Today's movies mark Bastille Day, the beginning of World War I, and the birthday of Jackie Kennedy.
Harvest (1937) is about villagers
and peasants in France. This drama
continues our July series of movies set
in France- July 14 was Bastille Day, a
National Holiday in France. This is a
highly regarded movie.
Harvest
King & Country (1964) is an antiwar
movie set during World War I. An Army
lawyer defends an accused deserter.
World War I began July 28, 1914.
King & Country
Grey Gardens (1976) is a documentary, with
comedy and drama, about two eccentric
relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, the wife of
President Kennedy. She was born July 28, 1929.
The movie about the two women won Emmys for
Lead Actress, to Jessica Lange, for playing Edith
Bouvier Beale, Supporting Actor, to Ken Howard,
Art Direction, Prosthetic Makeup, Hairstyling, and Outstanding
Made for Television Movie. The women lived on
a Long Island estate.
Grey Gardens
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