Go to the Acorn television website and choose from various past productions to watch “streaming” for free on your computer. Acorn has produced many of my favourite programmes, among them Midsomer Murders, Poirot, and Cadfael. The site also offers DVD sets, pictured here.
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Acorn TV from Britain: Streaming Shows
In Elegant Film, Elegant Films, Elegant Gift, Elegant Gift Ideas, Elegant Gifts, Elegant Movie, Elegant Movies on 07/11/2011 at 5:07 amLittle Lord Fauntleroy, an Elegant Film Recommendation
In Elegant Film, Elegant Films, Elegant Movie, Elegant Movies on 07/09/2011 at 7:07 am
A Beautiful, Charming Movie that Is Ever-Relevant
I’m not giving away ANY of this magnificent plot, except that it spans two continents.
©M-J de Mesterton
Gigi: a Most Elegant, Sweet Film
In Elegant Film, Elegant Movies, Elegant Survival Film Recommendation, Gigi on 01/05/2011 at 10:13 pm |
| Gigi, a lovely movie starring Leslie Caron, Louis Jourdan, Maurice Chevalier, Hermione Gingold, Isabelle Jeans, and Jacques Bergerac |
Story by Colette
Music by Lerner and Loew
Andre Previn Orchestra
Directed by Vincente Minelli
The DVD set has a documentary about the making of Gigi, a bonus short film and a Tom & Jerry cartoon. “The Million Dollar Nickel” will make most Americans nostalgic for the good old days when communism was still recognised as an evil to be thwarted.
Hollywood actors and actresses and actors from Europe and South America exhort the public to use the 5-cent stamp to write the truth about the United States in letters abroad to their friends and family in other countries, in an effort to counteract communist propaganda and expose it as a calumnious pack of lies. The speakers include Leslie Caron, Ricardo Montalban, Pier Angeli and Zsa Zsa Gabor.
Gigi is a gorgeous movie with a happy ending.
©M-J de Mesterton
>Gigi: a Most Elegant, Sweet Film
In Elegant Film, Elegant Movies, Elegant Survival Film Recommendation, Gigi on 01/05/2011 at 10:13 pm>
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| Gigi, a lovely movie starring Leslie Caron, Louis Jourdan, Maurice Chevalier, Hermione Gingold, Isabelle Jeans, and Jacques Bergerac |
Story by Colette
Music by Lerner and Loew
Andre Previn Orchestra
Directed by Vincente Minelli
The DVD set has a documentary about the making of Gigi, a bonus short film and a Tom & Jerry cartoon. “The Million Dollar Nickel” will make most Americans nostalgic for the good old days when communism was still recognised as an evil to be thwarted.
Hollywood actors and actresses and actors from Europe and South America exhort the public to use the 5-cent stamp to write the truth about the United States in letters abroad to their friends and family in other countries, in an effort to counteract communist propaganda and expose it as a calumnious pack of lies. The speakers include Leslie Caron, Ricardo Montalban, Pier Angeli and Zsa Zsa Gabor.
Gigi is a gorgeous movie with a happy ending.
©M-J de Mesterton
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The Razor’s Edge, by W. Somerset Maugham
In Elegant Film, Elegant Movies, Gene Tierney Film, Mystical Movies, Path to Salvation, Searching Movies, The Razor's Edge, Tyrone Power Film, W. Somerset Maugham on 23/04/2011 at 8:17 am
The Razor’s Edge is a book by British author W. Somerset Maugham, which was published in 1944. Its epigraph reads, “The sharp edge of a razor is difficult to pass over; thus the wise say the path to Salvation is hard.” taken from verse in the Katha-Upanishad.
The Razor’s Edge tells the story of an American pilot traumatized by his experiences in World War I, who sets off in search of some transcendent meaning in his life. The novel is based upon the life of Guy Hague, an American mining engineer, whom Maugham met during his time in the United States and later on in Paris.
A brilliant, beautiful movie was made in 1946 by Darryl F. Zanuck from Somerset Maugham’s searching, realistic yet mystical book. The Razor’s Edge film stars Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, Clifton Webb, Ann Baxter and John Payne. Without giving away plot, I recommend this film highly as an Elegant Survival classic.
~~M-J de Mesterton 2011
>The Razor’s Edge, by W. Somerset Maugham
In Elegant Film, Elegant Movies, Gene Tierney Film, Mystical Movies, Path to Salvation, Searching Movies, The Razor's Edge, Tyrone Power Film, W. Somerset Maugham on 23/04/2011 at 8:17 am>
The Razor’s Edge is a book by British author W. Somerset Maugham, which was published in 1944. Its epigraph reads, “The sharp edge of a razor is difficult to pass over; thus the wise say the path to Salvation is hard.” taken from verse in the Katha-Upanishad.
The Razor’s Edge tells the story of an American pilot traumatized by his experiences in World War I, who sets off in search of some transcendent meaning in his life. The novel is based upon the life of Guy Hague, an American mining engineer, whom Maugham met during his time in the United States and later on in Paris.
A brilliant, beautiful movie was made in 1946 by Darryl F. Zanuck from Somerset Maugham’s searching, realistic yet mystical book. The Razor’s Edge film stars Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, Clifton Webb, Ann Baxter and John Payne. Without giving away plot, I recommend this film highly as an Elegant Survival classic.
~~M-J de Mesterton 2011
You Were Never Lovelier
In Adolphe Menjou, Best Dressed Hollywood, Elegant Movie, Elegant Movies, Fred Astaire Dance Movie, Fred Astaire Movie, Movie Recommendation, Rita Hayworth Dance, You Were Never Lovelier on 20/04/2011 at 9:19 am
Rita Hayworth, Fred Astaire, Adolphe Menjou and Xavier Cugat star in the charming 1942 romantic comedy, You Were Never Lovelier
The dancing in this movie by Rita Hayworth and Fred Astaire will knock your socks off, and the South American music by Xavier Cugat is enchanting. This classic film is available at Amazon.com.
