03:56 PM
TV Life in Black and White

Some days I can set the TV to TCM and just watch it all day, like today:

Holiday (Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant) The Apartment (best movie that Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine ever made) The Maltese Falcon (Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor) Sweet Smell of Success (Burt Lancaster)

I can't recall Holiday, it's an early Hepburn movie although I may have seen it, I've watched some Hepburn marathons and sometimes they run together. And The Apartment, great movie, great portrait of cubicle life in the 50's. The Maltese Falcon, I've seen this in bits and pieces before but never really followed it. This time, I'm seeing it from the beginning and it's good. Sweet Smell of Success, it's an unknown factor, I feel like I've heard of it before, maybe in a remake or something, but Burt Lancaster is good, especially in the 40's and 50's. I finally saw from Here to Eternity the other day, remarkably good film, all I'd really seen before was the famous beach scene.

And then at 11pm tonight is a hokey horror movie, set in Germany, a count suspected of killing his brother tries to uncover the real murderer, looks wonderfully bad!

Part of the reason I like watching old black and white movies is to look at the sets, all the real 40's and 50's furniture, knick-knacks, clothes, hairstyles and hats! The hats on women and on the men, I like a man in hat.