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.
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.
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.
