Thoroughly Modern Millie

Thoroughly Modern Millie
Released Date: March 21, 1967
Director: George Roy Hill
Actors: Julie Andrews, James Fox, Mary Tyler Moore, Carol Channing, John Gavin, Jack Soo, Pat Morita, Philip Ahn, and Beatrice Lillie

     This movie is an absolute ten. The film is fun, fast and fancy. Julie Andrews and Mary Tyler Moore tap dance and sing. This is Beatrice Lillie's last film. It is said that Julie Andrews stood off camera to read her lines to her because she was already developing Alzheimer's and she could not remember her lines. I'm also a huge fan of Carol Channing in this movie because she is so funny and outgoing. I have always been a huge Mary Tyler Moore fan and I loved Julie Andrews in Mary Poppins and also The Sound of Music. The two were amazing and fun in this movie. They were a great pair. James Fox is cute as a button and John Gavin is a sexy man. The only other movie I have seen John Gavin in was Psycho.

     Miss Dorothy Brown (Mary Tyler Moore) moves into a hotel room across the hall from Millie Dillmount (Julie Andrews). They become best friends, while dancing and going to parties together. When Dorothy firsts moves in, she has Millie carry all her bags to her new room. The elevator in the hotel is rather old and needs the rider to tap dance all the way to the top of the building. On a side note, Mary Tyler Moore said that every time she saw an elevator, after this movie, she always thought of the tap dancing scenes. Millie's intentions is to marry her boss, and while she has Jimmy Smith (James Fox) falling in love with her, she becomes attracted to her very sexy boss, Trevor Graydon (John Gavin). But when Trevor meets Dorothy, the two become lovers and Millie realizes that Jimmy is the one. One days Dorothy goes missing, and while Trevor believes she left him and is no longer his, the rest of the gang believes she has been kidnapped. What is true? And does she come back? You will have to watch this movie to see what happens. You will be pleased and it is for sure, a must see.

     

Psycho

Psycho
Released Date: August 25, 1960
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Janet Leigh, Martin Balsam, and Patricia Hitchcock

This movie is probably one of the scariest movies ever. And by far THE scariest villain to date, Norman Bates. Or Ms. Bates?? Who knows right??

The movie starts off with a woman who is clearly in love but cannot do a thing about it. The man she is in love with is going through a divorce that is costing him a lot of money, and he lives in another town. He is also paying for his late father's bills and can't afford to pay for a little thing called marriage with this woman. I don't want to give anything away, but let's just say she figures out a way to get a hold of a bunch of money that can easily pay the late father's bills, his alimony, and also a marriage. However, her way about having the money is completely wrong and well let's just say karma stinks. She ends up at Bates Motel and the rest, they say is history.

Now Alfred Hitchcock never ended up winning any Oscars, but this movie did end up giving Mr. Hitchcock 4 Oscar nods and this movie is rated 8.7/10 according to IMBD. I would give the movie a 10/10 but of course everyone has different taste. :)

Alfred Hitchcock had a chance to make this movie in color but decided that the movie would benefit in black and white. And he was right. The movie is much more creepier and not to mention that most if not all black and white scary movies are much more creepy than color scary movies. I don't know if it is because of the dark shadows or if it is because Alfred Hitchcock is just that brilliant, but this movie is GRAND. The movie also has the directors daughter in it. Patricia Hitchcock, she was in a few of his movies actually. You can see the proud daughter talk about his movies on all of his movie DVDs.

This movie also has a lot of very great creepy lines such as, "A boys best friend is his mother" said by Norman Bates.

I hope you all watch the movie. It is a very son/mother type of film that will keep your heart racing and will keep you out of hotels and showers for a very long time. Literally, the main actress from this film, Janet Leigh, could not shower after making this film. And she also admitted to having to have her maid stand in the bathroom with her as she showered sometime in 2000 after having broke her leg and the Dr telling her to take showers instead of baths.