The Girl Next Door
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Movie Reviews of The Girl Next Door
Movie Review: Creepy,Haunting,Sad....BRILLIANT!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Well my Dear friends at Amazon have gave me hell for doing
a review to a classic movie of total despair! But wrong cover. In this we
have a 16 yr.old girl named Meg who is beaten torched stabbed
raped and than some all from her aunt and cousins. You really
feel for Meg and you just want to set her free and kill her
folks! This is a sad,sad,sad story of a girl who did nothing
to have such cruelty be bestowed on her. Please watch this movie
for you will look at life I believe a little different.
Thanks to my Dear friends at Amazon for telling me about this
great movie and for letting me know about the wrong DVD movie
I covered earlier..."WHEW" I'm glad I fixed that!!!
Movie Review: June Haver
Summary: 5 Stars
The Girl Next Door. It was great seeing June Haver again. This was her last picture and right after making it, she went to the convent. The movie is quite spectacular and also stars Billy Gray of Father Knows Best. It was great seeing him, too. He was quite an actor. I'm surprised that he didn't go on with his acting career. It is sad to think that June Haver is gone now. I was shocked to hear that she died in July of 2006. I had just been thinking about her the day before her death, wondering what she was doing now.Movie Review: dan dailey . how nice to see him again
Summary: 5 Stars
Dan Dailey was a fantasic artist and so accomplished - dancing, singing plus acting! Please release some more
of his films - one in particular 'The Best Things in Life are Free' with Ernest Borgnine, Gordon MacRae & Sheree North. The likes of such artists can't be found anymore!
Movie Review: LOVE THAN DAN
Summary: 5 Stars
I HAD FORGOTTEN HOW GRAT DAN DAILEY WAS. THIS WAS A VERY NICE MOVIE. GREAT PICTURE. GREAT SOUND. THE SPECIAL FEATURES WERE WORTH THE PRICE OF ADMISSION.Movie Review: "The Girl Next Door"- A delightful "lost" 20th C.Fox Musical !
Summary: 4 Stars
It's interesting, and amazing to me , that 20th has finally decided to release this musical on DVD along with "The Bloodhounds Of Broadway" (a fun, but not a particularly inventive Mitzi Gaynor musical), and the long-awaited, song filled "With A Song In My Heart". Although I've had a poor, taken-from-TV, video of this film for 20 years or so, I never thought it would ever see the light of day again.
It's always been one of my favorite "minor" 20th musicals since I first saw it as a kid in 1953, mainly because of the charming performances of June Haver, Dan Dailey and Dennis Day. I doubt that anyone even remembers it, since it sat on the shelf for almost 2 years,..and then was rushed into release only to quickly disappear.
Originally offered to Betty Grable, who turned down the script ...( one CAN picture her in the role),...it fell to Miss Haver, who with her sparkling personality...and singing and dancing talents, was far better suited for the part. Beginning shooting in 1951,...during an intricate dance number involving tables, June fell and suffered a concussion, closing down the production for some time. It wasn't finished until the following year,..when June decided to leave films and acting, ( to enter a convent for a short time.) When she returned to Hollywood in 1953, the musical was finally released.
The lanky Dan Dailey would seem an unsuitable partner to the dimunitive June, but their dances together are
the highlights of the film. He lifts and twirls her effortlessly in the exhilerating duet, "I'm Mad About The Girl Next Door", and also in a dramatic "dream" dance number.
The film has over a half-dozen tuneful songs, many of which I have the sheet music ....( and quite often play and sing) ....including two lovely ballads sung by Dennis Day to Cara Williams, "You", and "If I Love You A Mountain".
The plot, as light as a souflle, concerns a newspaper cartoonist, Dailey, who is a widower raising a young son, Billy Gray. A Broadway musical star, Haver, moves into the home next door,...and Dailey's attention to her
(which is slowly reciprocated), causes a bit of jealousy. This gives an opportunity for some clever animated sequences, in which the cast is seen as cartoons in the son's over-active imagination.
And so,...... I'm looking forward to seeing this long overlooked musical once again in all it's technicolor glory ! I'm sure it will find a whole new audience, and will be a "find" to musical fans who may have missed it the first time around. Thank you, 20th.
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