The Movie From Your Childhood...

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The Movie From Your Childhood...

Posted: 7/21/06 at 10:57pm

What is that ONE movie that you watched non-stop as a child? I'm not talking pre-teen/teenage years. I mean like ages 3-8.

For most kids my age it was some Disney movie. But for me it was the original BYE BYE BIRDIE film. I was obsessed. I would watch it religiously. I owned the laser-disc lol, and watched it all the time. I was infatuated with the opening scene with Ann-Margret, I think it's because she looked so stunning, and the title song is such a great song. Great memories.

What that movie for you, that as a kid you would watch ALL the time?

#2

re: The Movie From Your Childhood...

Posted: 7/21/06 at 10:58pm

Annie Hall. I first watched it when I was five and became obsessed with Diane Keaton. Yeah, I was a weird kid.

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Posted: 7/21/06 at 11:04pm

Beauty and the Beast was my favorite movie. And it still is, I watch it at least once a week now. That and Wizard of Oz.

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Posted: 7/21/06 at 11:05pm

The Brave Little Toaster

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Posted: 7/21/06 at 11:10pm

The Land Before Time. It Takes Two. Harriet the Spy. I used to want to BE Harriet. Sad, I know.

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Posted: 7/21/06 at 11:15pm

The Wizard of Oz

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Posted: 7/21/06 at 11:16pm

THE CHIMPMUNK ADVENTURE- Whenever I'd watch it and the Chimpettes would sing the Mama song to the peguin, I would cry and run to my mom and hug her.

I loved THE LITTLE MERMAID & BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. My first movie was BEAUTY & THE BEAST and when I went I got up and walked up the aisle and my grandma goes "Where are you going?" and I replied "Excuse me, I have to dance now."

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Posted: 7/21/06 at 11:22pm

GREASE....and ANNIE. There were a couple more, I am still an obsessive movie-watcher (I watch movies over and over and over again still now) but those were memorable ones.

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Posted: 7/21/06 at 11:26pm

Beauty and the Beast and The Wizard of Oz

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Posted: 7/21/06 at 11:33pm

beauty and the beast, it takes two, harriet the spy, charlottes web, to grandmothers house we go

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Posted: 7/21/06 at 11:42pm

No one probably remembers this movie, because it wasn't one of Disney's most popular ones, but THE FOX AND THE HOUND. I used to love that movie.

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Posted: 7/21/06 at 11:56pm

THe fox and the hound was one of my favorites! I also came to know The LAdy and the Tramp by heart (movie chokes me up everytime) I used to watched Chitty chitty bang bang all the time, love that movie. Dick VAn Dike (sp?) is a legend!

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#13

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Posted: 7/21/06 at 11:58pm

Land Before Time and Fievel Goes West.

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Posted: 7/21/06 at 11:58pm

Clumsy, I did the same thing as a child. That part STILL gets to me.

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Posted: 7/22/06 at 12:07am

I was ages 3-8 from 1965-70, so we couldn't just 'pop-in' a movie whenever we wanted. As a matter of fact, I don't even remember watching TV during that time period.

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Posted: 7/22/06 at 12:13am

Sound of Music

Little Mermaid

I loved them! I also wore out all my disney sing a long tapes...but they weren't movies

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Posted: 7/22/06 at 12:24am

1-4, I watched The Little Mermaid EVERY day after school without fail.

4-8, I watched Annie obsessively. I told my pre-school teacher that I wanted to be an orphan, not realizing the connotations of saying that. My teachers promptly met iwth my parents and they said that I needed to see a shrink, which I did.

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Posted: 7/22/06 at 12:26am

DG, that's exactly right. If you grew up before the 80s, there was no opportunity to watch anything "non-stop." You watched whatever was on TV. The rest of the time you played outside or you read a book.

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Posted: 7/22/06 at 12:45am

Savannah Smiles and The Last Unicorn.

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Posted: 7/22/06 at 12:55am

When I was a kid, we didn't have VCR's but we had "Million Dollar Movie" on WOR-TV Channel 9 in NYC. They showed the same movie every single night and all day Saturday and Sunday. "King Kong" was on a lot as was "A Star is Born" (Judy Garland) and something called "The Big Circus" with Victor Mature in tights. Edit to add the recently departed Red Buttons as one of the stars of "The Big Circus".



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#21

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Posted: 7/22/06 at 1:00am

The frog prince!with sweetums!

#22

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Posted: 7/22/06 at 1:03am

Oh my!

Sweetums lay your ugly head,
down upon your wretched bed!
Close your eyes and go to sleep,
Rest, you hulking heap.
Sweetums is so sweet and cute,
Go to sleep, you stupid brute.

Wow, how do I remember that?

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#23

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Posted: 7/22/06 at 1:26am

When i was very little, it was Care Bears in Wonderland and as I got slightly older it was all the Disney movies, especially Beauty & the Beast and The Lion King. Oh, and also this other animated movie The Swan princess. i loved that movie

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#24

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Posted: 7/22/06 at 1:32am

The Little Mermaid and Singin' in the Rain. I knew at age four I was going to marry Gene Kelley. How, I do not know.

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#25

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Posted: 7/22/06 at 1:33am

Mary Poppins. Every single day, sometimes multiple times a day. I also had the soundtrack for when my parents made me turn off the TV.

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