A MOVIE TIMELINE OF MY LIFE by Pat Frickey
For many of us, songs may trigger vivid memories and take us back in time, like a personal time machine. For me, it is movies. When the call for Currents came,“ everyday cinema and its place in our lives,” it took me no time at all to measure out my life, not in coffee spoons, nor songs, but in films.
1951— Pals of the Golden West Roy Rogers( First film I ever saw, age six, with my sister and parents, Salem, Oregon.)
Director: William Witney; Actors: Roy Rogers, Trigger, Dale Evans
1953— Shane( Film watched with my family, far from home, in Radio City Music Hall, New York City.)
Director: George Stevens; Actors: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin
1958— South Pacific( First film my dad, a World War II veteran, took his three daughters to, Salem, Oregon.)
Director: Joshua Logan; Actors: Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr
1958— The Blob( First film I saw with my giddy pre-teen girlfriends, Salem, Oregon.)
Directors: Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr., Russell S. Doughten Jr.; Actors: Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut, Earl Rowe
1960— Psycho( First movie date, and first time I, on a dare, held hands with my eighth grade“ boyfriend,” Salem, Oregon.)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock; Actors: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Janet Leigh
32 AT THE MOVIES