta – Fred Astaire

Holiday Inn – Bing Crosby

Meet Me in St Loius – Judy Garland (What a grand collection of antiques they used in making this film.)

Little Women – June Allyson 1942

Bringing up Baby – Grant and Hepburn

Sunset Boulevard – Gloria Swanson

The Philadelphia Story – Grant, Hepburn, Stewart