Here's some milking cow trivia. Donna Reed grew up on a farm in Iowa. While filming It's a Wonderful Life, Lionel Barrymore who played Mr Potter didn't believe she could milk a cow they bet a decent amount of money then. She milked it and took the money and ran.
Now I've watched this twice today, once on Patreon and now here. And once again when you comment in that shot of Stanwyck looking sad that she's never before felt this kind of love and compassion from a family put a lump in my throat big time because Stanwyck delivers it completely without saying a word. She makes me feel like melted butter sometimes.
One of my favorite films is Meet John Doe starring Stanwyck and Gary Cooper. It was directed by Frank Capra. Barbara Stanwyck also starred in one of the great tear jerkers, Stella Dallas. She starred with Henry Fonda in Lady Eve. One of my favorites is Ball of Fire with Gary Cooper where she sings and dances to a jazz number called drum boogie. The truth is that I have loved everything she ever did all the way to her end of career performance in the Thorn Bird(1983). She is just wonderful.
Meet John Doe totally holds up today! It covers topics of homelessness, depression, & media/political manipulation. It would be so helpful if people today could understand the themes of this movie. It’s a perfect New Years movie. Christmas in Connecticut is also a favorite of mine.
Barbara Stanwyck was one of the queens of old Hollywood. She was especially good in tear jerkers and comedies. Lots of good films. My favorite is "The Lady Eve", and I'm sure you'll watch it eventually.
I'm glad someone on YT is helping bring attention to this often-overlooked holiday gem. A bit of screwball comedy combined with social commentary in Preston Sturges' screenplay. I often suggest this to people looking for something different from the old standards or the newer, sometimes dumber Christmas movies.
One of the movies i watch every year! I love so much and it's a lesser known movie that should be very well known and i'm so happy that you loved. I hope to see more Preston Sturges movies, they are great. I can't wait for more of this month movies. I'm so excited for The Shop Around the Corner, it's great too. My brother is a grumpy guy but it's one of his favorite movies. Love it.
Such a great movie. I just watched it last week. I've seen it so much I can recite it by heart. Preston Sturges was a genius and Mitchell Leisen is so underrated. He's done some of the most amazing movies.
I am a great admirer of Barbara Stanwyck and made it a point to watch all of her movies. When I saw this film for the first time, I fell in love with it. Stanwyck and MacMurray are great together. This is a classic holiday gem that I watch every other year. I'm glad that you have the pleasure of enjoying it too. Looking forward to your next reaction. 🎥
It’s hard to find a classic Christmas movie not everyone has seen, but I have 3 good ones depending on your star: Jimmy Stewart - The Shop Around the Corner. Directed by Ernst Lubitsch, who was Billy Wilders mentor. Frank Morgan, who played the Wizard of Oz, has a nice part. Cary Grant - The Bishops Wife Janet Leigh - this undiscovered gem is starting to become a classic, thanks to TCM. Stars Robert Mitchum, who you remember from that Marilyn Monroe River of No Return. It’s called Holiday Affair.
1. Mia, now you know why everybody honeymoon at Niagara Falls back in the golden age of Hollywood. 2. Your comment about actors interacting with animals is showcased again in Preston Sturgis’s The Lady Eve with Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda and a horse. 3. Preston Sturgis was one of the great writer directors of Hollywood and my favorite movies of his are Lady Eve, Sullivan’s Travels and The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
RECOMMEND : Another very good Xmas romance with a few similarities to this one is "I'll Be Seeing You" (1944) with Ginger Rogers, Joseph Cotten, and a teenage Shirley Temple. Bring your handkerchief and expect some surprises if you haven't seen a lot of classic films.
I never heard of this film until this holiday season on TCM. This is one the great surprises I have ever come across. What a magnificent movie. Stanwyck has never been more beautifully photographed. Beulah Bond is such a great actress. An almost perfect screenplay, with great story arcs for all the characters. This has become one of my of favorite Christmas movies, along with "Curse of the Cat People" , should be on everyone's must see list.
Fred MacMurray was also paired with Claudette Colbert in several excellent movies. My fav is probably "No Time for Love" (1943) (Stanwyck is my favorite actress.)
SUCH an Underrated Christmas Classic :) Director Mitchel Leisen was just a hair behind on continuing a reputation and theme of films like Ernst Lubitsch, giving his own "Lubitsch Touch." It's always great to see another classic pairing of Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck, when they're not murderous. ;)
I love Stanwyck & MacMurray. He did a number of movies with Claudette Colbert with whom he also had good chemistry. MacMurray started as a horn player & was picked out of a crowd scene as an extra to star in his first movie!
If you don't have your list filled a great Cary Grant Xmas 1947 movie is The Bishop's Wife, is a 1947 Samuel Goldwyn romantic comedy feature film directed by Henry Koster also starring Loretta Young, and David Niven. Before Nicolas Cage in redoing City of Angels was this movie with Cary as an angel falling for a mortal woman. Great comedy & holiday treacle warmhearted.
