Movies for the Day, Saturday, May 11, 2019

Today's movies mark the birthday of Martha Graham, Babysitters Day, and Minnesota Admission Day.

Which of today's movies would you watch?

Martha Graham Early Dance Films (1931-1944)
includes four short dance films added to the
National Film Registry in 2013:  Heretic (1931) (pictured),
Frontier (1936), Lamentation (1943), and
Appalachian Spring (1944).  The great dancer
was born May 11, 1894.





Martha Graham Heretic








The Baby-Sitters Club (1995) is about
junior high school girls who form a
baby-sitting business.  National Babysitters
Day is the Saturday before Mother's Day
in May (May 11, 2019).  The movies is based
on books by Ann M. Martin, born August
12, 1955.




The Baby-Sitters Club

Fargo (1996) is about a murder investigation
by police in Minnesota.  It is also comedic and
provided an American Film Institute Movie Hero,
Marge Gunderson.  This movie is on the National
Film Registry and won Oscars for Best
Screenplay and Best Actress, to Frances McDormand,
born June 23, 1957.




Fargo