Easy to Wed
Easy to Wed is an enjoyable screwball comedy with Keenan Wynn, Esther Williams, Lucille Ball. It deals with romance, marriage, and a libel lawsuit …
Read More »Easy to WedEasy to Wed is an enjoyable screwball comedy with Keenan Wynn, Esther Williams, Lucille Ball. It deals with romance, marriage, and a libel lawsuit …
Read More »Easy to WedFred 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.
Read More »Finian’s RainbowPlease 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.
Read More »The Shaggy D.A.The Long, Long Trailer – Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, as a newlywed couple who travel the country in a trailer. Which adds to the stress of being newlyweds, since neither’s lived in a trailer before. Will their marriage survive?
Read More »The Long Long TrailerNeptune’s Daughter is a laugh out loud funny romantic musical comedy, which I enjoyed immensely. Although the movie stars the beautiful (and aquatic) Esther Williams and the dashing Ricardo Montalban (one of my favorite actors), the movie comes to life when Red Skelton is onscreen.
Read More »Neptune’s DaughterIn Angels in the Outfield, Paul Douglas, stars with Janet Leigh, as the hot-tempered Pittsburgh Pirates manager. His hard-luck team goes on a winning streak thanks to some heavenly intervention.
Tom and Ellen Bowen (Fred Astaire and Jane Powell) are a brother and sister dance duo invited to perform in London during the same time that Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip are to be betrothed — only to find their own romances that threaten to break up the act!
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