Another Christmas/Holiday movie worth a look is "It happened on Fifth Avenue from 1947. The movie studio had Frank Capra in mind to direct, but Capra chose to helm "It's a Wonderful Life" instead. IHFA has charming and quirky characters and story. The Skipper from Giligan's Island even has a small supporting role.
It Happened...is one of my favs. Have it DVRd along with a slue of my other favorites (thanks, TCM) that Mia has viewed or, I''m hoping she will eventually see.
Hi Mia. "Remember The Night" is one of my favourite Christmas movies. Your reaction and review was a delight...... definately a "10". "The Shop Around The Corner" is an excellent next choice (as is the musical remake, "In The Good Old Summertime with Judy Garland and Van Johnson. I also recommend another Christmas "hidden gem" , "Holiday Affair" starring Robert Mitchum and Janet Leigh
Beulah Bondi is a wonderful, rather overlooked actor, usually playing a mother In fact, she played the mother of Jimmy Stewart often enough for him to call her "mother". Here's a nice little tribute for her courtesy of TCM: czcams.com/video/qVoIbpqNflM/video.html Oh, I love "Shop Around the Corner", so excited for this one! Head's up that the head of the shop is the Wizard of Oz and there's a tiny easter egg late in the movie.
I am so glad you pulled out your archeology tools and dug up this once-rare film that was released on home-video in the last ten years... maybe the last five.
I'm not a huge fan of Christmas movies but Remember The Night is so delightful and homey. Christmas in Connecticut is running close behind. It's simply Wonderful!!
Stanwyck also had a real tough childhood, not too far removed from her character (obviously she wasn't a criminal) so she had a lot to draw from here. Her mother died in an accident when she was a toddler and her father left all the kids not long after that. She went to live with a sister but didn't have a loving childhood. As a young woman it made her very disciplined and driven to succeed. I am not the biggest fan of romantic movies but I love this one, The Lady Eve, The Shop Around the Corner - etc. Her biography by Victoria Wilson is really long but fascinating and extremely well researched. You learn a lot about the 1920s and 30s - it actually only covers her life up until around 1940 but I highly recommend it. Barbara Stanwyck Steel-True 1907-1940 by Victoria Wilson. Also - I played this one for my mom last Christmas - the scenes with the Stanwyck character and her mother rejecting her are really painful, my mom felt the same way. Such a great movie.
McMurray was the favorite of 3 or 4 women who were much bigger stars, and that's how he got to be a big star himself. He knew how to play well with others. And he was a hell of an actor. (And I LOVE Barbara Stanwyck. --- I remember when I first saw this--- it was a freaky surprise how good it was.
I'm one of the people that recommended this film, your fans won't steer you wrong. I'd never heard of it growing up but it's been gaining in stature of the years as people rediscover it. I think Stanwyck never looked better as a brunette. The best thing is it doesn't get the Hollywood ending treatment, he tries to throw the case for her but she wants to be worthy of him, be an honest woman. So she goes to jail to pay for her crime, that's how things are supposed to work. I also wish every house could be like the one he grew up in and not like hers. You're right, this is a gem of a movie, it ought to be even better well known than it is now. It's still odd though growing up knowing him as Steve Douglas on "My Three Sons" and her on "The Big Valley".
Ok, finally saw this movie. First off, MERRY CHRISTMAS, MIA!!!!! What a light in a dark world you are and have been this terrible year. THANK YOU! Thank you for all the fun hours spent on your channel, thank you for sharing this journey into the past with us, you are truly our sister and friend! As far as "Remember The Night", I have to admit, this is one of those older movies where I really have to cringe at the racial stereotype which is particularly laid on thick with Rufus the butler (who, I notice, didn't make the edit). Unfortunately, that comes with the territory in watching older movies, but man, this character is particularly badly written. Anyways, great seeing Macmurray and Stanwyck again, but this won't be on yearly rotation like "Wonderful Life", "Miracle On 34th" or Laurel & Hardy's "March Of The Wooden Soldiers", which is almost as good as "Wizard of Oz". (Next year, check that one, you'll definitely love it, really funny, really holds up!)
Merry Christmas, Tic Toc!! Yes, watching Rufus’ character was difficult. I didn’t want to comment on his character and then stir a pot that’s out of the scope of this channel, so for that reason I decided to omit the character from the CZcams edit! Other than that, I really enjoyed this movie!! And thank you for your recommendations :)
I loved Remember the Night, but my favourite Barbara Stanwyck Christmas movie is Christmas in Connecticut (1945). Another fav Christmas film is Holiday Affair (1949) with Janet Leigh and Robert Mitchum.
A rather later Christmas movie is Frank Capra's 1961 _Pocketful of Miracles._ A remake of Capra's 1933 _Lady for a Day,_ _Pocketful of Miracles_ is the more successful film. It stars Glenn Ford, Bette Davis, Hope Lange, Arthur O'Connell, Peter Falk, and the wonderful Edward Everett Horton.
Freddy Mac was the man, I'm born 1987 but I love these old movies!! I was searching for the movie and found your channel. I think I'll subscribe 3for ideas for movies to watch. Love your vibe!!
