October turned out to be Jane Fonda/Robert Redford/1970s month. I've posted before on my blog facebook page and on twitter my pitifully small list of films I've seen and enjoyed from the 1970s so I was excited to find three films (two starring Jane Fonda) and a TV mini-series that I enjoyed. And due to my access to WatchTCM I have been able to see many movies I would have never recorded (aka I watched a ridiculous amount of movies this month).
Does anyone else think Drew Barrymore looks like Zita Johann?
I thought they must be related but they aren't.
I watched the Sissi trilogy starring Romy Schneider, making it's TCM debut. I loved it! I took a ton of screenshots of the lavish costumes and gorgeous Austrian scenery, where it was filmed. The trilogy, and Schneider's The Story of Vickie, were my first German language films! A new dvd set of the four films, plus the condensed-into-one dubbed English Sissi movie Forever My Love, was released yesterday! It also includes a 20 min. making of feature and a 20 page booklet. You can buy it here. I really want it!
Two movies I was happy to FINALLY get around to watching were The Mummy (1932), Old Acquaintance (1943), and The Innocents (1961). I also watched my first Lizabeth Scott, Margaret Lockwood, Romy Schneider, Marge & Gower Champion, and Robert Donat films! I also discovered Paula Prentiss in Where the Boys Are (1960). I'm excited to watch all of her films from the 60s!
(* means a rewatch)
- The Mummy (1932) - Boris Karloff, Zita Johann
- Murder in the Private Car (1934) - Charles Ruggles, Una Merkel
- Knight Without Armour (1937) - Robert Donat & Marlene Dietrich
- Joy of Living (1938) - Irene Dunne & Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Lucille Ball
- Castle on the Hudson (1940) - John Garfield & Ann Sheridan, Pat O'Brien, Burgess Meredith
- The Great Lie (1941) - Bette Davis, Mary Astor, George Brent
- All Through the Night (1942) - Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt, Peter Lorre
- Joe Smith, American (1942) - Robert Young & Marsha Hunt, Darryl Hickman
- The Affairs of Martha (1942) - Marsha Hunt, Marjorie Main
- I Walked with a Zombie (1943) - Frances Dee, Tom Conway
- Old Acquaintance (1943) - Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, Gig Young
- A Place of One's Own (1945) - Margaret Lockwood, James Mason
- Anna and the King of Siam (1946) - Rex Harrison & Irene Dunne, Linda Darnell, Lee J. Cobb, Gale Sondergaard
- Boomerang (1947) - Dana Andrews & Jane Wyatt
- *Portrait of Jennie (1948) - Joseph Cotten & Jennifer Jones, Ethel Barrymore
- April Showers (1948) - Jack Carson & Ann Sothern
- Night Unto Night (1949) - Ronald Reagan
- Easy Living (1949) - Victor Mature, Lizabeth Scott, Lucille Ball, Los Angeles Rams
- The Narrow Margin (1952) - Marie Windsor
- Lone Star (1952) - Clark Gable & Ava Gardner
- Scaramouche (1952) - Mel Ferrer, Janet Leigh, Eleanor Parker
- The Actress (1953) - Jean Simmons, Spencer Tracy, Teresa Wright, Anthony Perkins
- Miss Sadie Thompson (1953) - Rita Hayworth, Aldo Ray, Jose Ferrer
- Easy to Love (1953) - Esther Williams & Van Johnson
- Give a Girl a Break (1953) - Marge & Gower Champion, Debbie Reynolds
- The Blue Gardenia (1953) - Anne Baxter, Raymond Burr, Ann Sothern
- The Story of Vickie/Victoria in Dover/Mdchenjahre einer Knigin (1954 - German) - Romy Schneider, Magda Schneider, Adrian Hoven, Karl Ludwig Diehl
- Sissi (1955 - German) - Romy Schneider & Karlheinz Böhm, Magda Schneider
- Trial (1955) - Glenn Ford & Dorothy McGuire
- World Without End (1955) - Hugh Marlowe, Rod Taylor
- The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956) - Judy Holliday & Paul Douglas
- Sissi: The Young Empress (1956 - German) - Romy Schneider & Karlheinz Böhm, Magda Schneider
- Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress (1957 - German) - Romy Schneider & Karlheinz Böhm, Magda Schneider
- *Until They Sail (1957) - Jean Simmons & Paul Newman, Joan Fontaine, Sandra Dee, Piper Laurie
- Where the Boys Are (1960) - Dolores Hart, George Hamilton, Yvette Mimoux, Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss, Connie Francis
- The Innocents (1961) - Deborah Kerr
- Man's Favorite Sport? - (1964) - Rock Hudson & Paula Prentiss
- *Cat Ballou (1965) - Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin, Michael Callan
