At The Cocoanut Grove

Highlights For The Month: Gene Hackman is Star of the Month, airing Fridays throughout the month. TCM Spotlight features Ouch! A Salute to Slapstick airing Tuesdays and Wednesdays with 55 films.  Thomas Bruno is this month's Guest Programmer on September 11th. The two films he picked are Casablanca (1942) and The Dirty Dozen (1967).  Treasures From The Disney Vault airs September 8th with 6 films and 2 shorts.  AFI Tribute to John Williams airs September 12th with 3 films and 2 specials.  Films Airing This Month to Check Out: Bonnie and Clyde (1967) airs 9/2 at 8/7 p.m. Grey Gardens (1975) airs 9/4 at 10:30/9:30 a.m. Show People (1928) airs 9/4 at 12 a.m./11 p.m. One Week (1920) airs 9/7 at 11:30/10:30 p.m. Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928) airs 9/7 at 12 a.m./11 p.m. The Navigator (1924) airs 9/11 at 12:45 a.m./11:45 p.m. Jaws (1975) airs 9/12 at 9:15/8:15 p.m. Imitation of Life (1934) airs 9/12 at 12 p.m./11 a.m. The General (1927...

It's been a long time since I have made an Icons post, the last one was in January and I was planning on doing posts for the next two decades and for some reason decided to go with other posts. Anyway I'm back to posting this series and today is all about the 1960s. I must confess the 1960s is my favorite decade for fashion, I love the polished look at the beginning of the decade and also equally love the bohemian look in the later part of the decade. As the Bob Dylan said The Times They Are A Changin. The 1960s were all about change including fashion and beauty. While the housewife was still going strong, women began to see they could have other options including working and going about the single life. At the beginning of the decade fashion was still pretty polished women like Jacqueline Kennedy and Audrey Hepburn were incredibly fashionable. Jeans became a popular staple for women to wear, they came in all kinds of styles including narrow, wide and above the ankle. In 1964...

Friday kicked off the 2016 Rio Olympics and in honor of that I decided to make a post on films set around previous years summer Olympics. Here are 4 films and 1 animated short. Jim Thorpe All-American (1951) Directed By: Michael Curtiz Starring: Burt Lancaster, Phillis Thaxter, Charles Bickford Running Time: 106 Minutes Walk, Don't Run (1966) Directed By: Charles Walters Starring: Cary Grant, Samantha Eggar, Jim Hutton Running Time: 114 Minutes International Velvet (1978) Directed By: Bryan Forbes Starring: Tatum O'Neal, Anthony Hopkins, Christopher Plummer Running Time: 127 Minutes Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937) Directed By: H. Bruce Humberstone Starring: Warner Oland, Layne Tom Jr., Katherine DeMille Running Time: 71 Minutes The Olympic Champ (1942) Directed By: Jack Kinney Voiced By: George Johnson Running Time: 7 Minutes Until Next Time, Ashley A. 

If you haven't heard yet Unique Vintage has a collection just for Disney fans! It's part of the Disney Bounding Collection. You can view the whole collection here and these are my favorites. Until Next Time, Ashley A.