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movies that never get old - guilty pleasures
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A Summer PlaceA Summer Place
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $8.39
young love, adult sex, mores' of the 50's, happy (we think) ending
The Complete Gidget Collection (Gidget / Gidget Goes Hawaiian / Gidget Goes to Rome)The Complete Gidget Collection (Gidget / Gidget Goes Hawaiian / Gidget Goes to Rome)
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young and innocent love, just as we were when we first saw it
Valley of the Dolls (Special Edition)Valley of the Dolls (Special Edition)
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a bit overdramatic, but still a good story for the time it was released, based on Jacqueline Suzanne's blockbuster novel.
The Eddy Duchin StoryThe Eddy Duchin Story
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beautiful Tyrone Power and Kim Novak; gorgeous piano selections, and clothes of the pre-WWII era. A very romanticized telling of a real person and his heartache.
Where the Boys AreWhere the Boys Are
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pretty tame version of spring break compared to 2007, but as it was in the 1950's; good girls get the guy - bad girls get heartbreak.
The Five PenniesThe Five Pennies
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a tour de force for Danny Kaye, playing the great jazz trumpeteer, Red Nichols
The Glenn Miller StoryThe Glenn Miller Story
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jimmie stewart and june allyson in their most endearing film of the great big-band king, glenn miller, and his then mysterious death during WWII.
Rear Window (Collector's Edition)Rear Window (Collector's Edition)
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my favorite hitchcock film. low-key jimmie stewart and breath-taking grace kelly as voyeurs who see too much out the rear window and almost pay with with their lives at the hand of a menacing raymond burr.
Home from the HillHome from the Hill
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melodrama of a family riddled with secrets, unfaithfulness, and out-of-wedlock pregnancy for two generations.
The Young PhiladelphiansThe Young Philadelphians
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young paul newman, growing up with an ambitious mother, who wants her son to take his rightful place in Philadelphia society.
From the TerraceFrom the Terrace
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paul newman and joanne woodward in John O'Hara's steamy story of ambition, family secrets, adultery, and backstabbing - what could be better!
The Long, Hot SummerThe Long, Hot Summer
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young & beautiful paul newman, a drifter with a family past that follows him, meets up with stiff & stoic (and rich) joanne woodward, and sparks fly one summer in the south
An Affair to RememberAn Affair to Remember
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the all-time ultimate love story that re-emerged with the release of sleepless in seattle. cary grant at his most suave, and deborah kerr who falls under his spell (and a taxi)
Warner Bros. Romance Classics Collection (Palm Springs Weekend / Parrish / Rome Adventure / Susan Slade)Warner Bros. Romance Classics Collection (Palm Springs Weekend / Parrish / Rome Adventure / Susan Slade)
Buy new: $15.60 / Used from: $30.26
four for the price of one! As a Troy Donahue fanatic in my teens, this is the ultimate treasure. Add "A Summer Place" to this DVD, and you have an afternoon of escape from the really troublesome aspects of the Country.