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Thelma Todd biography

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Thelma Todd ( July 29, 1906 – December 16, 1935)

Biography of Thelma Todd, a popular American actress of the late 1920s and early 1930s film. Appearing in over 40 pictures between 1926 and 1935, she is best remembered for her comedic roles in films like Marx Brothers’€ Monkey Business and Horse Feathers. She also had roles in Laurel and Hardy’s Another Fine Mess, The Devil’s Brother (aka Fra Diavolo), Chickens Come Home, and a brief part in The Bohemian Girl.

Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are lyrics

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Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are lyrics from The Wizard of Oz

Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are lyrics — also known as Munchkinland  — sung by Judy Garland and Billie Burke in The Wizard of Oz

If I Only Had a Heart | Jack Haley | Wizard of Oz

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Song lyrics to If I Only Had a Heart, sung by Jack Haley in The Wizard of Oz

Tin Man (Jack Haley)
When a man’s an empty kettle
He should be on his mettle
And yet I’m torn apart
Just because I’m presumin’
That I could be kind a human
If I only had a heart.

Brigadoon

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Brigadoon (1954) starring Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Cyd Charisse

Brigadoon, like most Gene Kelly movies, is a musical with plenty of singing and dancing.  More than that, it is a movie with heart, and a strong message about the values that matter.  It begins with Tommy Albright (played well by Gene Kelly) and Jeff Douglas (played to the hilt by Van Johnson). They’re Americans who are caught up in the rat race, and not loving it.  Tommy is engaged, but is not eager to marry her. Partly to delay the wedding, he accompanies his best friend, Jeff, on a hunting trip to Scotland. There, they become lost.

The Caine Mutiny

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The Caine Mutiny (1954) starring Humphrey Bogart, Jose Ferrer, Van Johnson, Fred MacMurray

The Caine Mutiny is one of those movies where several elements work together to make an incredible film.   The acting is top-notch, with all of the actors at their peak.   Humphrey Bogart is believable, despicable, and, in the end, pitiable as the obsessive, controlling, paranoid Captain Queeq.   Van Johnson is utterly believable as the loyal, upright, by-the-book officer.   Fred MacMurray is absolutely unrecognizable, and I mean that in the best way possible.   He is not the loving, gentle patriarch of My Three Sons. Neither the likable father figure of various Walt Disney movies.  He is Iago, a little man who manipulates others into doing what he himself is unable and unwilling to do.   Jose Ferrer shines as the defense attorney in the court-martial.

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