Patti Page Movies
Elmer Gantry (Burt Lancaster), a drunken, dishonest street preacher allegedly patterned on Billy Sunday, wrangles a job with the travelling tent ministry conducted by Sister Sharon Falconer (Jean Simmons). Thanks to Gantry's enthusiastic hellfire-and-brimstone sermons, Sister Sharon's operation rises to fame and fortune, enough so that Sharon realizes her dream of building her own enormous tabernacle. These ambitions are put in jeopardy when a prostitute (Oscar-winning Shirley Jones), a former minister's daughter who'd been deflowered by Gantry years earlier, lures Gantry into a compromising situation and has photographs taken. It took several years for any Hollywood studio to take a chance with Sinclair Lewis' novel, and when it finally did arrive on the screen, producer/director Richard Brooks was compelled to downplay some of the more "sacrilegious" passages in the original. Also appearing in Elmer Gantry are Arthur Kennedy as an H.L. Mencken-style atheistic journalist, and Edward Andrews as George Babbitt, a character borrowed from another Sinclair Lewis novel. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, (more)
- 1961
Based on a popular comic strip, this touching children's drama centers on an adorable saucer-eyed Italian war orphan who sneaks into the U.S. by stowing away aboard a returning naval ship. He did this in part to be with the benevolent soldiers who showed him kindness on the Christmas Eve before the war ended. Once they dock in New York, poor Dondi's friends go their separate ways and he ends up lost and having several adventures alone until happiness and peace return in the form of one of the sailors. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- David Kory, David Janssen, (more)
- 1962
In this squeaky clean sex comedy (the sort that could only have been made in the early 1960s), Kathy (Kim Novak) is a sociology student preparing her doctoral thesis, "Adolescent Sexual Fantasies in the Adult Suburban Male." She poses as a call girl to gain perspective on the sexual attitudes and behaviors of contemporary men, and she is soon installed as a kept woman for four men, Fred (James Garner), George (Tony Randall), Doug (Howard Duff), and Howard (Howard Morris). Except for Fred, all the men are married and looking for some of that loose, swinging action they've been hearing about, which makes the situation a research gold mine for Kathy. But she quickly discovers that while the men can talk about sex, they're too inhibited to actually do anything about it; what they really want isn't a wild fling, but an understanding ear. Fred is the only one who makes any romantic overtures, and in time he asks for her hand in marriage. Janet Blair, Anne Jeffreys, and Patti Page plays the wives of the would-be white-collar lotharios, and Zsa Zsa Gabor plays their boss's girlfriend. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Kim Novak, James Garner, (more)
- 1983
Steve Allen hosts and performs with an assortment of pop, jazz and contemporary musicians in this video. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
Renowned vocalist Patti Page performs a number of songs, including a medley with the legendary Liberace, in this release from Passport Video. Patti Page: Singing at Her Best includes renditions of "This Is My Song," "On a Wonderful Day," "With You On My Mind," "Unchained Melody," "The First Time We Went Waltzing," and many more. ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi
- 2006
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The musical compilation release Legends of Country: Classic Hits of the '50s, '60s and '70s caters to fans of vintage country and western music who came of age in the postwar decades, with the genre in its absolute heyday. The program compiles an hour of vintage performance clips from the titular decades, many of which originally aired on television. Tracks include: Hank Locklin on "Please Help Me, I'm Fallin'," Glen Campbell on "Southern Nights" and "Rhinestone Cowboy," Patti Page on "The Tennessee Waltz," The Bellamy Brothers on "Let Your Love Flow," B.J. Thomas on "Hooked on a Feeling," Billy Swan on "I Can Help" and the inimitable Crystal Gayle on "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue." ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
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