Movies for the Day, Thursday, August 17, 2017

Today's movies take us to the 1890s, the early American frontier, and face-to-face with a robot.

She Done Him Wrong (1933) is a Gay '90s spoof (1890s) starring
Mae West and Cary Grant.  West recreates her stage
role of Diamond Lil.  This comedy features an
American Film Institute Quote, "Why don't you come up
sometime and see me?"  The movie is on the National
Film Registry.  West was born August 17, 1893.





She Done Him Wrong








Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier (1955)
is from the Disney television episodes
featuring frontier adventurer Davy Crockett,
who was a 1950s sensation.  Crockett was born
August 17, 1789.






Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier

The Iron Giant (1999) is an animated science
fiction movie about a robot from
outer space and a boy.  This children's movie
is from The Iron Man by famed poet and author
Ted Hughes, born August 17, 1930.





The Iron Giant