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Classic Hollywood: Bad Boys: Cagney & Robinson Classics on Chestnut

Classic Hollywood: Bad Boys: Cagney & Robinson

Two gangster classics, released four months apart in 1931, didn’t just launch the careers of James Cagney and Edward G. Robinson. They doomed the pair to being typecast as tough guys. It didn’t matter that Cagney never actually said “You dirty rat!” on film, or that he won an Oscar singing, dancing, and playing Broadway legend George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy. Read More Read More
Classic Hollywood: SOME DON’T LIKE "SOME LIKE IT HOT" Film

Classic Hollywood: SOME DON’T LIKE “SOME LIKE IT HOT”

...and by “some,” I mean “me.”  I know, I know. I should be crazy about any film that tops most critics’ lists of classic comedies. Trust me, I’ve tried. What’s not to like about Marilyn Monroe at the height of her fame? Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in drag? The best closing line since “Louie, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship”? Read More Read More

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