ABCs at the Movies: The Doubles Round!

[memento]

IMDB: In 1840, a young Russian aristocrat, Dimitri Sanin, is returning home after a long tour of Europe. In Germany, he falls in love with a beautiful pastry shop girl, Gemma Rosselli, who soon starts sharing his feelings. They decide to get married and, in order to finance the wedding, Dimitri goes back to Russia to sell his family estate. Unfortunately he falls prey to a seductress, Princess Maria Nikolaevna, who pretends to be willing to buy his land to come nearer him. Now Sanin is in a fix: should he choose the pure Gemma or the evil but irresistible Maria?

[oilgun]

==Comment==
I'm really stretching the theme here but I'm equating Spring Fever restlessness with the vampire's need for blood.  Plus, Scott Speedman makes me restless...

[Fran]

aka Spring

Metka Gabrijelcic played Vesna/Janja

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From Wikipedia:  Three guys, Samo, Sandi and Krištof think up a plot to get hold of maths finals test papers from their professor at secondary school through courting a girl they assume is his daughter. Not knowing her true name, they call her Vesna, after the Slavic goddess of Spring. The professor's real daughter, the attractive Janja turns up for a date with Samo and they fall in love. When Vesna/Janja finds out the original reason for Samo's interest in her, she does not want to see him again but eventually changes her mind.

[southendmd]

IMDb:  Spring comes and melts winter's icy blanket and the forest is a merry place. The birds and beavers, and the flowers and the trees awaken after their winter's slumber. But the invasion of a woodsmen brings sadness as he begins to chop down a fir tree. All the animals come to the trees rescue and prevent him from chopping it down. When he tries to blast it down with dynamite, a caterpillar calls down a rainstorm and the frustrated woodsmen departs, leaving the idyllic forest to its inhabitants.

Inspired by this old song?

[southendmd]

For its Oscar-winning song "It Might as Well Be Spring" by Rodgers and Hammerstein.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWoUoA8BlbI[/youtube]
Here's Jeanne Crain dubbed by Louanne Hogan.

[Shakesthecoffecan]

An aside regarding State Fair.

I was talking with my friend Brian last week about movies and this one was one of the ones that came up. A couple of beer were involved, but we both agreed this movie represents the last time any group of white people displayed such unabashed happiness. 

[southendmd]

Well, Truman, a whole new group of unabashedly happy white people did a remake of State Fair in 1962.  This time it was Pat Boone, Ann-Margaret and Bobby Darin!

Then there was the remake on Broadway in 1996 with more happy has-been white people.  This time it was Andrea McArdle (from Annie),  Donna McKechnie (from A Chorus Line) and John Davidson (from every game show ever made).

Forbidden Broadway spoofed this by having John Davidson's character sing "Oh, what a beautiful moron".

[Shakesthecoffecan]

Forbidden Broadway spoofed this by having John Davidson's character sing "Oh, what a beautiful moron".

Bless his heart! 

[oilgun]

[Ellemeno]

Lilacs bloom in spring. 

From IMDb: ZERO is an 0 sucking in a young deserter, a casino victim and three heroin brothers. That is a destiny, a mixture of objectives and desires of heroes. That is a lifestyle balancing on the edge - bullets, numbers and needles. 


Hunh? 



Now, what's our next round about?