Guest Blogger #2: Haze's Submission

My good friend Haze (whom I like to think of as woman extraordinaire) created a post of her top 10 favorite musicals along with her favorite songs and scenes. And if anyone know's her musicals, it's Haze. Have fun with the links, a lot of them are to actual YouTube clips.

Haze's Top 10 Favorite Musicals

1) Annie (1982)
Favorite Song: We've Got Annie
Favorite Scene: Annie beats up boy in the alley after rescuing Sandy

2) Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Favorite Song: Good Morning
Favorite Scene: Kathy pops out of the cake

3) The Sound of Music (1965)
Favorite Song: Edelweiss
Favorite Scene: Maria uses the whistle to call Captain von Trapp

4) South Pacific (1958)
Favorite Song: Wash That Man Right out of my Hair
Favorite Scene: Sailors singing There’s Nothing Like a Dame

5) Oklahoma (1955)
Favorite Song: Oh What a Beautiful Mornin’
Favorite Scene: Aunt Eller dancing at the train station with the cowboys

6) White Christmas (1954)
Favorite Song: Sisters
Favorite Scene: Bob and Phil do the sister act

7) Curly Top (1935)
Favorite Song: Animal Crackers in my Soup
Favorite Scene: Elizabeth takes the pony to bed with her

8) Going My Way (1944)
Favorite Song: Swinging on a Star
Favorite Scene: Father O’Malley surprises Father Fitzgibbon

9) Easter Parade (1948)
Favorite Song: I Love a Piano
Favorite Scene: Nadine in her orange evening gown with the puppy

10) Mary Poppins (1964)
Favorite Song: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Favorite Scene: Jumping into the chalk drawings at the park

Get Your Read On

Since I work in the book industry, I feel a responsibility to talk about the wealth of great books out there on classic films. Yes! Everything from actor biographies, classic film studies to the personal film experience. Here are a few upcoming books that I would like to point out as potentially of interest to classic film fans. What better way to spend that stimulus check and buy some of these books from your local independent bookstore? The links below are all directed to a great local indie, Brookline Booksmith. Enjoy.

Ernie: The Autobiography
by Ernest Borgnine
9780806529417
Kensington/Citadel
$24.95
August 2008

Steve McQueen: A Life in Pictures
9781862058149
Anova Books
$40.00
July 2008

Choking on Marlon Brando
by Antonia Quirke
9781590200544
Overlook Press
$13.95
June 2008

Doris Day: The Untold Story of the Girl Next Door
9781905264308
Virgin Books Limited
$29.95
June 2008

True Grace: The Life and Times of an American Princess
9780312381943
St. Martin's Press
$14.95
June 2008

The Loveliest Woman in America: A Tragic Actress, Her Lost Diaries, and Her Granddaughter's Search for Home
9780060857707
William Morrow & Company
$26.95
June 2008

Carole Landis: A Most Beautiful Girl

9781604730135

University of Mississippi Press

$30.00

June 2008

(also check out the other books in the University of Mississippi Press' Hollywood Legends Series)