Annie Get Your Gun

Annie Oakley is an incredible shot who was raised 'Doin' What Comes Naturally'. Frank Butler, the star sharpshooter in 'Colonel Buffalo Bill''s show, however, knows full well that's not how 'The Girl That I Marry' must be. Anyway, not at least until he finds that 'My Defences are Down'. Though Annie defiantly says 'Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better', she realizes that 'You Can't Get a Man With a Gun'. The victor at the end is love; as you know, 'It's Wonderful'. After all, 'There's No Business Like Show Business'.

Released in 1950. Starring Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Louis Calhern, J. Carrol Naish, Edward Arnold, Keenan Winn, and Benay Venuta.

Saturday Night Fever

For those of us old enough or Nostalgic enough to remember Saturday Night Fever it was released in 1977. Starring John Travolta, and Karen Lynn Gorney, it was a smash box office hit in the disco era. The music from the film gave the Bee Gee...'s many number one hits on the Billboard charts, and their music was played on just about every disco, easy listening, and rock, radio station in America. On this day we want to give our condolences to the brothers Gibb for their brother Robin who passed away but left his mark in music history.

Shirley Temple

Shirley Temple is no longer a child star, but at one time she was the most popular actress in America. She held this title for five years in a row! So this posting is for the little girl who made so many people happy during the Depression, with her smile and her dancing and her precociousness.

West Side Story

Westside story is the award winning adaptation of the classic romantic tragedy, Romeo and Juliette. The feuding families become two warring New York City gangs- the white Jets led by Riff and the Puerto Rican Sharks, led by Bernardo. Their hatred escalates to a point where neither can coexist with any form of understanding. But when Riff's best friend (and former Jet) Tony and Bernardo's younger sister Maria meet at a dance, no one can do anything to stop their love. Maria and Tony begin meeting in secret, planning to run away. Then the Skarks and Jets plan a rumble under the highway - whoever wins gains control of the streets. Maria sends Tony to stop it, hoping it can end the violence. It goes terribly wrong, and before the lovers know what's happened, tragedy strikes and doesn't stop until the climactic and heartbreaking ending. Released in 1961. Starring Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris, and Tucker Smith.

The Sound Of Music

In 1930's Austria, a young woman named Maria is failing miserably in her attempts to become a nun. When the Navy captain Georg Von Trapp writes to the convent asking for a governess that can handle his seven mischievous children, Maria is given the job. The Captain's wife is dead, and he is often away, and runs the household as strictly as he does the ships he sails on. The children are unhappy and resentful of the governesses that their father keeps hiring, and have managed to run each of them off one by one. When Maria arrives, she is initially met with the same hostility, but her kindness, understanding, and sense of fun soon draws them to her and brings some much-needed joy into all their lives -- including the Captain's. Eventually he and Maria find themselves falling in love, even though Georg is already engaged to a Baroness and Maria is still a postulant. The romance makes them both start questioning the decisions they have made...

Released in 1965. Starring Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, and Richard Haydn.

At The 1965 Oscar Awards.

A great image of Julie Andrews standing next to Sidney Poitier the night Julie recieved the Oscar for The Sound Of Music in 1965.

Hello Dolly

Released in 1969 Hello Dolly tells the story of  a matchmaker named Dolly Levi who takes a trip to Yonkers, New York to see the "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire," Horace Vandergelder. While there, she convinces him, his two stock clerks and his niece and her beau to go to New York City. In New York, she fixes Vandergelder's clerks up with the woman that Vandergelder had been courting, and her shop assistant. All this while Dolly herself has designs of her own on Mr. Vandergelder.                   Directed by Gene Kelly and Starring Barbara Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford, and Louis Armstrong.

Gentlemen Perfer Blondes

The story of two singers. Best friends Lorelei Lee (Marilyn Monroe) and Dorothy Shaw (Jane Russell) travel to Paris pursued by a private detective hired by Lorelei's fiancé's disapproving father to keep an eye on her, a rich, enamoured old man and many other doting admirers. Everyone finally comes to the conclusion that Gentlemen Perfer Blondes !