Tag: screwball comedy

February 1, 2018 /

Okay, I lied about last night. I didn’t watch “All the President’s Men”

April 16, 2016 /

Tell me about your cinematic chocolates…

You know. The movies that make you curl up on the couch and purr. I’ll get it rolling. Trouble in Paradise Senses of Cinema calls it a Lost Treasure, and I have to agree. A man in a tuxedo stands poised upon a stone balcony, robed in silvery moonlight. A…

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January 3, 2016 /

“I don’t seem to get solemn about it, and some people might not understand. That’s why I never talk about it. I think it’s all here–in the mountains and the desert. I don’t think God is a softie, either. In the end, it’s better if people are forced back into–well–into being right, before they’re too far gone. I think your temple is your everyday living.” Carole Lombard

July 23, 2015 /

Gary Cooper in the bath, the Lubitsch touch…

It’s supposed to be Louis the XIV’s, a gift to Claudette Colbert in the comedy Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife, and of course it breaks like an eggshell around lanky Mr. Cooper. Funny how differently men are portrayed in the bath…
May 7, 2014 /

Thoughts on music in movies, I Can’t Give You Anything But Love, by George Kaplan

May 7, 2014 /

Thoughts on Bringing Up Baby (1938), by George Kaplan

BEAUTIFUL BABY! A paleontologist with a missing bone; a crazily adorable heiress; a refrigerator-cold fiancee; two (that’s TWO!) leopards, one of which is wild, the other named Baby with a love and with a love for the song “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love, Baby”; “I’ll be with you…

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May 7, 2014 /

Behind the scenes on Bringing Up Baby, with a mirror, ham, and Cary Grant…

January 26, 2014 /

I let Mr. Lester write the title of this post… tawdry Hollywood underground dirty secrets revealed… or not. Mostly not.

December 9, 2013 /

MINK AS A PLOT POINT – EASY LIVING (1937)

Preston Sturges had signed a deal with Paramount in 1936, and Easy Living was his first assignment for them.  Although putatively based on a story by Vera Caspary, Sturges in fact supposedly kept almost nothing of it except the mink coat. When a studio executive rejected the script because “1936…

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December 1, 2013 /

She’ll like a man who smokes an electric pipe filled with virtual tobacco