While classic movies are brimming over with dames, on average they parcel out one per film. The film of Noel Coward’s play, Blithe Spirit, happily eschews such miserly rationing.
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Are You There Marie Kondo? It’s Me, Dixie
Getting rid of things is not my thing, face-facts-wise. Getting things is more my jam. I’m the nostalgic, flea-market-going, tchotchkes-lovin’ type. I have anthropomorphic toys from my childhood, almost a dozen
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“His Girl Friday” is “My Movie Favorite”
I’m often asked, “What is the ultimate dame movie?” (Ok, I’m the primary one asking myself that, but trust me, I ask myself a lot.) It’s too hard to
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Little-Known Facts About Jean Harlow
You’ve read the Jean Harlow post– now impress your friends (your easily impressedfriends) with these “Did You Know?” gems: Jean Harlow and Hedy Lamarr were the primary inspirations for “Batman”
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The Secret History of Hollywood is God’s Work
Just when you think the world has gone to hell in a handbasket, from behind the dark clouds drifts to Earth a radiant angel, dressed in a resplendent robe
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Top 10 Classic Dame Films – Part 3
Here’s the third and last chapter in my hard-wrought Top Ten Dame Movies list. It’s been hard to whittle down the list, and if I thought Part 2 was
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“Book Club” — Rom-Coms Mansplained
GUEST POST BY HOLLY ABRAMS! Since I can’t be pried off the couch to stop watching my endless parade of Law & Orders, we are very lucky to have
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Top 10 Classic Dame Films – Part 2
Here is a continuation of my Top Ten List of Classic Dame-y Movies. This is no easy task because there are so many movies that feature dames being dames.
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Top 10 Classic Dame Movies
The world is chock full of dames, some fully-blossomed, some who remain stunted as seedlings. One of the best ways to coax a nascent dame out of her shell
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Why We Still Love Lucy
For several generations I Love Lucy has served as a sort of televisual I-Ching. For millions of young girls, I Love Lucy has been a redhead-led Rosetta Stone, a valuable key
