I was thinking about things that make me happy, and you know what came to my mind? My Gramma, so I thought, "hey, my Gramma lives just a little ways away from my school, and she rarely sleeps so why don't I just pop in after my Tuesday night class?" so I popped in. And I nearly scared her half to death. Once she caught her breath I came inside and I asked, "Gramma? do you know what I love?"
"What?" she asked. "Musicals. but you know what's funny? My Mom does not like them. But you and your sister love them, and my sister and I love them." Then Gramma said, "I guess it skips a generation..." So I told my Gramma how I loved spending time at her house as a child because we would always watch old movies, which at the time I don't think I appreciated, but looking back those really were great movies, that I still remember. My Gramma would have my sister and I watch old movies, My Great Aunt would have us watch musicals. And I just love them. So, my Gramma lent me some old movies, and I've been watching some of my own on Netflix, trying to see which Merlin Monroe, and Audrey Hepburn movies I like the best. And taking in the speech and the clothing and the mannerisms, and realizing just how different "my generation" is makes me so heartbroken, I wish the girls of today still behaved as they did back then. After watching a lot of these films I decided to review them. I'm going to start with the one I watched most recently, because it's fresh in my mind.
Gidget (1959)
Gidget is one of my all time favorite movies, I used to watch it at my Aunt Gidget's house when I was younger, and I remember watching it on a loop when I got my tonsils removed when I was twelve.
Encase you have never seen this movie here is the plot: Sandra Dee plays a young 16 year old girl named Francie who docent quite fit in anywhere, until she stumbles upon a group of boys who love nothing more than to "surf the curl", so she too takes up the sport, and although the boys giver a heard time she continues to prove to them she's more than "just a little girl", she can do what ever the boys can do better. She grows concerned that she is different because she docent like dates the way her friends do, will she ever feel that knock in the head with a sledge hammer love feeling her mom makes sound so attractive? well that's just how she feels when ever Moondoggie is around her, but she runs in to trouble when she sets up a fake date to make him jealous, and ends up on the date with Moondoggie himself! what will become of her ruse?
There could have been more chemistry between the two main characters, you still root for the two to get together, still, the audience never fully realized how Moondoggie feels in return until the last few scenes of the film. Sandra Dee is marvelous in this, she comes off as so young, and so awkward, just like a young 16 year old girl would have if she were trying to impress a large group of men. Regardless of how I feel about the connection between Gidget and Moondoggie, if you have not seen this movie you really should, it is and always will be one of my favorites.
I give it ******* out of ten.
until next time when i will be reviewing another of my favorites Tammy And The Bachelor (1957) staring Debbie Reynolds and Leslie Neilson
XOXO, ashLEIGH
