FAVORITES of 2011

These 2 don't have a specific theme, just their titles. But I LOVE them both!

IT HAPPENED TO JANE, 1959 (original post: June 14, 2011)


Director: Richard Quine

Stars: Doris Day, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs

I seriously love this movie.

Jane Osgood (Day), a widowed mother of two living in a small New England town, raises and sells lobsters for a living. When the Eastern and Portland Railroad fails to deliver her lobsters on time, as she paid them to do, the result is a load of dead lobsters. She and her friend George Denham (Lemmon), also her lawyer, begin to fight the big corporation, which is run by Scrooge-like Harry Foster Malone (Kovacs).

It's a classic David-vs-Goliath story. With romance and small town charm.

This is on my "to-buy" list. It's definitely worth owning! Best marriage proposal scene ever!

IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT, 1934 (original post: September 26, 2011)

Director: Frank Capra (also directed It's A Wonderful Life, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Arsenic and Old Lace)

Stars: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert

"I'll stop a car........ and I won't use my thumb."

(my favorite of all Colbert's lines!)

Ellie (Colbert), daughter of a famous millionaire, marries King Westley at a Justice of the Peace, but her father's goons drag her away directly after the ceremony. She's of age, but her father disapproves and tries to keep her on his yacht in Florida. But she escapes and hops a bus to New York, where her husband is waiting for her.

On the bus, she meets a reporter, Peter Warne (Gable), who, seeing she can't take care of herself, tries to teach her what life in the real world is like. He soon discovers who she really is (not just any spoiled brat!), and needing a good story to get back into his boss's good graces, decides to basically blackmail her into staying with him and giving him an exclusive, and in return he will not tell her father where she is.

On their little adventure, they pose as husband and wife, share a cabin for the night, hitchhike, and basically fall in love.

Words can't express how much I LOVE this movie!!

Two thumbs up!

Black Friday Movies!

Every Black Friday, and the week leading up to it, I always pay attention to the movie sales around town. Target, Walmart, and Big Lots, especially.

I love Target's deals. In the past I have been able to get seasons of my favorite tv shows for $12! Now that is a great price! Usually the price is above $30, and here I get it for $12!

Plus, some movie deals are absolutely brilliant: last year I bought "17 Again" (shut up- I LOVE LOVE LOVE Zac Efron) for $1.99.

This year, here's my list of deals:

Monday:

Target: I found "It Happened to Jane" for $4.99! I love this movie, and reviewed it a couple months ago. It is completely worth owning, and I was very happy to get it for such a great price.

Big Lots: "Ocean's Eleven" for $5! YAY!! See my review of this one a few months ago to see just how excited about this deal I really am!!!!!!!!!!

Black Friday:

Target: "Night at the Museum: Battle at the Smithsonian" for only $3.99! I really like these movies, and this one is a gift. I also found "The Princess Bride" for $3.99, and though I own it already, I bought it because mine has a scratch and I miss some of it every time I watch. And this is a better deal than my other deal last year!

Big Lots: "Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer" for $3. Shut up, I am a fan. Probably my biggest celebrity crush of all time- that's Gene Kelly. I know he's dead, but I still dream about him sweeping me off my feet, sometimes....

"Breakfast at Tiffany's" for $1.88. For it being such a classic, I think that was probably the best deal of the day! Or maybe not, since people are not watching classics anymore, it seems.

"Her Alibi" for $3. Okay, I did something I have NEVER done before. I bought a movie I have never seen before. I didn't take that much of a risk, so it's fine if I hate it. It's starring Tom Selleck and some girl I've never heard of, and I have a crush on Tom Selleck, so I hope I like it.

Time to knit Christmas presents and watch movies. :)

It Happened to Jane, 1959

Director: Richard Quine

Stars: Doris Day, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs

I seriously love this movie.

Jane Osgood (Day), a widowed mother of two living in a small New England town, raises and sells lobsters for a living. When the Eastern and Portland Railroad fails to deliver her lobsters on time, as she paid them to do, the result is a load of dead lobsters. She and her friend George Denham (Lemmon), also her lawyer, begin to fight the big corporation, which is run by Scrooge-like Harry Foster Malone (Kovacs).

It's a classic David-vs-Goliath story. With romance and small town charm.

This is on my "to-buy" list. It's definitely worth owning! Best marriage proposal scene ever!

Coming Soon!

Soon to be viewed and reviewed!

--Since You Went Away, 1944 (Claudette Colbert, Joseph Cotten, and Shirley Temple)

--To Catch a Thief, 1955 (Cary Grant and Grace Kelly, directed by Hitch)

--His Girl Friday, 1940 (Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell)

--The Birds, 1963 (directed by Hitch)

--It Happened to Jane, 1959 (Doris Day and Jack Lemmon)

--Witness to Murder, 1954 (Barbara Stanwyck and George Sanders- IF it's good; I haven't seen this one yet)