Monthly Archives: April 2011

Weekend One-Hundred: Musicals 201-300

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“Umbrellas of Cherbourg”- Candy colored beautiful film. Yes, its all singing in French, but its one of the most beautiful musicals Ive ever seen.

Several of you requested to see my musical list, so for the next four weekends I will post 100 of the musical on the list-in the order I watched and recorded them. This list goes from Ocober 2005  till roughly Ocober 2007.  Enjoy!

201.) Hollywood Hotel (1937)
202.)Sing Your Worries Away (1942)
203.) Stage Struck (196)
204.) Ship Ahoy (1942)
205.) Up in Arms (1944)
206.) Broadway Melody of 1936 (1936)
207.) Joker is Wild (1957)
208.) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
209.) Step Lively (1944)
210.) Sky’s the Limit (1943)
211.) Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
212.) Pal Joey (1957)
213.) Kid from Brooklyn (1946)
214.) The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
215.) Mother Wore Tights (1947)
216.) Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936)
217.) The Chocolate Soldier (1941)
218.) April Showers (1948)
219.) A Hundred Men and a Girl (1937)
220.) San Francisco (1936)
221.) Rose-Marie (1936)
222.) A Song is Born (1948)
223.) Greenwich Village (1944)
224.) Pin Up Girl (1944)
225.) Dames (1934)
226.) Good Times (1967)
227) Balalaika (1939)
228.) Broadway Rhythm (1944)
229.) Girl Happy (1965)
230.) Footlight Parade (1933)
231.) My Gal Sal (1942)
232.) Dancing Lady (1933)
233.) Fashions of 1934 (1934)
234.) Maytime (1937)
235.) Camelot (1967)
236.) The Bamboo Blonde (1946)
237.) The Goldwyn Follies (1938)
238.) Little Nellie Kelly (1940)
239.) Belle of New York (1952)
240.) Star! (1968)
241.) Merry Andrew (1958)
242.) Naughty Marietta (1935)
243.) Damn Yankees! (1958)
234.) Alexander’s Ragtime Band (1938)
235.) Emperor Waltz (1948)
236.) The Kissing Bandit (1948)
237.) The Merry Widow (1952)

Betty Grable in “Mother Wore Tights”: Heartwarming and nostalgic

238.) The Singing Marine (1937)
239.) Wonder Man (1945)
240.) Get Yourself a College Girl (1964)
241.) Hold On! (1966)
242.) Ready, Willing, and Able (1937)
243.) Walk the Line (2005)
252.) Your Cheatin’ Heart (1964)
253.) Hootenany Hoot (1963)
254.) Five Pennies (1959)
255.) Student Tour (1934)
256.) Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farms (1938)
257.) Poor Little Rich Girl (1936)
258.) That Midnight Kiss (1949)
259.) Swing High, Swing Low (1937)
260.) Lady Be Good (1941)
261.) Music in My Heart (1940)
262.) The Girl of the Golden West (1938)
263.) It Happened In Brooklyn (1947)
264.) We’re Not Dressing (1934)
265.) Flirtation Walk (1934)
266.) Broadway Hostess (1935)
267.) Old Man Rhythm (1935)
268.) Let’s Make Music (1941)
269.) Born to Sing (1942)
270.) Two Guys From Texas (1948)
271.) Al Jolson Story (1946)
272.) Bitter Sweet (1940)
273.) Down Argentine Way (1940)
274.) My Blue Heaven (1950)
275.) Deep in My Heart (1954)
276.) Joy of Living (1938)
277.) Beach Blanket Bingo (1965)
278.) Bikini Beach (1964)
279.) Meet Miss Bobby Socks (1944)
280.) Three Little Words (1950)
281.) Inspector General (1949)
282.) Eve Knew Her Apples (1945)
283.) Broadway Gondalier (1935)
284.) Colleen (1936)
285.) Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
286.) Young Girls of Rochfort (1968)
287.)Little Miss Broadway (1938)
288.) Beach Party (1963)
290.) Let’s Fall in Love (1933)
291.) How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965)
292.) Sweethearts (1938)
293.) Wonder Bar (1934)
294.) Three For the Show (1955)
295.) Jive Junction (1943)
296.) Clambake (1967)
297.) Summer Holiday (1948)
298.) Muscle Beach Party (1964)
299.) Billie (1965)
300.) Let’s Do It Again (1953)

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Radio Waves back on the air

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Beautiful Rita Hayworth on CBS radio

“Radio  Waves Over Hollywood” will be streaming live Thursday night from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m (Eastern time).

