Blog on old films with links

 Melanie Novak blog on old films.  We've seen some of these at The Estates. I've starred them.

The Affairs of Susan (1945)
After the Thin Man (1936)
The African Queen (1951) *
All About Eve (1950)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Anna Christie (1930)
The Awful Truth (1937)
Baby Face (1933)
Ball of Fire (1941)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Blowing Wild (1953)
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2017)
Born to Be Bad (1950)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
The Bride Wore Red (1937)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
The Caine Mutiny (1954)
Camille (1936)
Captain Blood (1935)
Casablanca (1942) *
Christmas In Connecticut (1945)
Christopher Strong (1933)
Cimarron (1931)
Come and Get It (1936)
The Constant Nymph (1943)
Craig’s Wife (1936)
Daisy Kenyon (1947)
A Damsel in Distress (1937)
Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
Dark Victory (1939)
Designing Woman (1957)
Dial M For Murder (1954) *
Dinner at Eight (1933)
Dangerous (1935)
Dark Passage (1947)
A Day in the Country (1946)
Destry Rides Again (1939)
The Divorcée (1930)
Double Indemnity (1944) *
Dracula (1931)
East Side, West Side (1949)
Ex-Lady (1933)
Father of the Bride (1950) *
Father of the Bride (1991)  *
First Comes Courage (1943)
Frankenstein (1931)
A Free Soul (1931)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
From This Day Forward (1946)
Gaslight (1944)
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
Giant (1956)
Gilda (1946)
Gone With the Wind (1939)
Grand Hotel (1932)
The Great Lie (1941)
Gun Crazy (1950)
Hands Across the Table (1935)
Harriet Craig (1950)
Harvey (1950)
The Heiress (1949)
Hell’s Angels (1930)
High Society (1956) *
Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
Holiday Inn (1942)
Honor Among Lovers (1931)
House of Wax (1953)
How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)
Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
I Married a Witch (1942)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
Indiscreet (1958)
In Name Only (1939)
In This Our Life (1942).
It Happened One Night (1934)
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
Jane Eyre (1944)  *
Jezebel (1938)  *
Key Largo (1948)*
King Kong (1933)
The Lady Eve (1941)
Laura (1944)
Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
Letter From An Unknown Woman (1948)
Little Caesar (1930)
Lonelyhearts (1958)
A Lost Lady (1934)
Made For Each Other (1939)
The Male Animal (1942)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
Mata Hari (1931)
Meet John Doe (1941)
Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Mogambo (1953) *
Mutiny On The Bounty (1935)
Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941)
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Mr. Skeffington (1944)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
My Cousin Rachel (1952)
My Favorite Wife (1940)
My Man Godfrey (1936)
Next Time We Love (1936)
No Man of Her Own (1932)
Notorious (1946)
Of Human Bondage (1935)
Old Acquaintance (1943)
The Old Maid (1939)
The Other Love (1947)
The Petrified Forest (1936)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)  *
A Place in the Sun (1951)
Possessed (1931)
The Princess Comes Across (1936)
Princess O’Rourke (1943)
The Public Enemy (1931)
Queen Christina (1933) *
The Razor’s Edge (1946)
Rear Window (1954)
Rebecca (1940)
Red Dust (1932)
Red-Headed Woman (1932)
The Red Shoes (1948)
Sabrina (1954)
Sabrina (1995)
Saratoga Trunk (1945)
Scarface (1932)
September Affair (1950)
She Done Him Wrong (1993)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
The Shopworn Angel (1938)
Show Boat (1936)
The Snake Pit (1948)
So Big (1932)
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
Stagecoach (1939)
Stage Door (1937)
Stella Dallas (1937)
The Stratton Story (1949)
The Strawberry Blonde (1941)
Sunrise (1927)
Suspicion (1941).
Swing High, Swing Low (1937)
Swing Time (1936)
Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)
Tarzan Escapes (1936)
Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939)
Tarzan and His Mate (1934)
Tarzan’s New York Adventure (1942)
Tarzan’s Secret Treasure (1941)
The Thin Man (1934)
This Above All (1942)
The Thorn Birds (1983)
To Catch A Thief (1955)
To Each His Own (1946)
To Have and Have Not (1944)
Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
True Confession (1937)
Twentieth Century (1934)
The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)
Vertigo (1958)
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Waterloo Bridge (1931)
Waterloo Bridge (1940)
White Christmas (1954)
Wife Vs. Secretary (1936)
Winchester ’73 (1950)
The Wizard of Oz (1939) *
The Women (1939)
You Can’t Take It With You (1938)
Young Man with a Horn (1950)
You’ve Got Mail (1998) *

