It is the season when just about all the main channels start to trot out all the feature fims to fill their schedules - some blockbusters, and loads of classics.
Here to guide us through one of the latter (that's bound to crop up somewhere over the Xmas/New Year period) is our favourite camp film enthusiast Steve Hayes, aka Tired Old Queen at the Movies - so Go! On! With! The! Showwww!
Love it...
It's like watching my grandmother on the screen.
ReplyDeleteSteve Hayes, or Ethel? Jx
DeleteVera Ellen had the tiniest waist in show biz. That lady could dance! She worked hard (and it frequently showed.) I don't know if she ever got her own vehicle. I fell in love with her last holiday season when I (gasp) saw White Christmas for the first time. I look forward to watching it again this season. As for Ethel 'Foghorn' Merman... sigh. She never appeared on screen or stage with a man whose dick was bigger than hers.
ReplyDeleteHa! Miss Merman was indeed a better man than most men. Jx
DeleteI've watched only one Christmas movie this year, A Castle for Christmas! https://youtu.be/T_JbFba2i6s
ReplyDeleteLooks like every single thing I would hate in a film. Especially Brook Shields' eyebrows.
DeleteIf you want to watch some genuine actors doing the "nouveau-riche-meets-stuffy-aristocrat-but-they-eventually-fall-for-eachother" schtick, I'd recommend the BBC series To The Manor Born. Jx
Classic actors. And, should you be dying to know, Peter Bowles is a gentleman. A lot of chaps tend to look down on 5'2" women. Not Mr Bowles.
DeleteI would never have imagined him to be anything else. Jx
DeleteMy turn to get a round one night and the bar was busy.MrB. was at the bar with another actor and could see I was being "over looked" He said "what would you like?" Stood up from his bar stool and got immediate attention.He politely told the barman that "the young lady is waiting to be served."
DeleteWow. A gentleman indeed. Jx
DeleteI was confined to bed FOR A DAY, so drugs and laziness had their wY WITH ME! I love Penelope Keith and shall watch this series, sweetpea! Thanks! xoxox
ReplyDeleteI'd need strong drugs to watch an ageing Brooke Shields playing a lead character in a rom-com, too. Jx
DeleteOh, do, Savvy! It's English comedy with class.
DeleteI've loved Steve Hayes' insightful videos for years, especially as he and I appear to have the same tastes. Just last week he steered me to one of those Agatha Christie bandwagons, Evil Under the Sun. Full of snappy patter, Diana Rigg, and Nicholas Clay's impressive buttcheeks.
ReplyDeleteYou evidently missed this post from August... Jx
DeleteApologies Jon for the usurpation of your fine blog but I have a question for one of your regulars, dinahmow. From what I can work out of your ethnicity and vintage I surmise that dinahmow is an amalgamation of Dinah Lee and Don't You Know Yokomo. Would I be close to the truth and if so all I can say is that Clings The Thing. Greatest stockings ever. Rgds Ms/Mr Anonymous from afar.
ReplyDeleteWhat a bizarre comment! Jx
DeleteI'll say! I thought cling was that cellophane-y stuff people wrap cheese in
DeleteI am not Dinah Lee, but I was told that she had lived in a flat I rented.
I'm still choosing my Christmas viewing fayre - a few oldies might be included.
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Nothing beats curling up on the sofa with a glass of sherry and a vintage MGM musical... Jx
DeleteShe is a treasure (both of them that is).
ReplyDeleteD'accord! Jx
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