Hoagy Carmichael

Jazz Week: The Bittersweet Beauty of YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN (1950)

Aug 8, 2015 Lindsay Affleck 1

It’s Jazz Week here at The Retro Set! Put your glad rags on while we cut a rug, because from August 3rd through August 8th the Retro Set is diggin’ the swingin’ beat of some of the […]

William Wyler’s Love Letter to His Comrades in Arms

Nov 11, 2014 Jill Blake 4

In the opening shot of William Wyler’s The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), Captain Fred Derry walks into an airport terminal in hopes of catching a flight home to Boone City, USA. Upon reaching the clerk […]