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Post by Andrea Doria on Apr 24, 2024 12:50:53 GMT
This Sunday we have to leave the Lane sisters behind, but the story lives on to 1954 with Frank Sinatra and Doris Day in beautiful technicolor.
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Post by topbilled on Apr 24, 2024 14:15:36 GMT
Love this version...have been waiting all month for it!
With Doris Day, Dorothy Malone & Elisabeth Fraser as the Tuttle sisters.
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Post by Andrea Doria on Apr 24, 2024 22:23:44 GMT
I love it, too, it's one of my favorite movies. The music, the clothes, the house, and the three sisters are all perfect.
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Post by Andrea Doria on Apr 25, 2024 13:18:15 GMT
I feel the need to high-hosey Doris Day as one of the stars I've admired most in the world. She could sing, act, dance and make me laugh in movie after movie and she lived a long (to age 97) courageous life.
Doris is from Cincinnati where she was on her way to becoming a professional dancer when a train hit her car and her leg was broken so badly she knew dancing was over. So while recovering from the broken leg she took singing lessons and practiced along with the radio -- her favorite being Ella Fitzgerald. Soon she was a hit singer and went on to record 650 songs, then a starring actress in 39 feature films. After her husband and lawyer managed to lose all her money for her, she went right on working making TV shows and specials until she retired and spent the rest of her life working for animal protection.
On a shallow note, she wore beautiful clothes in all her movies, she alone made the late 50's /early sixties my favorite fashion era.
 
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Post by topbilled on Apr 26, 2024 2:20:19 GMT
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Post by topbilled on Apr 26, 2024 2:24:13 GMT
Trailer:
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Post by Fading Fast on Apr 26, 2024 17:58:40 GMT
Really good article - I agree with Day Re Sinatra's character's ultimate fate.
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Post by topbilled on Apr 27, 2024 22:45:07 GMT
Copy of film on YouTube:
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Post by Fading Fast on Apr 28, 2024 17:45:34 GMT
The Continuing Adventures of Fawn and Me
Me: "I have a surprise for you."
Fawn: "This isn't like the time you told me how much fun vacuuming would be?"
Me: "No, but with all the shedding, you can't blame a guy for trying."
Fawn: "I'm sorry, but a vacuum isn't designed for someone without opposable thumbs."
Me: "Let's move on. I went to a chocolatier."
Fawn: "You graduated from a state school in a state known for its turnpike; you sound ridiculous when you use words like chocolatier."
Me: "It really is a great road, umm, never mind. Do you want to hear about your surprise or not?"
Fawn: "Okay, tell me about the [saying the next word with as much snarky French-accented pomposity as possible] chocolatier."
Me: [with enthusiasm] "I bought us handmade Sno-Caps!"
Fawn: "Licensed by the company?"
Me: "No."
Fawn: "So they're not really Sno-Caps?"
Me: "Well, technically, no."
Fawn: "Technically?"
Me: "Okay, they are not Sno-Caps. They are disc-shaped chocolates with white nonpareils sprinkled on top, from a very good chocola..umm...maker of chocolates."
Fawn: "That sounds fun, why didn't you say so in the first place?"
Me: [with his last shred of enthusiasm] "Do you want to try them? I bought them just for you."
Fawn: "Sure, let me have one of those [said irritatingly slowly and precisely] disc-shaped chocolates with white nonpareils sprinkled on top that is not a Sno-Cap."
- I pass one over to Fawn. He puts it down on the table, nudges it several times with his wet nose, gives it a few sniffs as if it was a piece of dirt and then deigns to take it in his mouth and chew it slowly with a pensive look on his face -
Me: "Well?"
Fawn: "It's not half bad. You do have the real Sno-Caps ready for today's movie though?"
Me: "Sigh, yes."
Fawn: [putting his leg around my shoulder] "Thanks, buddy, that was very nice of you."
Me: "Couldn't we have just started there?"
Fawn: "Shh, the movie's about to begin.” |
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Post by Andrea Doria on Apr 28, 2024 18:44:08 GMT
LOL So glad Fawn got his real Sno-Caps in the end... but, hmmm, "turnpike" "chocolate"...
Could it be that the Fast family hails from Pennsylvania? Is it possible the chocolatier is Mr. Hershey?
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Post by Fading Fast on Apr 28, 2024 18:58:58 GMT
LOL So glad Fawn got his real Sno-Caps in the end... but, hmmm, "turnpike" "chocolate"...
Could it be that the Fast family hails from Pennsylvania? Is it possible the chocolatier is Mr. Hershey?
I love Hershey chocolates, but that was one state and one more turnpike away.
Fawn really beat me up today. It was pure no good dead goes unpunished.
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Post by topbilled on Apr 28, 2024 18:59:51 GMT
Hello everyone...pressing play.
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Post by topbilled on Apr 28, 2024 19:01:57 GMT
I prefer Ethel Barrymore as the auntie. She's such a great actress.
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Post by Fading Fast on Apr 28, 2024 19:02:01 GMT
At least in this version, Dad has a real degree.
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Post by Andrea Doria on Apr 28, 2024 19:02:03 GMT
Aha! That other turnpike. Well at least that's closer to Park Avenue where I pictured you.
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