Just have to post this tonight. This is where I met my future husband Mr. Bill. I was nineteen and he was twenty seven. I fell in love the minute I say this guy. A year later we were married, we shared a life time of tears, fights, happiness, fights, job after job. I love you dearly Mr. Bill. we celebrate our fifty years this May twenty seven. My kids say how did you do it MOM. I say I followed Mr. Bill. Love you with much love, happiness and guess what, we go to Greece in September. Mama Mia.
This era - the fifties and early sixties was a special time and will never happen again. It had a mixture of optimism and innocence. The world had come through a major depression and war and the economy was booming but the sexual revolution had not happened.
On this day in 1961 {October 8th} Connie Francis performed "Where The Boys Are" on the CBS-TV program 'The Ed Sullivan Show'... Ten months earlier on January 16th it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; eventually it peaked at #4 and spent 15 weeks on the Top 100... The movie 'Where The Boys Are' had its world premier on December 28th, 1960... She also released the song in six other languages... The record's B-side, "No One", also charted, it reached #34 & stayed on the Top 100 for 8 weeks...
I looked this up because Bill Maher mentioned this scene; he watched it as a kid and thought the drawing a question mark in the sand was cool. He tried it with a girl but she thought he was deaf, lol.
good nite family and friends. this is the start of our generation. we were married 1967 after a year of courtship. we will be married 47 years this may. this is our story
Loved this movie and Connie singing title song! I always thought Delores Hart was so pretty and a really good actress. I have no doubt she could have had a great career if she had stayed in show business. However, I think she found a lot of peace and happiness being a Nun.
Actress of that time period really had very little talent . There was no Bette Davis or Meryl Streep in the lot. This all was a product of the studios and their view of young love before Viet Nam. No talent wonders
@@kathychinski8551 . Obviously, there aren't many actresses that are a Bette Davis or Meryl Streep. However, Delores Hart was not bad and a natural beauty!
This movie is a prime example of not only a great movie but a view of the people and time of the era. They don't make good movies like this anymore for the most part and I got tired of searching so I started going the old ones like this..........guess what, there are a ton of movies that are off the grid, and all but forgotten. I'm sick of the CGI superhero movies that are about as shallow as a birdbath.
This is one of my all time favorites. Along with another similar type of story, The Best of Everything. Another great movie with great characters in the atmosphere and feel of the time it set in which is the late 50s. The World of Henry Orient and TheTrouble with Angels, too.
1960 South Florida: In that sliver of time between frontier on the one hand and roaring high-rise traffic on the other. The movie was an advertisement for the intoxicating and still potent myth of Florida. Now, largely gone with the wind.
Caught the film today on TCM which airs it a lot. This scene is the gold standard of romantic endings period. But the real ultimate in romance was that Delores Hart was loved by a man named Don Robinson that she did love & was engaged to marry. In the middle of dress fittings she called the wedding off but he understood her decision to become a nun over becoming a wife. . But he loved no other woman ,remained single and stayed in touch visiting Mother Delores at the Abbey of Regina Laudis visiting her every year at Christmas and Easter for 47 yrs until his death.. He says so in the documentary about her "God is Bigger Than Elvis". He died the same year the documentary was made.in 2011. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 2012 and is here on RU-vid.
This is one of the best scene from the movie “Where the Boys Are”. Love Concers - in the End. And that’s the way it should be. A Good Move about Having fun - enjoying our youth - But remember Love is from the Heart
This is not a bubble gum, beach party film. The situation with Melanie, sexual assault, and the sexist attitudes of the guys are brought front and center, with strong women like Merritt and Tuggle calling them out on them. Way ahead of it's time. Yvette Mimieux as Melanie, nearly stole the whole film. Especially chilling is Jim Hutton as TV. A nasty, future cheater and abuser if there ever was one. He always had a creepy quality, and the film has very dark undertones.
Excellent observations. Alvin Toffler in his "Future Shock" (1970), quotes a New York "co-ed" who partook of Spring Break: "You're not worried about what you do or say here because, frankly, you'll never see these people again." Toffler adds "... the "Fort Lauderdale rite supplies...a transient agglomeration of people that makes possible a great diversity of temporary interpersonal relationships. And it is precisely this -- temporariness -- that increasingly characterizes human relations..." Toffler is not the only intellect who sees deeper stuff in "Boys."
@@stephenmcguire7801 what happens in Fort Lauderdale STAYS in Fort Lauderdale. Melanie will be alright thank God. And want to bet the guy who raped her will do it again to others? Entitled jerk behavior WAY ahead of its time.
Os filmes da Connie Francis são difícieis de se encontrar para comprar. "Follow The Boys - No Brasil: Nas Águas da Marujada".Filme lindo e boas canções.
The director should have put the girls in a situation where Connie Francis would perform the title song, I mean why did the go in the first place/ Because that's Where The Boys Are!
I think Delores did what she wanted to do. Delores was sooooo pretty and was a good actress, and I think she could have had a great career as an actress if she had wanted it.
To each his/her own.. what you think was a waste to her did it ever occurred to you it may not have been to her. We all find fulfillment in our ways.. just saying.
Mother Dolores is perfectly happy with her decision. It may be hard to comprehend because it deviates from "the norm," but I have a lot of respect and admiration for her for going her own way. She was gorgeous, though. Of course she's many decades older now, but to look and listen to her, you would never guess she's the same person.
