the cast: Tim Robbins (Ed Walters); Walter Matthau (Albert Einstein); Meg Ryan (Catherine Boyd); Stephen Fry (James Moreland)
the plot: Edward Walters, an auto mechanic, falls for the intelligent and beautiful Catherine Boyd. Unfortunately, she's engaged to James "The Rat Man" Moreland. Fortunately, Catherine's uncle (who happens to be Albert Einstein) likes Ed, and with his mischievous colleages, schemes to make Catherine fall for Ed.
don't miss: Ed being fed the test answers by Nathan, Kurt, Boris and Albert.
count: how many nickels you would have if you had a nickel for every nickel James has.
the cast: Barbra Streisand (Dolly Levi); Walter Matthau (Horace Vandergelder); Michael Crawford (Cornelius Hackl)
the plot: Matchmaker Dolly Levi takes a trip to Yonkers, New York to see the "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire," Horace Vandergelder. While there, she convinces him, his two stock clerks and his niece and her beau to go to New York City. In New York, she fixes Vandergelder's clerks up with the woman Vandergelder had been courting, and her shop assistant (Dolly has designs of her own on Mr. Vandergelder, you see).
don't miss: Just Leave Everything to Me - the lyrics are hilarious. "If you want your ego bolstered, muscles toned, or chair upholstered: Just leave everything to me. Charming social introductions, expert mandolin instructions: Just leave everything to me. If you want your culture rounded, French improved, or torso pounded, With a ten year guarantee. If you want a birth recorded, collies bred, or kittens ported: I'll proceed to plan the whole procedure, Just leave everything to me."
did you know: Walter Matthau detested Barbra Streisand so much that he refused to kiss her in the final shot where Horace kisses Dolly in front of the church. To get around this he leaned near her and the camera was positioned so that the angle makes it appear that he kisses her when, in reality, his face was several inches from hers.
listen for: "Money, pardon the expression, is like manure. It's not worth a thing unless it's spread around, encouraging young things to grow."
the genre: suspense - the best Hitchcock film that Hitchcock never made.
the cast: Audrey Hepburn (Regina Lampert); Cary Grant (Peter Joshua); Hamilton Bartholemew (Walter Matthau)
the plot: Regina Lambert returns to Paris from a ski holiday in Switzerland to find that her husband has been murdered. She is told by CIA agent Hamilton Bartholemew that Charles Lambert was one of five men who stole $250,000 in gold from the U.S. government during World War II, and the government wants it back. The money was not found among his possessions, and Regina can shed no light on its whereabouts. When her husband's former partners in crime (who were double-crossed by Charles) start calling her looking for the money, Peter Joshua (whom Reggie met briefly while on holiday) offers to help her find it. And thus begins the elaborate charade.
count: Charles Lampert's passports.
don’t miss: the tongue-in-cheek reference to "On the Street Where You Live" from My Fair Lady (which Audrey starred in and would be released the next year).
check out: the scene where Reggie spills ice cream on Adam's suit. It was based on the real-life accident where Audrey spilled red wine all over Cary Grant's suit at the dinner where they first met.
listen for: "We'll have lots of boys and name them all after you." and Henry Mancini's fabulous score.
I'm a collector of 1940s-60s just-about-anything, I have enough old snapshots to wallpaper a small house, and I'm saving my pennies so that one day I can have my very own roller rink.
Some of the images are from screenshots I've made and some have been collected from several years of net trolling. If one of them is yours and you would like to be credited, please let me know and I'll take care of it!
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