Directed by: Vincente Minnelli Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Ella Peterson (Judy Holliday) is an answering service operator who just can’t resist stepping in to help the clients whose calls she receives. Kitty Cameos: Ella’s boss, Sue (Jean Stapleton), complains that because of Ella they […]
Category Archives: Musical
Lady and the Tramp (2019)
Directed by: Charlie Bean Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: A combination of live-action and computer animation retells the story of a pair of canines from different sides of the track. Featured Felines: It is no surprise that Disney would change the scene with the cats […]
Nine (2009)
Directed by: Rob Marshall Synopsis: Based on the Broadway musical of the same name. Noted Italian film director Guido Contini (Daniel Day Lewis) struggles to create a new film while balances various relationships, both past and present. Purr Blur: In one scene Contini is walking down a street with film star Claudia (Nicole Kidman). As […]
High, Wide and Handsome (1937)
Directed by: Rouben Mamoulian Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Medicine show singer Sally Watterson (Irene Dunne) falls for farmer Peter Cortlandt (Randolph Scott) whose future changes radically when he strikes oil on his land. Cat Cattle Call: Peter ends up in a bitter feud with […]
Cabaret (1972)
Directed by: Bob Fosse Synopsis: Cabaret entertainer Sally Bowles (Liza Minelli) befriends a British linguistics student named Brian Roberts (Michael York) who is newly arrived to pre-World War II Berlin and they share love and laughs as the world changes around them. Purr Blur: In the boarding house where Sally and Brian live there is […]
The Goldwyn Follies (1938)
Directed by: George Marshall Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: An all-star cast fills out the story of a movie producer named Oliver Merlin (Adolph Menjou) who hires a young country woman (Andrea Leeds) to act as the moral compass for his films. Cat Cattle Call: In one scene […]
Lady on a Train (1945)
Starring: Whitey Directed by: Charles David Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some major spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Nikki Collins (Deanna Durbin) is a young woman visiting New York who witnesses a murder from her train window just before reaching Grand Central Station. Her determination to solve the crime brings her […]
Gay Purr-ee (1962)
Directed by: Abe Levitow Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Set in mid-1890’s, Mewsette (voiced by Judy Garland) is an innocent farm cat who dreams of going to Paris to seek her fortune, much to the dismay of her champion mouser boyfriend Jaune-Tom (voiced by Robert Goulet). […]