Five Year Anniversary

Last week I realized that my five year anniversary for this blog was coming up. This year has definitely been my worst yet, with me basically just posting what I watch every month. This year so far I've only hosted one blogathon, co-hosted two (and on my Olivia one I never even added or read all the entries) and joined two that I actually wrote posts for. Sigh. One day I hope to get back up to standard again.

Accurate depiction of how I feel about my blog.

Until then, I decided to share a list of my favorite movie from each year, like I did for my first anniversary. A few have changed and I've seen some films from years I hadn't before. I hope you'll enjoy and thanks to the few of you who continue to comment on my very rare posts.

1928 - The Cameraman - Buster Keaton
1931 - Platinum Blonde - Jean Harlow
1932 - No Man of Her Own - Carole Lombard & Clark Gable
1933 - The White Sister - Helen Hayes & Clark Gable
1934 - The Thin Man, It Happened One Night, The Count of Monte Cristo
1935 - I Live My Life - Joan Crawford & Brian Aherne
1936 - Libeled Lady & Theadora Goes Wild
1937 - Double Wedding & Lost Horizon
1938 - Bringing Up Baby, Four Daughters, The Divorce of Lady X
1939 - The Wizard of Oz & Goodbye Mr. Chips
1940 - Rebecca, Remember the Night, Third Finger Left Hand
1941 - Meet John Doe, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, They Died With Their Boots On
1942 - Cat People, Random Harvest
1943 - Shadow of a Doubt
1944 - Arsenic and Old Lace, The Uninvited
1945 - Christmas in Connecticut, I Know Where I'm Going
1946 - A Stolen Life, Nobody Lives Forever, The Best Years of Our Lives
1947 - My Favorite Brunette & Miracle on 34th Street
1948 - Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, Miranda
1949 - She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Battleground, Act of Violence
1950 - Rio Grande, Mister 880
1951 - His Kind of Woman, I'll See You In My Dreams - Doris Day & Danny Thomas
1952 - The Quiet Man
1953 - Roman Holiday
1954 - White Christmas, Three Coins in the Fountain, It Should Happen to You
1955 - We're No Angels, The Trouble with Harry, Sissi, Summertime
1956 - The Searchers
1957 - Tammy and the Bachelor, The Smallest Show on Earth
1958 - The Defiant Ones
1959 - Gidget, Rio Bravo
1960 - The Bellboy, Who Was That Lady?
1961 - The Parent Trap
1962 - Period of Adjustment
1963 - The Pink Panther, Sunday in New York, Donovan's Reef, McLintock, Lilies of the Field
1964 - 36 Hours, The Yellow Rolls-Royce
1965 - Cat Ballou, Help! The Beatles, That Darn Cat!
1966 - Not With My Wife, You Don't!

1967 - Barefoot in the Park

1968 - Funny Girl

1969 - Support Your Local Sheriff, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

1976 - Rocky
1977 - Smokey and the Bandit
1978 - Hooper
1979 - Rocky II
1980 - The Blues Brothers, My Bodyguard

1982 - Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

1983 - Mickey's Christmas Carol

1985 - Clue
1986 - The Three Amigos!
1987 - Moonstruck & The Princess Bride
1988 - Funny Farm
1989 - See No Evil, Hear No Evil & When Harry Met Sally
1990 - Home Alone

1992 - Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
1993 - Robin Hood Men in Tights & Sleepless in Seattle
1994 - Maverick
1995 - Apollo 13
1996 - Down Periscope
1997 - Conspiracy Theory
1998 - You've Got Mail
1999 - The Mummy
2000 - Gladiator
2001 - Ocean's 11
2002 - Signs & The Bourne Identity
2003 - Shanghai Knights
2004 - Elf & National Treasure & Ocean's 12
2005 - Mr. and Mrs. Smith
2006 - Casino Royale, Deja Vu, The Holiday
2007 - Becoming Jane
2008 - The Young Victoria & 27 Dresses
2009 - Sherlock Holmes, Star Trek
2010 - Tangled
2011 - The Adjustment Bureau & Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
2012 - This Means War, Skyfall

2014 - Maleficent
2015 - The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Spectre
2016 - Hell or High Water
2017 - Our Souls at Night (Netflix)
2018 - Like Father (Netflix)
2019 - Downton Abbey

Movies I Watched in September

This month I finally got around to watching The Three Faces of Eve as well as some Sidney Poitier films. Prior to this month I had only seen him in Lilies of the Field, The Defiant Ones, the last half of Duel at Diablo (on tv - really want to see the first half), and the very beginning of Paris Blues. He's such an incredible actor and I so I took advantage of watching several of his films while he was Star of the Month on TCM.

