Well, they sure were naughty!
This movie was a little too much like today to please my old fashioned heart, but it was very good. And there were three or four excellent songs in this film.
Positively amazing how drastically the mores depicted on screen changed between the early 1960s to the mid-to-late 1960s. It's almost a different era altogether, in just two or three years. Incredible!
Sandra Dee, as always, is adorable. But my favorite in this one was Celeste Holme as her mother, who was just a great big ball of energy! I always get jazzed by that vib. It's very Leo rising.
Also of note is George Hamilton, who I first laid eyes on I think in the movie Casper Meets Wendy from 1998. He played a dashing, if sinister old man in that movie. So it was interesting seeing him as a young man here. I also saw him in the movie Love at First Bite, another Halloween style film - when he was more or less becoming middle-aged. So, again, interesting to see him more at the start of his career in a more traditional role.
On a more technical note, I must say that there is something very beautiful about the way romantic comedies of the 1960s looked. It's something about the color saturation of the film. It has a distinctly 1960s feeling to it, as opposed to 1950s or even 1970s. It's very much its own thing. And very beautiful.
Good, lighthearted fair. Recommended for fans of the romcom genre.
This movie was a little too much like today to please my old fashioned heart, but it was very good. And there were three or four excellent songs in this film.
Positively amazing how drastically the mores depicted on screen changed between the early 1960s to the mid-to-late 1960s. It's almost a different era altogether, in just two or three years. Incredible!
Sandra Dee, as always, is adorable. But my favorite in this one was Celeste Holme as her mother, who was just a great big ball of energy! I always get jazzed by that vib. It's very Leo rising.
Also of note is George Hamilton, who I first laid eyes on I think in the movie Casper Meets Wendy from 1998. He played a dashing, if sinister old man in that movie. So it was interesting seeing him as a young man here. I also saw him in the movie Love at First Bite, another Halloween style film - when he was more or less becoming middle-aged. So, again, interesting to see him more at the start of his career in a more traditional role.
On a more technical note, I must say that there is something very beautiful about the way romantic comedies of the 1960s looked. It's something about the color saturation of the film. It has a distinctly 1960s feeling to it, as opposed to 1950s or even 1970s. It's very much its own thing. And very beautiful.
Good, lighthearted fair. Recommended for fans of the romcom genre.