September 27, 2012

It Happened In Brooklyn (1947) Kathryn Grayson, Frank Sinatra, Peter Lawford, Jimmy Durante. These old MGM black and white musicals are so silly . A few lines from a main character - then a song. A few more lines or routines - then a song or two. And so it goes to the end. Love Jimmy; and Kathryn trilling the Bell Song from Lakme is great. Frank being Frank the teen-agers idol, and pretending to be backward with girls - is sooo fake. He can hardly keep the smirk off his face. Lawford is bland and doesn't interfere with anything. As a teen in '47, I liked this more than now. Durante is the pro that keeps ya watchin! "What a revoltin' development!" 6/10   http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039501/

The Gift Of Love (1958) Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, Evelyn Rudie. Gooey, awful mess. Just kept watching wondering what Lauren saw in this mess. See, she's dying and wants her absentminded husband to have someone to care for him when she dies of a heart attack. Scream now! Rudie is no Shirley, Margaret, or Peggy Ann, just annoying. Story is so dated and silly, it is not relevant to today and hardly was in 1958. I was a new wife having a baby and KNOW I was smarter that this woman. As for the husband, deliiiivvvvvvver me! 5/10 Scenery pretty. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051657/




No comments: