It has been just over five months since my last posting here but that is because life has just been busy, sometimes great, sometimes overwhelming since January. It has been a tough year around the house as we have had to replace our washer, dishwasher, my wife’s tires, our refrigerator, and the record heavy rains this Spring in Kansas City that were threatening another Flood Of 1993 brought water into our finished basement that houses my numerous collections three times in a matter of a couple weeks. And, we’ve had central air issues.
On a good note, my employer you heard about in January Barnhart Security & Alarm of Grandview, Missouri was acquired by Watchmen Security http://www.watchmenkc.com of Raytown, Missouri in April after a process that started last Fall with a card I handed out at a networking function with the Briarcliff Business Partner Alliance being passed on to Watchmen Security Services owner Lucas Ingala. So, now Dr Stephen R Barnhart PHD and myself are employed by Watchmen Security. He is one of our two Business Development Managers and I am a Sales Executive. While it has been a good transition (that I am also writing about in a multi-part article that started this month for the Jackson County Hometown News under owner Tina Wyatt), it has been a busy one, that has us learning new technology, working with multiple sales people and a full office staff, familiarizing our customer base with their new alarm services provider, etc.
I also started in a class called The Opened Bible Academy with the Ekklesia Foundation that I am now also a Church Growth Strategies Consultant in training with. See our site at http://www.ekklesia.foundation .
Anyhooooo….As Turner Classic Movies is doing an all-day movie Marathon of Doris Day features tomorrow https://www.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/doris-day-tcm-salute-1.31065935 (Credit Christy Putnam for the “heads up” on this) to commemorate the iconic actress who passed 5/13 and whose movies are loved by so many including my favorites The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Glass Bottom Boat, Please Don’t Eat The Daisies, Lover Come Back, and Pillow Talk, I thought it was a good time to talk about a recent flik of hers that I got to see.
It was the 1954 released, Gordon Douglas directed Young At Heart. In addition to the aforementioned Doris Day, it stars Frank Sinatra (whose music I am also a great fan of) and includes his song by the same title Young At Heart as the theme song. It also stars Gig Young (who I initially mistook as Rock Hudson when I was watching it), Ethel Barrymore, Dorothy Malone, Robert Keith, Elisabeth Fraser, Alan Hale, Jr (Skipper from Gilligan’s Island), and Lonnie Chapman.
This for me was a very unusual love triangle story that at first leads you to believe that Laurie Tuttle (Doris Day) is smitten with Alex Burke (Gig Young) an up and coming musician until his friend Barney Sloan (Frank Sinatra) comes along to help compose some of Burke’s music. This is when her affections suddenly appear divided. And while Sloan (Sinatra) is kind of the “bad boy”, she seems to either be trying to reform him, or falling for him.
On her Father Gregory Tuttle‘s (Robert Keith) birthday, Alex Burke (Young) proclaims his love for Laurie and proposes to her later in the evening. This is when we really see how Barney (Sinatra) feels about her as he stops being involved with the family at this point as he is heart-broken.
Laurie later pays Barney a visit at the bar he is playing music at and he then tells her he loves her and wants to fight for her. But then Barney dismisses Laurie and tells her to go home.
On Laurie and Alex’s wedding rehearsal day, Laurie witnesses sister Amy Tuttle (Fraser) helping Alex with his tie, then breaks down crying. She is then distraught herself.
I normally go through the entire plot of the movies I feature here, but for once, I’m going to leave you at this point to watch Young At Heart yourself. But no worries, as you’ll find it posted just below.
RIP, Doris Day, we all miss you but are grateful to have had you with us for the years of your life and having all your great movies, music and your animal foundation to help you continue to live on in our hearts and minds!
And I’ll see you next time here on Losh-Man’s Hollywood Classics!
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