Movies for the Day, Monday, December 10, 2018

Today's movies mark the birthday of Dorothy Lamour, a Nobel Prize anniversary, and the entry of Mississippi into the Union.

Which of today's movies would you watch?

St. Louis Blues (1939) is about a Broadway
musical comedy star who seeks a new life and
finds it as a riverboat performer (incognito).
This musical comedy stars Dorothy Lamour,
born December 10, 1914.






St. Louis Blues








Volver a Empezar (1982), aka Begin the
Beguine, is about a Spanish poet of
medieval literature who receives a Nobel
Prize and returns home to Spain.  The Nobel
Prize date is linked to the death of Alfred
Nobel, who died December 10, 1896.
This movie won an Oscar for Best Foreign
Language Film.


Volver a Empezar













Once Upon a Time...When We Were Colored
(1996) is a story of the black experience in
the segregated South, in Mississippi, in the
1940s to early 1950s.  Mississippi was
admitted to the Union December 10, 1817.





Once Upon a Time...When We Were Colored