First of all I received the book "Bette Davis: Larger than Life" by Richard Schickel & George Perry. This is a beautiful large hard cover book published my Running Press, who also published the books "Lana: The Memories, the Myths, the Movies" and "Lucy at the Movies". I wrote a post on these books a few months ago, you can read it here. I LOVE these books!!! They are perfect books as far as I'm concerned. All of them have many glorious black and white, and color pictures.
Second, I got the DVD set "TCM Spotlight: Esther Williams, Vol. 2". I bought the first Esther Williams set a while back and enjoy each of those films, so I just had to get the second one right!?! I have not seen any of the films in this collection as of yet, but plan to start any day now.
Finally, I got "The Claudette Colbert Collection". I posted of this set a while back, you can read that here. Claudette Colbert is one of my favorite actresses, and I was so excited when I first learned of this box set. I have already watched two of these films since Christmas.
Did any of you receive any classic movie related gifts? If so leave a comment, I would love to hear of them!
Very nice gifts Mary. I did receive a classic movie gift from my wife. She bought me the hardcover book You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story. It's a huge coffee table book which I haven't started to read yet.
ReplyDeleteAwesome gifts! I got the North By Northwest 50th anniversary DVD. Also, I have the Esther williams volume 2, and have watched 3 movies so far out of the 6. "Thrill of a Romance" with Van Johnson is my favorite so far!!
ReplyDeleteReally super great gifts!
ReplyDeleteI got a red flask with the inscription "Here's looking at you, kid." on it from my boyfriend ;)
monty-
ReplyDeleteOoh! I really would love to have that book too! Someday.. I wasn't able to buy it back when you told me of the sale on Amazon.
Motion Picture Gems-
I still don't own North By Northwest, this 50th anniversary one is probably awesome! I can't wait to start my Esther Williams movies!
Lolita-
Wow! Did he get in inscribed or did he find it somewhere?
Congratulations on your lovely gifts! I received the Bette Davis book as well. It's beautiful! I'm glad to have it on my shelf next to the similar Lana Turner book.
ReplyDeleteI bought the Colbert set on sale a couple months ago and have been loving it -- enjoy! Hard to beat Esther Williams, too. I love the dancing of Cyd Charisse and Ricardo Montalban in FIESTA.
Best wishes,
Laura