Dear Readers,
Today, i've decided to start this blog, hoping that maybe I can introduce things that I am interested in to other people. Now, at the moment, i'm only 14 years old, so I don't know very much about very much. Everyone has interests, and everyone wants to talk to them about somebody. My interests aren't very interesting to some people, (i've very often been reminded this by my mother and my friends). Well, sometimes I just feel like talking about them with somebody, so what better way to do that than write some of it down in a blog? And maybe people will read it and leave comments which I can read and respond to.

So, I guess whoever is reading this might be wondering, "Well, what are this persons interests?"Well, i'll tell you. Two years ago, when I was at sleep away camp, my camp put on a musical of The beauty and the Beast. I guess I thought it was really good, because the day after I got home from camp I found the Disney Beauty and the Beast online. I actually don't really like Beauty and the Beast, but it made me interested in other disney princess movies. I know a lot of people don't like disney princesses, but I do. After I watched Beauty and the Beast, I started watching all the other disney princess movies starting at the very beginning. I started with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, then Cinderella, then Sleeping Beauty, and The Little Mermaid, Pocahontas, etc, etc, etc. I found that the more recent the movie was, the less I liked it. So, according to that, my favorite Princess movie is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, A.K.A Snow White.

Have you ever  seen those commercials for the Shirley Temple Little Darling movie collection? The first time I saw that commercial, I didn't think much of it. My mother would sometimes tell me that she used to watch Shirley Temple movies when she was younger. A few days after I re-watched snow white, I was sitting at the computer and remembered that Shirley Temple commercial that I once saw a few years ago. So, I googled her name and red about her. I went to youtube and searched her name, and I watched the first full movie of hers that showed up. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm was my very first Shirley Temple movie. It led me into a spiral of nonstop Shirley Temple movies.  I watched every free movie of hers that I could find on the internet.

After watching most, if not all of the movies of her as a child(aged 6-10), I started watching some of the movies of her as a 11and older movies. (Her teenage years). Every movie of hers was entertaining. Most of them were pretty funny and made me laugh. Some made me cry, but one of them that I loved the most was the movie I'll be Seeing You, which was really a Ginger Rogers movie, co-staring Shirley Temple. That was the first time I had ever seen Ginger Rogers.

After that movie, I began watching every Ginger Rogers movie I could find online for free, which was enough to make me a real fan of hers. I loved her dancing, her acting, her costumes, and singing and everything.

I can't really remember how I ever got interested in Mary Pickford, but once I found out about Mary Pickford, I couldn't stop watching her movies either! And now i'm reading her autobiography.

If you don't know who any of these people are, i'll tell you.
Shirley Temple is an actress (mostly a child actress) from the 1930s and a little bit in the 1940s.
Ginger Rogers is also an actress from the same time period.
Mary Pickford is a silent movie actress from the 19 teens. (1910-1920) and also the 1920s.

So, if any of you are interested in old movies like I am, or if you like old music, for example, Ginger Rogers songs, Annette Hanshaw songs, Marion Harris songs, or Jo Stafford songs, or Martha Tilton songs, or Helen Kane, or anything. Tell me what your interests are in the comments, and maybe we can talk about them together. Maybe you like old fashioned clothes. Post pictures of yourself in old fashioned clothes if you want. Send me links to your own blogs or youtube channels or cool websites that you think go well with my blog.

If you read all of that, I thank you for your patience and hopefully you were interested in what I have to say and maybe you can stick with me while I try and post interesting things on my blog.

Thank you and goodbye.
-Tess Loucka