Seven - minus one - days of.. ..Marilyn Monroe (4)

Almosts done with my mini series Seven - minus one - days of.. ..Marilyn Monroe..

It's Saturday.. So - we will be Swinging with a star...

I think my favourite song sung by Marilyn Monroe is 

DOWN IN THE MEADOW by  Ken Darby and Lionel Newman. 

She sings it in RIVER OF NO RETURN (1954) by Otto Preminger and Jean Negulesco ..

Hope you like it, too:

 

Thank you very much for listening!

Irene

Seven - minus one - days of.. ..Peter Sellers (5)

Say.. How come it is Saturday allready??? Really.. I am sorry.. The last days my life just seems to.. ..I even don't know how to put it - but I did have no time to write posts.. But here I am again - and on a Saturday - which means we will be Swinging with a Star.. 

and since my Seven - minus one - days of.. ..Peter Sellers series is still going on here - you can be sure he will be our swinging guest today..

- but he does not appear here on his own - no! He brought with him Sophia Loren - and together they sing a song from their film THE MILLIONAIRES (UK 1960)..

~ this is a still from my favourite scene of the film
- when Sophia Loren  disrobes for getting an examination.. ~

Peter Sellers really had a crush on her.. But sadly it was not mutual.. I did say that I love the sad parts of his character and life best - didn't I? A love unaccomplished.. gee.. that's so my kind of love story..

The featured song today is actually a song I really love - it was one of my favourites when I was a child - and still it can make me smile.. I hope it can make you smile, too - here they are Sophia Loren and Peter Sellers singing

GOODNESS GRACIOUS ME

Thank you very much for listening!

Have a wonderful weekend - filled with the sweetest sorts of heartbeats!! 

Irene

Swinging with a star and start of Heroines - Spinsters and other strange people

Remember when I said instead of doing themed months I will do several series? Ok - here is another of those new series. This time in a little cross-over with my "old" series Swinging with a star.. This new series will feature all those persons of whom I dreamt to be like and those I could and/or can relate to.. As always nothing special  I fear - just random little posts with little declarations of love and affection.. So - here we go with a girl which I adored - well.. actually was in love with.. Or at least would have loved to be her..

When I was a child a certain TV show was rerun - it was a series in which a young girl was the heroine.. And I bet when I say "houseboat" most of you will know about whom I am talking. Yes - I gave my heart to TAMMY (1965-1966). The series was called "Tammy - das Mädchen vom Hausboot" (= Tammy - the girl from the houseboat) here.

Debbie Watson as Tammy ..

Here is the theme sung by my beloved Conny Francis

For the purists among you - here we have Debbie Reynolds singing the song for the original film TAMMY AND THE BACHELOR (1957) - the song became a huge hit.. and I was not surprised to learn that..

Back then it was usual to have special German versions of Theme songs.

Just for fun I have here the theme song also in German -  sung by Angela - and you can tell that this is a 60's version - can't you?

It was one of my alltime favourite songs.. and I still love it - no matter which version.. I love this melody.. I still get a bit of a heartache when I am listening to it..

I was determined to live on a houseboat.. Yes, that was my plan. I loved all about it - and all those animals..  And Tammy was so pretty.. And her name! Gosh.. I did love that name - and if my parents would have allowed me to have a pet - I am sure I would have named it Tammy.. (or maybe Lucius..) - but I wasn't allowed.. So I hoped to grow up soon to change my name into Tammy.. Yes.. Little fan girl was a fan down to her bones.. And little fan girl would have been happy to hear that very soon the DVD edition will finally will find it's way to my little DVD collection.. Hence the post.. And I do so hope that I still will like it.. 

Well.. that's that for now.. 

Hope you all will have a great weekend!

Yours

Irene

Swinging with a star - with Angela Cartwright

Yay, again it's the weekend!

Our star today is a little lady who presents a song which also fits perfectly into the Mirror Mirror series..

Have Miss Angela Cartwright - before she looked like this:

~ ... ~

Here she is - getting dolled up all by herself while singing I ENJOY BEING A GIRL form FLOWER DRUM SONG (1961):

Obviously you can't be too young as a woman to start doing your beauty routine..

oh - and: Please remember: One day left to leave your opinion on the poll.. 

I certainly hope you'll have a wonderful weekend!

Thank you very much for listening!

Yours very well and truly

Irene

Swinging with a star - with Danny Kaye, Nat King Cole and Harry Belafonte (twice)

Welcome to a new issue of Swinging with a Star!

The song of today is dealing with looks for this is this (and next) month's theme on this blog. To be specific: It deals with a guy declaring that he is ugly - and his sons making fun of him.

 Frankly: I was looking for the Robert Mitchum version of this song I am featuring here today.. Well, I didn't find it. But what I found is quite great too.

I like the fact that the guys singing this song appear to be extraordinary good-looking.. 

Have the great Harry Belafonte singing it twice.. with just wonderful partners! Love all my guests to day!!  - and yes: I listen to Mr. Belafonte and Mr. Cole quite a lot..

First we have Harry Belafonte with Nat King Cole:

and then with the wonderful Danny Kaye:

And I also like that all three men in these videos appear to have a real good time. 

