Hello! I am Kitty Hollywood, and I review old films that are great, but maybe not so well known.
I am going to focus on what I know and like, but I hope you'll discover some great old movies too. If you have any suggestions for films to cover, then please send me a message!
My favourite film. All the stars give great performances but Bette and Claud Raines are outstanding. Gladys Cooper wonderful as always and Mary Wicks as the nurse. Raines could be my psychiatrist any day if I needed one as he is so very convincing and gentle. Paul Henreid perfect as the romantic lead. Love it. Thank you.❤️
Absolutely Love the hand gestures, but perhaps a smidgen less, at moments, because your reviews are Worth It. 9 out of 10! Bette Davis Is as always No.1
Stage Fright might not be Alfred Hitchcock's best film, but it is certainly one of his best directing efforts. Despite a weak script, he along with a fine cast (including a seemingly miscast Jane Wyman) pull it off giving us an entertaining movie. They clearly elevate and make a difference in what otherwise would have been a subpar film.
Good review of this film with some tidbits I hadn't heard before. For me Jean Simmons seems to be mostly overwhelmed in her role, but she is terrific her love scenes with then husband Stewart Granger and the shipboard confrontation with Charles Laughton. Deberah Kerr is top-notch as a rival for Granger's affections as well as the fine performances from Laughton as Henry VIII and Rex Thompson as Edward VI, the boy king who succeeds Henry. Their performances plus the majestic musical score by Miklos Rozsa elevate what is otherwise an average historical drama.
I reviewed this film on my channel and titled the video "the best ghost story ever". That what this is, my fav ghost story of all time It's a great movie for late at night or durning the October/Halloween season
The perjorative word for the ethnological term for Negroes is a fact. You not liking it is as pointless as stating you like any other part of the film. The era that made this film is precisely the reason you have such a high opinion of it, except one part. This is called having perspective. It's also called being an adult. Grow up. It'll make you different from most in this society, but that's a step in the right direction.
I’ve been watching since the 1960’s and still consider this the best “Ghost Story” put on film. The chemistry with the actors along with great screenplay and the use of shadows with black and white is totally spot on. The fact that it’s also a very good mystery with a twist and added humor make this classic a must see. The very haunting but beautiful “Stella by Starlight” is sad knowing that Gail Russell had requested it played on the local radio station the night she died from alcoholism. I’ve read the novel which doesn’t have the sordid romance between Holloway and Meredith. It did seem to work out well in the screenplay. I still can’t watch late at night by myself.
I herd the book is not as good as the film. I have never read the book, but seen the movie a bunch of times I had to review it on my YT channel. This film is hard if not impossible to top
I’m gonna start doing Film reviews on my RU-vid channel and this is gonna be one of the films I review because I have a love for this film too and I first saw it in 2006 when I was twelve years old
This was the first Deanna Durbin film I watched when I discovered Deanna in 2006 when I went to my local library here in Chesapeake Virginia where I live and had checked out The Sweetheart Pack for the first time and it was the first film I watched and it became my number one favorite film of hers I was twelve at the time when I first saw it
Jean was also nervous that her advancing age (she turned 42 during production) might not work for the picture, but she wanted the part so she could finish out her contract with Columbia and retire. I'm glad that she got to do it! She only made two films after this: A Foreign Affair in 1948 for Billy Wilder, and the notable western Shane in 1953.
Fabulous review. I'm on board with everything you say. I just discovered this film and it just continues to haunt me. That is, I'm sure, a sign of greatness..when you just can't get something out of your head. The cinematography is magnificent, the acting is superb. Thanks.
No logro entender por qué la peli de Vincent Minelli: Té y simpatía no se da completa, a esta altura de la realidad, son los pacatos que todavía existen?.
Watch it for the music and the acting, too! God I love this movie. I saw it on the big screen in 1978 and the last scene where you see the camera pan up to the stars, the whole audience gasp at the beauty of the scene.
One of my favorite films. These absolute GEMS of reviews by Kitty are just glorious. I'm mighty sorry that she stopped making them. Genius. And sometimes she' hilarious. Love her. I hope all is well with her. God bless her!!!!!
Now Voyager is one of my favorite Bette Davis movies. Bette Davis is amazing in this film I love it I watch it all the time. I love that she goes away from her domineering mother and gets her health together apart from how she looks in the beginning of the film
To Hollywood's credit, Elephant Walk is an anti-colonialist movie despite the very charismatic and attractive lead couple played by tea plantation owners in 1930s Ceylon (today called Sri Lanka), Elisebeth Taylor and Peter Finch. The Elephants Revenge of the Elephants rampage through the colonial estate at the end is representation of the pissed off natives. Old Hollywood movie making at its best.
Oh Kitty❣How we miss you❣We wish you were doing more of these WONDERFUL, intriguing, often hilarious, fascinating, brilliant videos. Each one a GEM❣Where ever you are......we wish you well, we thank you, we love you. God Bless You❣❣❣
After five years I did watch The Big Country again. It did become apparent that Gregory Peck's character is more complex than just some fish-out-of-water dude in the rough and tumble West.
