Love Letters to Old Hollywood

Maybe this is just indicative of my grasp on time, but I could have sworn today would be my fourth anniversary of starting this blog. Instead, it's my third and I'm pretty proud of the work I've done so far; hopefully you readers agree. For the most part, though, I feel like I haven't even begun to do everything I want to do with this blog -- I have tons of movies to still cover, which is probably endless, but I have an idea for a series that will look at more recent films. Don't get me wrong: I'm all about the classics. But I enjoy some modern movies as well, and the series would likely just be looking at one film every few months. We'll see how it goes. I started a Forgotten Classic series back in my first year of blogging and it fizzled out after about three films. In addition to the new series, I think I'm going to finally host my own blogathon. I'm not sure when, but my goal is to do it before my next anniversary. I have at least two idea

Doris Day had a lot of terrific film partners in her career: Gordon MacRae, James Garner, Howard Keel, James Cagney, Jack Lemmon, David Niven, Clark Gable (look out for my review of that film in a few weeks!), and of course, the greatest of them all, Rock Hudson. Now, that list isn't totally comprehensible -- I left a few names out -- but you get the gist: Doris got to act with some incredible talent, and she always worked on their high level. That's why her teaming with Frank Sinatra is so unique. You have two of the 20th century's greatest artists working together and in my opinion, they match each other every step of the way. They have different styles and admittedly different personas, but you can't tell me that both of them weren't trying their damnedest to make the film work. Is Young at Heart perfect? Goodness, no. Is it an admirable melodrama saved by the presence of its superb cast? Definitely. I recognize that not a lot of people will agree with me