Movies I Watched in October

For Those Who Think Young (1964)

This month I finally read Myrna Loy's autobiography Being and Becoming. I had checked it out from the library in 2018 and used it for a post on Jean Harlow but ran out of time to read it (I tend to check out too many books than wait until a couple days before they're due to start them). It was so good! They are re-releasing it in paperback soon (or already have). I also read William Powell: The Life and Films by Roger Bryant.

I started my third rewatch of Downton Abbey. I was in the mood for something 1920s. I dog-sat for my cousin. She had Disney+ and Paramount+ so I was able to watch some different things. Notice how I ended up watching at least one movie from every decade from the 1920s to the 2020s :)

* indicates a rewatch

1. Piccadilly (1929) - Anna May Wong
2. The Purchase Price (1932) - George Brent & Barbara Stanwyck 
3. *Wise Girl (1937) - Miriam Hopkins & Ray Milland
4. Beauty for the Asking (1939) - Lucille Ball, Patric Knowles, Donald Woods, Frieda Inescort
5. *Virginia City (1940) - Miriam Hopkins, Errol Flynn, Randolph Scott, Alan Hale, Guinn “Big Boy” Williams
6. Ladies Must Live (1940) - Wayne Morris & Rosemary Lane, Roscoe Karns & Lee Patrick, George Reeves, William Hopper
7. I’ll Wait for You (1941) - Robert Sterling & Marsha Hunt, Virginia Weidler, Paul Kelly, Henry Travers, Fay Holden 
8. Strange Affair (1944) - Allyn Joslyn & Evelyn Keyes
9. Objective, Burma! (1945) - Errol Flynn, James Brown, George Tobias
10. Daisy Kenyon (1947) - Joan Crawford, Dana Andrews, Henry Fonda
11. Her Husband's Affairs (1947) - Lucille Ball & Franchot Tone
12. Mystery in Mexico (1948) - William Lundigan & Jacqueline White, Ricardo Cortez
13. Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949) - Lucille Ball & William Holden, Janis Carter, James Gleason, Frank McHugh
14. The Fuller Brush Girl (1950) - Lucille Ball & Eddie Albert
15. The Story of Robin Hood (1952) - Richard Todd
16. A Summer Place (1959) - Troy Donahue & Sandra Dee, Richard Egan, Dorothy McGuire, Arthur Kennedy, Constance Ford, Beulah Bondi 
17. The Mummy (1959) - Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee
18. The Magnificent Seven (1960) - Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn
19. An Autumn Afternoon (1962-Japanese) - Chishu Ryu, Shima Iwashita
20. For Those Who Think Young (1964) - James Darrin & Pamela Tiffin, Woody Woodberry, Bob Denver, Paul Lynde, Anna Lee
21. Goldfinger (1965) - Sean Connery & Honor Blackman
22. The Train Robbers (1973) - John Wayne, Rod Taylor, Ann Margaret, Ben Johnson
23. Anne of Green Gables (1985) - Meghan Follows
24. Anne of Avonlea (1987) - Meghan Follows
25. Throw Momma From the Train (1987) - Danny DeVito, Billy Crystal
26. Air America (1990) - Mel Gibson, Robert Downey Jr. 
27. Frequency (2000) - Jim Caviezel, Dennis Quaid
28. *Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) - Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Benedict Cumberbatch, Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg, Carl Urban, Leonard Nimoy
29. A Quiet Place Part II (2021) - Emily Blunt, John Krasinski 

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2018)

The Adventures of Spin and Marty (1955)

Handsome Flynn

Least Favorite Film: I’ve put off watching A Summer Place because it sounded too adult and I prefer Sandra Dee as the innocent Gidget. I watched it for Dorothy McGuire (I have no plans to ever watch Old Yeller).

Favorite Movie: I was really impressed with Piccadilly. The accompaniment however was very distracting and didn't go with the film at all. I would love to see it get a 40s style score! The Fuller Brush Girl and Miss Grant Takes Richmond were both really funny. I rewatched Wise Girl and it was even more hilarious than I remembered! It's sadly not on DVD :( I really liked Henry Fonda's performance in Daisy Kenyon (which has always sounded like a Western to me so I literally had no idea what the movie was about).

Favorite Quote: "You can wear the pants, Pete, but I'll tell you when to put them on!"~ Lee Patrick in Ladies Must Live.

This cracked me up for some reason - The Purchase Price (1932)