3:45 I think that is the same courtroom set used in "True Confession." 1937. With MacMurray sitting in the same chair. He played a lawyer in the movie defending his wife, Carole Lombard. Another very funny Paramount comedy.
One of the great things about classic movies is all the character actors. I love character actors. You're watching a movie and notice an actor-"Hey, I saw him in that movie." My favorites are Mantan Moreland, Willie Best, Fritz Feld and Walter Catlett.
I have never seen this movie, nor has anyone in my family! I asked my aunt, uncle and my cousin, huge movie buffs, born in the early 50s, they never even heard of it! Going to watch it now.....then will check out the reaction! So you'll have at least one more view in the coming days!
Thank you for talking about this wonderful movie. You know how people sing the praises of "It's a Wonderful Life"? (I am emphatically NOT one of them). I cant say enough good things about Remember The Night. Kudos to Georgia Caine for playing the mother from Hell.
Another Fred McMurray movie you might enjoy is The Egg and I with Claudette Colbert. This movie also introduces Ma And Pa Kettle.... who go on with a series of movies of their own.
0:46 I believe it's Lee-sin. Paramount comedies are great. Paramount was known for comedy. Two other great comedies directed by Leisen are "Midnight." 1939. Brakett/Wilder. "Easy Living." 1937. Sturges. Leisen is mostly forgotten nowadays, but he directed a lot of great movies.
On the subject of theft and hypnosis, you need to check out 1950's Whirlpool with Gene Tierney, Mel Ferrer and Richard Conte. This was new to me so thanks for doing it.
DELIGHTED, not simply that you enjoyed the movie so fully, but that you saw it to begin with. I fear it may make you a "rara avis" in the reacting biz - but one can always hope. 😎 🎄
I too was a bit disappointed with the ending. Years? Looking forward to you getting into the Archers someday; A Matter of Life and Death (my fave), Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes.
Fred MacMurray is so handsome in this. There's a still from this movie where they're both dressed in robes and they both look so beautiful that I just can't.
I loved your reaction to this! Mitchell Leisen’s (pronounced Lie-son) first film as a director was 1934’s haunting “Death Takes a Holiday.” You may be interested in this in the future. It stars Fredric March as Death, who decides that he needs to experience life as we know it. It is far superior to it’s remake, “Meet Joe Black.”
Wow! I just found your channel and I am grateful to find someone who has done so many classic movies as you've done. Now I can watch these on my own in full length but I can see a few more in one evening by looking at reactions on CZcams. I love your insight, background research, and analysis of techniques in filming that you point out. I'm curious as to your background.
Great review. But I feel that you missed what is possibly the greatest scene... when Mr. Matuscheck invites Rudy to the restaurant for Christmas Eve dinner.
Preston Sturges is a must! Some of his work in which he directed AND wrote: The Lady Eve (with Stanwyck!) Sullivan's Travels The Palm Beach Story Also, Easy Living (1937) // He only wrote the script of this one
Sullivan's Travels is CRAZY good! :D That and "Hellzapoppin'", both from 1941, are two crazy, brilliant, wacky comedies that make excellent use of the film medium. What a year for film 1941 was. "The Devil And Daniel Webster" and "Citizen Kane", both at RKO (and both flops!). "Maltese Falcon", "How Green Was My Valley", "The Wolfman". Great year!
Preston Sturges was the highest paid screenwriter in Hollywood. Every film he wrote was a hit. Check out "The Great McGinty", its sort of sequel (and my favorite) "Miracle Of Morgan's Creek", "The Palm Beach Story", "The Lady Eve", Sullivan's Travels", etc. Also I recommend my favorite Fred MacMurray movie "No Time For Love" with Claudette Colbert.
This is my favorite Christmas film. One of my favorite Preston Sturges screenplays. Just a masterpiece. Seen it dozens of times. Check out others like The Good Fairy, Easy Living, The Power and The Glory, Twentieth Century, If I Were King, Christmas in July, The Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels, The Palm Beach Story, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek.
"a very screwbally vibe to it" It's Preston Sturgess! As long as your on the TCM movies list notice that 'Out of the Past', 'The Asphalt Jungle', 'The Big Sleep', 'Naked City' and 'Crime Wave' are there too. And a 1926 silent called 'So This Is Paris' that is a fair comedy.
Love your videos >< you have to watch "Children Of Divorce" with Gary Cooper and Clara Bow! It's the first silent movie I've watched and seriously so sad but so captivating!
One film enthusiast to another - don't ever let Preston Sturges pass you by. For some reason in all the books and documentaries I read about great films, only one Sturges film was ever lauded (Sullivan's Travels). I thought I'd seen the best films of the 30s & 40s when I suddenly discovered that virtually every film Sturges wrote or directed was a treasure - films such as Remember the Night.
Stanwyck excels so much at making holiday fare the opposite of sentimentalist twaddle, between this and Christmas in Connecticut I mean. But this one so catches you off guard in its nuance. How John speaks to Lee….for instance when he gets so insulted by the notion she’s this bad evil woman manipulating him, on both their behalf's, because he knows intuitively and demonstrably it just isn’t so. The outcome is just priceless, they both sacrifice for each other and isn’t that the Christmas spirit? I don’t blame you for the 10/10 Mia but you’re going to need a new scale because Shop is going to break it. I honestly believe it’s perfect. Your first Lubitsch if I’m not mistaken! I’m envious.
