Magical Musicals!!!

As you may or may not have guessed I am obsessed with musicals and anything with dancing that was choreographed from the heart. I'm just your average musical girl singing and dancing my way through life. Though I have noticed that some people do find it weird when I sing what I say and do a little jig and unfortunately not many join in but there are some who join in and gather a crowd  until there is a classical flash mob happening. Well today I will make a lovely list (I do love my lists) of all of the musicals I have seen, well the ones I can remember anyway.

1. Young At Heart
2. It Happened To Jane
3. The Thrill of It All
4. Top Hat
5. Swing Time
6. Pin Up Girl
7. The Dolly Sisters
8. The Gangs All Here
9. Orchestras Wives
10. Daddy Long Legs
11. Sun Valley Serenade
12. Oklahoma
13. The King And I
14. The Sound Of Music
15. State Fair
16. Love Finds Andy Hardy
17. Royal Wedding
18. Black And Tan
19. Gigi
20. Calamity Jane
21. The Wizard Of Oz
22. The Harvey Girls
23. An American In Paris
24. Seven Brides For Seven Brothers
25. Annie Get Your Gun
26. Singin In The Rain
27. High Society
28. Meet Me In St Louis
29. For Me And My Gal
30. In The Good Old Summertime
31. Thoroughbreds Don't Cry
32. Lover Come Back
33. You Were Never Lovelier
34. Cover Girl
35. Babes In Arms
36. Girl Crazy
37. Strike Up The Band
38. Andy Hardy Meets Débutante
39. Life Begins For Andy Hardy
40. Babes On Broadway
41. A Star Is Born
42. Oliver!
43. West Side Story
44. Cabaret
45. Guys And Dolls
46. Easter Parade
47. Pillow Talk
48. There's No Business Like Show Business
49. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
50. Lets Make Love
51. Some Like It Hot
52. Funny Face
53. My Fair Lady
54. Thoroughly Modern Millie
55. Three Smart Girls
56. First Love
57. 100 Men And A Girl
58. Can't Help Singing
59. Mad About Music
60. Three Smart Girls Grow Up
61. Because Of Him
62. The Pyjama Game
63. Kiss Me Kate
64. Two Weeks With Love
65. The Mating Game
66. The Unsinkable Molly Brown
67. Lullaby Of Broadway
68. Everybody Sing
69. Summer Stock
70. Little Nellie Kelly
71. I Love Melvin
72. Mister Big
73. Anything Goes
74. Cynthia
75. A Date With Judy
76. The Tender Trap
77. Anchors Aweigh
78. On The Town
79. Funny Girl
80. Every Sunday
81. Listen Darling
82. Let's Dance
83. The Jazz Singer

Those are all of the films that I believe to be of a musical nature and all of the ones I can remember. Well I hope that you comment saying if you have seen any of these or comment suggesting other musicals (I like cheesy mgm musicals like Two Weeks With Love or something like Kiss Me Kate which isn't really cheesy).

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!

I know that I may be a little late with a happy new year blog but it is my first blog of the year so I decided to make it special. I am going to make a list of my favourite films I watched in 2012. I only properly started watching and obsessing over films this past year so the list may be a bit long....anyway I hope you enjoy my lovely little list.

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)


Stage Door (1937)


Now Voyager (1942)


Grand Hotel (1932)



It happened one night (1934)


To kill a mockingbird (1962)


Marnie (1964) (one of my favourite Hitchcock films)


The Apartment (1960)


The Odd Couple (1968)


Wuthering Heights (1939)


Jezebel (1938)



Modern Times (1936)



The Harvey Girls (1946)



Thoroughbreds Don't Cry (1937)



National Velvet (1944)



Who's Afraid Of Virgina Woolf (1966)



Camille (1936)



Don't Bother To Knock (1952)



Lassie Come Home (1943)



Three Smart Girls (1936)



First Love (1939)



Christmas Holiday (1944)



Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (1958)



Wait Until Dark (1967)



Funny Girl (1968)



East of Eden (1955)



The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964)



The Nun's Story (1959)



The Great Dictator (1940)



The Red Shoes (1948)



The Time Machine (1960)



The Man With The Golden Arm (1955)



Now these are only a few of my favourite films of the year because I can't remember if I watched the others before 2012.

