Welcome to Land of The Nerds, where I, Lisa Laman, use my love of cinema to explore, review and talk about every genre of film imaginable!
Showing posts with label 1938. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1938. Show all posts
Friday, November 30, 2018
Go On An Endlessly Charming Holiday With Katharine Hepburn And Cary Grant
Just like musicals, superhero movies, Muppet movies and documentaries about classic cinema legends, Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant movies just make me ever so happy. Few actors have ever had such rich chemistry as these two, Grant and Hepburn just had such a natural rhythm together that made the sight of them doing something as simple as exchanging small-talk a riveting sight to behold. Best of all, their dynamics didn't leave Hepburn on the side as an object for Grant to covet, in the likes of The Philadelphia Story and Bringing Up Baby, Hepburn gets to go toe-to-toe with and even overpower Geant in their interactions, which is just perfect for a performer like Hepburn whose got spunk for days.
Sunday, March 11, 2018
Bringing Up Baby Is A Highly Entertaining Comedy, Screwball Or Otherwise
The screwball comedy was as prominent a fixture of movie screens in the 1930's as knock-off's of Porky's were in the 1980's or knock-off's of The Hangover were right after that Todd Phillips movie hit it big at the box office. "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" as they say and whenever a big comedy strikes gold at the box office, there's bound to be successive movies all too happy to flatter that successful project by way of mimicry. Is it any surprise then that we had a lot of screwball comedies competing for eyeballs during the 1930's given how many of them were turning out to be true blue moneymakers?
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