Seeing Beulah Bondi again reminds me of a wonderful film I'd love to see you review. It's called Make Way for Tomorrow. It was so good that the Japanese did a remake (which was also great) called Tokyo Story. Usually, it's the other way around with Hollywood.
James Stewart costar in the Shop Around the Corner is Margaret Sullivan who is not to be confused with Maureen O’Sullivan who was the Thin Man daughter and THE greatest Jane of all Tarzan’s James. Of course Maureen O’sullivsn shouldn’t be confuse with Maureen O’Hara who starred in The Miracle on 34th Street among other great films such as The Quiet Msn, Hunchback of Norte Dame and Hoss we Green Was My Valley.
Christmas movie with bad guys going soft for the holidays.... We're No Angels with Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, Aldo Ray.(and Adolf, his pet snake lol). Escapees from Devils Island helping out the store owners family in the store they're there to rob to finish escaping.
I love that you loved this movie. I watch it after Christmas because there are not too many films that help celebrate the New Year. If you think Barbara Stanwyck was good in this, let me recommend "Christmas in Connecticutt" that has Dennis Morgan, Reginald Gardiner, Una O'Connor (she's a hoot) and 2 stars from "Casablanca:" S.Z.Sakall and Sydney Greenstreet. I have a long list of Christmas movies that I watch everyday from the day before Thanksgiving straight through Christmas Day. I would love to share it with you. Many of them are B&W and some have been long forgotten and have been resurrected thanks to TCM and AMC. I will be looking forward to you reaction to "The Shop Around the Corner."
@@MoviesWithMia It's seem that Hollywood has ability to find women and men actors like the 1940's and 1950- early 60's. Hollywood has epically failed finding writes for scripts like they had and directors and etc.
Mitchell Liesen very underrated gay Director. By the way he also directed The Mating Season with Gene Tierney, Thelma Ritter and Miriam Hopkins, all who are brilliant. Every character has a moment of truth he addresses classism.
Loved your reaction to this movie. Please react to another Preston Sturges screenplay that he got to direct. My favorite is "Hail the Conquering Hero" starring Betty Hutton and Eddie Bracken.
Hi Mia. I'm new to the channel and wanted to suggest you see Alfred Hitchcock's best movie "Marnie". It's without a doubt a very well developed film directed by a great director. I hope you can make a video reacting to this amazing movie.
how about a movie featuring Natalie wood and Steve McQueen Natalie wood got an academy award nomination for this movie it’s called “ in love with the proper stranger “
Here's some milking cow trivia. Donna Reed grew up on a farm in Iowa. While filming It's a Wonderful Life, Lionel Barrymore who played Mr Potter didn't believe she could milk a cow they bet a decent amount of money then. She milked it and took the money and ran.
Now I've watched this twice today, once on Patreon and now here. And once again when you comment in that shot of Stanwyck looking sad that she's never before felt this kind of love and compassion from a family put a lump in my throat big time because Stanwyck delivers it completely without saying a word. She makes me feel like melted butter sometimes.
Stanwyck is arguably cinema’s greatest actress and that scene proves it.
@@randywhite3947she’s definitely one of the best, I’ve never seen such variety in a classic actess’ filmography. she was such a powerhouse in acting.
One of my favorite films is Meet John Doe starring Stanwyck and Gary Cooper. It was directed by Frank Capra. Barbara Stanwyck also starred in one of the great tear jerkers, Stella Dallas. She starred with Henry Fonda in Lady Eve. One of my favorites is Ball of Fire with Gary Cooper where she sings and dances to a jazz number called drum boogie. The truth is that I have loved everything she ever did all the way to her end of career performance in the Thorn Bird(1983). She is just wonderful.
Yes! I second Meet John Doe!!
Meet John Doe totally holds up today! It covers topics of homelessness, depression, & media/political manipulation. It would be so helpful if people today could understand the themes of this movie. It’s a perfect New Years movie.
Christmas in Connecticut is also a favorite of mine.
Barbara Stanwyck was one of the queens of old Hollywood. She was especially good in tear jerkers and comedies. Lots of good films. My favorite is "The Lady Eve", and I'm sure you'll watch it eventually.
My favorites are No Man of Her Own, which became the remake Mrs Winterborne and Ball of Fire with Gary Cooper
@@jenniferyorgan4215 Ball of Fire is certainly one of the weirdest versions of Snow White.
Sterling Holloway was the original voice of Winnie the Pooh and voiced Kaa the Snake in The Jungle Book
He's my #1 childhood favorite voice actor! 💖💖💖💖
I'm glad someone on YT is helping bring attention to this often-overlooked holiday gem. A bit of screwball comedy combined with social commentary in Preston Sturges' screenplay. I often suggest this to people looking for something different from the old standards or the newer, sometimes dumber Christmas movies.
