The contract negotiations scene from “A Night at the Opera.”
The contract negotiations scene from “A Night at the Opera.”
As we continue on our low-key holiday-weekend here, below is a moving montage TCM put together honoring the film notables who passed on this year, with music by Steve Earle.
It’s always a little surprising how many great people you can lose in a year.
I still think is the greatest of all American Christmas films. Do I even need to tell you the title?
Because you expect it. Sorry about the gratuitous ad at the end.
One thing’s for sure, Jean Shepherd could write. Oh, and Merry Christmas/Happy Chinese-food-and-movie-day to one and all!
Since it’s a nostalgic bittersweet, family-oriented musical comedy set in the turn of the century midwest starring Judy Garland, some of you might assume that “Meet Me in St. Louis” is kind of a drippy, saccharine movie. Trust me, it’s sweet but anything but drippy and established Vincente Minelli as one of the greatest of Hollywood directors. If your cable system has TCM, you can see for yourself; it’s showing at 10:00 pst/1:00 a.m. est tonight.
In the meantime, here’s big sister Judy Garland trying to console Margaret O’Brien with one of the loveliest pop Christmas songs ever written. This always gets to me.
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