Gone With The Bushes

"That's the way the crackers crumble."  A Raisin In The Sun (1961) Directed by Daniel Petrie.  Written by Lorraine Hansberry and starring Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, and Claudia McNeil. Next Tim: Imitation of Life (1959)

"He's got educated feet!"  Stormy Weather (1943) starring Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Lena Horne, Dooley Wilson, Ada Brown, Katherine Dunham, Fats Waller, Cab Colloway and The Nicholas Brothers! Race In Film Article Next time: Porgy and Bess (1959)

"Boy if the army was made up of nothin' but soldiers like you, war wouldn't do nobody no good." Carmen Jones (1954) Directed by Otto Preminger.  Starring Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte and Pearl Bailey. Next Time: Stormy Weather (1943)

"But it's tacky to wear diamonds before you're forty; and even that's risky. Breakfast At Tiffany's (1961) directed by Blake Edwards starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard. Next Time: Carmen Jones (1954)

"All you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people." My Man Godfrey (1936) directed by Gregory Lacava.  Starring William Powell and Carole Lombard Next time: Breakfast At Tiffany's (1961)

"All you people don't know about lost causes." Mr Smith Goes To Washington (1939) directed by Frank Capra and starring Jean Arthur, James Stewart and Claude Rains. Next Episode: My Man Godfrey (1936)

"Like a drowning man clutching at a razor blade." Witness For the Prosecution (1958) Directed by: Billy Wilder and starring Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester Next Time: Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939)

"He just sailed right out there!" It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963) directed by Stanley Kramer and starring Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman and so many more!

"You'll shoot your eye out!" A Christmas Story (1983) directed by Bob Clark and starring Melinda Dillon, Darren McGavin and Peter Billingsley. Next time: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)

"It wasn't the German Gin." The Third Man (1949) Directed by Carol Reed.  Starring Joseph Cotten, Valli, and Orson Welles. Next Time: A Christmas Story (1983)

"Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories." An Affair To Remember (1957) Starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr.  Directed by Leo McCarey Next Time: The Third Man (1949)

"Emergency! Everybody to get from street!" Directed by Norman Jewison and starring Alan Arkin, Carl Reiner and Eva Marie Saint  Next Week: An Affair To Remember (1957)    

"What's the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? I wish I knew." Directed by Richard Brooks and starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman. Next Week: The Russians Are Coming! (1966)

"With my brains and your looks, we could go places." The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) starring Lana Turner and John Garfield.  Directed by Tay Garnett. Next Time: Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (1958)

"Who could ask for anything more?" An American In Paris (1951) starring Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron. Next Time: The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)

"Nobody's Perfect" in Billy Wilder's classic comedy Some Like It Hot. Starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe. Next Time: An American in Paris (1951)

"It's just that I'm afraid we're not really the the sort of people that you can afford to be associated with." Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? Directed by Stanley Kramer.  Starring: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier, and Katharine Houghton. Next Time: Some Like It Hot (1959)

"We'll do our best, Mrs. Lord.  I don't know how good that'll be."   The Philadelphia Story starring Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant and James Stewart. Next Time: Guess Who's Coming To Dinner? (1967)

This week we've "got that little something extra" as we recap 1954's A Star Is Born.  Starring Judy Garland and James Mason. Next Week: A Philadelphia Story (1940)

"What are you being polite about? Same reason you're not.  It was the way I was brought up." Join us this episode for the Sidney Lumet's 1957 classic 12 Angry Men. Next time: A Star Is Born (1954)

"A single crash of cymbals and how it rocked an American family" or Alfred Hitchcock's remake of his own film, The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) starring Jimmy Stewart and Doris Day. Next Time: 12 Angry Men (1957)

Here's lookin at you kid.  This week it's the 1942 classic Casablanca.   Up next: The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

Look, we know you can't keep up with all the current movies and shows let alone The Classics.  Let the mother/daughter duo of Liz and Erin tell you what you missed. This week: The sadly eternally topical Gone with the Wind.