One of the movies i watch every year! I love so much and it's a lesser known movie that should be very well known and i'm so happy that you loved. I hope to see more Preston Sturges movies, they are great. I can't wait for more of this month movies. I'm so excited for The Shop Around the Corner, it's great too. My brother is a grumpy guy but it's one of his favorite movies. Love it.
Such a great movie. I just watched it last week. I've seen it so much I can recite it by heart. Preston Sturges was a genius and Mitchell Leisen is so underrated. He's done some of the most amazing movies.
I am a great admirer of Barbara Stanwyck and made it a point to watch all of her movies. When I saw this film for the first time, I fell in love with it. Stanwyck and MacMurray are great together. This is a classic holiday gem that I watch every other year. I'm glad that you have the pleasure of enjoying it too. Looking forward to your next reaction. 🎥
It’s hard to find a classic Christmas movie not everyone has seen, but I have 3 good ones depending on your star:
Jimmy Stewart - The Shop Around the Corner. Directed by Ernst Lubitsch, who was Billy Wilders mentor. Frank Morgan, who played the Wizard of Oz, has a nice part.
Cary Grant - The Bishops Wife
Janet Leigh - this undiscovered gem is starting to become a classic, thanks to TCM. Stars Robert Mitchum, who you remember from that Marilyn Monroe River of No Return. It’s called Holiday Affair.
Another good one is It Happened On Fifth Avenue
What a great choice for a reaction.
‘The Shop Around the Corner’ is one of my favs. Can’t wait for that one.
That a good start our Christmas series
1. Mia, now you know why everybody honeymoon at Niagara Falls back in the golden age of Hollywood. 2. Your comment about actors interacting with animals is showcased again in Preston Sturgis’s The Lady Eve with Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda and a horse. 3. Preston Sturgis was one of the great writer directors of Hollywood and my favorite movies of his are Lady Eve, Sullivan’s Travels and The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
Sturges, though.
I love Elizabeth Patterson and the character she played. A great actress.
The scene when takes hew wedding dress and gives it ti Stanwyck breaks my heart every time.
RECOMMEND : Another very good Xmas romance with a few similarities to this one is "I'll Be Seeing You" (1944) with Ginger Rogers, Joseph Cotten, and a teenage Shirley Temple. Bring your handkerchief and expect some surprises if you haven't seen a lot of classic films.
Yes, it's great.
barbara stanwyck has such an amazing voice. the way she pronounces her vowels. unreal!!
I never heard of this film until this holiday season on TCM. This is one the great surprises I have ever come across. What a magnificent movie. Stanwyck has never been more beautifully photographed. Beulah Bond is such a great actress. An almost perfect screenplay, with great story arcs for all the characters. This has become one of my of favorite Christmas movies, along with "Curse of the Cat People" , should be on everyone's must see list.
Fred MacMurray was also paired with Claudette Colbert in several excellent movies. My fav is probably "No Time for Love" (1943)
(Stanwyck is my favorite actress.)
SUCH an Underrated Christmas Classic :) Director Mitchel Leisen was just a hair behind on continuing a reputation and theme of films like Ernst Lubitsch, giving his own "Lubitsch Touch." It's always great to see another classic pairing of Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck, when they're not murderous. ;)
"Desk Set" with Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy is one of my wife and I's favs around Christmas.
I love Stanwyck & MacMurray. He did a number of movies with Claudette Colbert with whom he also had good chemistry. MacMurray started as a horn player & was picked out of a crowd scene as an extra to star in his first movie!
If you don't have your list filled a great Cary Grant Xmas 1947 movie is The Bishop's Wife, is a 1947 Samuel Goldwyn romantic comedy feature film directed by Henry Koster also starring Loretta Young, and David Niven. Before Nicolas Cage in redoing City of Angels was this movie with Cary as an angel falling for a mortal woman. Great comedy & holiday treacle warmhearted.
Two of my favorite actors. It was fun watching this with you. Thank you.
Another Christmas/Holiday movie worth a look is "It happened on Fifth Avenue from 1947. The movie studio had Frank Capra in mind to direct, but Capra chose to helm "It's a Wonderful Life" instead. IHFA has charming and quirky characters and story. The Skipper from Giligan's Island even has a small supporting role.
It Happened...is one of my favs. Have it DVRd along with a slue of my other favorites (thanks, TCM) that Mia has viewed or, I''m hoping she will eventually see.
I don't think I've ever seen this one before so thanks Mia for introducing it to me.
Great little movie for right around NYE is ‘Bachelor Mother’ with Ginger Rogers and David Niven. Super funny, light and charming.
Hi Mia. "Remember The Night" is one of my favourite Christmas movies. Your reaction and review was a delight...... definately a "10".
"The Shop Around The Corner" is an excellent next choice (as is the musical remake, "In The Good Old Summertime with Judy Garland and Van Johnson. I also recommend another Christmas "hidden gem" , "Holiday Affair" starring Robert Mitchum and Janet Leigh
Beulah Bondi is a wonderful, rather overlooked actor, usually playing a mother In fact, she played the mother of Jimmy Stewart often enough for him to call her "mother". Here's a nice little tribute for her courtesy of TCM: czcams.com/video/qVoIbpqNflM/video.html
Oh, I love "Shop Around the Corner", so excited for this one! Head's up that the head of the shop is the Wizard of Oz and there's a tiny easter egg late in the movie.
