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110 Years of Ingrid Bergman Blogathon–“Gaslight” (1944)
It’s been such a long time since I’ve posted last. I apologize to everyone whose Blogathon I missed. I’ve been so busy, pretty much the entire summer that it’s been difficult to find the time, and frankly, the ambition, to write a blog entry. I have a ton of posts I need to write, including the much belated entry about my visit to this year’s TCM Film Festival in April. In July, I attended Noir City: Portland, which was a great event. While I may not have been writing about classic film, I have still been watching it. When I…
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The Eleventh Annual Buster Keaton Blogathon—“The Navigator” (1924)
I had to travel to California again for work and am trying to write this entry from my hotel room using my iPad and a $14 Bluetooth keyboard with a $6 mouse. I am hoping to get the actual iPad keyboard some day—it’s my birthday next month, maybe I’ll get lucky. Anyway, you definitely get what you pay for with the $14 Bluetooth keyboard. It doesn’t seem to respond to the Ctrl functions very well and sometimes the space bar acts like a “Tab” button. But I digress. I watched The Navigator (1924) again last night in preparation for this…
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Cry Me a River: Tearjerkers Blogathon–“The Way We Were” (1973)
Full disclosure, I don’t cry at movies. While there are definitely movies that I find sad like Make Way for Tomorrow (1938) or the end of Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993), I have yet to actually cry at a film. The Way We Were (1973) always seems to make the list of classic tearjerkers, which is why I picked it; but I would like to argue that I didn’t find the ending sad. In fact, I found the ending of The Way We Were (1973) to be very satisfying. The Way We Were spans a 20-year period, starting in…
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The Master of Suspense Blogathon–Ingrid Bergman & Alfred Hitchcock
I way over-committed to blogging during April and May. I am so late with this post. It might not even be posted on Classic Film and TV Corner Presents’ page; but I wanted to finish it. Turning your homework in late is better than not at all, right? I was on vacation during the time of the blogathon, attending the TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood, in fact. I had every intention of writing this post ahead of time and scheduling it to post. Then, I just ran out of time. When I got back, I was tired. I had…
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Adventure-A-Thon, “The African Queen” (1951)
Cleopatra (1963), The Wizard of Oz (1939), Gone with the Wind (1939), The African Queen (1951). What do these wildly different films have in common? All were notoriously difficult films to make, all for different reasons. The African Queen didn’t have difficult stars like Cleopatra. It didn’t have a meddling producer like Gone with the Wind and it didn’t have technical issues to overcome like The Wizard of Oz. What The African Queen did have was a notoriously difficult on-location film shoot led by the ultimate adventurer, director John Huston. Katharine Hepburn’s experience filming The African Queen alongside co-star, Humphrey…
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TCMFF 2025–My Picks!
On April 3, TCM released the highly anticipated final schedule for this year’s TCM Classic Film Festival, which takes place Thursday, April 24 through Sunday, April 27. It took awhile to peruse the schedule and go over it with my husband. We try to experience the festival together and come up with a schedule that is satisfactory to us both, which requires a bit of negotiation and compromise. This year, we did make the unprecedented decision to go to one event separately. As of right now, there are several screenings without a presenter attached. This means that our tentative plan…
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I Love Lucy Blogathon–My I Love Lucy Collection!
Last, but not least, here is my I Love Lucy collection! NOT PICTURED (due to needing to find it): Desilu sweatshirtLucy and Desi cartoon figurine tank topI Love Lucy Board GameI Love Lucy Trivia GameLucille Ball sheet of commemorative stamps issued by USPS
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I Love Lucy Blogathon–Top 5 Underrated Episodes of “I Love Lucy”
I’m here again with my second of three total posts about my all-time favorite television show–I Love Lucy! Everyone knows about the most famous moments of I Love Lucy–even people who have never seen an episode (they’re probably out there, hard to believe, I know), are probably aware of Vitameatavegamin. They’ve probably seen Lucy and Ethel struggling to wrap chocolates on the conveyor belt at Kramer’s Kandy Kitchen, or watched Lucy almost drown in the wine vat while stomping grapes with her large pizza-sized feet. In this post, I wanted to highlight five underrated episodes which are just as funny…
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I Love Lucy Blogathon–“My Answers to the I Love Lucy Tag”
When I learned that “The Classic Movie Muse” was holding an I Love Lucy blogathon, I knew I had to participate. I knew I had to participate enough that apparently, I felt compelled to submit three, count ’em THREE articles. Fortunately, if there’s one thing I know, it’s I Love Lucy, so it’s not requiring a lot of research or time on my part. I thought I’d start with the answers to The Classic Movie Muse’s I Love Lucy tag, as it’d be relatively easy to do. The I Love Lucy Tag: Q: When did you first start watching I…
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Favorite Stars in ‘B’ Movies Blogathon–“The Comedy of Terrors” (1963)
A ‘B’ movie is typically a low-budget film, often sharing half of a double bill with the ‘A’ movie. The ‘B’ movie would be screened first, assuming that the audience would sit through it to get to the ‘A’ movie. ‘A’ movies starred the A-list actors, like Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Cary Grant, to name a few. During the Golden Age of Hollywood, Westerns, Science Fiction, and Horror were popular ‘B’ movie genres. One of the biggest stars of the 1950s-1970s wave of ‘B’ horror movies was Vincent Price. Price was an A-list actor during the 1940s appearing…
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My name is Kayla. I am a native Oregonian who has been a fan of classic film and television ever since I discovered I Love Lucy on Nick at Nite in 1994 when I was 10. From then on, I was obsessed with I Love Lucy and everything I Love Lucy-adjacent, but especially Lucille Ball.
A regular visitor of my city library, I read every single book about Lucille Ball that I could get my hands on. From these books, I learned that Lucy had had a film career before she was on television. Luckily for me, my library had a large number of her films on VHS available for rental. I borrowed and watched every single one. From her films, I discovered new favorite classic film actors and actresses.
I decided to make my blog, Whimsically Classic, because I wanted a place to write about my love of classic film and television. Whimsically Classic’s predecessor was my I Love Lucy Geocities fan page (TelevisionCity/3028), which I maintained from 1996-2000. I selected the name “Whimsically Classic” because I wanted something a little nonsensical so I didn’t pigeonhole myself into writing about a specific topic. I like the word “whimsical” because it’s a fun word and leaves me with a lot of room to write about whatever topic. “Classic” is an ode to my love of classic film and television.
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- All This, and Heaven Too Kitty Foyle The Letter The Mortal Storm Waterloo Bridge Back Street Blood and Sand The Great Lie The Little Foxes A Woman's Face …plus 50 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
- SOURCE: Criterion ChannelThis is such an amazing film. I also love that my birthday is on Bogart's rap sheet.
- SOURCE: Personal Collection.I always love a movie with an incredibly passive aggressive, bitchy character–especially when played by Joan Crawford!
- SOURCE: TCMI love this movie. It is hilarious. I wish that someone would release it on blu ray.
- SOURCE: TCMThe penultimate evening of Jean Arthur's January Star of the Month. This is a great movie and it doesn't air often on TCM. I highly recommend this film.
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