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Too Young to Kiss (1951) starring June Allyson, Van Johnson, Gig Young

Too Young to Kiss

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In Too Young to Kiss, a concert pianist,desperate to get a record deal, hears that a major record executive is staging a youth talent show. So, she pretends to be a child prodigy … and wins! But now she finds herself trapped in her own lies.

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Maisie Was a Lady

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Maisie Was a Lady (1941) starring Ann Sothern, Lew Ayres

Maisie Was a Lady (1941) starring Ann Sothern, Lew Ayres – the perpetually unemployed actress is a fish out of water in a mansion …

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Bus Stop

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Bus Stop (1956) starring Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray

Bus Stop is a comic drama is about a rancher who falls for a nightclub singer while stranded at a bus stop in a blizzard. Based on the Broadway hit by William Inge.

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Sleeping Beauty

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Sleeping Beauty (1959) starring Mary Costa, Bill Shirley

Synopsis of Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Beauty is Disney’s classic fairy tale.  The evil witch, Maleficent, is one of animation’s most spectacular villains. She sends the kingdom’s beloved Princess Aurora into an enchanted sleep. Good Fairies arm the brave Prince Phillip to defeat a fearsome fire-breathing dragon and rescue Aurora. But success in battle may not be enough. For the only way to awaken the Princess is with true love’s kiss!

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Summer Stock

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Summer Stock (1950), starring Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, Phil Silvers

Summer Stock is an enjoyable musical with Judy Garland and Gene Kelly. It’s the story of two mismatched romances, a family farm facing foreclosure, and an acting troupe that shows up unannounced …

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Blondie’s Blessed Event

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Blondie’s Blessed Event (1942) starring Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Hans Conried

In Blondie’s Blessed Event, playwright George Wickley helps Dagwood out with a speech in Chicago …. And later follows him home, where the Bumsteads have just had their baby daughter, Cookie. And Blondie doesn’t want any company!

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The Shaggy D.A.

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The Shaggy D.A. (1976) starring Dean Jones, Tim Conway

Please note that this is not the remake starring Tim Allen. This is the sequel to the original 1976 movie, the Walt Disney classic starring Fred MacMurray.

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The Cat from Outer Space

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The Cat from Outer Space (1978) starring Ken Berry, Sandy Duncan, McLean Stevenson, Harry Morgan, Roddy McDowall, Jesse White, Hans Conried

Editorial review of The Cat from Outer Space courtesy of Amazon.com

Here’s today’s trivia question: What Disney movie costars both colonels from television’s M*A*S*H–that is, Henry Blake (McLean Stevenson) and Sherman Potter (Harry Morgan)? Heck, that’s easy: 1978’s The Cat from Outer Space, a family comedy about a feline extraterrestrial named Jake (voiced by actor Ronnie Schell, who also plays Sergeant Duffy). Eerily similar to the plot of Steven Spielberg’s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, released four years later, Cat finds Jake stuck on Earth and in danger of being trapped here forever if his fellow space kitties can’t rendezvous with him soon.

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My Friend Irma

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My Friend Irma (1949) starring Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Marie Wilson, Diana Lynn

 My Friend Irma  was originally a long-running radio series, that became a pair of successful movies, the sequel being  My Friend Irma Goes West.   In this first film, the comedy team of Martin & Lewis were included as comedy relief.   However, much like Abbott and Costello‘s first movie role in One Night in the Tropics, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis‘ roles were gradually expanded – not quite stealing the show, but coming close.

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