Movies I need to write about eventually, or have already written about

-JOA asked me for my favorite old movies and here's what I sent. I'm keeping it for historical purposes.
1)LAURA: Film noir; Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb and Vincent Price; Some girl is murdered... but was she? Good whodunit movie. My favorite music for sure. Great special features story of Gene Tierney's life if you get a dvd.
3)MIDNIGHT LACE: Mystery; Doris Day and Rex Harrison(no singing); In England some girl has a stalker. The end. Like the music at the beginning;)
2)DONKEY SKIN: French; Catherine Devenue Okay this is a really weird movie, but it's great and it's French so you might like it. It's pretty much the French Cinderella, but weird. Oh and Catherine Devenue is also in THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBURG which is a good French all-singing movie that Mom and Dad watched on one of their first dates at BYU. While we're on French movies you should see HE LOVES ME HE LOVES ME NOT and AMELIE if you haven't already. They're newer though. And LA CHEVRE.
15)CONDORMAN: Comedy; Michael Crawford(Phantom of the Oprea guy); Comic book writer who tests out his comics before he writes them. Has a sweet car.
4)LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN: Drama; Gene Tierney; This is where I get the psychotic movie reputation. This girl gets so jealous she's willing to watch a disabled boy drown because he's taking attention away from her. It makes you think and I like Gene Tierney almost as much as Audrey Hepburn. But yes psychotic movie. It's off of a book. Have you read it?
-FOLLOW THE FLEET: Musical; Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers; Mom and Dad like these movies a lot. They're all the same. But fun.
-SUDDEN FEAR: Mystery; Joan Crawford; Psychotic. Joan Crawford has good scared eyes.
-ANNIE GET YOUR GUN: Musical; don't remember who's in it, but remember liking it.
AUDREY HEPBURN: (You've probably already seen all these)
5)ROMAN HOLIDAY (Gregory Peck)
6)Charade(Carey Grant)
- Sabrina (Humphrey Bogart beats Harrison Ford)
-My Fair Lady
-Breakfast at Tiffany's
14)FUNNY FACE(with Fred Astaire- pretty dresses and photography)
-How to Steal a Million
ALFRED HITCHCOCK:
7)Vertigo: my favorite US Hitchcock?(Jimmy Stewart, Kim Novak)
-North by Northwest(Carey Grant)
-To Catch a Thief(Grace K)
16)Lady Vanishes
-The Wrong Man(Henry Fonda)
-The Birds
-Rear Window(Jimmy Stewart)
13)Dial M for Murder(Grace Kelly)
-Stage Fright
12)NOTORIOUS(Carey Grant, Ingrid Bergman)
-REBECCA
-SABOTAGE
20)THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH(also The Man Who Knew Too Little with Bill Murray)
17)Spell bound(Gregory Peck an Ingrid Bergman)
22)The Young and Innocent: my favorite British Hitchcock?
CAREY GRANT:
8)I WAS A MALE WAR BRIDE
-Walk Don't Run
11)An Affair to Rember(With Debra Kerr)
JERRY LEWIS: Scared Stiff, The Nutty Professor, 18)The Disorderly Orderly, Family Jewels,
ABBOTT AND COSTELLO: Hold that Ghost, Buck Privates, Meet the Mummy,
DON KNOTTS: The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, How to Frame a Figg, The Shakiest Gun in the West, The reluctant Astronaut, Apple Dumpling Gang
21)JANE EYRE: Joan Fontaine, Orson Wells, Kind of comparable to the book
-THE PAJAMA GAME: Musical with Dorris Day
19)MY DREAM IS YOURS: Dorris again
-YOURS MINE AND OURS: Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda with huge families
-HIGH SOCIETY: Grace Kelley, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra
9)The Philadelphia Story: Same as High Society but with Carey Grant, Jimmy Stewart and KATHARINE HEPBURN
-Woman of the Year: Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy
-African Queen: Katharine and Humphrey Bogart-really long
BARBRA STREISAND
-Hello Dolly
-On a Clear Day(You can see forever)
10)Funny Girl

Johnny Lingo

Best Movie ever!! I love Johnny Lingo!! It makes you feel good about yourself. Today I came home from school feeling grumpy cuz I had just bombed a test. Johnny Lingo restored me. My dog is named Mahanna(Ps if you ever watch the special features of the new Johnny Lingo, my uncle appears and says,"I have a relative with a dog named Mahanna." That's my Mahanna) I remember watching Johnny Lingo in church a lot when we had the teachers who didn't like to teach. The new Johnny Lingo is cute, but the old one is classic." Mahanna you ugly! Get down from that tree!" It has such a good theme too."Many things can change a woman, but what matters most is what she thinks of herself."

