Old Books and Movies

 I am doing Inklings again this month, It is a monthly prompt were you post a scene from a book or movie using the months prompt.   The prompt for March is a scene with a mirror in a book or movie.     It is hosted by Along the Brandywine. http://ladyofanorien.blogspot.com/2021/03/inklings-march-2021.html?m=0#comment-form  I decided to do a scene from one of my favorite movies, The Happiest Millionaire, with tomboy Cordy Biddle (Lesley Ann Warren) standing in front of a mirror wondering if "a boy is meant to spar with, or gaze at a star with," in the song "Valentine Candy."      

   This is a very fun movie about Irish-American police officers.  Dennis Morgan plays Tommy McCabe an arrogant nightclub singer who has a low opinion of the police force and is always making fun of them. An act of his is a song making fun of the police called "I'm an Officer of the Law."  He meets Jerry Sullivan (Gloria Dickson) at the nightclub  (and acts like a jerk), she dislikes him, but he wants her to go on a date with him, so she invites him to her home for dinner.    When he arrives at her home much to his chagrin he discoverers that her Father and cousins are on the police force, and they don't think much of him from what Jerry has told them.  Jerry asks Tommy to sing "I'm an Officer of the Law" knowing her family won't like it.  Much to her annoyance he instead sings "When Irish Eyes are Smiling" and wins them over.    Her family asks him to sing another song, and he sings "You, You Darlin;'" and Jerry starts to sof...

   This is a very suspenseful film.  Brian Aherne plays Dennis Riordan, a wanted Irish rebel leader in Dublin in 1921, who's looks are unknown to the English.  Lord Athleigh (Henry Stephenson) arrives in Dublin with his daughter Helen (Mere Oberon) to try to work out a solution for the fighting going on between the English and the Irish, and to try to capture Dennis Riordan.  They meet Riordan, when unknown to them, he saves their lives.  The rest of the movie is about Helen and Dennis falling in love. Dennis avoiding capture by by the English.  And working out a peace treaty between the Irish and the English.  My favorite scene in the movie is when Dennis Riordan and his associates arrive at the delegate's ball.  A young David Niven plays a small role in the movie as Lord Athleigh's assistant, Gerald Preston.   Beloved Enemy is a very good movie, though I think it would of been better if the romance was left out of the movie.  I w...