* means a rewatch

1. Shoulder Arms (1918) - Charlie Chaplin
2. *Merrily We Live (1938) - Constance Bennett & Brian Aherne, Bonita Granville, Billie Burke
3. Love is a Headache (1938) - Franchot Tone & Gladys George, Mickey Rooney, Virginia Weidler
4. *The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) - Dana Andrews & Theresa Wright, Frederic March & Myrna Loy, Harold Russell, Virginia Mayo
5. Deadline at Dawn (1946) - Bill Williams & Susan Hayward, Paul Lukas
6. They Won’t Believe Me (1947) - Robert Young, Susan Hayward, Jane Greer
7. Highly Dangerous (1950) - Margaret Lockwood & Dane Clark
8. *A Millionaire for Christy (1951) - Fred MacMurray & Eleanor Parker, Richard Carlson
9. The Belle of New York (1952) - Fred Astaire & Vera-Ellen, Marjorie Main, Keenan Wynn
10. Angel Face (1953) - Robert Mitchum & Jean Simmons 
11. The Naked Jungle (1954) - Eleanor Parker & Charlton Heston
12. The Three Faces of Eve (1957) - Joanne Woodward, Lee J. Cobb 
13. 12 Angry Men (1957) - Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb 
14. *Tammy and the Bachelor (1957) - Debbie Reynolds & Leslie Nielsen, Walter Brennan, Fay Wray
15. God’s Little Acre (1958) - Robert Ryan, Aldo Ray, Buddy Hackett, Tina Louise
16. All the Young Men (1960) - Alan Ladd, Sidney Poitier
17. Madison Avenue (1962) - Dana Andrews, Jeanne Crain, Eleanor Parker, Eddie Albert
18. *Follow the Boys (1963) - Connie Francis, Paula Prentiss, Richard Long, Janis Paige, Russ Tamblyn
19. Looking for Love (1964) - Connie Francis, Jim Hutton
20. The Slender Thread (1965) - Sidney Poitier & Anne Bancroft, Telly Savalas
21. A Patch of Blue (1965) - Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Hartman
22. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967) - Sidney Poitier, Spencer Tracy & Katharine Hepburn, Katharine Houghton, Cecil Kellaway
23. Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971) - James Garner & Suzanne Pleshette
24. Snowball Express (1972) - Dean Jones & Nancy Olsen
25. *You've Got Mail (1998) - Tom Hanks & Meg Ryan, Greg Kinnear, Dave Chappelle
26. Stardust (2007) - Charlie Cox & Claire Danes, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mark Strong, Robert De Niro, Henry Cavill
27. *Psych the Musical (2013) - James Roday, Dule Hill, Maggie Lawson, Tim Omundson
28. A Quiet Place (2018) - John Krasinski & Emily Blunt
29. The Legend of 5 Mile Cave (2019) - Adam Baldwin 

Least Favorite Movie: Definitely Love is a Headache. Franchot Tone WAY overacted. Snowball Express was a little too corny for me. The Belle of New York didn't have much of a story line but I wanted to watch it for Vera-Ellen. The cast of Looking for Love had absolutely NO chemistry.

Favorite Movie: So I've suddenly become a Susan Hayward fan lol. I've seen some of her later movies but she never did anything for me but this month I watched two noirs and was really loving her! And of course I was blown away by all the Sidney Poitier films I watched as well as 12 Angry Men. I don't do horror movies but A Quiet Place wasn't as scary as I thought it would be. Emily Blunt is my favorite modern actress and I love the chemistry between her and her real life & on-screen husband, John Krasinski.