Memories are amazing things

[womzilla]

When I was seven years old, my cousin Michelle told me about a movie in which a man has his long-missing wife declared legally dead so that he can marry again.

What amazes me is that I still remember her telling me this. It's less amazing that sarah_ovenall just saw it, since, well, she watches at least a movie a day.... Thanks, Sarah, for giving me a name for this memory (and thanks to georg in the comments for giving me another name for it).

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[sarah-ovenall.livejournal.com]

That is bizarre and cool that you remember that movie, not even from having seen it but just from the description. Do you remember if she saw the Cary Grant/Irene Dunne version or the James Garner/Doris Day version?

"My Favorite Wife" and "Move Over, Darling"

[(Anonymous)]

Completist note:

"Move Over, Darling" was intended to be made as "Something's Got to Give," with Marilyn Monroe and Dean Martin in the roles Doris Day and James Garner ultimately played.

A pretty strange trip for something which began as a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson called "Enoch Arden," wouldn't you say?

The Anonymous Sparrow is glad to see you posting again.

[serenityseeker.livejournal.com]

Funny, I don't remember telling you about this at all. If you were 7 , how old was I? I wonder why it stuck for you.

[womzilla.livejournal.com]

11, I would think--you're four years older than me. And I hoped this post would draw you out of hiding!

It was while we were visiting Abuelita, in 1972. (Or was it 1973?)

[serenityseeker.livejournal.com]

Well, my life gets a bit crazy at times and I trying a new type of antidepressant as the old one just seemed to quit on me. I know I'm in trouble when bathing seems overwelming-I am starting to feel better.

The visit to florida must have been when we all stayed at Ocean Reef. My mother was expecting Danielle at the time, I remember golf carts,pitstachio pudding, dead coral and a wopper of an ear infection from that visit. And at 11 I was such a bitch.

[serenityseeker.livejournal.com]

Whopper