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Fred Astaire planning a dance with Hermes Pan

My Top 5 Favorite Fred Astaire Dance Scenes

This was originally going to be a celebratory birthday post for Fred Astaire's birthday in May...I think I missed the boat on that just a bit. (I had originally-originally planned on writing a post ranking all the Fred Astaire movies…

By Lizzie Hexam August 8, 2026Classic Films4 Comments

Classic Films

Would You Rather: Classic Movie Edition

Our moral for today is that it pays to waste time snooping around in other people's blog archives, because I found an immensely fun-looking tag from a classic movie blog party which Cordy at Any Merry Little Thought hosted...um, just…

By Lizzie Hexam September 1, 2025Classic Films23 Comments

Classic Films

Inklings // July 2025 (The Court Jester)

The prompt for July's Inklings (check out Heidi's post here for details on linking up!) is a sword dueling scene in book or film. There are plenty of thrilling, intense sword-dueling scenes I could choose, but the first scene that…

By Lizzie Hexam August 25, 2025Classic Films9 Comments

Classic Films Spiritual Life

Inklings // March 2025

The prompt for the March Inklings (check out the rules for linking up here!) is a scene with strangers meeting / becoming acquainted. Since we are in the beginning of Holy Week, leading up to the most holy time of…

By Lizzie Hexam April 15, 2025Classic Films, Spiritual Life3 Comments

Period Dramas

Inklings // February 2025

The prompt for this month's Inklings link-up (check out the rules for linking up here!) is a scene at the piano. This prompt just calls out for Jane Austen submissions, doesn't it? I considered trying to be different and original…

By Lizzie Hexam March 13, 2025Period Dramas9 Comments

Classic Films Period Dramas

We Love Musicals Week Tag

We Love Musicals Week is starting today over at Hamlette's Soliloquy! I'm hoping to get a post up for that later this week, but in the meantime I decided to fill out this fun-looking We Love Musicals Week tag. 1. …

By Lizzie Hexam February 10, 2025Classic Films, Period Dramas10 Comments

Hugh Laurie as Frederick Little and Geena Davis as Eleanor Little in Stuart Little 1999

Miscellaneous

Stuart Little and The Portrayal of Parenthood in Children’s Entertainment

...or in which Lizzie waxes eloquent about Deep Topics using as a springboard a children's movie which was never meant to be a springboard for Deep Topics. Because how else would you spend a rainy summer day? (Buckle up, because…

By Lizzie Hexam August 19, 2024Miscellaneous6 Comments

Bookishness Classic Films Period Dramas

10 Books and 10 Movies Perfect for Summer

Audio version of "10 Books and 10 Movies Perfect for Summer" is available here. This is a bit late in coming, perhaps, seeing how the summer is half over...but better late than never, right? Many of these stories are on…

By Lizzie Hexam July 20, 2024Bookishness, Classic Films, Period Dramas8 Comments

Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster and Stephen Fry as Reginald Jeeves in Jeeves and Wooster

Period Dramas

A Favorite Jeeves and Wooster Episode: “Introduction on Broadway”

The 1990-1993 TV show of Jeeves and Wooster is widely considered to be the best adaptation of P.G. Wodehouse's original stories to date. It's also a highly-regarded show on its own right, apart from its status as an adaptation -…

By Lizzie Hexam March 22, 2024Period Dramas16 Comments

Classic Films Period Dramas

My Top 7 Christmas Movies

First things first: I'm one of Those People who tries to do very little in the way of Christmas-y things until it is actually Christmas. Seeing how it is not actually Christmas yet, but plumb spang in the middle of…

By Lizzie Hexam December 21, 2023Classic Films, Period Dramas8 Comments