Movies shown at Estates not in the blog

On Moonlight Bay with Doris Day, Sept 4, 2025

You Gotta Believe, sports drama, Sept. 7, 2025

The Way We Were, Sept. 24, 2025

Tea for Two, Doris Day, Sept. 28, 2025

Overboard, Goldie Hawn, Oct. 2, 2025, our copy

Abby's List, ours, Mark Sutherland of our Campfire group, Oct. 8, 2025

Whales of August, Lilian Gish, Bette Davis, Oct. 16, 2015

Fried Green Tomatoes, Kathyy Bates, Oct. 26, 2015

Devil wears Prada

Mr. Blanding builds his dream home

Big fat Greek Wedding

Miracle worker

Elizabethtown

Where the crawdads sing

Auntie Mame

Home Sweet Alabama

Mrs Harris goes to Paris

Mystic pizza

First cow

Now, Voyager  Collecting My Thoughts: Now, Voyager (1942) with Bette Davis

To catch a thief

High noon

Notorius (1946)

Brigadoon  Collecting My Thoughts: Enjoying a night at the movies at The Estates

Carousel

Apollo 13

The Swan

Double Indemnity

Sound of Music

Second hand lions

Country girl

On the waterfront

Hello Dolly

Bicycle thieves

Oklahoma

October Sky

The King and I

Funny Girl

Little Foxes

Million Dollar Mermaid

The Letter

Seven brides for seven brothers

Lincoln

City Slickers

Stand by me

National Treasure

Ferris Bueller's Day Off   Collecting My Thoughts: Three out of four (movies) isn't too bad

Best Years of our Lives

Funny Face

April in Paris

Horse Whisperer

Bridge over the River Kwai

Phantom of the Opera

Milo and Otis

Six Triple eight

Tuskegee Airmen

A Man called Otto

Yentle

 

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The so-called Democratic Socialists are destroying the Democrat Party

Mamdani and fellow travelers are picking off Democrats, so why continue to call them "Democratic Socialists." They are Communists. They are anti-Semites. They hate the USA. They ruined Russia and Europe and killed millions of their own citizens. Democrats were already weakened by their abortion anti-life platform, illegal immigration and their DEI and energy failures, and I'm not sure they have any positive values. But they (Democrats) better kick them out of their party or they will lose it.

On not dining in tents

On June 17 President Trump had dinner with President Emmanuel Macron at the Palace of Versailles. Democrats probably would have preferred a tent as we do it in Washington.

Trump and Macron to dine together at Versailles after G7 summit | AP News

Dinner at Versailles, alpine air and an Iran agreement: How Trump made it through another G7 | CNN Politics

They can't help it.

Brentwood Baptist Church of Middle Tennessee

Recently I was researching a topic in Isaiah 35 and came across a sermon from The Church at Station Hill, so I looked up the pastor and church affiliation. This is an AI generated description

"Brentwood Baptist Church is a multi-site, multicultural congregation located in Middle Tennessee, with its central campus in Brentwood, TN. Founded in 1968 as a mission of Woodmont Baptist and formally organized in 1969, the church has grown significantly under the leadership of founding pastor Dr. Charles Treadway, Bill Wilson, and later Mike Glenn.

As of 2026, the church is led by Senior Pastor Dr. Jay Strother, who assumed leadership in October 2023. The church operates under a multi-campus model, serving the greater Nashville area through nine regional campuses:

Brentwood (Central Campus) – Brentwood, TN
The Church at Station Hill – Spring Hill/Thompson’s Station, TN (launched 2010)
The Church at Avenue South – Nashville, TN (launched 2014)
The Church at West Franklin – Franklin, TN (launched 2014 via merger)
The Church at Woodbine – Nashville, TN (launched 2014 via merger)
The Church at Lockeland Springs – Nashville, TN (launched 2016 via merger)
The Church at Nolensville – Nolensville, TN (launched 2018)
The Church at Harpeth Heights – Pasquo/Fairview, TN (launched 2018 via merger)
The Church at West End – Columbia, TN (launched 2023)

In addition to its regional campuses, Brentwood Baptist Church includes specialized multicultural ministries such as the Brentwood Baptist Deaf Church, the Brentwood Baptist Chinese Church, and the Brentwood Baptist Hispanic Ministry. The church’s mission is to connect people to Jesus Christ through worship, discipleship, and service, both locally and globally."

https://youtu.be/B5wyrA3OMG4?si=LrD3fgHaXiIfE3XL  Why do people want to live in Brentwood 1) schools, 2) location for work, shopping, dining, airport 3) beautiful homes and lots 4) parks, greenway trails, (real estate agent video)

When I looked a little further, I see lots of people are moving there from Seattle, LA, Chicago--probably trying to get better real estate deals and more conservative values, but the longtime residents of Tennessee should be careful--they may bring the west coast blue state gulag values with them. Shirt-tail relatives of ours from Tustin, CA, moved to TN about 2 years ago and love it, but left all the children and grandchildren back in California.  We have friends in Columbus, who would like to move there to be near their children, but say they can't afford it. 

