John Wayne. Maureen O' Hara. What else must one say? These two people were an incredible pair, very good friends in real life.
Sean Thorton is an Irish born young man who went away to America as a young boy. Now he has come back to Ireland looking to by back the home of his ancestors.
He meets a beautiful, fiery red-head by the name of Mary Kate Danaher. The two persuade her brother to allow them to court each other and eventually they are married, and have to deal with Mary Kate's love for her inheritance, which her brother has threatened to take from her.
The most notable lines in the movie are undoubtedly: "Here's a big stick to beat the lovely lady," and "There'll be no locks or bolts between us, Mary Kate, except those in your own mercenary little heart."
Such great lines!!!!!
Definitely a must see! In my opinion John Wayne's best movie!!!
Danny Thomas was a fantastic, wonderful person and a tremendous humanitarian.
Born in a little town near Detroit, Michigan as Muzyad Yakhoob, Danny Thomas was born into a family of 9 or 10 children. They moved to Toledo when he was a very little boy and there he grew up. when he was around 18 or 19, he moved back to Detroit, and there, as he worked at a radio station, he met his future wife.
He struggled as a comedian for a very long time, indeed after he was married and had a child. Then, he heard about a saint that had nearly been forgotten, St. Jude. He asked the saint for help and afterwards, his rise in show business was meteoric. From nightclubs, to movies, to television, Danny found his way into the hearts of all Americans.
He started the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital as an honor to the Saint who helped him become successful in show business.
Although its been a little while since I've watched "Lost," I remember it being an extremely riveting series. It always would end abruptly, making the audience want more and more.
At the beginning of the series, the audience sees a tremendous plane crash on a deserted island. Through the course of the series, we get to know the main passengers that were on the plane. We see their past and their present, and eventually, as the series continues, their future as well, which can get a little confusing at times.
Each episode concentrates on a different person that is stuck on the island. There are many people stuck on the island, but the show only focuses on maybe 10 of these people.
Here is an article from the New York Times about the series:
TELEVISION; Making 'Lost' Last, And Seeing It Home
By LORNE MANLY
Published: May 16, 2
AFTER six twisty seasons filled with time-traveling castaways, mysterious happenings on a tropical island, fervid arguments about faith versus reason and enough hook-ups and smackdowns to rival Craigslist and ''Raw,'' ''Lost'' comes to an end on May 23. And on the first Monday of May, with just hours to go before the show runners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse have to finish the final cut of the two-and-a-half-hour finale, the bungalow that houses the creative team of ''Lost'' on the Disney lot here had a forlorn air to it.
Most of the writers had been gone for weeks. Packed boxes lined the walls. Even the video arcade games in the common area -- Asteroids, Battlezone and Multicade -- were uprooted that morning and returned to their owner, J. J. Abrams, a creator of the show with Mr. Lindelof. But the simpatico team of Mr. Lindelof and Mr. Cuse, who joined early in the first season to help oversee the show, appeared upbeat despite a week of little sleep. Concluding the popular series may be bittersweet, but the two men are going out on their own terms, having persuaded ABC three years ago to grant them this creative closure even if the show were still riding high in the ratings.
Over breakfast (which they literally shared), Mr. Lindelof and Mr. Cuse spoke about the show's most important big theme, the role of fate in their own storytelling and just how much of the ending was known from the beginning. Below are excerpts from the conversation. (A longer version is at nytimes.com/television.)
Q. You both have decided to pull a David Chase: that like the creator of ''The Sopranos,'' you weren't going to answer questions about the ending and the larger meanings of the series. Why did you make that decision?
CARLTON CUSE We've kind of done the same thing every other year too, which is, we haven't talked after the finale for some period of time because we want the audience to have a chance to digest the show and arrive at their own conclusions. We think it would be sort of enormously both presumptuous and frustrating for the audience to have someone say, ''No, what you think is wrong because this is what Damon and Carlton said.'' We think one of the things that's been the coolest about ''Lost'' is that there's a lot of intentional ambiguity, and there's a lot of room for debate and discussion.
Q. Your show traffics in a lot of big themes -- fate versus free will, good versus evil, faith versus reason, how often Sawyer should be shirtless. Ultimately, what were the most important themes for you in this series?
