Your Stories: Submitted Stories
- Grandfather
My granfather told me about how he and his friends would often come home from school, put on their old clothes, and then go begging in the streets for money. When they had begged enough money off of the people, they would then go to the cinema to see the latest Buster Keaton flick!
- Lisa
Corfu, NY
- Growing-Up with the Movies
When my mother was a young lady before she married she kept a diary. This was the mid-1930s. At that time she was being courted by a young fellow destined to be my father. Every week she and her handsome beau went to the movies. She recorded the names of the movies and those who starred in them. My mother was so taken by the movies that she kept a scrapbook of all her favorite stars including handbills picked up at the movie theater in her home town. When Jean Harlow died my mother was very upset. Her elderly grandma (who lived with my mother's family) could not understand the upset, saying "She's 'just' a movie star!" After they married and grew much older, my mother and father hardly ever went to the movies.
- Barbara
Perry, NY
- Great Escape from Propaganda
I was born in USSR. All arts at that country was under government control. Movies, literature, art -- everything washed our young brains. It took...a long time to clean it and recognize truth. American and European movies let us to glimpse how people live under "imperialists rule". I remember movies like MARTY, HARRY AND TONTO, THIS IS A MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD, Marilyn Monroe and etc. So we realised that people in free country live better. Soviet propaganda taught us that "imperialism decomposes". Ordinary person used to say,"Maybe it decomposes, but what a nice smell!" So movies of free countries were really as a great escape for Soviet people who use to think independently.
- Valentin
Nashua, NH
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