Monday, February 27, 2017

Movies for Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Today is the birthday of actor Zero Mostel (February 28, 1915), gangster Bugsy Siegel (1906) and Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty (1898), a World War II hero.  Today's movies celebrate each of them.



A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966) starred Zero Mostel and is a comedic musical set in ancient Rome.  It was a Broadway play first.  It won Oscars for Best Music, Scoring of Music and Adaptation or Treatment.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum












The Scarlet and the Black is a 1983 TV Movie which tells the story
of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, a Roman Catholic priest who saved
thousands of Jews in Rome in the World War II era.  It won an Emmy
for Film Sound Mixing.


The Scarlet and the Black









Bugsy (1991) is the story of Bugsy Siegel, a Las Vegas gangster.  It won Oscars for Art Direction, Set Decoration and Costume Design.

Bugsy





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