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We are getting ready to take our yearly 500 mile trek out to MI. We have a DVD player and I like to get a couple of new movies before the trip. My kids love old musicals. Some of their favorites are Fiddler on the Roof, Sound of Music, White Christmas, Holiday Inn, Meet Me in St Louis, Easter Parade, Singing in the Rain, Music Man, some Frank Sinatra ones (can't recall the names right now). We own Oklahoma!, the King and I, and South Pacific, but don't really feel those are age appropriate yet.
They love the singing and dancing and pretty dresses. Any suggestions for new ones to pick up? Thanks!
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How about The Bells of St. Mary's and Going My Way
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YES! I had recently thought of them but they had slipped my mind. These are perfect! I will definitely be getting them.
I am still open for other suggestions 
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Oh, I love musicals. Not sure if all of these are on DVD. I've been taping many on our DVR to share with the boys.
The frustrating thing with many musicals is that there will be a side storyline which just isn't appropriate. I agree with so many of Rodgers and Hammerstein, like Oklahoma or South Pacific or Carousel that I couldn't show it to the kids until they are older.
Or the costumes, with lots of cleavage. I can't guarantee that all of these will not have the latter.
Danny Kaye movies? Court Jester, Hans Christian Andersen, Inspector General
Movies with Nelson Eddy and/or Jeannette MacDonald -- black and white, but totally clean and wonderful.
Also Roy Rogers movies are also cowboy musicals.
Perhaps you could track down The Desert Song with Gordon Macrae and Kathryn Grayson. One of our absolute favorites.
Haley Mills movie Summer Magic
Bing Crosby movies: Going My Way, and Bells of St. Marys (technically musicals)
Fred Astaire: with Bing Crosby, Holiday Inn, precursor to White Christmas
And lots of Fred Astaire musicals (song and dance, so fun.
Movies with Carmen Miranda, Alice Faye, Betty Grable, and Don Ameche and others were lots of fun. That Night in Rio is one.
Also Jane Powell had some fun movies. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers would need some previewing. Her early movies as a young girl are fun.
I'm not a huge fan of Judy Garland, but some of hers are very nice and clean. Besides the ones you listed, In the Good Old Summertime is sweet.
Mario Lanza movies, like The Student Prince
Most of the time if I like a singer, then it takes me to the other musicals that they starred in.
I was looking at this list to see if anything else rang any bell.
There was a movie I thought with Debbie Reynolds that had a song "Yabba Dabba..." but I can't remember the movie.
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I like Royal Wedding a lot.
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers has a story line that you might not consider age appropriate, but the musical numbers are all favorites of mine! Awesome choreography and not "sensual". Rip-roarin' is the adjective that comes to mind.
Anchors Aweigh is another where I just love the musical numbers (there is an awesome scene with Jose Iturbi directing a virtual orchestra of young pianists in playing Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody #(2? drawing a blank). Not sure if you would find the plot appropriate, though probably not any worse than Singing in the Rain. There is also a little boy who wants to join the Navy who is awfully cute.
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Ah, that reminds me of another fun Hayley Mills musical, In Search of the Castaways. Its kind of long, so perfect for a road trip. Though, lots of adventure, so I suppose little ones might get a little scared.
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Forgot Doris Day. Her early movies are very cute:
Starlift
On Moonlight Bay
By the Light of the Silvery Moon
Tea For Two
Calamity Jane
I forgot a few other favorites, Judy Garland's The Harvey Girls
and Daddy Longlegs with Fred Astaire
High Society
and people like Gene Kelly, Eleanor Powell, Dennis Morgan, even Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart had a musical or two about famous people.
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Ah, that reminds me of another fun Hayley Mills musical, In Search of the Castaways. Its kind of long, so perfect for a road trip. Though, lots of adventure, so I suppose little ones might get a little scared. |
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I don't know this one!
We also loved the original The Parent Trap, but that requires prescreening, too.
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I just saw High Society for the first time. Probably not age appropriate.
ETA: It is hard, because I think that I saw a lot of things when I was younger, and they went over my head, but now that I get them as an adult, its SO hard to know what goes over heads and what doesn't.
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I just saw High Society for the first time. Probably not age appropriate.
ETA: It is hard, because I think that I saw a lot of things when I was younger, and they went over my head, but now that I get them as an adult, its SO hard to know what goes over heads and what doesn't. |
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Yes, I know!! I did see this younger, and so much does go over the heads. I have shown the movie, but not too often because dh is cautious. We tned to play the cd more often.