DAMON LINDELOF If there's one word that we keep coming back to, it's redemption. It is that idea of everybody has something to be redeemed for and the idea that that redemption doesn't necessarily come from anywhere else other than internally. But in order to redeem yourself, you can only do it through a community. So the redemption theme started to kind of connect into ''live together, die alone,'' which is that these people were all lone wolves who were complete strangers on an aircraft, even the ones who were flying together like Sun and Jin. Then let's bring them together and through their experiences together allow themselves to be redeemed. When the show is firing on all pistons, that's the kind of storytelling that we're doing.
I think we've always said that the characters of ''Lost'' are deeply flawed, but when you look at their flashback stories, they're all victims. Kate was a victim before she killed her stepfather. Sawyer's parents killed themselves as he was hiding under the bed. Jack's dad was a drunk who berated him as a child. Sayid was manipulated by the American government into torturing somebody else. John Locke had his kidney stolen. This idea of saying this bad thing happened to me and I'm a victim and it created some bad behavior and now I'm going to take responsibility for that and allow myself to be redeemed by community with other people, that seems to be the theme that we keep coming back to.
Q. These are big themes for not necessarily the most hospitable host, a network series. How do you find a way to work these themes in while dealing with the constraints of, you're not on cable channels like AMC or even HBO, you're on ABC, and you still need that significant audience?
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This delightful Romantic film from 1945 is about two people who were dealt difficult hands in the game of life.
Laura Pennington is forced to go through life as a very plain girl. But something about her attracts the audience to her. She has a wonderful heart, is very intelligent, and possesses a great deal of imagination. Oliver Bradford joins the Air force just before he is to be married to a young woman. While he is overseas fighting in World War Two, he is injured. His face is badly scarred, and he is unable to use his right arm.
He escapes from the World to the cottage where he and his fiance had planned to spend their honeymoon, and where Laura works under the owner of the cottage, Mrs. Minnet. Laura thinks the Cottage is enchanted, and she has told Oliver all about it.
At first, Oliver does not want to speak or see anyone. Overtime, however, he and Laura develop a friendship, and also get to know a blind pianist, who is one of their only friends. After some time, Oliver's mother demands he come home or she and her new husband will come to live at the cottage. For purely selfish reasons, Oliver proposes to Laura, and she, truly in love with him, accepts his offer. They are married, and on the night of their wedding both are despondent- both for different reasons. Oliver fears that Laura greatly dislikes him now and sees him as a selfish man. Laura feels that she can never truly tell Oliver the depth of her feelings. She goes over to the piano and begins to play. The room seems to grow still, and when Oliver looks over at her, he seems to have his old appearance back. Laura, in sadness runs from the room to their bedroom.
Oliver, thinking that their marriage had been to much for her, follows her. He finds her lying on their bed, sobbing. He takes her in his arms, and suddenly she is more beautiful to him than anyone he had ever seen, and he realizes his true feelings for her. They kiss, thinking that because of their love, and the cottage, they are now fair, and handsome. In reality, their looks have not changed at all.
This film teaches us, that to really see who a person is, we should not judge by appearances. We should not "judge a book by its cover." When we truly care about person, we look through the eyes of the heart, and we can see the person as they truly are. Definitely a must see, and I highly recommend it.
Captain America....the first Avenger. When we first see Steve Rogers at the beginning of the film, he is a puny little man with a strong character and a good heart.
The movie is set during World War II. Steve Rogers wants to enlist but is constantly being labeled as 4F. A German scientist sees potential in Rogers and in using a special formula that he injects into Rogers, turns him into a tall, muscular super soldier. *insert sigh from nearly every teenage girl.*
Rogers takes on the name "Captain America" and goes overseas to battle the Nazi mastermind- the Red Skull. While defeating the Red Skull though, the Captain is forced to land the aircraft he is on in a frozen tundra- making an ultimate sacrifice. He wakes up 70 years later after a group of Americans rescue him.
"Captain America" isn't just about a handsome young soldier. It is about a genuine hero who would risk everything to defeat evil and save his country and the world- sounds like any soldier, doesn't it?
"The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" has a unique twist to it. The cast who plays the Nelson family...IS the Nelson family. This sitcom is about a REAL family, played by the actual members of the family!
