Pollyanna - just loved it as a child 

To Kill a Mockingbird.  It gave me a different view of life.  

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Movies made me want to dance.  THe humor and the great comedy actors were spot on and great.

Just one? Impossible.

Cabaret was freeing.

Ponette was devastating.

Gigi for fun and because love and affection win.

Au Revoir Les Enfants for balanced reality.

As I child, I remember a short black and white film titled Hand and Hand about two children, a Catholic and a Jew ….. wonderful film.  Never saw it again but I remember it to this day.

The Blob -  Steven McQueen’s first acting role but the film scared my sister and I silly.  We shared a bedroom and she insisted a light be on in our room all night for the next week or so.  Psycho was another frightening film …."don’t go down into the cellar…..yikes!" 

My Fair Lady - My date later proposed to me ….but he and I remain friends to this day.

American Graffiti -  I did not grow up in Modesto and, of course, all of the characters are fictional ….. but I knew some of those kids; the film was like a mirror into the past.

That Hamilton Woman, also Anna Karenina - Both teach women the consequences of "tossing your hat over the windmill".

There are simply dozens of movies that I have enjoyed and loved … all the Jane Austen productions, even that MGM production of Pride & Prejudice with Greer Garson;  most every mystery by the great Agatha Christie and turned into film by a movie studio or by the BBC.  However, none of these films changed my life - they simply enhanced it.

I was totally smitten by Doris Day and Hudson.

I lived in Europe still when I truly thought all bachelors had these spectacular bedrooms, dimmed lights, music. …….what a fantasy for a young girl in love with America. 

When I met my soul mate he did not let me in his apartment, he was and is a pack rat. He was afraid if I saw his place I would not marry him.

The war movies moved me so much when I was young, "Mrs Miniver" who can forget "Waterloo Bridge"? , I had grown up in a war so I was still gloomy I guess to love these dramatic scenes.

I do believe that the American movies from the 1940’s helped me in my unchanging decision that I wanted to be in America. I made that decision when I was 13. 

Then also came the musicals. "Bells are ringing" I think this was early 1960’s and I was living in Jersey!WOW!

I can choose a book that I read as a child that absolutely became my life philosophy: Homer’s Odyssey. Can’t choose a singular film. I love film so much that even took film classes at UCLA when in the writing program. Have 100 favorites at least, like: High Society, Funny Face, Sabrina, Roman Holiday, Sound of Music, My Fair Lady, The Piano, Le Chateau de ma mere, La Gloire de mon pere, Wings of Desire, Dr. Strangelove, The Russians Are Coming, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Van Gogh [Maurice Pialat], A Good Year [Ridley Scott], A Man and A Woman, Gigi, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Charade, A Room with a View, A Great Day in Harlem, Buena Vista Social Club, Che,The Shawshank Redemption, Million Dollar Baby, Chicago, most Woody Allen, Merchant Ivory, Norah Epron and Nancy Meyer films, etc. etc. etc. too many to list.