What I Watched: 2021 in Review
Another year has come and gone!
In total, I watched 209 new-to-me classic movies, some of which became instant faves and others became part of an exercise.
Here's the full list of movies I watched in 2021. Here's my 2020 Year in Review post; and here's my 2019 Year in Review post.
Let's dive in, shall we?
Best/Favourite Movie(s): Susan Slept Here (1954), Wise Girl (1937), Forsaking All Others (1934), Boys' Night Out (1962), Irene (1940), Tammy and the Doctor (1963), If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969), Rome Adventure (1962), Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961), Gidget Goes to Rome (1963), Jupiter's Darling (1955), Ocean's 11 (1960), Come September (1961), The Time Machine (1960), The Planet of the Apes (1968), If a Man Answers (1962), The Long, Long Trailer (1954), Count Your Blessings (1959), Kiss Me, Stupid (1964), Seven Sweethearts (1942), Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964), The Grass is Greener (1959), Come Blow Your Horn (1963).
Weirdest/Worst Movie(s): The Fly (1958), Crescendo (1970), The Last of the Secret Agents? (1965), Fantastic Voyage (1966), Get Yourself a College Girl (1964), The Snow Devils (1967), Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966).
Earliest Movie: So This is Paris (1926)
Latest Movie: Wicked Stepmother (1989)
Year with the most representation: 1963 - 13 Frightened Girls, Tammy and the Doctor, Gidget Goes to Rome, Hercules, Samson and Ulysses, 4 For Texas, Wall of Noise, Mary, Mary, Jason and the Argonauts, Island of Love, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Come Blow Your Horn, A Ticklish Affair.
Number of Pre-Code Movies (1928 to mid-1934): 18. I'm decreasing, not increasing my Pre-Code movies! I should make this a resolution in 2022...
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Favourite Discoveries: Sandra Dee (Tammy Tell Me True, Come September, If a Man Answers, Tammy and the Doctor, Take Her, She's Mine, That Funny Feeling, Doctor, You've Got To Be Kidding!)
Gina Lollobrigida (Solomon and Sheba, Come September, Hotel Paradiso)
Suzanne Pleshette (Rome Adventure, Wall of Noise, Mister Buddwing, If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium)
Kathryn Grayson (Seven Sweethearts, It Happened in Brooklyn, Lovely to Look At)
Van Heflin (Kid Glove Killer, Seven Sweethearts, Patterns, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, Possessed)
Kim Novak (The Notorious Landlady, Boys' Night Out, Kiss Me Stupid)
Frank Sinatra (It Happened in Brooklyn, A Hole in the Head, Ocean's Eleven, The Manchurian Candidate, Come Blow Your Horn, 4 For Texas, Robin and the 7 Hoods)
A Movie I Can't Stop Thinking About: Planet of the Apes. Mainly because it would be my worst nightmare to be propelled into the distant future onto a planet filled with apes, far from everything and everyone I've ever known or loved, and then left to die there. No thanks. It's the same reason why The Twilight Zone fascinates me but scares the bejesus out of me: if my real life was like any one of those episodes, I'd be in my worst nightmare.
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Favourite Movie Title: Keep Your Powder Dry
Oh, The Places You'll Go! Manhattan Tower, A Connecticut Yankee, Merry Wives of Reno, Lullaby of Broadway, The West Point Story, Back Street, Texas Across the River, So This is Paris, If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium, Rome Adventure, Gidget Goes Hawaiian, A Countess From Hong Kong, Gidget Goes to Rome, The Road to Hong Kong, 4 For Texas, Across to Singapore, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Hollywood or Bust, It Happened in Brooklyn, The Russians Are Coming The Russians Are Coming
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Movie Titles That Also Describe Me: Jessica
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Bette or Joan? This is a first, I think? I'm going with Joan Crawford!
Bette: The Corn is Green, Wicked Stepmother, The Man Who Came to Dinner
Joan: Across to Singapore, Forsaking All Others, Possessed, Strait-Jacket
Olivia de Havilland or Joan Fontaine? Olivia.
Olivia: Devotion, Lady in a Cage, The Ambassador's Daughter
Joan: The Affairs of Susan, September Affair
Musicals Watched: Latin Lovers, The Smiling Lieutenant, Lullaby of Broadway, The West Point Story, Du Barry Was a Lady, Irene, Billy Rose's Jumbo, I'll See You in My Dreams, By the Light of the Silvery Moon, Love Me or Leave Me, Young Man with a Horn, The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady, Let's Do It Again, Skirts Ahoy!, The Road to Hong Kong, Rose Marie, This Time for Keeps, Damn Yankees, Jailhouse Rock, Double Trouble, Harum Scarum, Speedway, Live a Little, Love a Little, Glory Alley, Seven Sweethearts, Strike Up the Band, Lovely to Look At, Get Yourself a College Girl, The Affairs of Dobie Gillis, Luxury Liner, It Happened in Brooklyn
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The Man in the Moon?: By the Light of the Silvery Moon, The Mouse on the Moon, Blood on the Moon, Jupiter's Darling, Fire Maidens From Outer Space, Planet of the Apes
Movies with Ladies' Names as the Title: The Affairs of Susan, Madame X, Ever Since Eve, Irene, Claudelle Inglish, Call Me Madam, Tammy and the Doctor, The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady, Gidget Goes Hawaiian, Gidget Goes to Rome, Solomon and Sheba, Rose Marie, Mary, Mary, Anne of the Thousand Days, What's the Matter With Helen?, Susan Slade, Mary Stevens, M.D., The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, Jessica, Lydia, It Happened to Jane, Susan Slept Here
Let's Count: Panic in Year Zero, One Foot in Heaven, Two Faced Woman, Three Guys Named Mike, 4 For Texas, Five Golden Hours, Five Came Back, Seven Sweethearts, Seven Days' Leave, The Seven Year Itch, Robin and the 7 Hoods, Ocean's 11, 13 Frightened Girls
Hey Man!: Boy on a Dolphin, Boys' Night Out, Her Highness and the Bellboy, Woman Chases Man, Man Wanted, The Sheepman, Young Man with a Horn, The Man Who Knew Too Much, A Guide for the Married Man, If a Man Answers, After the Thin Man, The Man Who Came to Dinner
Hey Man! Part II: Three Guys Named Mike, Mister Buddwing, Billy Rose's Jumbo, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, Topper Takes a Trip, A Guy Named Joe, Samson and Sheba, Hercules, Samson and Ulysses, Jason and the Argonauts, Good Sam, Abbott and Costello Go to Hollywood, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Father Goose, The Affairs of Dobie Gillis, Robin and the 7 Hoods
Petticoats Were Kinda Popular This Year?: Operation Petticoat, The Iron Petticoat
Is There a Doctor in the House?: Tammy and the Doctor, Doctor You've Got to Be Kidding!, Mary Stevens, MD.,
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