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i ended up at Wal-mart last weekend because i needed to buy a "For Sale" sign to stick out in front of my house.
while i was there, i picked up a William Powell double feature on DVD for $1 ~ it has My Man Godfrey and Life with Father. the funny thing is, i was just thinking about Life with Father recently (and for no particular reason). so it was one of those funny synchronicities that such an obscure little film would be waiting for me to own for less than the cost of a rental. but then it's being a weird, funny synchronicity sort of day (father bud told a joke at mass today that was the exact joke i told my friend last night ~ he told it better, though ~ hahahaha).
anyway, i got around to watching it tonight (the movie). i hadn't seen it since i was a kid so my recollection of it was extremely hazy, but i enjoyed the heck out of it. it's not much of a story, but it's very charming and that it's a period piece made so close to the actual period is definitely interesting. elizabeth taylor as mary was also amusing. she's young and ditzy. my favorite line is when she and the eldest son are trying to play a piano/violin duet and the son is really awful and they have just discovered that she's Methodist and he's Episcopalian and are trying to not be upset, but the music is so bad that she breaks down and starts crying. "I'm sorry," he says, "it's me!" "No," she cries, "It's all my fault. For being a Methodist." (i'm paraphrasing ~ i'm sure what she said was a lot funnier, but that was the gist).
okay, you had to be there.
that and the $15 porcelain pug from greeley's are the best things about the movie. so absurd and sweet.
William Powell and Irene Dunne
in Life with Father
~ * ~
while i was there, i picked up a William Powell double feature on DVD for $1 ~ it has My Man Godfrey and Life with Father. the funny thing is, i was just thinking about Life with Father recently (and for no particular reason). so it was one of those funny synchronicities that such an obscure little film would be waiting for me to own for less than the cost of a rental. but then it's being a weird, funny synchronicity sort of day (father bud told a joke at mass today that was the exact joke i told my friend last night ~ he told it better, though ~ hahahaha).
anyway, i got around to watching it tonight (the movie). i hadn't seen it since i was a kid so my recollection of it was extremely hazy, but i enjoyed the heck out of it. it's not much of a story, but it's very charming and that it's a period piece made so close to the actual period is definitely interesting. elizabeth taylor as mary was also amusing. she's young and ditzy. my favorite line is when she and the eldest son are trying to play a piano/violin duet and the son is really awful and they have just discovered that she's Methodist and he's Episcopalian and are trying to not be upset, but the music is so bad that she breaks down and starts crying. "I'm sorry," he says, "it's me!" "No," she cries, "It's all my fault. For being a Methodist." (i'm paraphrasing ~ i'm sure what she said was a lot funnier, but that was the gist).
okay, you had to be there.
that and the $15 porcelain pug from greeley's are the best things about the movie. so absurd and sweet.
William Powell and Irene Dunne
in Life with Father
~ * ~
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