And back to Isaiah 35, the part I was identifying with was the feeble hands and weak knees. 

Alleged drone attack at UFC event

I've read a few reports of the recent "alleged" drones with bombs attack on the crowds in DC and the WH. I conclude you can't get a piece of dental floss between those wackos and the so-called Democratic Socialists now being supported by the Democrat Party running for office in major gulag-blue cities.

There are a few differences. 1) No Republican supports them. 2) The far-right extremists seem to know more about biology and have more respect for the unborn. 3) The Communists/aka Democratic Socialists are much wealthier and better funded. and are supported by many well-known Democrats like Bernie, the Squad, Ro Khanna, and Kamala Harris.

 
Both groups decry capitalism, oligarchs, police, ICE and the current war with Iran because it doesn't benefit their goals for chaos and their lies.

 
Both groups hate Jews, Israel, and Trump. Tread softly if you are a Democrat. You are losing your party, your values and your minds.

 
If you can obtain a history book published before 1980, you'll see that USSR and Nazi Germany were cooperating (also included Islamists) to take over the world, then they began attacking each other. The USSR/Communists were far more lethal and killed millions more than the Nazis. Particularly Christians. They are now coming in the back door to achieve what they didn't in the 1940s. History hasn't been taught in our schools for about 40 years, so that's several generations of impaired high school and college graduates.

Repression and executions under communist dictatorships – History of Communism

The plot to disrupt the UFC event

So, what are we to make of this? Will the Democrats cheer? They defend the leftists when they try to kill Trump, but if this had been successful many Democrats also would have been killed. Also, the perps appear to be far right wing nuts, evil to the core. Takes over that space of the far left success rate at being anarchists with the chatter about oligarchs and billionaires ruining our democracy. Has the far right been co-opted by the far left? Is Hollywood bankrolling them, too?

https://abcnews.com/US/fbi-disrupts-plot-targeting-ufc-event-sources/story?

Office of Public Affairs | Five Men Arrested and Charged in Plot to Attack and Kill Government Officials and Others Attending the Ultimate Fighting Championship at White House | United States Department of Justice

FBI foils plot to attack White House during UFC event

Rt. 66 playing cards--or why old people have memory problems

This morning I noticed something colorful on the kitchen shelf--in the cookie jar, which is not used for cookies but which I keep as a souvenir of my childhood. It was a pack of Route 66 playing cards which I must have bought at Phippen Museum near Prescott, Arizona, where Bob's brother Rick lives. 2026 is the 100th anniversary of that road on which millions have travelled. Including me in 1945. I suppose I should open it; the art looks memorable.

We need our daughter to help us keep track of our present and our future, the odds and ends of directions, cords that don't seem to match any appliance or computer, the stacks of bills, the confusing schedules of exercise classes, meetings on Zoom, Bible studies, social gatherings and medications. One of the reasons I struggle to remember is because there's just too much disconnected "stuff" up there crowding out what I need today, like travelling the old Lincoln Highway westward and the newer Rt. 66 going east, 15 states, from the backseat of a 1939 Ford during WWII.

Romans 3:9-20--a good confession

While Romans 3:9–20 is not a standalone hymn, it is a foundational text in Christian worship. It is read in liturgies, preached upon, and often followed by hymns that echo its message. Its frequent appearance in hymn collections and liturgical programs shows its enduring role in expressing the reality of human sin and the need for God’s grace. Bible Hub

"What shall we conclude then? Do we have any advantage? Not at all! For we have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under the power of sin. As it is written:

“There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God. Psalm 14:3 and Psalm 53:3

All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.” Psalms 14:3 and 53:3

“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” Psalm 5:9 and 140:3

“The poison of vipers is on their lips.” Psalm 140:3

“Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.” Psalm 10:7

“Their feet are swift to shed blood; ruin and misery mark their ways, and the way of peace they do not know.” Isaiah 59:7–8

“There is no fear of God before their eyes.” Psalm 36:1

Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.

Therefore, no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.