The Nelson family is comprised of Ozzie( the father), Harriet (the mother), David (the oldest son), and Ricky (the youngest).
Ricky Nelson is remembered mostly for his music career, but while he was growing up, he and his family were television stars. In fact, Ricky most likely got into music because his parents had been in the music business before and after they had gotten married. Ozzie was a big band leader and Harriet sang in the band.
"The Adventures" was on television for quite some time. It started when the boys were young adolescents and continued until they were both married.
It is quite a humorous show, and each member of the family contributes to this hilarity. Because the cast is a real family playing themselves, the scenes, the acting, and the episodes are very believable- very good acting and producing in all.
Here is a bit of a summary I found about the show from "tv.com."
The real-life Nelson family - Ozzie, his wife Harriet and their sons David and Ricky - played themselves in this long-running sitcom, where Ricky got his start as a teen idol. When the Nelson boys grew up and married their sweethearts, Kris and June, their real-life wives played their TV wives. The series began as a radio program in 1944. At that time David and Ricky were played by actors. It wasn't until 1949, when radio personality Bing Crosby's sons began to play themselves on Bing's show that the real David and Ricky decided to join the Nelson family radio show. The "adventures" the family experienced every week involved very little conflict or friction. Problems and misunderstandings were solved quickly and with a shared laugh over the silliness of it all.
God Bless til I get back from Beeton-ton!!!
from left to right: Ozzie, David, Harriet, and Ricky Nelson
"Father Knows Best" is quaint sitcom set in the Midwestern small town of Springfield...which Springfield it is is never mentioned. Jim and Margaret Anderson are the proud parents of three children: Betty, Bud, and Kathy. The parts of the Anderson family are played by Robert Young (Jim), Jane Wyatt (Margaret), Elinor Donahue (Betty), Billy Gray (James Jr. aka Bud), and Lauren Chapin (Kathy).
Jim is the understanding, concerned, mostly patient father of the family. Margaret is a caring, patient mother, and a loving wife. Betty is the oldest child who has a date every night but manages to become valedictorian of her class. Bud - well boys will be boys, and bud is usually trying to get out of his chores and trying to get down to the baseball field. Kathy is the youngest of the brood and is a total tomboy, she would rather play ball than play dress up like other little girls do.
Each episode deals with a different member of the family, and how each family member participates in that individual's joys and difficulties in their life, from a new date, cowardice, and thinking your parents adopted you, and of course, arguments between siblings.
The Father and the Mother are seen as a unit...yes they have their disagreements occasionally, but everything works out in the end. They truly are one, as every married couple should be : "and the two shall become one." The siblings, though they have disagreements mostly every episode, have a strong sense of camaraderie. When the one is in "serious" trouble, the others are understanding and back the sibling up, refusing to tell on them if the situation is much too serious...unless Bud stole Kathy's baseball glove, or some other trivial thing similar to that.
But don't just take my word for how good this old show is! Here is an article from the June 16-22, 1956 edition of TV Guide about the show and it's main star, Robert Young.
Father Does Know Best Robert Young Proves A TV Dad Doesn't Have To Be Stupid
"You take this family, see? There's this pretty wife and a couple of attractive kids who have all sorts of problems. For laughs we have the father- a real bumbling idiot, one of those guys who's always hanging doors upside down, falling in wet cement, coming up with the wrong answers for the kids' homework." And so another family situation comedy is born. And another. And another. And . . . . . Suddenly, there comes a switch. The father isn't a bumbler. Instead, he's a normal, intelligent businessman controlling his family sensibly, even wisely. The laughs aren't yocks; they're chuckles and smiles-warm ones. And the show-Father Knows Best-starts winning awards and, what's more important, a big audience.
