Family Friendly Movies

Finian’s Rainbow

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March 30, 2022April 21, 2024

Finian’s Rainbow (1968) starring Fred Astaire, Petula Clark, Tommy Steele, Keenan Wynn

Fred Astaire sang and danced his last musical lead in Finian’s Rainbow, director Francis Ford Coppola’s movie of the 1947 Broadway hit. Astaire plays an Irish rogue who plants a stolen crock of leprechaun gold in the soil near Fort Knox to reap what he thinks will be a rich harvest. In tow are his spirited daughter (Petula Clark), a lovestruck leprechaun (Tommy Steele) and a bigoted Southern senator (Keenan Wynn) transformed by misbegotten magic.

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March 28, 2022March 10, 2024

The Joker is Wild / Batman is Riled – Batman season 1

The Joker is Wild / Batman is Riled – Cesar Romero’s first appearance as the Joker on the live action Batman series. And he’s at he’s gleeful best!

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March 26, 2022May 20, 2023

The Corpse Vanishes (1942) starring Bela Lugosi, Angelo Rossitto

Synopsis of The Corpse Vanishes.

The Corpse Vanishes is one of Bela Lugosi’s better Monogram efforts. He plays a mad scientist who uses a sadistic dwarf (Rossitto of Freaks) to help him kill virgin brides …. And then extract their spinal fluid to keep his ancient wife young and beautiful.

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March 25, 2022March 25, 2022

The Apartment (1960) starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray

In The Apartment, Jack Lemmon is a career-climbing executive who offers his boss the use of his apartment for an extra-marital fling. And he soon gets tangled up with the boss’ flighty and fragile girlfriend (Shirley MacLaine).

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March 23, 2022March 11, 2022

Song lyrics to Dancing in the Dark (1931), danced by Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse in The Band Wagon, music by Arthur Schwartz and lyrics by Howard Dietz

Dancin’ in the dark ’til the tune ends
We’re dancin’ in the dark and it soon ends
We’re waltzin’ in the wonder of why we’re here
Time hurries by, we’re here, and gone

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March 21, 2022August 8, 2023

Batman season 1 – Fine Feathered Finks / The Penquin’s a Jinx

Fine Feathered Finks – Burgess Meredith’s first appearance as The Penguin. Where he plans to con the Batman into plotting his crimes for him!

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March 19, 2022January 3, 2023

12 to the Moon (1959) starring Ken Clark, Michi Kobi, Tom Conway, John Wengraf, Robert Montgomery Jr.

12 to the Moon – a 1959 science fiction film about an international crew attempting the first voyage to the moon. But the moon people may have something to say about that!

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March 18, 2022March 18, 2022

Mother Wore Tights (1947) starring Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, Mona Freeman, Connie Marshall

Dan Dailey and Betty Grable star as a young man and woman, whom team up as performers during the age of vaudeville and soon fall in love. Mother Wore Tights story of their rise to fame, and the subsequent professional and personal setbacks, is told in flashback and set against a rousing musical score.

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March 16, 2022March 2, 2022

Song lyrics to How are things in Glocca Mora? (1945) music by Burton Lane, lyrics by E.Y. Harburg. Written for the 1947 musical, Finian’s Rainbow.

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March 14, 2022March 14, 2022

Hi Diddle Riddle / Smack in the Middle – Batman season 1

Hi Diddle Riddle – January 11 1966

The very first live action Batman episodes are Hi Diddle Diddle and Smack in the Middle is. With Frank Gorshin playing the Riddler with absolute glee!