I wrote a letter to Universal suggesting to them that they make a movie about Deanna by having actresses to play her from age 14-21 and have other actors and actresses to play the roles of the actors who did films with her. I got this idea from a woman on Amazon who wrote a review about her Sweetheart Pack that despite her 5 star rating for the collection she said that someone needs to make a film documentary about her since a lot of people are not familiar with her I guess because she had quit Hollywood at an early age and also said her importance needs to be acknowledged. And it's strange because I was actually thinking about that too how I would love for them to make a film documentary about her and show what her life was like from signing her contract with Universal to the time she had made Three Smart Girls to the time she had made her 21 films til the time she left Hollywood and had married her third husbandtary
The film contributed to the resurgence of interest in Gershwin as a 'serious' composer which led to the early-1950s restaging of 'Porgy and Bess' and began to cement his place as America's greatest composer. As George's buddy, Levant's participation playing the Piano Concerto helped the cause. Despite all the art and craft of the concluding ballet, for me the high spot is 'Stairway to Paradise' with Georges Guetary. Kelly coached this non-hoofer to a display of ridiculous, magnificent flamboyance, and Minnelli wrapped it in razzmatazz.
Keel and Grayson were Louis B Mayer's replacements for Eddy and Macdonald, but by the early 1950s audiences were getting tired of the operetta-ish tunefulness LB adored. Nor were new trends in jazz such as bebop amenable to song-and-dance movies. Rogers & Hammerstein's dramatically rich musicals were hot on Broadway, but not yet on screen. Grayson and Keel were adequate actors and could have fitted into that kind of story picture, but nobody was yet writing them for the big screen; Loesser and Loewe, Kander and Ebb and the Sherman brothers had not yet clicked. And neither Keel nor Grayson were hoofers. Clearly their short-term futures lay on the boards, not in front of cameras, even 3D ones.
'Make 'Em Laugh' was not the only case of 'inspired by' in SITR. The title tune's solo dance by Kelly owes an awful lot to Eleanor Powell's 'I'm Feeling Like a Million' in 'Broadway Melody of 1938'. Both that and 'Be a Clown' were written by Cole Porter. To my mind Powell's rainy duet with George Murphy is better.
I've been thinking about this film a lot lately, with concerns about AI taking jobs--and AI defenders saying it'll free up workers' time by doing the research for them.
Having lived this experience with my parents, in the summer of 1961, I can attest that this great flick represents the BEST CASE SCENARIO of breaking ground for a new dwelling. Between May 30th and September 12 of that year, we somehow managed the feat, though our digs ended up being far less impressive. My most vivid memory of that season is of the 93 timber rattlers that we had to send to Glory, in the process; an average of 3 per day. And, yes, I can believe the 47 year old dishwasher. My fridge is currently 86 years old and still runs like a champ. She's a sweet little 1937 Hotpoint. 'Built like a Sherman tank!
I saw this flick at The Stanford, about 18 years ago. I almost got myself and the friend I was with 86ed, because I could not stop chuckling and at some points, guffawing at what was on the screen. I recognized literally every character, in it. Holden was exactly like my closest friend, who, sadly passed way too young. He was the same kind of rough and tumble, live by his wits good guy who was, simultaneously, rock solid and adrift. The friend he came to see was cut from the same cloth as the pal who brought me to see the film. At the time, I was struggling through a rocky and ill advised engagement at the time and the dynamic between Russell and her man was exactly the same as ours; right down to the guys' balking at the life changes that marriage would have imposed upon him. I later showed the movie to my then intended, thinking that she'd be as amused by it as I, which turned out to not be the case. So, my being exposed to this movie may well have saved me from making a terrible, life altering mistake. Who knows. Lastly, the Kansas setting took me back to the best days of my own rural youth, which, unfortunately, happened a decade or so after the films' release, when that wonderful era was already passing into history. To this day, I wish that I'd come along ten or fifteen years earlier than I did. America has lost so much, in the past half century or so. 'A damned shame.
A very nice review of perhaps the greatest comedy movie ever made. I was surprised that you didn’t mention two names: Miles Mallison, and Mozart (yes, _that_ Mozart). Mallison is the actor who plays the hangman, with the double chin and the bad poetry. He was a very famous, very busy character actor, who also played in The Importance of Being Earnest (the movie, which also includes Joan Greenwood) and several of the 1970s Hammer horror movies with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. Mozart composed the aria which Mazzini’s father sings; the tune occurs also at other moments in the movie. It’s also worth mentioning it in the original novel, ISRAEL RANK, the protagonist’s mother gets disinherited for running off with a Jew, not an Italian singer.
When I was a teenager I basically fell in love with the Sweetheart pack before Something In The Wind became my favorite film of hers plus my other favorites are Can't Help Singing It Started With Eve First Love Lady On A Train Mad About Music His Butler's Sister I'll Be Yours Because Of Him
