Bells Are Ringing 1960  N/R, 127 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy / Romance
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Judy Holliday, Dean Martin, Fred Clark, Eddie Foy Jr., Jean Stapleton, Frank Gorshin, Ruth Storey, Dort Clark, Ralph Roberts, Valerie Allen, Bernard West, Steve Peck, Gerry Mulligan, Jimmy Ames, Jan Arvan
Judy Holliday recreates her Broadway role of Manhattan telephone operator Ella Peterson who works for an answering service run by her cousin, Sue (Jean Stapleton). Ella gets involved with her clients and, while on the phone with playwright Jeffrey Moss (Dean Martin), Ella falls in love with him. Problems develop because Ella will not reveal her true identity, but Moss and other clients appear together at Ella's doorstep, and all ends happily. The songs include "Just in Time" and "The Party's Over." The film received an Oscar nomination for Best Scoring of a Musical Picture.
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I Married a Monster from Outer Space 1958  N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Gene Fowler Jr.
Cast: Tom Tryon, Gloria Talbott, Peter Baldwin, Robert Ivers, Chuck Wassil, Ty Hardin, Valerie Allen, Ken Lynch, John Eldredge, Alan Dexter, James Anderson, Max "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom
The plan of aliens taking over human bodies is going well–until one young wife, Marge Farrell (Gloria Talbott) begins to suspect that something is not quite right about her husband, Bill (Tom Tryon). Her suspicions grow when she sees the same symptoms in many male neighbors.
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 Pillow Talk 1959  N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Michael Gordon
Cast: Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall, Thelma Ritter, Nick Adams, Julia Meade, Lee Patrick, Allen Jenkins, Marcel Dalio, Alex Gerry, Mary McCarty, Hayden Rorke, Valerie Allen, Jacqueline Beer, Arlen Stuart
This was the first of several Doris Day/Rock Hudson romantic comedies. In this story, Brad (Hudson) and Jan (Day) share a telephone party line, and Brad is often on the phone wooing women. He and Jan argue, but, after his old college friend Jonathan Forbes (Tony Randall) falls for Jan, Brad decides to seduce Jan over the phone. Knowing that she would never be interested in him, Brad pretends to be a Texas Rancher, "Rex Stetson." He calls Jan; however, she soon catches on to his ploy, but romance takes over, and they fall in love. Day received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress, Thelma Ritter was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Jan's hung-over maid Alma, and the film won an Oscar for Best Writing.
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Whatever Happened to Aunt Alice 1969 PG, 101 min.
Genre: Thriller
Director: Lee H. Katzin
Cast: Geraldine Page, Ruth Gordon, Rosemary Forsyth, Robert Fuller, Mildred Dunnock, Joan Huntington, Peter Brandon, Michael Barbera, Peter Bonerz, Richard Angarola, Claire Kelly, Valerie Allen
After Claire (Geraldine Page) is left penniless when her husband dies, she moves to Arizona with a plan to make money: start a pine tree garden, hire a housekeeper who has savings, kill her and bury her under a new pine tree, and take the deceased's savings. But Alice (Ruth Gordon) becomes suspicious when one of her ex-employees is missing and gets a job with Claire as a housekeeper. And the battle of wits begins. The two fine actresses, as expected, are good in their roles in this thriller/black comedy.
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| 1. Bells Are Ringing (1960)
2. I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958)
3. Pillow Talk (1959)
4. Whatever Happened to Aunt Alice (1969)
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