I just love Debbie Reynolds. I personally think she is under-appreciated – especially by people who weren’t alive when she was big. Her personality is great so pretty much everything I see her in, I like.
#10 – The Tender Trap
Grade: C+
Mommy Bear’s Opinion – I love Frank Sinatra and Debbie Reynolds in this movie. They do an excellent job. They have great chemisty on the screen and it is a cute movie.
Summary – The future is no mystery to Julie Gillis. She has her life mapped out in details that fall just shy of where the wedding portrait will hang and the number of goldfish swimming in the bowl. Julie even knows she’ll be married next March 12. She just doesn’t know to whom. But it’s a cinch he’ll have blue eyes.
#9 – Halloweentown
Grade: B-
Mommy Bear’s Opinion – This is a Disney Channel movie. I think that it is cheesy but for children they would love it. It has some scary parts since it is a Halloween movie but the older children would like this one.
Summary- On her 13th birthday, Marnie learns she’s a witch, discovers a secret portal and is transported to Halloweentown – a magical place where ghosts and ghouls, witches and werewolves live apart from the human world. But she soon finds herself battling wicked warlocks, evil curses and endless surprises.
#8 – The Mating Game
Grade: B-
Mommy Bear’s Opinion – This film is full of romance and lots of comedy. There are a lot of things that will make you laugh. Debbie Reynolds and Tony Randall do a great job on this movie and work well together.
Summary – Golden-Globe nominated and Emmy Award-winning Tony Randall (Pillow Talk, TV’s The Odd Couple) plays Lorenzo Charlton, a stuffy tax investigator sent to the farm of Pop Larkin (Paul Douglas) and Ma Larkin (Una Merkel) to find out why they haven’t been paying taxes. He discovers that the Larkins, instead of money, use a homegrown barter system. Overwhelmed by their complex economic network, Lorenzo drinks one home brew too many. Awakening from a hangover, he sees a vision of loveliness before him — the Larkin’s spunky daughter Mariette (Debbie Reynolds). Enraptured by Mariette, he decides to stick around and find a way to get the family out of their onerous tax burden.
#7 – The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Grade: B-
Mommy Bear’s Opinion – If you like musicals you might like this one. It is not the best musical but I remember liking and not being sure what exactly I liked about it just something about the overall movie.
Summary – Molly is an uneducated, poor, mountain girl who leaves her mountain cabin in search of a wealthy husband, respect and a better life.
#6 – Bundle of Joy
Grade: B-
Mommy Bear’s Opinion – I thought that this was a good story plot. Very interesting and fun to follow through out the whole movie. It is nice to watch the love for this bundle of joy grow from when she firsts finds him. The movie is quite adventurous and a wild ride while Reynolds tries to figure out where the child came from.
Summary – Kitschy musical remake of “Bachelor Mother”. Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a large department store and Eddie Fisher plays the boss’ son. After getting fired from her job, she finds an adorable baby on the steps of the foundling home and the folks inside mistake her for the mother. Fisher, well-meaning, but obtuse, tries to help her out with the baby, and the buds of romance begin to appear. Meanwhile old Merlin, the owner of the store, thinks he just might be a grandfather.
#5 – The Gazebo
Grade: B-
Mommy Bear’s Opinion – I have not seen this one and it seems a little bit odd to me but it sounds like a great thriller full of suspense.
Summary – TV writer Elliott Nash buries a blackmailer under the new gazebo in his suburban backyard. But the nervous man can’t let the body rest there.
#4 – Charlotte’s Web (old)
Grade: B
Mommy Bear’s Opinion – This movie is well done. It is a wonderful movie for children no matter what age. They did a good job trying to incorporate ways for children to learn while watching this film. It is clever and cute!
Summary – Miracles do happen! E.B.White’s timeless children’s story comes to life in this colorful animated musical. You’ll laugh and sing along as Charlotte the Spider teaches Wilbur the Pig, Templeton the Rat and the other barnyard animals lessons on friendship, trust and love.
#3 – Tammy and the Bachelor
Grade: B
Mommy Bear’s Opinion – This movie series is super cute the first one is the best. I haven’t seen it in a while but I remember it being one of my favorite movies. I really need to watch this movie again.
Summary – Meet young Tammy, a homespun Mississippi gal who, in the course of her first extraordinary adventure, teaches a sophisticated bachelor (Leslie Nielsen) about love, an uptight Southern town about fun, and a modern family about happiness.
#2 – How the West Was Won
Grade: B
Mommy Bear’s Opinion – This is a western film so if you like those this one is pretty good! You get to follow the journey of the family when they go westward. There are a lot of twists and turns throughout.
Summary – Inspired by the majesty of a vast and unsettled land, this exhilarating film follows the adventures of one determined family in their relentless drive westward. For three generations, the Prescotts take on treacherous rapids, ruthless gunfighters, barbarous pirates and even runaway locomotives in their ardent pursuit of land, gold and glory in the American west.
#1 – Singin in the Rain
Grade: A-
Mommy Bear’s Opinion – I am singing in the rain! Just singing in the rain! What an awesome classic musical. Not a surprise that this was number 1 on our blog! It is very well done and fun to watch. Everyone should see this movie! It is great!
Summary – In 1927, Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont are a famous on-screen romantic pair. Lina, however, mistakes the on-screen romance for real love. Don has worked hard to get where he is today, with his former partner Cosmo. When Don and Lisa’s latest film is transformed into a musical, Don has the perfect voice for the songs. But Lisa – well, even with the best efforts of a diction coach, they still decide to dub over her voice. Kathy Selden is brought in, an aspiring actress, and while she is working on the movie, Don falls in love with her. Will Kathy continue to “aspire”, or will she get the break she deserves ?
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Debbie is too funny. I took my grandma to see her one woman show a few years ago and we had a grea time.