Robert Young, at 49, is generally given the credit for capitalizing on the basic principle that father knows best; and for making his two-year-old film series hew to the line of familiar, middle-class normality. "Actually," he says, "no person created this show. It more or less created itself back in 1949, when a couple of radio shows I had been doing pretty regularly went off the air. "Gene Rodney and a couple of other people and myself sort of drifted into an idea for a family show that I would star in. And I'm a pretty normal family man myself. We had an actor, not a show, and the idea was to find a show to fit the actor." Young, one of Hollywood's more articulate citizens, is emphatic in laying most of the credit for Father Knows Best at the door of the writers. "They keep it honest, that's all." He's a firm believer in family fare for the family. "A show on Mars might be great as a one-shot, but it's still just an experiment. There is no identification, nothing the viewer can tie to and say, 'Look, That's us.'" One the other hand, the veteran star is careful not to get drawn into an argument about the relative merits of the more slapstick family comedies. "You put Bill Bendix (Life of Riley) in my role," he says, "and it just wouldn't come off. Bill has spent years building up that great characterization of his-the earnest, well-meaning, bumbling oaf who can never seem to do anything right. I just don't think audiences would accept him as anything else in a regular series, any more than they'd accept me tripping over buckets of paint."
Long regarded as a model husband and father in the Hollywood community, Robert Young became an actor by chance. A Los Angeles school teacher pushed him into a school play in order to "bring him out of himself," inadvertently pushing him at the same time into the arms of the leading lady, Betty Henderson, now Mrs. Robert Young. A few years later his high school dramatics teacher pulled Young out of the bank where he worked and insisted that he appear in a play at the Pasadena Playhouse. He subsequently did dozens. Spotted by an agent, Young found himself one day supporting a hopeful actress in an M-G-M screen test. He was little more than a moving prop, but a studio executive apparently liked the way he moved, and Young was launched on a career of romancing everyone on the M-G-M payroll. That was 25 years ago.
Young's four daughters, ranging in age from 11 to 22, have always occupied a good deal of his time, although he frequently finds himself "outfought and outmaneuvered" when up against the odds of five women against one lone man. Tall and lean almost to the point of thinness, he has kept himself in good trim by a constant battle with a high golf score. Since 1947, he has been a private-plane enthusiast, flying at least once a month to the family farm in Carmel Valley. The farm is now up for sale, however, the children having pretty well outgrown its rural appeal; and he and his wife are looking forward to "semi-retirement" at a smaller place they recently bought near LaJolla.
We'll continue with Father Knows Best just as long as the sponsor continues to be happy with it," he says. "But the day is bound to come when it will have run its course, and then I think I'll be content just to go back to pictures and do an occasional character role."
With his TV family-Jane Wyatt, Elinor Donahue, Billy Gray and Lauren Chapin-Young's star relationship is tinged with genuine personal affection. Little Lauren Chapin, for instance, kisses Young every morning when she arrives on the set and says, "Hi, Daddy" as naturally as if he were, indeed, her father. Young frequently gets into long, semi serious conversations with Billy Gray; but, while he is flattered to have the boy seek his advice, Young "would feel most presumptuous in even suggesting I assume the position of a father."
Young is a mildly opinionated man who does not hesitate to express himself. Asked for some routine biographical notes for publicity purposes, he sat down at a typewriter and didn't quit until 14 pages later. His concluding paragraph: "I hope this in some small way answers the purpose of filling you in our biographical data. I commend you on your effort to enlarge the biographies beyond the usual cold statistics."
More recently, asked to pose for a gag picture, Young amiably refused. "I don't like gag pictures," he said. "They may seem funny at the moment, but they get printed a million times and become nauseating." The picture wasn't taken. Father still knows best.
Definitely a show all that are reading this blog should look into.
Hi! I am Mary Kate Budd. I'm eighteen years old, and I'm from the greatest state in the Union- Michigan!
When I was a little girl, my maternal Grandmother came to live with us. She had leukemia and my mom was taking care of her. As well as taking care of Grandma Christe, my Mom taught my five older siblings (I'm the baby of the family) for a few years. I was not yet of school age, and so my Grandma would sit me on her lap and watch old films with me, the most memorable being a Bob Hope Marathon.
In July of 2001, my Grandma passed away. I was just eight years old. I continued to watch movies from the 30s, 40s, and 50s (and an occasional movie from the 60s) and listen to music from that time period. I had grown to love those moments with my Grandma. We had formed a very special bond. I wanted to continue doing what I had so loved to do with her- almost as if she were living on in my heart.
And so formed my interest in not only movies and television from my Grandparents era, but also from our own modern era.
With this blog, I hope to share my ideas with you all, as well as others ideas, about movies and television - from yesterday to today.
God Bless til I get back from Beeton-ton!!!!
Grandpa and Grandma Christe on their wedding day, 1945
