It Started in Naples Melville Shavelson. 1960

Panoramic view Villa San Michele, Viale Axel Munthe, 34, 80071 Anacapri NA, Italy See in map

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Diana Dors-Terence de Marney "El doble del general" (On the double) 1961, de Melville Shavelson.

Houseboat (1958)

My rating: 6/10

Surprisingly nuanced depiction of grief, for a 50s rom-com - so like, not that nuanced, but An Attempt Was Made at least. Overall, it hasn't aged all that well, but it's certainly better than I expected.

Melville Shavelson (April 1, 1917 – August 8, 2007)

la sepolta viva, guido brignone 1949

the seven little foys, melville shavelson 1955

The Kid From Brooklyn (1946)

The Kid From Brooklyn by #NormanZMcLeod starring #DannyKaye, "None of it should be worth watching except for the fact that Kaye is such a skilled comedian",

NORMAN Z. MCLEOD Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBB.5 USA, 1946. The Samuel Goldwyn Company, Trinity Productions. Screenplay by Don Hartman, Melville Shavelson, from a screenplay by Grover Jones, Frank Butler, Richard Connell and a play by Lynn Root, Harry Clork. Cinematography by Gregg Toland. Produced by Samuel Goldwyn. Music by Carmen Dragon. Production Design by Stewart Chaney, Perry Ferguson.…

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LUCILLE BALL AS HELEN NORTH BEARDSLEY YOURS, MINE AND OURS (1968) Dir. Melville Shavelson

fave first watches from january 2024!

shadow of a doubt (1943) dir alfred hitchcock, houseboat (1958) dir melville shavelson, easy rider (1969) dir dennis hopper, the divorcee (1930), charade (1963) dir stanley donen, night tide (1961) dir curtis harrington, nightmare alley (1947) edmund goulding, the boy friend (1971) dir ken russell, roman holiday (1953) dir william wyler

It was a typical wedding. Enemy of the bride on the right. Enemy of the groom on the left.

YOURS, MINE AND OURS (1968, Melville Shavelson)

Sophia Loren as Cinzia Zaccardi in “Houseboat”(1958) dir. Melville Shavelson

It Started in Naples Melville Shavelson. 1960

Blue Grotto Via Grotta Azzurra, 80071 Anacapri NA, Italy See in map

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Paul Newman-Joanne Woodward "Samantha" (A new kind of love) 1963, de Melville Shavelson.

Cary Grant and Sophia Loren in Houseboat (Melville Shavelson, 1958)

Doris Day and Gordon MacRae in On Moonlight Bay (Roy Del Ruth, 1951)

Cast: Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Billy Gray, Leon Ames, Rosemary DeCamp, Jack Smith, Mary Wickes, Ellen Corby, Sig Arno, Jeffrey Stevens, Eddie Marr, Henry East. Screenplay: Jack Rose, Melville Shavelson, based on stories by Booth Tarkington. Cinematography: Ernest Haller. Art direction: Douglas Bacon. Film editing: Thomas Reilly. Music: Max Steiner.

Leon Ames must have felt right at home playing the paterfamilias of a Midwestern household in 1917 in the Warner Bros. musical On Moonlight Bay: It was the same role he had played in 1944, when he was the paterfamilias of a St. Louis household in 1904 in Vincente Minnelli's MGM musical Meet Me in St. Louis. In both films he comes under fire for making the household move, upsetting his wife (Rosemary DeCamp in the former movie, Mary Astor in the latter), his daughter (Doris Day/Judy Garland), his bratty kid (Billy Gray/Margaret O'Brien), and even the family servant (Mary Wickes/Marjorie Main). In both films, the daughter falls in love with the boy next door (Gordon MacRae/Tom Drake). There's even a big scene set at Christmas in both movies. Granted, On Moonlight Bay suffers from comparison with Meet Me in St. Louis. For one thing, the songs in the latter are better, and Garland brings a note of heartbreak to the film that Day can't quite match. But the Warners movie gets a little life from a screenplay based on the Penrod stories by Booth Tarkington, a writer not much read anymore but who inspired two classic movies, Alice Adams (George Stevens, 1935) and The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1942). The stories, about the misadventures of an 11-year-old boy, clearly inspired On Moonlight Bay's subplot about Wesley Winfield (Gray), kid brother to Marjorie Winfield (Day). Wesley is a scamp who purloins one of Marjorie's letters to her boyfriend, William Sherman (MacRae), and tries to pass it off in English class as his own composition. He torments Hubert Wakely (Jack Smith), who tries to court Marjorie, and he even manages to convince his teacher, Miss Stevens (Ellen Corby), that the reason he falls asleep in class is that his father is a drunkard who abuses his mother and sister. Much of this stuff is clumsily directed, but it's an effective enough distraction from the rather routine romance of Marjorie and William and from the tepid musical numbers, set mostly to old parlor ballads and turn-of-the-century love songs like the one that gives the film its title. Day is in sweet voice as usual, but her role in the movie and the songs she's asked to sing don't give her much to do, and she doesn't really have much chemistry with MacRae. Nevertheless, On Moonlight Bay was popular enough that it inspired a sequel, By the Light of the Silvery Moon (David Butler, 1953), that reunited most of the cast.

Thelma Ritter, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Maurice Chevalier, and Eva Gabor for Melville Shavelson’s A NEW KIND OF LOVE (1963)