Look for a real treat on Friday with the immortal classic comedy, Some Like It Hot, named the No. 1 comedy of all time by the American Film Institute. Also, for boomer nostalgia, a few fun old Disney live action movies -- Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Son of Flubber, and The Shaggy DA.
On Saturday, I'm setting the TiVo for The Thin Man, the deliciously witty detective story that sparked a series of sequels and launched Dick William Powell and Myrna Loy as a sparkling screen couple. I'll get my classic 1950s paranoid sci-fi fix with Invasion of the Body Snatchers (The original 1956 version, although I love the 1978 Donald Sutherland version just as well.
And Sunday, two utterly charming and very different love stories - Heaven Can Wait, the 1978 remake of Here Comes Mr. Jordan, with Warren Beatty as an angel; and The Shop Around the Corner, the Ernst Lubitsch comedy with a very young Jimmy Stewart (remade much later as You've Got Mail.)
Enjoy!
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Dick Powell wasn’t in The Thin Man. However, William Powell was.