Movie Review Monday #32: That Funny Feeling

I was in a vintagey mood last week, so I found an old film on Netflix - That Old Feeling. It starred Sandra Dee and Bobby Darin. Basically, she's his maid, but he's never been home while she cleans so he doesn't know what she looks like. They end up meeting in a different way, and she is embarrassed about where she lives, so she takes him back to his own apartment and claims that she lives there. Thoughts:


1. Bobby Darin has an amazing voice. Smooth and rich. Like buttah, basically. But he's not that attractive, which I was going to say was weird for the male lead of a romantic comedy, but the more I think about it, the more I think the best male leads of romantic comedies look similarly odd. At least the guys who star in some of my favorites do. Tom Hanks, with his cartoony face and goofy curly hair, Hugh Grant with his crooked smile and occasionally buggy eyes, Steve Carell who looks a little like the sloth from Ice Age. Perhaps these odd qualities make them more endearing, both to the female character and to the audience.
2. Sandra Dee is just adorable. Absolutely adorable. Obviously I already loved her because she's the original Gidget, but she is adorable in this too. I think it's her big brown eyes. Or the way she looks innocent, even in a scene where she's supposedly drunk. I do not, however, think she was still lousy with virginity at this point.

Apparently they were married in real life at the time too!

3. There were a lot of genuinely funny moments in this film, which always impresses me in older works. This came out almost 50 years ago, and I still laughed out loud at some parts. Classic.
4. Donald O'Connor was also in this. You might know him from Singing in the Rain. He has the most beautiful blue eyes, and I'm wondering if he has ever been a leading man. If not, I am also wondering why not. I get that he was good at making goofy faces, but he seemed rather handsome too. What a waste. I wonder if typecasting was more intense then than it is now. 

George Clooney is a dog compared to this fine fella.

5. This is a really boring movie review. Sorry about that. 


In conclusion, one and a half claws up, Lobsters!