And shaking your hips to Calypso music can't be wrong (unless your doctor says so..)

I hope you'll have a great weekend!

(Just by the way:

 you still can vote on the poll.. Thanks to the five persons who did yet!)

Thank you for listening - and swinging!

Yours very well and truly

Irene

Swinging with a Star - Julie Andrews

For this month I will deal on this blog with beauty, fashion, vanity and other related themes - what better clip from a 60's musical than Julie Andrews in the intro-scene of THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE (1967)?

Here she is - a young lady starting to be fashionable:

Thank you very much for listening!

Have a beautiful weekend!

Yours

Irene

Swinging with a star - Jack Carson

Some of you might still remember this series - it shall bring you some more or less swinging star to start your weekend with a song..

I hope you are all able to see this clip - and that it isn't blocked in your area.. 

It's my beloved Jack Carson in a film I love: 

ROMANCE ON THE HIGH SEAS (1948) - 

singing matching the topic of the month:

Run, Run, Run

(The lyrics are by Jule Styne - and the music by Sammy Cahn - it is obviously a little clip from the German dubbed version but the song is "original Carson"..)

Thank you very much for listening!

Have a lovely weekend!

Yours

Irene

Swinging with a star - Marlene Dietrich

Today we swing into the weekend with a lady - acting and dressed like no lady would in public..

It's my beloved Marlene Dietrich (yeah.. ok - we had our tough times, too) - in her break through appearance as Lola Lola in THE BLUE ANGEL (1930).

And because I am not able to embed the video - you get the link to the song THEY CALL ME NAUGHTY LOLA she is singing in this film.

I give you the German version:

ICH BIN DIE FESCHE LOLA (<- here's the link)

- just by the way: the literal translation would be "I am the jaunty Lola"..

Have a picture of the scene here:

Director Josef von Sternberg put her in front of some more chubby ladies so she would appear a bit more slender..

It was some time before she got through her "Hollywood treatment"..

I for one think she was quite cute..

Have a nice weekend - no matter how you're build and what language you're speaking!

Yours (very well and) truly

Irene

Swinging with a star - Sean Connery

Swinging into the weekend

- with Sean Connery

(here he is with Janet Munro)

- he is singing a little ditty in

DARBY O'GILL AND THE LITTLE PEOPLE (1959):

'ave a nice weekend!

Yours well and truly

Irene

Swinging with a star - Anthony Newley & wonderful ladies!

Today would have been the 80th birthday of one of my first screen crushes:

Anthony Newley (1931-1999)

~ don't know about you - but I have to smile when I look at this pic.. ~

Of course I fell for him when he appeared as Matthew in DOCTOR DOOLITTLE (1967)..

Ever since I saw him in various other films of course - but this one was the first..

Yes, I was a little girl back then..

He was so funny and such a nice guy that I simply fell head over heels for him..

~ Gosh.. I still like this Matthew... ~

Sadly I wasn't able to embed a video from that film - but there are some other clips you might like:

Here he is with lovely Shirley Bassey:

~ love the end of this.. very funny.. ~

And just for me another picture of Mr. Newley:

and another clip - with my wonderful Jo Ann Worley - love her! Gorgeous looks and soo hilarious!

Watch her dancing skills! That's exactly the kind of routine I would like to do in "my show"!! ;")

Dear children: You know her voice? It's The Wardrobe from Disney's THE BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1991)...

enjoy:

Thank you for listening!

Have a great weekend!

Irene

Swinging with a star - Kirk Douglas

And again we'll start into the weekend swinging with a star:

Today it's Kirk Douglas

singing WHALE OF A TALE in 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA (1954) based on Jules Verne's novel - just by the way there is a new version of this film announced for 2013..

but first let's listen to Mr. Douglas - who does a nice little dance, too...

Please watch out for my most adored Peter Lorre:

Thank you for listening!

Have a great weekend!

Irene

Swinging with a star - Dean Martin & Ricky Nelson (& Walter Brennan)

Saturday again - and we'll start into the the weekend swinging with some stars..

Here is one of my favourite songs from a western - one of my favourite western to be honest..:

Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson singing MY PONY, MY RIFLE AND ME in RIO BRAVO(1959)- hope you'll enjoy it as much as I do..

...and because... well... ...just because I want to: you'll get an extra benefit!

There was another song in that film - CINDY, CINDY - sung by Ricky Nelson, Dean Martin and Walter Brennan:

I love how John Wayne stands there - just enjoying the fun they had..

Hope you enjoyed it, too!

Have a marvellous weekend, my friends!

Thank you for listening!

Yours truly

Irene

Swinging with a star - Robert Mitchum

It's Saturday - let's start our weekends with some songs!

How about the singing skills of the stars?

Several film stars did some singing - and were more or less talented.

And some singers appeared in films, too..

Why not heralding our weekend with a tune?

Let's start with Robert Mitchum

(who did two albums - which yours truly Irene actually owns.. yay!)

singing THE BALLAD OF THUNDER ROAD.

He co-wrote this song which was the theme-song of his movie THUNDER ROAD (1958).

For the movie it was sung by Randy Sparks

- but let's listen to Mr. Mitchum - enjoy!: