Wacky Wednesdays with Jenbiff

Oldies but Goodies

Don’t Bother to Knock (1952)

Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Richard Widmark, Anne Bancroft

Airplane Pilot, Jed Towers is staying at a hotel where his ex-girlfriend is a singer in the lounge. After an argument in trying to win her back, he heads up to his room for the night when he looks out the window. Across the court yard he looks out the window to another room where Nell Forbes is trying on a dress and some jewelry that belongs to the woman whose child she’s babysitting. Jed finds out which room she is in and calls her. They flirt a little until they are interrupted by Nell’s uncle. Uncle Eddie works the elevator in the hotel and is just checking in to see on how things are going. He’s upset to see her in Bunny’s mother’s things. But Nell convinces him that she’ll take it off and tells him to leave. Jed calls her back and she invites him over. They flirt more and then Bunny, who hears them talking comes out of her room. Shocked there is a child in her room, Jed tries to leave but Nell tells him the child belongs to her sister and she is just babysitting for the night. Bunny is very upset and doesn’t want to go back to bed, but Nell tells her she has to or else she will ruin everything. Just when Nell is able to be alone with Jed, Uncle Eddie comes back! Jed has had enough and wants to leave, but Nell begs him to hide in the bathroom until Uncle Eddie leaves. Will Nell be able to get rid of Uncle Eddie? What will happen between Nell and Jed? And what did she mean to Bunny when she said she could ruin everything??

Nell and Jed caught canoodling by Bunny (Photo Credit: Google Images)

Charade (1963)

Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Carey Grant, and Walter Matthau

Regina has made up her mind, when she returns from vacation with her friend she is going to divorce her husband. But when she gets back to their apartment, she finds it completely empty. After walking around the apartment to see if it really was empty Peter Joshua, a man who she met on the last day of her vacation, shows up at her door and he helps her find a place to stay. The following day Regina is contacted by a CIA agent, Hamilton Bartholomew, and told that her husband has been murdered and was asked if she knew why all he had was a small duffel filled with a few random things. Telling him she knows nothing, Bartholomew continues to tell her that her husband and four others stole $250,000 in gold from the US government during WWII. He suspects that her husband was hunted down by the other men in order to try and find the money. Which they believe her husband stole from his friends. As soon as she leaves she is approached by two of her husband’s friends. Terrified that they are going to kill her, she quickly leaves and goes back to her hotel room, where she sees another one of her husband’s friends looking through her stuff to try and find the money! Peter Joshua quickly chases the man out the window and over a couple of rooms. When he gets back inside the room, he doesn’t beat the man up; he knows all three of the men who were trying to get the money from Regina! Does Regina know where the money is? What side is Peter really on?

*Winner this month!* (It really kept me guessing the whole time!)

Audrey and Carey in the Charade movie poster (Photo Credit: Google Images)

Philadelphia Story (1940)

Starring: Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, and Carey Grant

Two years after Tracy Lord and C.K. Dexter Haven divorce, Tracy is ready to marry again. Being a Philadelphia socialite, the press is expected to be there, even though Tracy is doing her best to make sure there are none. One that slips through the cracks and are allowed to be present is Spy magazine, where her ex husband works. Dexter convinces his boss to let him; Macaulay Connor and Elizabeth Imbrie go with him to the wedding and get photographs and an interview with Tracy. Surprised and annoyed to see her ex, Tracy, her sister and her mother all agree to give them a great interview by pretending to be a perfectly happy and normal family. Unfortunately their act doesn’t last too long and the truth comes out. The night before the wedding there is a big party to celebrate and Tracy, who never drinks, and Macaulay get drunk. Is there a possibility of a last minute fling before her marriage? What is Dexter's real reason for wanting to go to his ex’s wedding?

Tracy and her fiance, ex-husband and Macaulay the reporter. (Photo Credit: Google Images)

Pillow Talk (1959)

Starring: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, and Thelma Ritter

Interior decorator Jan Morrow and composer Brad Allen share a phone line, even though they don’t live together. Jan is beyond frustrated with the fact that she can never use the line because Brad is always serenading some girl on the line. So one day she heads down to the phone company to complain before heading to work with a client named Jonathon Forbes, whose office she is redecorating. Jonathon also just so happens to be in love with Jan and tried relentlessly to convince her to marry him. After she turns him down once again, he goes to check on the progress of a new song, his song writer Brad Allen is working on. Not knowing Brad and Jan share a phone line, Jonathon complains he can’t get the most wonderful woman in the world to marry him. Brad sees this as a challenge and makes a mental note to win her over. By chance Brad sees her, but knowing how she feels about him, so he pretends to be an innocent Texan visiting New York. Will he win her over? Will she figure out who he really is? What will happen to Brad and Jonathon when he finds out what Brad is up to?

*Runner up this month*

Brad, noticing Jan for the first time (Photo Credit: Google Images)

  

What movies have you watched this month??

Quote of the Week: “Jan: Well, What am I missing?

Alma: If you have to ask, you’re missing it!”

Last Weeks Answer: Empire State of Mind by Jay-Z