Must start on time, 1.30 as this film is 150 minutes long.
Storyline
All the hot gamblers are in town, and they're all depending on Nathan Detroit to set up this week's incarnation of "The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York"; the only problem is, he needs $1000 to get the place. Throw in Sarah Brown, who's short on sinners at the mission she runs; Sky Masterson, who accepts Nathan's $1000 bet that he can't get Sarah Brown to go with him to Havana; Miss Adelaide, who wants Nathan to marry her; Police Lieutenant Brannigan, who always seems to appear at the wrong time; and the music/lyrics of Frank Loesser, and you've got quite a musical. Includes the songs: Fugue for Tinhorns, "Luck Be a Lady", "Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat".
TRIVIA
Marlon Brando had been cast in the role of Sky Masterson, a role coveted by Frank Sinatra, while Sinatra was relegated to the supporting role of Nathan Detroit. Relations between the two actors were strained during production. Many years later, Brando said of Sinatra, "Frank's the kind of guy who, when he gets to Heaven, is going to give God a hard time for making him bald."
After filming repeated takes of the scene where Sky (Marlon Brando) and Nathan (Frank Sinatra) first meet, they had to quit for the day when Sinatra had too much cheesecake. He said he could not take one more bite. Practical joker (some would say jerk) Brando, knowing how much Sinatra hated cheesecake, purposely flubbed each take so that Sinatra would have to eat piece after piece of cheesecake. The next day, they came back and shot the scene perfectly on the first take.
Marilyn Monroe wanted to play Adelaide, but director Joseph L. Mankiewicz didn't want to work with her again (she appeared briefly in All About Eve) and supposedly pretended he never got her phone messages. Betty Grable was in talks to play Adelaide but when she cancelled on the director to be with her sick dog, she was dropped. Judy Holliday was also briefly considered for the role.
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Oct 2011 Another film substituted for How Green was my Valley
Sept 27 7 Brides for Seven Brothers
Aug 2011 Notorious
July 26 Lover come Back
Jun 28 Suddenly last Sunner
May 2011 Great Expectaions
April 26 Easter Parade
March29 Charade
Feb 24th Marni
Jan 25th 2011 On the Town
24th Nov
26th Oct The Snows of Kilimanjaro
28th Sept Love is a many splendored thing
30th Aug Gigi
27th July Spellbound Hitchcock
29th June An Affair to Remember
25th May Hitchcock's 'Rebecca'
27th April A Night in Rio Don Ameche and Carmen Miranda
30th March Sergeant York. Gary Cooper.. a true story with 1941 enhancement
23rd Feb 2010 High Society Grace Kelly, Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra,
26th January 2010 Philadelphia StoryKathryn Hepburn, Cary Grant and James Stewart
28th December Showboat
24th November Casablanca with Humph playing his usual laconic role and close ups of Ingrid 's lovely face.
27th October The Wicked Lady with Margaret Lockwood as the femme fatale.
29th Sept Some Like it Hot --we all laughed as if seeing it for first time. A great film
28th August The Maltese Falcon
28th July 2009 Glen Miller Story
30th June Seven Year Itch With Marilyn Monroe/Tom Ewell director Billie Wilder
26th May we saw: Hitchcocks early film, The Lady Vanishes starring Margaret Lockwood
28th April we saw 'The Thrill of it All starring Doris Day and James Garner
27th March we saw The Way to the Stars with J Mills, M Redgrave and Rosemond John
24th February we saw The Ladykillers starring Alec Guines, Peter Sellars, Gerbert Lom and Katy Johnson
29th January 2009 we saw Cary Grant and Grace Kelly in 'To Catch a Thief'
On December 30th 2008 we saw Top Hat with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
On November 25th we saw 'Its a wonderful life' the Christmas tearjerker
On October 28th Roman Holiday starring Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck
On September 23rd Double indemnity with Barbara Stanwyck and Frank Mc Murray. Seduction and murder
On August 26th Trottie True a 'good' gaiety girl marries a Lord but he has a roving eye.
On July29th Due to technical hitch, we had coffee and chatted!
On June 24th We saw 'Margie' with Jeanne Crane. The one where she lost her bloomers at inconvenient times
On May 27th We saw 'Hitchcock's 'Stranger in a Train'
On April 29th We saw Mandy directed by Andrew Mac Endrick with Phyllis Calvert & Jack Hawkins
On March 25th We saw "I married a Witch" Directed by René Clair. With Fredric March, Veronica Lake,
On February 26th We saw "Hobsons Choice" to compare with the theatre performance we saw in MK
On January 22nd 2008we saw "Pajama Game" Doris Day and James Raitt.What a joy on a dreary January day
On November 25th 2007 we saw"Fallen Idol" directed by Carol Reed. Beautifully acted by Ralph Richardso/Michelle Morgan and the central character, Bobby Henrey
On October 23rd we saw "The Third Man" can never see too many times
On September 25th 42nd Street. One of Busby Berkeley's early major work with Ruby Keeler
On July 30th we saw: Millions like us with Patricia Roc, Anne Crawford, Gordon Jackson
An opening scene reminds us of British life before the war. The Crowson family (father Jim, mother Elsie, daughters Phyllis and Celia, son Tom) visit the same seaside boarding house where they spend every summer: then comes the WW2 and everything changes..
