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Post by topbilled on May 18, 2023 15:39:08 GMT
Glad everyone's enjoying the lists...it's lending itself to a good discussion about classic film from the studio era.
I will post 1959 tomorrow...then take a slight break and start posting 1930-1939 next week.
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Post by Swithin on May 19, 2023 0:22:24 GMT
I remember being taken to many of the 1958 films, but the most memorable for me was Merry Andrew, because it was the first time I was taken to Radio City Music Hall, and a New York City kid never forgets that. It was the Easter Show, and one of the melodies that the lady organist played has stayed with me, although I don't know what it is. And the Rockettes, and the whole show, were magical. I've been back many times, but never since they dropped the film part of the show.
Other movies I was taken to that year included Marjorie Morningstar, No Time for Sergeants, The Long Hot Summer, A Certain Smile, and The Buccaneer. A few years later, as revivals, I saw two great films: a double bill of Damn Yankees and The Pajama Game; and a few years after that, after I had read a tattered paperback purchased in a second-hand book shop on the Grand Concourse, Auntie Mame.
As an adult, I saw The Last Hurrah, which I think is one of John Ford's greatest films; and The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, which is particularly moving due to Robert Donat's final performance.
There were plenty of horror films that year, including the perhaps gay-themed I Married a Monster from Outer Space, I Bury the Living, Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, and Queen of Outer Space, all of which I saw on television. Regarding the latter film, at the age of about 14, my friends and I would hang out near Sardi's restaurant, so that we could get autographs from actors as they emerged. A woman came out, and I shouted to my friends: ZSA ZSA GABOR!! To which the woman replied, "No darling, Eva."
I was taken to an AIP double bill in 1958: Attack of the Puppet People and The Amazing Colossal Man, both of which I enjoyed.
I saw Macabre at some point early on, and even then found it pretty lame.
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