- Any Wednesday (1966) - Jane Fonda, Jason Robards, Dean Jones
- *Barefoot in the Park (1967) - Robert Redford & Jane Fonda, Mildred Natwick, Charles Boyer
- *Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) - Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross
- What's Up, Doc? (1972) - Barbra Streisand & Ryan O'Neal, Madeline Kahn
- Little Women (1978) - Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Greer Garson
- The Electric Horseman (1979) - Robert Redford & Jane Fonda
- The China Syndrome (1979) - Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas
- Our Souls at Night (2017) - Robert Redford & Jane Fonda
Least Favorite Film of the Month: It was a pretty good month for me. Scaramouche was kind of lame but I was watching it for Eleanor Parker. Same goes for The Actress and Jean Simmons. And I didn't like the rape storyline in Where the Boys Are. It had started out as such a fun movie! Also, I really wanted Esther Williams to walk out on Van Johnson in Easy to Love. She deserved better! The Florida-shaped pool was pretty epic though :)
Favorite Movie: The Sissi Trilogy, as I mentioned above. The Solid Gold Cadillac was great (despite the author's contrary opinion in Holliday's biography...) as well as the Fonda films. Our Souls at Night was very sweet. I would highly recommend it to any Fonda/Redford fan (get the one month free trial if you have to). What's Up, Doc? was a throwback to the Screwball days, a la Bringing Up Baby. Also, Rod Taylor was adorable in World Without End ;)
Some months there are too many movies I enjoyed and I feel like I should write little blurbs about some of them. Would anyone be interested in that?
Favorite Movie: The Sissi Trilogy, as I mentioned above. The Solid Gold Cadillac was great (despite the author's contrary opinion in Holliday's biography...) as well as the Fonda films. Our Souls at Night was very sweet. I would highly recommend it to any Fonda/Redford fan (get the one month free trial if you have to). What's Up, Doc? was a throwback to the Screwball days, a la Bringing Up Baby. Also, Rod Taylor was adorable in World Without End ;)
Some months there are too many movies I enjoyed and I feel like I should write little blurbs about some of them. Would anyone be interested in that?
Paula Prentiss
You had a busy month! I'm not generally a fan of seventies films either, but I do enjoy Robert Redford and Jane Fonda. I also watched What's Up Doc and Sissi for the first time as well as Where the Boys Are. I'm a fan of Robert Donat and enjoyed Knight Without Armor. Although I wonder if there was a stranger casting than Donat with Dietrich?
ReplyDeleteThe films I've seen from the 70s and enjoyed are either ones with Classic movie stars (John Wayne) or comedies so I was happy to finally add one a little more serious :)
DeleteThis was my first Donat film so him and Dietrich seemed fine together to me. However, I do feel like whoever is paired with Dietrich is always a little odd as she's so different from most actresses.
Little blurbs would be fun! I mean, I'm already always sooooooo envious of all your movie-watching time, so what's a little more envy? Hee.
ReplyDeleteDon't be. It can be tiring watching so many movies (I was up till 3am trying to finish the Sissi movies before it was taken down off the TCM app) but I have the time now (and access to TCM), which won't always be the case in the future :)
DeleteHee. Well, I guess I had kind of the same thing going on all through college and the first few years of my marriage, where I sort of crammed as many movies into myself as I could.
DeleteI'd read your blurbs.
ReplyDeleteSo, Knight Without Armour was your first Robert Donat movie? Wait until you see Goodbye, Mr. Chips!
I enjoyed reading your list of watched films. I'm quite a bit behind in catching up with current films, so I've never even heard of Our Souls at Night, but it's nice that Redford and Fonda are together again in a film. That's one I might like to see soon. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteThanks! Yeah, I don’t watch a lot of current movies and when I do I’m a couple years late lol. I only knew of Our Souls at Night because it was advertised on Netflix.
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