Chicago

Rob Marshall, 2002.

On Wikipedia: Chicago

Two women who murdered their husbands and have now teamed up in a song and dance act - what's not to love?

Based on the Bob Fosse Broadway production.

Fun fact: WCS gave me the CD of the soundtrack, and RLB and I listen to it on just about every road trip we take!

Bonus: watch the 1927 version of Chicago by C.B. DeMille on Kanopy!

(JTS3, 4/15/2020)

Hans Christian Andersen

Charles Vidor, 1952.

On Wikipedia: Hans Christian Andersen

(PSJ, 3/25/2020)

Mary Poppins

Robert Stevenson (Disney), 1964.

On Wikipedia: Mary Poppins

(WCS, 3/26/2020)

See also ............. Saving Mr. Banks

The Sound of Music

Robert Wise, 1965.

On Wikipedia: The Sound of Music

Musicals, stories about people-of-faith, and movies about WWII: these are a few of my favorite things!

Everyone probably the basic story line here: a young nun-in-training -- who finds her God on the Vienna hillsides rather than in the convent-- is dispatched as a governess to an unruly brood of 7 children. After an initial period of resistance on all sides, Maria finally wins over the kids and their uptight father (and in the process her own heart is transformed). 

Plus, Julie Andrews. What's not to love?

(RLB, 3/2/2020)


[Fun fact: when I first met RLB, I went around singing the song from the movie: "Somewhere in my youth or childhood, I must have done some-thing good!" :-) (JTS3, 3/25/2020)]