My obsession with TCM dates back to my teenage years, when I wrote the network a fan letter. To my amazement, I received a lovely letter back.
In 2015, I signed on as a Social Producer for the TCM Classic Film Festival. I returned in the same capacity in 2016 and served as a TCM Social Ambassador for the festivals in 2018 and 2019. As a social producer and ambassador, I put my research background to work creating unique content, both for TCM’s accounts and my own social media accounts.
Following the 2016 festival, I was extended an offer to become a freelance copywriter for the network’s social platforms. My duties evolved from creating Instagram copy for their annual Summer Under the Stars campaign to becoming TCM’s first ever long-form Tumblr writer. The success of my Tumblr articles prompted the company to expand their writing pool. Since 2022, I’ve shifted to penning monthly programming articles for TCM.com.
See: above images for examples of my TCMFF and freelance work
See: below for Tumblr and TCM.com links
- Star of the Month: Mae West
- In Memoriam 2024 + Remembering Maggie Smith
- Summer Under the Stars: Julie Andrews
- Star of the Month: Debbie Reynolds
- Two Special Evenings of Paddy Chayefsky
- An Evening at the Academy Museum with John Waters
- I Like Big Bugs and I Cannot Lie
- Summer Under the Stars: Greer Garson
- WB100: Pre-Code Classics and an Emphasis on Realism
- 31 Days of Oscar: Pre-Code
- Directed by Ida Lupino
- Cinerama 70th Anniversary
- Pick Your Poison
- Cult of the Cobra (1955) Research Article
- A Look at the Past with TCM’s Writers
- The Enchanted Cottage (1945): Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder
- Judging Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956) Today
- Timeless and Timely: Four Best Picture Nominees That Remain Relevant Today
- A Conversation with Patty McCormack on Growing Up on Screen
- Queen Behind the Scenes: Ida Koverman’s Reign at MGM
- Ernest Anderson – A Stunted Career by Hollywood
- Seeing Is Believing, or Is It? A Look at Blow-Up (1966)
- Fighting the Good Fight: Marsha Hunt’s Seven Decades of Activism
- Censoring Sex in Pre-Code Hollywood
- Celebrating the Charismatic Ann Rutherford
- Crusading Cinema: Socially Conscious Female Directors
- International Female Filmmakers of Color, Past and Present
- The Importance of Film Preservation and The Film Foundation
- From War to Pandemic, We Salute Our Medical Heroes
- Women Make Film – In More Ways Than One
- Rediscovery, Representation and Dolores del Rio in Ramona (1928)
- A Peek into Barbara Stanwyck’s Country Life
- The Atomic Bomb on Film: Remembering Hiroshima
- Facts about The Falcon
- Scent of Mystery (1960) and the Lingering History of Smell in Cinema
- Carole Lombard and William Powell: Friends, Lovers and Co-Stars
- Tea and Sympathy‘s (1956) Battle from Stage to Screen
- Spotlight on Adoption Activist Edna Gladney
- Sessue Hayakawa: The Biggest Silent Movie Star I’d Never Heard Of
- What Can’t They Do? The Films of Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray
- Helen Hayes in Hollywood
- One Potato, Two Potato (1964): Far From Child’s Play
- Taking a Ride with Gun Crazy (1950)
- Six Classic Hollywood Actors Never Nominated for an Oscar
- None Shall Escape (1944) – As Long as We Don’t Let Them
- The Modern Relevance of Why Be Good? (1929)
- An Interview with Alexa Foreman, Director of Scandal: The Trial of Mary Astor
- Random Harvest (1942) Keeps on Giving
- The Seventh Victim (1943): One Peculiar Picture
- Safe in Hell (1931) – For Some
- A Conversation with CinemAbility Director Jenni Gold
- I See A Dark Stranger (1946): I See A Quirky Spy Comedy
- The Short Career of Leila Hyams
- Irene Dunne in Ann Vickers (1933)
- Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon
- An Interview with Marsha Hunt
- Geraldine Page’s Inspirational Independence in Dear Heart (1964)
- The Prowler (1951): The Most Outrageous Film Noir Ever?
- The Sexiness of The More the Merrier (1943)
- How Writer Virginia Kellogg’s Stint Undercover in Prison Informed Caged (1950)
- Consolation Marriage (1931)
- How Red-Headed Woman (1932) Influenced Baby Face (1933)
- The Careers of Dick Powell and June Allyson
- Where the Boys Are (1960)
- Asta in The Thin Man series
- How Holiday (1938) Got Me Interested In Classic Films
- Classic Hollywood Philanthropists
- Arsene Lupin (1932)
- How Warren Beatty Championed Gene Hackman
- The Genius of Bill Robinson
- Claudette Colbert in Four Frightened People (1934)
- Getting in the Christmas Spirit with Remember the Night (1940)
- Hollywood’s Perfect Wife: Myrna Loy
- That One Time Hitchcock Directed a German Film, Mary (1931)
- Lauren Bacall’s Big Break
- Martha Raye and WWII
- Claude Rains in The Invisible Man (1933)
- Dressing The Lady Eve (1941)
- John Williams: His Iconic Work Outside Movies
- Deconstructing Design for Living (1933)
- Anna May Wong’s Perseverance
- Van Heflin in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
- Helen Twelvetrees in Millie (1931)
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