Perry Mason

So I really shouldn't be writing a blog right now, but I just realized that I haven't ever written about Perry Mason(I haven't written about a lot of things, but Perry Mason has been rescuing me from way too much studying this week). Even though Perry Mason isn't a movie(although Perry Mason movies have been made) I think fifties TV shows deserve more attention. And who can resist those raccoon eyes;) of Raymond Burr? I discovered Perry Mason a couple years ago. The only problem was it was only on at 11:30 at night and my mom wanted me in bed. So I'd steal Greg's miniature TV and watch Perry Mason every night in bed. He's so great! Watching Perry Mason has probably contributed a lot to my strong opinions against the death penalty. Every episode there's someone with all the evidence pointing at them and Perry Mason defends them and makes the real murderer come out and confess in court(that's the best part of every episode!). My favorite thing to do during the summer is get a nice tall glass of chocolate milk with Nutella and Ritz crackers and watch Perry Mason with my mom and Mahanna. My brothers make fun of us, but Perry Mason is the best! Not to mention Perry Mason has the bestest theme music of any TV show ever! Long live Perry Mason!!!Yay!!

The Sprial Staircase

Ok so here's another one of those psychotic old mystery movies that I like to watch. This was recommended to me by a girl at work. Same one who recommended Donkey Skin. She knows lots of movies. Sometimes I like her recommendations, sometimes I don't. This one I sort of liked. It got my adrenaline going just enough. So anyway this was the story of a small town with a murderer in it who goes after people with disabilities. There's this girl who is mute and she becomes a potential victim. It's pretty intense. When the murder is around, you never see his whole self, you just see his eye and they zoom in a bunch on it. Kind of cheesy, but it's at those moments that I can jump and grab onto my dog so I like it. The main thing I liked the most about this movie though was Dorothy McGuire, the girl who played the mute girl... the lead. Almost the entire movie she doesn't talk at all, yet somehow she still keeps you fascinated with her every move. So yeah I liked this movie. Then again maybe it's just one of those weird obscure movies that I like that everyone else thinks is strange. Well g'night.

I Was a Male War Bride

Wow I have a lot of movies that could go up here, but I'll just do whatever I most recently watched when I feel like writing a blog :) So here's a Carey Grant movie I really liked. What Carey Grant movies do I not like? Seriously... wait I can think of one(That Touch of Mink) but I like Cary Grant. He's probably one of my favorite actors. Anyway I thought this movie was pretty funny. My dad has had to put up a lot with all the intricacies of the army so my family related well to this movie. I had no idea who the supporting actress was. I'm used to watching lots of well known people up there next to him. My mom thought this lady (Ann Sheridan) looked drunk all the time :). She did have pretty big eyes with darkness around them, kind of like Perry Mason. She reminded me of Joan Crawford. Did she do drugs? Her name was Kathryn in the movie, but I think she spelled it wrong. I'm not so sure whether or not I do drugs though:) Why else would some weirdo have a blog to analyze old movies she watches? Jk Apparently though she's really beautiful. Who knows maybe she is famous. Is she? Well anyway I liked this movie. A good Carey Grant movie without much kissing:). And it had real footage of post war Germany which was interesting. My favorite parts are when Carey Grant accidentally goes up with a rail road track mathinger... I shouldn't try to describe it and when he has to wear a wig made from a horse's tail to look like a girl. So yeah I really liked this movie. Who recommended it to me?I can't remember. Was it one of my old roommates? Or someone from high school? Well anyway thanks whoever you are. Great recommendation.

Follow the Feet

Well I couldn't find a picture of this movie so here's a nice one of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. My parents really like these movies. They're easy to watch. Fred and Ginger are pretty good dancers and singers I guess too. We also watched Top Hat and Shall We Dance and some other of their movies once. Pretty talented people. Don't know what else to say. I wonder why they don't make movies like this anymore?...Okay I did think of something to say. Fred used to dance with his older sister until she got married. Ginger just worked her way through stuff with her single mother. They both kind of grew up in the same place and just worked hard. Fred was more into dancing then Ginger and was quite the perfectionist. Ginger wanted to be more of a dramatic actress. They say Fred had the talent and Ginger had the looks.But they made one of the best couples on film. Pretty amazing people. Hey did Ginger Rogers ever get married? AND what are Snow White's lips compared to? That question has been bugging me forever! "Skin white as snow, lips red as...___!!!!"Scarlet? Blood? Flame? ....!!!!!!

Sudden Fear

Wow! This was a good mystery movie. I wish it didn't have quite so much kissing though. But other than that I thought it was pretty suspenseful. Joan Crawford might have worn too much make-up, but I liked her scared eyes. Although they might have a resemblance to certain Muppet characters, they still made me scared too. I'm glad she had a change of heart at the end. Boy! What a dramatic ending! At least it didn't end like a European movie. Oh I forgot to explain. So Sudden Fear is about a rich lady who likes to write plays. She marries this dude she fired once and soon discovers he only married her for her money and didn't have very happy plans set for her. Yeah it's pretty exciting. But why didn't she just call the police! My favorite part is when she's hiding in a closet and this little wind up dog almost gives her away. I was covering my eyes it was soo good. It might have been a little more dramatic then it needed to be, but I just thought it was a good suspenseful movie that gets your adrenaline going. I believe it was made by the same director of Midnight Lace. Kind of has the same story line if you think about it. The art stuff in it I thought was pretty cool. Like one time she's planning out a...scheme and the camera only shows her face with the shadow of a clock thingy ticking right between her eyes. Then that picture kind of fades, but still stays on the screen and you see what she plans to do. And also at the end when she symbolically throws off her head shawl thingy and it drifts away in the gutter. Anyway it's pretty clutch. I liked it.