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I will say, I do utilize the fast forward button on some movies. Sometimes there's just one scene or song we just want to skip. I think I'm becoming my mother. 
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I think once I was old enough, I started "self-editing" a bit. Like that scene in the "ballet" from Singing in the Rain with the woman in green? It has ALWAYS made me uncomfortable. I think when I was younger, I mistook it for "boredom" but even today, I skip it, lol.
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You mean Cyd Charisse? Two scenes in there I fast forward, and they both have her in them. 
But I love Brigadoon with her, although I think there's a scene I fast forward, too.
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Its a little cheesy and over the top, but that's part of the fun, imo. And it has Maurice Chevalier, so it can't be all bad.
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Good to know! I LOVE Maurice Chevalier. Gigi is so inappropriate, but fun when you are older. It is done delicately so it took me YEARS to figure out that it was regarding mistresses!
I can see I know too many musicals!
I thought of Shirley Temple movies are innocent musicals.
and Sean Connery of all people plays in the musical Darby O'Gill and the Little People which is a delightful movie.
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I KNOW! I'm such an idiot, I think I was in college when I figured that one out completely.
Though, it does say something for how "tastefully" they used to be able to approach mature subject matter.
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Have a great trip, Beth! Praying for safety and smooth sailing.
Here's a topic from 2008 on musicals. So many musicals, so little time  .
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Thanks everyone! And thanks Angie for the prayers, we will certainly need them. None of my children travel well as infants. Therese and Anna Mary will be great except for perhaps a little complaining at the very end if we are waiting to go through customs and who can blame them....at that point I am complaining too! But Veronica...that is another story. She will likely travel well for the first half of the day, but after that who knows  That is why we go there once a year and stay for nearly a month. I need that long to recover from the trip and bolster myself for the trip home
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| Thanks everyone! And thanks Angie for the prayers, we will certainly need them. None of my children travel well as infants. Therese and Anna Mary will be great except for perhaps a little complaining at the very end if we are waiting to go through customs and who can blame them....at that point I am complaining too! But Veronica...that is another story. She will likely travel well for the first half of the day, but after that who knows That is why we go there once a year and stay for nearly a month. I need that long to recover from the trip and bolster myself for the trip home |
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Well, you might find a different strategy works for you, but we go to MI every year and it is 625 miles as well as AL which is 820.
We only travel about 300 miles a day and take it in two and three legs respectively, the first being in the evening after dh has gone to work and letting the kids sleep in the car while we arrive late at the hotel and just move them to bed, usually sleeping.
So, usually on the first leg, we don't even pull out the DVD player.
THEN, on the second leg, we wait until the natives are POSITIVELY restless. We use some music or books on cd (as well as the usual books, snacks, and toys) up until then. THEN, we pull out the dvd player. We find that if we start out with the dvd, then by the end, they are bored, and it is not serving us as well as a distraction when they most need it.
Now, obviously, I LOVE musicals. But, I find that kid friendliest things help distract the younger ones. The 12-24 month old might care less about Sound of Music when he's mad (I know, its one of our standards we take on trips), but Curious George can often buy us some time.
Anyway, just throwing that out there as what we have found to work. The kids WILL ask for movies from the beginning, but putting them off until you are stuck in traffic or at the brink of insanity has worked for us as well as letting them indulge in some cartoon they've never seen or don't see often with lots of kid giggles and action.
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Yes, I like to postpone the new things, especially videos for when the doldrums and wiggles hit. Videos playing in the background can be wearing on my nerves after a while, too.
We never had the video player growing up, and we sometimes like to pull the plug to make sure they see the sights and know how to enjoy conversation and be creative, and gasp! even have the feeling of being "bored" and know what to do about it.
But I'm not anti videos. And I chose some at different times that will be calming, like Thomas the Tank Engine, Sound of Music are two I can think of. I also have some cds I play to calm everyone down -- parents included, when things get hairy. My older son generally doesn't nap, even on those really long trips, even as an infant. We were all at the end of our ropes at the end of the day!
My mother used to get us new paperdolls or punch out books to make, coloring books, some books we haven't read, puzzle or maze type of books, etc.
I've found keeping my boys hands occupied is helpful. I have a tray for one, but we're probably going to upgrade to the new lap trays from One Step Ahead.
Thinks like dough or Thinking Putty, cars or trains, some legos, some Playmobil...keeping it varied has been good.
Praying for your trip!
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