Ilusões da Vida

When life throws you a curve ball, well you have heard that old expression. But when life throws you a beautiful 16mm reduction print of a Peggy Ryan picture - you buy it! Peggy Ryan was a singer and excellent dancer! Her second husband Ray McDonald became her dance partner and together they would rip it up! Oddly this 1945 Universal Picture stars Peggy Ryan but she doesn't sing or dance! But I wanted it anyway! In fact, in this little flick there is almost no music at all, even a background score is missing! That's okay too! Les Adams sums up the story very well in his summaries. I think Les has watched more old movies than anybody alive! In this picture she plays Doris Mann a secretary who likes to daydream and then write about her fantasies in her diary about the men she works with and knows. Of course it's all B. S. but when the bosses wife stumbles across it, she is horrified and files for a divorce! Thus begins spiral downward which winds poor little cute Peggy in a courtroom trying to explain that it's all just made up nonsense. She is so cute in this little B flick! You just fall in love with her! Okay it's a "chick flick" from the 1940's, but who would have known! I still enjoy projecting it on the big screen! I hope to run the film again in 2021, if I don't die from the Covid-19 vaccination! See it on film if you can, the best way to see a movie! Better than all the crap today! No tattoos, colored hair, loud music, computer effects, foul language, sex scenes, violence, dumb car chases! You get the idea! Just glorious black and white! Oh yea, no cell phones or TV sets.