I am so glad you pulled out your archeology tools and dug up this once-rare film that was released on home-video in the last ten years... maybe the last five.
I really hope you stay with the older films. It makes your channel so unique.
I'm not a huge fan of Christmas movies but Remember The Night is so delightful and homey. Christmas in Connecticut is running close behind. It's simply Wonderful!!
Love this movie! Great Christmas movie! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Guess which director has the most films in the National Film Registry? Howard Hawks, with eleven. Next comes Alfred Hitchcock with nine.
Stanwyck also had a real tough childhood, not too far removed from her character (obviously she wasn't a criminal) so she had a lot to draw from here. Her mother died in an accident when she was a toddler and her father left all the kids not long after that. She went to live with a sister but didn't have a loving childhood. As a young woman it made her very disciplined and driven to succeed. I am not the biggest fan of romantic movies but I love this one, The Lady Eve, The Shop Around the Corner - etc. Her biography by Victoria Wilson is really long but fascinating and extremely well researched. You learn a lot about the 1920s and 30s - it actually only covers her life up until around 1940 but I highly recommend it. Barbara Stanwyck Steel-True 1907-1940 by Victoria Wilson. Also - I played this one for my mom last Christmas - the scenes with the Stanwyck character and her mother rejecting her are really painful, my mom felt the same way. Such a great movie.
McMurray was the favorite of 3 or 4 women who were much bigger stars, and that's how he got to be a big star himself. He knew how to play well with others. And he was a hell of an actor. (And I LOVE Barbara Stanwyck. --- I remember when I first saw this--- it was a freaky surprise how good it was.
The Shop Around the Corner is an excellent film. I can't wait for your reaction to it.
I'm one of the people that recommended this film, your fans won't steer you wrong. I'd never heard of it growing up but it's been gaining in stature of the years as people rediscover it. I think Stanwyck never looked better as a brunette. The best thing is it doesn't get the Hollywood ending treatment, he tries to throw the case for her but she wants to be worthy of him, be an honest woman. So she goes to jail to pay for her crime, that's how things are supposed to work.
I also wish every house could be like the one he grew up in and not like hers. You're right, this is a gem of a movie, it ought to be even better well known than it is now. It's still odd though growing up knowing him as Steve Douglas on "My Three Sons" and her on "The Big Valley".
Ok, finally saw this movie. First off, MERRY CHRISTMAS, MIA!!!!! What a light in a dark world you are and have been this terrible year. THANK YOU! Thank you for all the fun hours spent on your channel, thank you for sharing this journey into the past with us, you are truly our sister and friend!
As far as "Remember The Night", I have to admit, this is one of those older movies where I really have to cringe at the racial stereotype which is particularly laid on thick with Rufus the butler (who, I notice, didn't make the edit). Unfortunately, that comes with the territory in watching older movies, but man, this character is particularly badly written. Anyways, great seeing Macmurray and Stanwyck again, but this won't be on yearly rotation like "Wonderful Life", "Miracle On 34th" or Laurel & Hardy's "March Of The Wooden Soldiers", which is almost as good as "Wizard of Oz". (Next year, check that one, you'll definitely love it, really funny, really holds up!)
Merry Christmas, Tic Toc!! Yes, watching Rufus’ character was difficult. I didn’t want to comment on his character and then stir a pot that’s out of the scope of this channel, so for that reason I decided to omit the character from the CZcams edit! Other than that, I really enjoyed this movie!! And thank you for your recommendations :)
You should watch Gaslight from 1944! It’s iconic!
Preston Sturges wrote this. He was a great writer director. He did his first shortly after this.
20 years after actually. His career as a film director was only just getting underway.
I loved Remember the Night, but my favourite Barbara Stanwyck Christmas movie is Christmas in Connecticut (1945). Another fav Christmas film is Holiday Affair (1949) with Janet Leigh and Robert Mitchum.
A rather later Christmas movie is Frank Capra's 1961 _Pocketful of Miracles._ A remake of Capra's 1933 _Lady for a Day,_ _Pocketful of Miracles_ is the more successful film. It stars Glenn Ford, Bette Davis, Hope Lange, Arthur O'Connell, Peter Falk, and the wonderful Edward Everett Horton.
Freddy Mac was the man, I'm born 1987 but I love these old movies!! I was searching for the movie and found your channel. I think I'll subscribe 3for ideas for movies to watch. Love your vibe!!
It playing live now on xm satellite radio as many times I heard it still love it
3:45 I think that is the same courtroom set used in "True Confession." 1937. With MacMurray sitting in the same chair. He played a lawyer in the movie defending his wife, Carole Lombard. Another very funny Paramount comedy.
Love Remember the Night. Can't wait for Shop Around the Corner, so good.
