It is an inescapable fact that we don’t deserve Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. Separately, together, it doesn’t matter. They were just too beautiful, too miraculous, too good. By the time I laid eyes on their second collaboration, Bringing Up Baby, in high school, I was already head over heels for Kate and Cary, but… Read more »
Entries by Michaela Owens
Something to Remember: The Greatness of Glenn Ford in 3:10 to Yuma
In the sleepy Arizona town of Bisbee, a gang of cowboys walk into an empty saloon where a young, sad-eyed woman wordlessly pours them drinks. The head of the outfit, an unconventionally handsome man with a friendly smile that hints at years of troublemaking, matter-of-factly tells the woman they just came across a stagecoach robbery… Read more »
The Foolishness of Love in Midnight (1939)
In the decadent French chateau of a frisky aristocrat and his wandering wife, a showgirl pretending to be a baroness and the cab driver she fell for are arguing about the practicality of a marriage surviving on 40 francs a day. “I know we’re right for each other,” he coos. “I know it deep down… Read more »
A Tribute to J.B. Fletcher and A.B. Lansbury
When I grow up, I want to be Jessica Fletcher. That’s the thought I have every time I put on an episode of Murder, She Wrote, the cozy murder-mystery series starring the inimitable, incomparable Angela Lansbury, who we lost on October 11. I have innumerable favorite Lansbury performances, as so many of us do —… Read more »
Libeled Lady and the Sophisticated Silliness of William Powell
When the New York Evening Star carelessly prints a false story about society dame Connie Allenbury (Myrna Loy) that results in a $5 million libel suit, editor Warren Haggerty (Spencer Tracy) decides to resolve the situation by hiring the sneakiest, smoothest operator he knows: ex-Evening Star reporter Bill Chandler (William Powell). The men don’t share… Read more »
A Tale of Two Thieves: Bedtime Story (1964) and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
This July, Establishing Shot presents It’s Revived!, a miniseries celebrating some of our favorite (or at least some of the more fascinating) movie remakes out there in anticipation of IU Cinema’s fall film series Re:Made. Today, Michaela Owens compares a comedy classic from Steve Martin and Michael Caine with its 1960s original, starring… Marlon Brando?! A… Read more »