On the run right now, but I'll post photos later . . . PEYTON PLACE, and PICNIC!! Can you ever get enough? Lana Turner, as prissy Constance MacKenzie . . . lips pursed, hair tightly coiled in an expertly made French twist, and all that . . . native sensuality smoldering underneath the prim, facade. Turner's only Academy Award nomination: best actress! She lost to Joanne Woodward: Three Faces of Eve.



And, PICNIC!! Oy, that steamy dance between Kim Novak and Bill Holden . . . woohoo! That moody music, those torches, the hypnotic rhythm of two gorgeous people, dancing under the stars. Ros Russell is passionate too, as the spinster schoolteacher, looking for love! Some truly overt phallic imagery, in this film! Have you found it?



Can you think of some other, Labor Day films? I may throw in Butterfield 8 . . . why, not? LOLOL.

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'By liked, you mean bein' pawed over in the dark, by some young animal, with one thing on his mind!!'

Can't think of any actually set on Labor Day--but lots with labor as a theme. How about Norma Rae, or Silkwood, or even The Grapes of Wrath? Oh, and Moonlighting (the Jeremy Irons movie, not the TV show). And The Molly Maguires. And Working Girl...okay, that one sucks...

thanks, BG!! Forgot about some of those . . . SILKWOOD, dealt with Labor Day? Is that when the accident, took place?? Can't remember . . .

btw: MADGE, is the pretty one!!

I'm afraid I was kind of stretching your category, there, Armanis. I was just thinking of Karen Silkwood as a martyr to workers' rights, as well as an anti-nuke activist.

Click to view attachmentNot a stretch, in the least!! Thank you for your noble explanation!! Might explain THE GRAPES OF WRATH, too?? You're something else . . .

Well, Labor Day usually means Back to School, too, so check out Back to School (1983) starring Rodney Dangerfield as Thornton Melon, going back to college along with his son. A lot of big names in this one: Sally Kellerman, Robert Downey Jr., Ned Beatty, Adrienne Barbeau (you get the idea - this is not egghead material), but there is a cameo by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

My favorite though is Easy Money (1983.) Loud, brash and crude - everything that I'm not. : )
Stupid though they are, I love Rodney Dangerfield movies.

Back to School is actually from 1986. Just checked IMDb.

And Labor Day means giving birth...so I will name my fave child-from-hell movie: "The Bad Seed"

Click to view attachmentApple, my mother was a school teacher. She HATED 'back to school movies!' LOL. I rather miss Rodney D. He was fun . . .

Suz, you clever doll . . . The Bad Seed, is one of my all time favorite, 'kiddie' films. My mother used to call me that, when I'd misbehave. Didn't bother me . . . but one thing, did . . . remember how Rhoda killed Claude, for his PENMANSHIP medal?? Uh, Well . . . I think I'd have been way high on Rhoda's list! Your father, too!