One of the great things about classic movies is all the character actors. I love character actors. You're watching a movie and notice an actor-"Hey, I saw him in that movie." My favorites are Mantan Moreland, Willie Best, Fritz Feld and Walter Catlett.
I have never seen this movie, nor has anyone in my family! I asked my aunt, uncle and my cousin, huge movie buffs, born in the early 50s, they never even heard of it! Going to watch it now.....then will check out the reaction! So you'll have at least one more view in the coming days!
Yay! Shop around the corner!!! So happy!!! This movie was wonderful too! I'm going to have to recommend to my family.
Thank you for talking about this wonderful movie. You know how people sing the praises of "It's a Wonderful Life"? (I am emphatically NOT one of them). I cant say enough good things about Remember The Night. Kudos to Georgia Caine for playing the mother from Hell.
I already filled out the recommendation form for 1945's Murder, He Says, but I should have mentioned it stars Fred MacMurray.
Honors Flyzis Income Beezis...
This was great. Thank you. I can't wait for The shop around the corner. One of my faves. And please don't forget to watch Mr Deeds goes to town.
Another Fred McMurray movie you might enjoy is The Egg and I with Claudette Colbert. This movie also introduces Ma And Pa Kettle.... who go on with a series of movies of their own.
0:46 I believe it's Lee-sin. Paramount comedies are great. Paramount was known for comedy. Two other great comedies directed by Leisen are "Midnight." 1939. Brakett/Wilder. "Easy Living." 1937. Sturges. Leisen is mostly forgotten nowadays, but he directed a lot of great movies.
Please do more Twilight Zone reactions. Thanks 😄
Yes!
On the subject of theft and hypnosis, you need to check out 1950's Whirlpool with Gene Tierney, Mel Ferrer and Richard Conte. This was new to me so thanks for doing it.
DELIGHTED, not simply that you enjoyed the movie so fully, but that you saw it to begin with. I fear it may make you a "rara avis" in the reacting biz - but one can always hope. 😎 🎄
I too was a bit disappointed with the ending. Years?
Looking forward to you getting into the Archers someday; A Matter of Life and Death (my fave), Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes.
Thanks!
Thank you, TheTerrryGene! I really appreciate you :)
Never seen this movie before loved the reaction can’t wait to see full film thanks happy holidays
Fred MacMurray is so handsome in this. There's a still from this movie where they're both dressed in robes and they both look so beautiful that I just can't.
I have never seen this film, but I have heard the radio version with the two stars.
Okay, just watched this. I'm ready. Let's go.
Have a great Christmas Mia Tiffany
Thank you, Aran! You too!!
I have never seen this film. What a great Christmas movie!
5:13 The butler is Fred Toones. He's got a large filmography.
I loved your reaction to this! Mitchell Leisen’s (pronounced Lie-son) first film as a director was 1934’s haunting “Death Takes a Holiday.” You may be interested in this in the future. It stars Fredric March as Death, who decides that he needs to experience life as we know it. It is far superior to it’s remake, “Meet Joe Black.”
Leisen also supervised a few movies before then, and he basically directed those. Fredric March stars with Cary Grant in The Eagle and the Hawk...
Wow! I just found your channel and I am grateful to find someone who has done so many classic movies as you've done. Now I can watch these on my own in full length but I can see a few more in one evening by looking at reactions on CZcams. I love your insight, background research, and analysis of techniques in filming that you point out. I'm curious as to your background.
Great review. But I feel that you missed what is possibly the greatest scene... when Mr. Matuscheck invites Rudy to the restaurant for Christmas Eve dinner.
I am so very happy that you enjoyed this film so much! It is one of my very favorite films.
Preston Sturges is a must! Some of his work in which he directed AND wrote:
The Lady Eve (with Stanwyck!)
Sullivan's Travels
The Palm Beach Story
Also, Easy Living (1937) // He only wrote the script of this one
Sullivan's Travels is CRAZY good! :D That and "Hellzapoppin'", both from 1941, are two crazy, brilliant, wacky comedies that make excellent use of the film medium. What a year for film 1941 was. "The Devil And Daniel Webster" and "Citizen Kane", both at RKO (and both flops!). "Maltese Falcon", "How Green Was My Valley", "The Wolfman". Great year!
Preston Sturges was the highest paid screenwriter in Hollywood. Every film he wrote was a hit. Check out "The Great McGinty", its sort of sequel (and my favorite) "Miracle Of Morgan's Creek", "The Palm Beach Story", "The Lady Eve", Sullivan's Travels", etc. Also I recommend my favorite Fred MacMurray movie "No Time For Love" with Claudette Colbert.
This is my favorite Christmas film. One of my favorite Preston Sturges screenplays. Just a masterpiece. Seen it dozens of times. Check out others like The Good Fairy, Easy Living, The Power and The Glory, Twentieth Century, If I Were King, Christmas in July, The Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels, The Palm Beach Story, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek.
"a very screwbally vibe to it" It's Preston Sturgess! As long as your on the TCM movies list notice that 'Out of the Past', 'The Asphalt Jungle', 'The Big Sleep', 'Naked City' and 'Crime Wave' are there too. And a 1926 silent called 'So This Is Paris' that is a fair comedy.
