Film Festival: Cruise Ship Romance Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) is one of the great Technicolor movie musicals with two famous beauties as the stars. Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell take over a cruise ship. I’ve always loved the fantasy life of people cruising on ships in the old days. Dressing up for dinner, meeting all…
Marilyn Monroe
Lisa’s Home Bijou: “The Seven Year Itch”
Film Festival: Summertime Blues When summer comes to New York City, it gets hot. Really hot. Back in the 1950s, Manhattan husbands used to pack their wives and children off to the seashore or to the mountains, creating a town full of “summer bachelors.” It’s within this atmosphere that Billy Wilder sets a delightful story…