The Muppet Show season 1 – the very first episode (the first filmed episode, anyway) starring Connie Stevens. Kermit the frog sings Lydia the Tattooed Lady. This was Jim Henson’s favorite song – it was even performed at his funeral.
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Tales from the Crypt (1972) starring Ralph Richardson, Joan Collins, Peter Cushing Tales of the Crypt (1972) is a horror anthology, where the mysterious Crypt… Read More »Tales from the Crypt
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a bad adaptation of a very good original story. What if the various fictional characters of Victorian fiction all lived in the same world? It’s an excellent premise. The original graphic novel told the story well, faithful to the original characters. Sadly, that’s not true at all here.
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On every tree there sits a bird, singing a song of love
On every tree there sits a bird, and ev’ryone I ever heard
Could break my heart without a word singing a song of love
Going My Way was the 1944 Best picture Academy Award winner. When old fading St. Dominic’s Church gets a new young priest, things are bound to change. The air is filled with music from the classic “Ave Maria” sung by Metropolitan Opera star Rise Stevens to the Academy Award winning “Swinging on a Star“
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In Instant Freeze / Rats like Cheese, George Sanders appears as Mr. Freeze. A supervillain striving to get revenge on Batman. And, Gotham City.
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Cat-Women of the Moon (1953) starring Sonny Tufts, Marie Windsor The Cat-Women of the Moon want to escape their dying Lunar caves. And escape to… Read More »Cat-Women of the Moon
Beware of Blondie (1950) starring Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Adele Jergens In Beware of Blondie, an attractive young client is actually a con woman. And… Read More »Beware of Blondie
One of the greatest Broadway musicals comes to the screen in this tale of music, racial bigotry and enduring love as outsized as the American heartland set aboard a Mississippi River Show Boat. Magnolia Brown has grown up onboard a sailing theater, plying the river from town to town to entertain people, and she has always dreamed of a life on stage. When the star’s, Julie LaVerne part African American ancestry is revealed and she is forced to leave, Magnolia steps in to take Julie’s place on stage.
Magnolia soon falls in love with her leading man, the handsome gambler and rogue, Gaylord Ravenal (Howard Keel—Kiss Me Kate, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers), and the two marry, have a daughter and live happily–for a while. But Ravenal’s gambling debts force Magnolia to find a job, and Julie LaVerne again leaves her starring role–this time voluntarily–to give Magnolia the break she needs, an opportunity that leads to stardom.
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