Sorry I haven’t been on the air. I was sick last week and had to also go home for an interview for the following morning.

Tonight from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m., “Radio Waves” will have guest star Jeremy Allen, senior computer science major, will be discussing some of his favorite classic films. Allen is a fellow student at Winthrop who shares the love of classic film.

In the second hour of the show, from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., I will discuss:

-Elizabeth Taylor’s death since I wasn’t on the air last week
-Some of my favorite musicals since I recently hit 400 musicals on my musical list
-Cliche themes in movies like “Romeo and Juliet” theme or “Cinderella” theme.

So be sure to listen at 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.  live stream on www.winrfm.com (go to Listen Live) or  the old WINR website.

Call in at 803-323-2122, whether you know me or not, to contribute to the discussion.  I would love to hear from you!

And remember, non-Winthrop students can listen and call in too!

Also, if you listen to the “Radio Waves Over Hollywood” show, leave feedback for me in the comments area. Let me know what I need to work on or what you want to hear!

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Weekend One-Hundred: Musical list 101-200

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"Blues in the Night"-Love Prisiclla Lane but this movie was a tad boring and furstarting because of her no good husband.

Several of you requested to see my musical list, so for the next few weekends I will post 100 of the musical on the list-in the order I watched and recorded them. This list goes from July of 2004 till roughly August or September of 2005.  Enjoy!

101.) Night and Day (1946)
102.) Shall We Dance (1937)
103.) Best Foot Forward (1943)
104.) Meet the People (1944)
105.) Date with Judy (1948)
106.) Roberta (1935)
107.) Fiesta (1947)
108.) Easy to Love (1954)
109.) Skirts Ahoy (1952)
110.) Jupiter’s Darling (1955)
111.) High Society (1956)
112.)Broadway Melody of 1929 (1929)
113.) Music For Millions (1944)
114.) Panama Hattie (1942)
115.) Mrs. Brown, You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter (1968)
116.) It’s a Date (1940)
117.) Neptune’s Daughter (1949)
118.) On Moonlight Bay (1951)
119.) Holiday in Mexico (1946)
120.) Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)
121.) The Gay Divorcee (1934)
123.) Going to Hollywood (1933)
124.) Born To Dance (1936)
125.) Happy Go Lovely (1951)
126.) Ziegfeld Girl (1941)
127.) Perils of Pauline (1947)
128.) Lullaby of Broadway (1951)
129.) April in Paris (1952)
130.) Two Tickets to Broadway (1951)
131.) Shine on Harvest Moon (1944)

"Shine on Harvest Moon"-Great Warner Brothers film. Dennis Morgan is dreamy and Ann Sheridan is beautiful

132.) Three Smart Girls (1936)
133.) Look for the Silver Lining (1949)
134.) Something in the Wind (1947)
135.) It Started With Eve (1941)
136.) First Love (1939)
137.) Can’t Help Singing (1944)
138.) Stage Door Canteen (1943)
139.) Hollywood Canteen (1944)
140.) Rosalie (1937)
141.) The Story of Irene and Vernon Castle (1939)
142.) Sunny (1930)
143.)Cinderella (1957)
144.) Cinderella (1964)
145.) Cinderella (1997)
146.) Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
147.) Road to Morocco (1942)
148.) Road to Utopia (1946)
149.)Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
150.) It’s Always Fair Weather (1955)
151.) Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956)
152.) Looking for Love (1964)
153.) Down to Earth (1947)
154.) French Line (1954)
155.) Follow the Fleet (1936)
156.) Road to Singapore (1940)
157.) Road to Bali (1952)
158.) Bundle of Joy (1956)
159.) Rich, Young, and Pretty (1951)
160.) Flower Drum Song (1962)
161.) Vogues of 1938 (1937)
162.) Moon Over Miami (1941)
163.) Springtime in the Rockies (1942)
164.) Gypsy (1962)
165.) Girl Crazy (1943)
166.) ‘Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)
167.) I Love Melvin (1953)
168.) Bye, Bye Birdie (1963)
169.) Second Chorus (1940)
170.) Farmer Takes a Wife (1953)
171.) Tea For Two (1950)
172.) Honolulu (1939)
173.) DuBarry Was a Lady (1943)
174.) By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953)
175.) The Opposite Sex (1956)
176.) I Dood It (1943)
177.) The Stork Club (1945)
178.) Too Many Girls (1940)
179.) Pigskin Parade (1936)
180.) I’ll See You in My Dreams (1951)
181.) Tonight and Every Night (1945)
182.) Presenting Lilly Mars (1943)
183.) Yolanda and The Thief (1945)
184.) Lucky Me (1954)
185.) Court Jester (1955)
186.) Thoroughbreds Don’t Cry (1937)
187.) Listen Darling (1938)
188.) Thousands Cheer (1943)
189.) Give a Girl a Break (193)
190.) Reckless (1935)
191.) Blues in the Night (1941)
192.) Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938)
193.) Pennies from Heaven (1936)
194.)Damsel in Distress (1937)
195.) Sweet Adeline (1934)
196.) Desert Song (1953)
197.) Four Jacks and a Jill (1942)
198.) Going Places (1938)
199.) Here Comes the Groom (1951)
200.) Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1949)

