Movies I Watched in November

This month wasn’t very earth shattering. The biggest discovery was Robert Ryan’s romantic side in Tender Comrade, one of his early roles. I liked the beginning scene so much I put it on YouTube:

I watched my first MacDonald/Eddy musical (and discovered I have record album of several of their duets). I also finally watched Bell Book and Candle. I mainly wanted to get screenshots of Novak’s tea set, which was later used in the tv show Bewitched.

* means a rewatch

1. Rasputin and the Empress (1932) - John, Ethel, & Lionel Barrymore
2. Thirteen Women (1932) - Myrna Loy, Irene Dunne
3. *No More Ladies (1935) - Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, Franchot Tone, Edna May Oliver
4. Barbary Coast (1935) - Miriam Hopkins & Joel McCrea, Edward G. Robinson
5. Men are Not Gods (1936) - Miriam Hopkins, Rex Harrison
6. Rose-Marie (1936) - Jeannette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy
7. The Gorgeous Hussy (1936) - Joan Crawford, Lionel Barrymore, Melvyn Douglas, Robert Taylor, Franchot Tone
8. Listen, Darling (1938) - Judy Garland, Freddie Bartholomew, Mary Astor, Walter Pidgeon, Alan Hale
9. Four Girls in White (1939) - Florence Rice, Ann Rutherford, Una Merkel
10. Tender Comrade (1943) - Ginger Rogers & Robert Ryan
11. Vacation From Marriage (1945) - Robert Donat & Deborah Kerr, Glynis Johns
12. A Letter for Evie (1945) - Marsha Hunt, Hume Cronyn, John Carroll
13. The Window (1949) - Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Ruth Roman
14. The Racket (1951) - Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Lizabeth Scott
15. Glory Alley (1952) - Ralph Meeker & Leslie Caron
16. Million Dollar Mermaid (1952) - Esther Williams, Victor Marture, Walter Pidgeon
17. *When in Rome (1952) - Van Johnson, Paul Douglas
18. Bell Book and Candle (1958) - James Stewart & Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Elsa Lanchester
19. *Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) - Maculay Culkin, Catherine O'Hara
20. Space Cowboys (2000) - Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, James Garner

I guess we can say my least favorite were the two movies I started and didn’t finish. I probably would have finished them but I was watching them the night before they were to be removed from WatchTCM and I was ready to go to bed. Kismet (1944) starring Ronald Colman did not have enough Marlene Dietrich in it. And Pagan Love Song (1950) with Esther Williams and Howard Keel was just too corny for the mood I was in. The whole “drop your kid off to live with the single white guy” was weird too.

I greatly enjoyed Vacation From Marriage, one of Caftan Woman’s recommendations. I really want to delve more into Glynis Johns’ filmography.

Accurate portrayal of me every evening (except it’ a space heater and I'm just wearing jeans and a t-shirt and the cat is black with white feet ;)