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Rain in the Movies
As a native of the Pacific Northwest, Oregon specifically, I have seen my share of rain. In fact, NW Oregon (where I’ve lived my entire life) is in the middle of yet another “atmospheric river” event. Basically, we’re getting rain and a lot of it–at least 3″ between yesterday through tomorrow. Personally, I like the rain. It’s relaxing and makes the outside smell nice. Plus, it makes for excellent movie watching weather. As long as the rain stays out of my basement, I am good. During the last major rain event, just a couple weeks ago, I watched a bunch…
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The 8th “So Bad, It’s Good” Blogathon–Batman & Robin (1997)
What makes a good bad movie? For me, it’s simple. An objectively bad movie has to be entertaining. A lot of my favorite good bad movies are extremely campy. Campy films often contain a lot of theatrics and over the top aesthetics. One of my favorite campy films is Valley of the Dolls (1967). Everything in that film is over the top: the sets, the production, the melodrama, and the performances. Patty Duke snarling “Sparkle, Neely, Sparkle” is everything to me. Another of my favorite over the top camp classics is Barbarella (1968) where Jane Fonda travels through space in…
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We Love Fairy Tales Blogathon–Looney Tunes Does Fairy Tales
This month, Bugs Bunny is TCM’s Star of the Month. No, TCM hasn’t lost their minds. Looney Tunes is joining TCM’s library and this was their way of welcoming Bugs and the gang into the fold. I personally am excited. I love Looney Tunes and Bugs Bunny. In fact, I hadn’t watched Looney Tunes for a long time, despite my owning 7 volumes of Looney Tunes shorts and a collection of Bugs Bunny cartoons. TCM’s salute to Bugs, combined with this fairy tales blogathon, allowed me to binge a lot of Looney Tunes shorts and documentaries. Looney Tunes released over…
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New Post Coming Soon!
I do plan to start getting back to my blog. I don’t want to lose my membership with CLAMBA. I just need to come up with some ideas. BRB!
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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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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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- SOURCE: Library, DVDThis was a film that I borrowed from the library a way back and I'm watching it because it's due soon–no more renewals. This film intrigued me because it apparently featured an appearance of someone impersonating Humphrey Bogart, who serves as somewhat an advisor to Woody Allen's character.In this film, Woody Allen plays […]
- SOURCE: Personal Collection, Kino Lorber Blu RayThis was a blind buy that I got awhile back. Talk about a misleading title and poster. There is no "Bad Girl" in this film, there isn't even a "mischievous girl." I was hoping for something a lot more scandalous based on the title and poster.In this film, Sally […]
- SOURCE: Personal Collection, Eureka Masters of Cinema Region B blu rayApparently, Saturday was the day of watching never seen before animated films from 1982. After seeing "The Last Unicorn," I couldn't believe that I'd never seen another beloved animated classic, "The Secret of Nimh." This film, visually was much more stunning and beautiful than "The […]
- SOURCE: The Hollywood Theatre, Portland, ORThis film was screening last week at the Hollywood Theatre in Portland. I can't believe I had never seen this before, especially since it's attained cult status. I thought I was all over the cartoons of the 1980s, but this day, I learned I most definitely was not. In this […]
- SOURCE: TCMI recorded this during last October's "Creepy Cinema" with Mario Cantone and Ben Mankiewicz. This film isn't really creepy in the traditional sense, but it's definitely uncomfortable and quite scandalous, even for 1932. There are a lot of versions of "Rain" or "Sadie Thompson" as it is often called. The original short story, "Miss […]
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