Also you may have noticed a few films belonging to a certain actress which you may not have come across on this blog before.....yes you clever person you, Deanna Durbin I have come down with Durbin fever. She was a rival of Judy Garland's to some extent so I took a keen interest in her I then found out I had already watch a short film of hers featuring Judy Garland called "Every Sunday" she was charming in that film with a great voice she is probably my favourite classical voice while Judy is my favourite spunky voice. I ask for two volumes of her box set for christmas and loved every minute, I took a keen interest into "Christmas Holiday" and the others are wonderful I especially liked her rendition of Danny Boy in "Because of Him". Her acting talent as well is WOW. With some money I saved up I bought volume 3 and 4 of her box set and am loving every moment. You shall be hearing a lot more about her on my lovely blog.

MOVIE MARATHON!!!!!!!

Unfortunately for the past few days I have been infected with and awful disease called...the flu. I also have not been sleeping well at all while I'm ill so I have been trying to keep myself busy and to do that I have been watching films. Today especially I have watched a fair amount of films which are all new to me. I will list my little marathon below and rate them, hopefully I will give one a review soon:

• Nothing Sacred (1937)

I rate it 7.1 (mostly because I love it when Carole Lombard sticks her tongue out during a fight, she is as cute as a button)

• Cynthia (1947)

I rate it 7.4 (because I just love cute films like this that make you feel all warm inside)

• A Date With Judy (1948)

I rate this 6.9 (Watch it just for Carmen Miranda, she is fab-u-lous. It is a cute little film and worth a watch)

• The Children's Hour (1961)

I rate this film 8.1 (I enjoyed it so much more then what I expected and it evoked so many emotions in me and the ending is so sad)

• Made For Each Other (1939)

I rate this movie a ....7.0 (because some of the scenes were beautifully done and were heart-wrenching)

• Morning Glory (1933)

The film will be rated a 7.3 (because of the scenes were Katharine Hepburn is drunk and acting out Shakespeare...genius)

and finally a film which I have decided is my new ultimate favourite film ever is....................................................................................................................

• Stage Door (1937)

I rate this film a solid 10 WOOHOO YAAAAY!!!!!!!!!! (I can't flaw this film it is everything I look for it has comedy, drama, an amazing cast with the devilishly gorgeous Lucille Ball who is mighty funny. It is also probably the best performance and character that I have seen Ginger Rogers play she is fantastic. Katharine Hepburn did great herself and this is now my new favourite of her films beating out Guess Who's Coming To Dinner) I love it so much...

Well that is all of the films I have watched in a single day. Now because I can feel my headache rising again I must go and sit in a corner and cry, hoping that I won't be ill on Christmas.......

The Carol Burnett Show (1967-1978)

For a while I have been watching a tremendous amount of the lovely Carol Burnett. She is just hilarious I would even go as far as saying that I prefer her show to the also amazing and lovely, Lucille Ball's "I Love Lucy" (but only slightly). I found out about this show when I was looking up facts about Gone With The Wind on imdb and they said that this show did a parody of GWTW and this interested me because no modern show would do this so I presumed it to be an older show. I then watched the parody and fell in love. She parodies a lot of classic films like National Velvet, The Heiress, Babes In Arms and Rebecca. The show was made in the 1960's and went through to the 1970's and never lost any of it comedy. They do other sketches besides classic films which are genius. Carol Burnett is the queen of comedy and the show was very popular when it aired but now I feel that a lot of people haven't heard about her and they need to see this show just to keep its memory alive and see what real comedy is.

This is the parody of GWTW called Went With The Wind , this is the famous curtain dress.

Rebecca parody called "Rebecky".

Many stars appeared on the show and I'll name a few for you right here:

• Lucille Ball
• Mickey Rooney (yay)
• Liza Minnelli
• Betty Grable
• Lana Turner
• Bing Crosby 
• Donald O'Conner
• Debbie Reynolds
• Rita Hayworth
• Gloria Swanson
• Shirley Mclaine
• Maggie Smith

and that is just to name a few...