Old Books and Movies

 This is a pretty fun movie.  Bing Crosby stars as rich widower Harvey Howard, who decides at 51 years of age to go to college, much to the protests of his grown son and daughter.  Harvey insists on being treated like all the other freshman, including staying in a dormitory with three other college students, Gil Sparrow (Fabian), Bob Bannerman (Richard Beymer), and T. J. Padmanagham (Patrick Adiharte).  He meets the French Professor Helene Gauthier (Nicole Maurey) While trying to find items to burn for the freshman bonfire.  The rest of the movie is about the activities Harvey gets involved in.    Studying for exams. And falling in love with the French professor. Harvey sings "The Second Time Around" to her.   High Time is a lesser known Bing Crosby movie, but I thought it was pretty fun.      

   This is a very funny movie.  Stephen Arden (Ralph Bellamy) stumbles in drunk to the psychiatrist office. His friend Dr. Tony Flagg (Fred Astaire) is the psychiatrist. Stephen is upset that his girlfriend, Amanda Cooper (Ginger Rogers), keeps calling off their engagement for no reason and he wants Tony to psychoanalyze her to find out why.    Amanda overhears a recording of a conversation of Tony talking about how she will likely be another one of those dizzy silly females without a mind.   Tony changes his mind about her when he meets her, but now she's mad at him and refuses to be psychoanalyzed by him.  Fred Astaire does a great dancing golf routine in "Since They Turned 'Loch Lomond' into Swing."  Unknown to Amanda while she is out cycling with Stephen and her aunt Cora (Luella Gear); Stephen invited Tony along to try to psychoanalyze her.  After Tony crashes, when his bike chain breaks, Amanda feels sorry for him and...

   This is a very fun movie.  Ginger Rogers plays Polly Parrish, a salesgirl working for the Christmas season for the department store of John B. Merlin and Son; selling windup Donald Duck toys.  At the close of the Christmas season Polly is dismissed.  While out on her lunch break she notices an old lady leaving a baby on the doorstep of the Atkins Foundling Home. Polly is worried that the baby will roll off the steps, so she picks him up.  The matron of the Home invites Polly to come in. The Atkins Foundling Home mistakenly believe the baby to be Polly's, and they don't believe her when she tells them otherwise.  The investigator (Ernest Truex) of the Atkins Foundling Home convinces the son, David (David Niven), of John B. Merlin and Son, to hire Polly back so she can care for "her" baby.   Polly is told that her discharge notice was a mistake and that her pay is being raised. David also informs Polly that when she goes home t...