The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer 1947  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Irving Reis
Cast: Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Shirley Temple, Rudy Vallee, Ray Collins, Harry Davenport, Irving Bacon, Don Beddoe, Johnny Sands, Veda Ann Borg, Lillian Randolph, Dan Tobin, Ransom M. Sherman, William Bakewell, Ian Bernard
Teenager Sharon (Shirley Temple) is so infatuated with 40-year-old playboy artist Dick Nugent (Cary Grant) that she sneaks into his apartment one night hoping to model for him. When this is discovered by Sharon's older sister, Judge Margaret Turner (Myrna Loy), she threatens Dick with jail if he does not agree to date Sharon for one week to help Sharon get over her infatuation with him. Dick agrees to take Sharon out, but as the week progresses, it is he and Margaret who discover mutual interests in each other.
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Little Men 1940  N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Cast: Kay Francis, Jack Oakie, George Bancroft, Jimmy Lydon, Ann Gillis, Carl Esmond, Richard Nichols, William Demarest, Sterling Holloway, Isabel Jewell, Casey Johnson, Francesca Santoro, Johnny Burke, Lillian Randolph, Sammy McKim
Louisa May Alcott's tale is again adapted to the screen as grown-up Jo (Kay Francis) opens a boarding school and attempts to tame a ruffian, Dan (Jimmy Lydon). Dan finally learns gentlemanly behavior–despite the influence of his crooked father, Major Burdle (George Bancroft). When Jo's school faces a bank foreclosure, the Major's cohort, Willie the Fox (Jack Oakie), turns himself in for the $5,000 reward and presents the money to Jo in order to save the school. Good comic relief from Jack Oakie.
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Magic 1978  R, 106 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Richard Attenborough
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Ann - Margret, Burgess Meredith, Ed Lauter, Jerry Houser, David Ogden Stiers, E.J. Andre, Lillian Randolph, Joe Lowry, Bob Hackman
A ventriloquist (Anthony Hopkins) is slowly taken over by his dummy. When he retreats to the safety of his boyhood home, he ends up in the middle of a romantic triangle with disastrous results.
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Once in Paris... 1978 PG, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank D. Gilroy
Cast: Wayne Rogers, Gayle Hunnicutt, Jack Lenoir, Philippe March, Yul Brynner, Lillian Randolph, Robert Montgomery, Kay Kendall, Gregory Ratoff, Geoffrey Toone
An American screenwriter (Wayne Rogers) goes to Paris to work and, instead, falls in love with a beautiful British woman (Gayle Hunnicutt).
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Once Is Not Enough 1975  R, 121 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough
Director: Guy Green
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Alexis Smith, David Janssen, George Hamilton, Deborah Raffin, Melina Mercouri, Brenda Vaccaro, Gary Conway, Lillian Randolph, Renata Vanni
Superficial jet setters are all too plainly shown in this film adaptation of the popular novel. It misses the chance to have fun with the sleaziness. Brenda Vaccaro received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination.
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| 1. The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
2. Dear Brat (1951)
3. Little Men (1940)
4. Magic (1978)
5. Once in Paris... (1978)
6. Once Is Not Enough (1975)
aka: Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough
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