Just found your channel and love your thoughts on film. New subcriber!!❤
REMEMBER THE NIGHT (1940) 100/100%
Love your videos >< you have to watch "Children Of Divorce" with Gary Cooper and Clara Bow! It's the first silent movie I've watched and seriously so sad but so captivating!
I adore this film and these two actors. Barbara Stanwyck is my all time favorite actress and I won’t lie, I’ve got a bit of a crush on Fred MacMurray.
Rural Indiana was quite crude in 1940. No interstate highways, no central heat, city sewers and city water. A different way of life.
One film enthusiast to another - don't ever let Preston Sturges pass you by. For some reason in all the books and documentaries I read about great films, only one Sturges film was ever lauded (Sullivan's Travels). I thought I'd seen the best films of the 30s & 40s when I suddenly discovered that virtually every film Sturges wrote or directed was a treasure - films such as Remember the Night.
Stanwyck excels so much at making holiday fare the opposite of sentimentalist twaddle, between this and Christmas in Connecticut I mean. But this one so catches you off guard in its nuance. How John speaks to Lee….for instance when he gets so insulted by the notion she’s this bad evil woman manipulating him, on both their behalf's, because he knows intuitively and demonstrably it just isn’t so. The outcome is just priceless, they both sacrifice for each other and isn’t that the Christmas spirit? I don’t blame you for the 10/10 Mia but you’re going to need a new scale because Shop is going to break it. I honestly believe it’s perfect. Your first Lubitsch if I’m not mistaken! I’m envious.
Seeing Beulah Bondi again reminds me of a wonderful film I'd love to see you review. It's called Make Way for Tomorrow. It was so good that the Japanese did a remake (which was also great) called Tokyo Story. Usually, it's the other way around with Hollywood.
James Stewart costar in the Shop Around the Corner is Margaret Sullivan who is not to be confused with Maureen O’Sullivan who was the Thin Man daughter and THE greatest Jane of all Tarzan’s James. Of course Maureen O’sullivsn shouldn’t be confuse with Maureen O’Hara who starred in The Miracle on 34th Street among other great films such as The Quiet Msn, Hunchback of Norte Dame and Hoss we Green Was My Valley.
Christmas movie with bad guys going soft for the holidays....
We're No Angels with Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, Aldo Ray.(and Adolf, his pet snake lol).
Escapees from Devils Island helping out the store owners family in the store they're there to rob to finish escaping.
The Shop Around The Corner is a top five James Stewart film
Oh but it is. Really and truly.
Check out "three godfathers" with John Wayne and "we're no angels" with Humphrey bogart.
I love that you loved this movie. I watch it after Christmas because there are not too many films that help celebrate the New Year. If you think Barbara Stanwyck was good in this, let me recommend "Christmas in Connecticutt" that has Dennis Morgan, Reginald Gardiner, Una O'Connor (she's a hoot) and 2 stars from "Casablanca:" S.Z.Sakall and Sydney Greenstreet. I have a long list of Christmas movies that I watch everyday from the day before Thanksgiving straight through Christmas Day. I would love to share it with you. Many of them are B&W and some have been long forgotten and have been resurrected thanks to TCM and AMC. I will be looking forward to you reaction to "The Shop Around the Corner."
Gene Tierney is gorgeous!!
Agreed!!
@@MoviesWithMia It's seem that Hollywood has ability to find women and men actors like the 1940's and 1950- early 60's. Hollywood has epically failed finding writes for scripts like they had and directors and etc.
I had Grandma's and Aunts that were sweet like these two ladies.
Mitchell Liesen very underrated gay Director. By the way he also directed The Mating Season with Gene Tierney, Thelma Ritter and Miriam Hopkins, all who are brilliant. Every character has a moment of truth he addresses classism.
Shop Around The Corner had a remake, You've Got Mail, with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.
It was also made into a movie musical, In the Good Old Summertime, and a stage musical, She Loves Me.
Loved your reaction to this movie. Please react to another Preston Sturges screenplay that he got to direct. My favorite is "Hail the Conquering Hero" starring Betty Hutton and Eddie Bracken.
I love this movie so much! Fred & Barbara are so cute together
Good movie. Love Barbara Stanwyck & Fred MacMurray. Did you watch "Christmas in Connecticut" or "Ball of Fire" with Barbara Stanwyck yet?
You should watch 1939 Your love for mine with Fred MacMurry.
Hi Mia. I'm new to the channel and wanted to suggest you see Alfred Hitchcock's best movie "Marnie". It's without a doubt a very well developed film directed by a great director. I hope you can make a video reacting to this amazing movie.
Welcome AnaValeria!! Thank you so much for your recommendation 😁
"Ball of Fire" (1941).
Good Heavens, it's almost impossible to not fall in love with you Mia❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
What are we watching in the new year Mia Tiffany?
how about a movie featuring Natalie wood and Steve McQueen Natalie wood got an academy award nomination for this movie it’s called “ in love with the proper stranger “