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Actress Beauty Tip #11: Platinum blonde hair

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Hollywood’s original platinum blonde

Before Ginger Rogers, young Bette Davis and later Marilyn Monroe dyed their hair platinum blonde, Jean Harlow was the first.  Robert Osborne said in March “Now Playing” article that it’s hard to say anyone is the first:

“Since the movie medium is now well into its second century, it’s virtually impossible for anybody to be “the first” to do something cinematically. Make a 3D movie? Some folks still have aching eyes from when third-dimension movies were a craze fifty-eight years ago. Watch a film on an iPhone? Basically, people were watching movies that size when “flickers” were initially introduced in small machines called Nickelodeons over 100 years ago. Even in the early 1930s, when our TCM Star of the Month Jean Harlow began her spectacular career, it was not easy to do something in the film world no one had done before. But Harlow did have first-time bragging rights on one thing: she was the first in what became a long line of platinum blonde bombshells who have added sizzle, sensuality and sassiness to the film medium ever since.“

Osborne said before Harlow, dark haired vamps were the sex symbols in the 1920s like Theda Bera and Louise Brooks.

My new platinum hair! I even got bangs!

In honor of Jean Harlow’s 100th birthday on March 3, I decided to dye my hair platinum blonde. I’ve never dyed my hair before, so I thought “What the heck? I’m about to graduate from college so I might as well do it now.”  I wanted my hair to look like a field of silver daisies that someone would want to run barefoot through, like Franchet Tone said in “Bombshell.” I’m also a big Lady Gaga fan, so I wanted to look like her as well.

I used the same recipe studio’s used to dye Harlow’s hair the iconic blond hair, according to the beauty website “Steal Their Style.”

A mixture of:
•Peroxide
•Ammonia
•Clorox flakes
*They also used Luxe Flakes, but unfortunately those aren’t made anymore so I just omitted it.

There is a reason people don’t use this to dye their hair any more. It smells really horrible and wasn’t very comfortable.  I also look horrible with blonde hair since I have fair skin, as you can see in the picture above.

APRIL FOOLS! 🙂

My real hair. No hair dye for me!

April Fools is really silly but in honor of Jean Harlow’s 100th birthday in March, I thought it would be interesting to look at the dangerous mix of items they used on her hair.  I am wearing a horrible blonde wig I bought at Party City to dress up as Lady Gaga for Halloween 2009.

Several actresses who peroxided their hair in the 1930s and 1940s experienced problems with hair loss, brittle hair and thinning hair. Jean Harlow wore a wig in the movie “China Seas” (1935), because she was trying to let it grow back to it’s natural color, according to IMDB. Ginger Rogers also described problems with her hair in her autobiography “Ginger: My Story.”

I probably will never, ever dye my hair, but certainly not platinum blonde. Please, please, please don’t try this. I’ve always been told never to mix clorox and ammonia so don’t you try it either. If you do and you get hurt, don’t send your lawyers to me. If you feel so inclined to dye your hair bleached blond, don’t do it this way. Actually don’t do it at all. I know very few people who look good with peroxide blonde hair and several of them were actresses-not people I know in real life.

Check back in May for the year anniversary beauty tip!

And just in case you were curious…me as Gaga haha

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