ClassicBecky's Brain Food

Have you ever had a meal so good and filling that you actually turned down the climactic finish of cherries jubilee, baked Alaska or strawberry cheesecake?  Well, if a person could be dessert, i...

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I promised myself I would re-design my blog and get a post up so that I could say I did something in 2017.  Well, dear readers, this is it.  I'm cheating, I know, but it is a post, as pitiful a...

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On Valentine's Day, the talented writer of Second Sight Cinema hosted a blogathon called "A Kiss Is Just A Kiss."  I was not able to participate, but I'd like to offer a belated article about on...

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ClassicBecky's Brain Food turned 6 years old in September (as I usually end up doing with friends, this a belated birthday card)!  It's hard for me to believe I've been around that long.  I s...

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This article is my contribution to the Classic Movie Blog Association's Blogathon, "Planes, Trains and Automobiles."  Click here to find all the wonderful bloggers and their articles!  http://...

https://classicbeckybrainfood.blogspot.com/2015/10/airplane-and-dont-call-me-shirley.html

To kick off the month of Halloween ghosties and ghoulies, I want to re-introduce my take on Bride of Frankenstein.  It was originally posted in 2010, when I had about 4 followers.  I'm prett...

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Dear Readers, it's no secret that I'm an avid classic movie lover as well as an avid reader of great books.  To Kill A Mockingbird, movie and book, have a permanent place in my mind and hea...

https://classicbeckybrainfood.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-mockingbird-will-never-die_12.html

Teresa Wright When I was a teenager, I wanted to be Rita Hayworth or Vivien Leigh.  The sheer beauty of these women was intoxicating, and at that age I thought that was the be all and the e...

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What a movie ... what a cast! This is my contribution to National Classic Movie Day, arranged by Rick of Classic Film and TV Cafe.  Click HERE  to find all of the contributors. In May of...

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European poster for Freaks This article is my contribution to the Classic Movie Blog Association's Spring Blogathon, Fabulous Films of of the 1930's.  Click here to find all the wonderful ...

https://classicbeckybrainfood.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-evolution-of-tod-brownings-freaks.html

You could do a great line-up with Cinemascope!  Roman soldiers everywhere! (A scene from The Robe, the first movie released in Cinemascope) It's March 13, the first day of the Cinemasco...

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My buddy Rich  (of Wide Screen World ) and I will be hosting a blogathon about the wonders of Cinemascope and the blockbuster movies that were presented in movie theatre screens bigger than eve...

https://classicbeckybrainfood.blogspot.com/2015/01/hear-ye-hear-ye-let-us-rope-you-into.html

It is a given that the new NBC live Peter Pan which aired tonight will be compared to the original version, also NBC, in 1960. It starred Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard, Broadway veterans with p...

https://classicbeckybrainfood.blogspot.com/2014/12/sorry-peter-but-i-have-to-pan-you.html

The last few months have brought with them some stressful events, and one side-effect was an unrelenting insomnia that didn't respond well even to sleeping pills.   I would get about 3-4 hour...

https://classicbeckybrainfood.blogspot.com/2014/04/charlie-chans-cure-for-insomnia.html

Holiday weekends always throw me off.  I never know what day it is.  I planned to post an article on Monday, which I thought was today but was actually yesterday.  My brain, like my purse...

https://classicbeckybrainfood.blogspot.com/2014/09/what-day-is-it.html

This article is my contribution to the BILLY WILDER BLOGATHON, hosted by Aurora at Once Upon A Screen (aurorasginjoint.com ) and Kellee of Outspoken and Freckled (kelleepratt.com ).  Click on...

https://classicbeckybrainfood.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-private-life-of-sherlock-holmes.html

KIM NOVAK  LIZA MINNELLI After last year's Oscar ceremony, a shameful debacle of the lowest common denominator headed by Seth Macfarlane, I thought this year would be at best tasteful,...

https://classicbeckybrainfood.blogspot.com/2014/03/beauty-and-hollywood-beast-2014-oscars.html

If you are old enough to remember the wonderful 1960 television production of Peter Pan with Mary Martin as Peter and the fabulous Cyril Ritchard as Captain Hook, you have probably remembered Cy...

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Everybody has had one ... the boyfriend who turns out to be the biggest four-flushing, dirt-eating, woman-ogling, foul-mouthed, eats-with-his-mouth-open, bullying maroon who breaks up with you t...

https://classicbeckybrainfood.blogspot.com/2014/01/and-you-thought-your-boyfriend-was-bad.html

What movies shall I watch while Indianapolis temperatures dip to 15 below (real temperature!) and we get 10 feet of snow (well, one foot anyway)?  I can think of a few..... This will be hom...

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From the time I first loved movies, the musical scores have always played a large part in my admiration for a film.  Over the years I kept a mental list of the scores I loved the best, music tha...

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19th Century Spanish Nativity  Classic Becky's Brain Food has been sadly inactive the past few months, mainly because Classic Becky's brain has not received enough nourishment to feed it .....

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I love a classy piece of art, don't you? The terror of all that is human?  A shock-test for your scare endurance?  Hmmm.......  Now who would guess that a movie by that name, advertised w...

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I know this one ... I know I know it! It's ... wait a minute ... it's ... what is it?" It's been a while since I've posted anything here, six months to be exact, and returning to writing is...

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I'm not puttin' you on ... (sorry, I couldn't stop myself) ... Irving Berlin's "Puttin' On The Ritz" made a startling evolution in lyrics and meaning from the time it was first written until Fre...

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