Top 5 Feel Good Frock Flicks

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1. Princess Bride.

   1. I came here to say that!

   2. Stephen Fry of Mythos fame is also a fabulous writer! I’ve been tearing through his Mythos trilogy. Maybe with the new Gladiator and a Circe adaptation coming out, we’ll have another cycle of swords-and-sandles epics? Or spells-and-sandles, I guess, in the case of Circle. Fingers crossed.

      1. Sorry, I didn’t mean this as a reply. Also agree with Princess Bride though!

2. Anne of Green Gables & Anne of Avonlea – the original Canadian miniseries. The Road to Avonlea. Also All Creatures Great and Small (unfortunately I haven’t seen the old version, only the new one.)

3. Yep, it’s always a tie for me between “Ever After” and “Cold Comfort Farm”!

4. Gaslight, Ingrid Bergman.

   1. Ouch, I wouldn’t call Gaslight a “feel good” movie. So well done, it creeps me out.

5. Shakespeare in Love!

   1. Good choice!

6. Desk Set. I want Katherine Hepburn’s apartment, and everyone’s wardrobe, especially Joan Blondell’s
   !

7. Monty Python and the Holy Grail. “No singing!” :)

   1. I’m a terrible one for trying to pick favourites and defaulting to “They’re all my favourites” – but my first thought when considering this question was THE THREE MUSKETEERS starring Messers Reed, Chamberlain, Finlay and York which I dearly love, so that’ll do nicely.

      On the other hand …

8. When I’m down, I like watching the 95 Sense and Sensibility with Emma Thompson’s commentary. It’s a great movie and she’s so funny and interesting, describing how it was to make the film

   1. My favorite part is when she and Ang Lee talk about the fainting sheep. :)

      1. The “period” sheep! ROFL

9. The Great Race (1965). Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in a 1908 automobile race from New York to Paris, with Natalie Wood in several dozen fabulous costumes designed by Edith Head.

10. This whole post should just be pictures of Rufus Sewell in Cold Comfort Farm swoon

    1. All Creatures Great and Small is so heartwarmingl! Both series!

11. The Princess Bride and the ’95 Pride and Prejudice for me.

    Jeeves and Wooster is another good choice. As is Blackadder.

    Laurel and Hardy’s “Fra Diavolo” is very easy to take, as well.

12. I like to watch “1776” around the Fourth of July because some of the songs are fun and I enjoy the acting. Another Frock Flick favorite of mine is Jane Eyre. Yes, it is absolutely not the greatest feel good movie, but it makes me feel good when Rochester and Jane are happy.

    1. I always watch 1776 on the Fourth too! I love William Daniels

13. Hooray for seeing Cold Comfort Farm on the list. Add Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day.

14. Thanks for the post – I always welcome feel-good movies to counteract Life. And my favorite is “Enchanted April”. It has a marvelous cast, starts in cold and dreary 1920s (?) England with repressed and sad women who then find gorgeous scenery, lovely men and – most importantly – deep friendships when they travel together to Italy. And to make me laugh – “Death at a Funeral”, the English version. Guaranteed belly laughs for anyone who enjoys British humor.

15. In addition to the ‘95 P&P I love Lark Rise to Candleford and Cranford, they got me through COVID lockdowns

16. For me… The Greatest Showman, Emma (1996), The Princess Bride, The Sound of Music, P&P.

17. Katherine Hepburn and Peter O’Toole in “The Lion in Winter”, not cosy…………..in fact pretty violent, but I can join in with big chunks of the dialogue. Elizabeth Taylor’s “Cleopatra”, if only for the scene towards the end, when her gorgeous major domo has been given his last orders. He hesitates at the door and says “I have always loved you” and Cleo gently replies, “and I have always known”…………then everybody dies!!!!!
    Have you seen Rachel Maksay re-creation of the breathe dress from “Ever After”, it’s delightful

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