Sunday, September 4, 2011

Onionhead (1958)




Starring Andy Griffith, Walter Matthau, Joey Bishop, Felicia Farr, Claude Akins, James Gregory, Erin O'Brien, and Ray Danton. Directed by Norman Taurog. When his grades drop and his relationship with his girlfriend sours, a college student joins the Coast Guard as an assistant cook, fully expecting to sit out World War II in peace and quiet.

State of the Union (1948)




Starring Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson, Angela Lansbury, Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer, Margaret Hamilton, Adolphe Menjou, Lewis Stone, Charles Lane, and Irving Bacon. Directed by Frank Capra. An aircraft tycoon is coerced into seeking the Republican nomination for President by a predatory newspaper mogul with whom he is having an affair.

It's Love I'm After (1937)





Starring Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Leslie Howard, Spring Byington, Bonita Granville, and Irving Bacon. Directed by Archie Mayo. An egotistical Broadway acting team famous for their romantic scenes spend so much time bickering that they never get around to marriage. Their relationship is complicated by a young heiress, a fan who worships the ground the man walks on.

These Wilder Years




Starring Barbara Stanwyck, James Cagney, Walter Pidgeon, Dean Jones, Edward Andrews, Michael Landon, Herb Vigran, Will Wright, Burt Mustin, and Donald Dubbins. Directed by Roy Rowland. A lonely middle-aged businessman returns to his old home town in hopes of finding the son he fathered twenty years earlier.

Breakfast For Two (1937)




Starring Barbara Stanwyck, Herbert Marshall, Glenda Farrell, Donald Meek, and Eric Blore. Directed by Alfred Santell. A playboy wakes up after a night on the town to find that a Texas debutante has escorted him home. She is attracted to him but decides to reform him first and marry him later aer learning that his family shipping business is nearly bankrupt.

Crime School (1938)





Starring Humphrey Bogart, Clayton Moore, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, and Billy Halop. Directed by Lewis Seiler. The Dead End Kids are sent to the Gatesville Reformatory, a cruel institution where the discipline is often violent.

Saturday, September 3, 2011

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO. . . . . . . . EILEEN BRENNAN




Born in Los Angeles, California, on September 3, 1932, actress Eileen Brennan is 79 years old today.



HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO. . . . . . . . CHARLIE SHEEN



Born Carlos Irwin Estevez in New York City, New York, on September 3, 1965, actor Charlie Sheen turns 46 years old today.


HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO. . . . . . . . AL JARDINE





Born in Lina, Ohio, on September 3, 1942, Beach Boy Al Jardine celebrates his 69th birthday today.



HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO. . . . . . . . VALERIE PERRINE




Born in Galveston, Texas, on September 3, 1943, actress Valerie Perrine is 68 years old today.


HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO. . . . . . . . ANNE JACKSON



Born in Milvale, Pennsylvania, on September 3, 1926, actress Anne Jackson turns 85 years old today.



The Jackpot (1950)




Starring James Stewart, Barbara Hale, Natalie Wood, Tommy Rettig, James Gleason, Fred Clark, Lyle Talbot, and Minerva Urecal. Directed by Walter Lang. A man who wins a slew of prizes on a radio quiz show finds his happiness is short-lived when he discovers he'll have to sell the prizes in order to pay the taxes on them.

April Love (1957)





Starring Pat Boone, Shirley Jones, Arthur O'Connell, Jeanette Nolan, and Matt Crowley. Directed by Henry Levin. A young man who is forced to leave Chicago after being put on probation for stealing a car goes to Kentucky to live and work on his aunt aund uncle's farm and eventually falls in love with their neighbor's daughter.


Of Human Bondage (1964)




Starring Kim Novak, Laurence Harvey, Robert Morely, and Siobhan McKenna. Directed by Henry Hathaway, Ken Hughes, and Bryan Forbes. After two unsuccessful years in Paris, a club-footed artist decides to pursue a career in medicine. During his medical studies he falls in love with a waitress who takes advantage of his attraction to her then leaves him to marry another man.

The Oklahoma Kid (1939)





Starring Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Donald Crisp, Ward Bond, Irving Bacon, and Rosemary Lane. Directed by Lloyd Bacon. A gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land and the notorious outlaw The Oklahoma Kid takes the money from the thieves. When The Kid's father runs for mayor, the gang leader incites a mob to lynch the old man whom he has already framed for murder.

Destry Rides Again (1939)




Starring James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Brian Donlevy, Jack Carson, Una Merkel, Charles Winninger, and Allen Jenkins. Directed by George Marshall. The son of a legendary peacekeeper who doesn't believe in gunplay becomes the object of widespread ridicule when he rides into the wide-open town of Bottleneck and signs on as deputy to the town's drunken sheriff.