Lydia Hamessley
lydiahamessley.bsky.social
Lydia Hamessley
@lydiahamessley.bsky.social
Musicologist. Author — Unlikely Angel: The Songs of Dolly Parton (U of Ill Press) and Dolly Parton’s Jolene (Oxford Univ. Press). Professor of Music, Hamilton College. Cyclist, banjo player, old movies, antique quilts. 🪕🐈🎶🚵🏼‍♀️🚴🏼 #TCMParty
I really like Hindemith, but I still find this funny.
November 16, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Featuring Veronica Cartwright in another “crying her eyes out” role. I always found her crying annoying, but very realistic, unlike Margaret O’Brien, who usually cried a little too sweetly, though she was amazing in being able to cry like that. #TheBirds #TheChildren’sHour #TCMParty
October 20, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Midge in #Vertigo.
Rob in #TheBestYearsOfOurLives.
As Kenan Thompson says on SNL, what’s up with that?
October 20, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Same setup? 3 window panels with the same kind of shades.
#Vertigo #RearWindow #TCMParty
October 20, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The swirling shapes in this opening credit sequence reminds me of one of my favorite toys as a kid in the 60s: a spirograph set. Anyone else remember those? I just loved it. It was so much fun to see how many different kinds of shapes I could make. #Vertigo #TCMParty
October 20, 2025 at 12:09 AM
What a fabulous outfit. That’s a great look on #IngridBergman. Fa. Bu. Lous.
#Notorious #TCMParty
October 13, 2025 at 12:42 AM
While watching #NewYorkConfidential, I made chocolate covered fig balls. While I was dipping them in chocolate, I kept hearing, “speed it up a little!” #ILoveLucy #TCMParty #NoirAlley
October 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
WOW! Great ending!!!!! #HeRanAllTheWay #TCMParty
September 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Cue Dolly Parton’s song “Just Because I’m a Woman. #TCMParty

Now a man will take a good girl
And he'll ruin her reputation
But when he wants to marry
Well, that's a different situation

Yes, I've made my mistakes
But listen and understand
My mistakes are no worse than yours
Just because I'm a woman
August 31, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Speaking of Cathy O’Donnell reminding you of a Renaissance painting, check this out. Vittoria Coza played Dede on the excellent #MyBrilliantFriend. I couldn’t take my eyes off of her because she reminded me so much of this da Vinci painting. #TCMParty #DetectiveStory
August 31, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Anyone else seeing this when that guy introduces himself as Henry Gibson? #TCMParty #GirlMissing #Laugh-In #The60s
August 12, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Look up “radiant.” This photo will be there.
#Casablanca #TCMParty #IngridBergman
August 6, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Yup. Grace Kelly packs a picnic and drives Cary Grant around in her little sports mobile. She takes the hairpin curves above the Mediterranean really fast. It’s eerily like her death in real life.
#TCMParty
August 6, 2025 at 12:31 AM
My book, Dolly Parton’s Jolene, was featured in The Week! They picked up on Abbie Kozolchyk’s nice review in #TheWashingtonPost. 😃
#DollyParton
August 3, 2025 at 2:37 AM
The fashion site with this photo calls this a side peplum. So I guess it’s a variation of the full Greek ones. #TCMParty.
August 3, 2025 at 1:30 AM
August 3, 2025 at 12:43 AM
The Piccolino! Love this set piece. And the staged Venice is so fabulous. #TCMParty #TopHat #FredandGinger
July 29, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Goober Pyle (#TheAndyGriffithShow) doing his imitation of Edward G. Robinson. #TCMParty #DoubleIndemnity
June 29, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Herb Jeffries was in a bunch of singing cowboy movies. “Herb Jeffries was the Bronze Buckaroo, star of five all-Black-cast singing-cowboy movies in the 1930s and ’40s.” 🤠 🎶 #TCMParty #WesternFilms
June 1, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Radiant Teresa Wright! ♥️
#TCMParty #TheBestYearsOfOurLives
May 24, 2025 at 2:54 AM
May 24, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Homer mentioned serving on CVs. My dad served on about 7 or 8 different aircraft carriers during his 25 years in the Navy. He enlisted in 1943 when he was 17 (2 weeks before he turned 18 so he wouldn’t get drafted in the Army). He was 92 in this pic.❤️ #TCMParty #TheBestYearsOfOurLives
#USSHornet
May 24, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Psyched that my book *Dolly Parton’s Jolene* is finally out from #OxfordUniversityPress! #DollyParton
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May 18, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Anyone else thinking of this classic #BugsBunny cartoon? “Monsters lead such int’resting lives.” #TCMParty #Frankenstein
May 18, 2025 at 12:19 AM
This is a terrific book if you want to read the unglamorous story of the real #Bonnie&Clyde. It’s way grimmer than the idealized version of their lives in the film. #TCMParty

Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde
Book by Jeff Guinn.
May 13, 2025 at 1:14 AM