What I Watched -- Seven Brides For Seven Brothers

Ahh, nothing like an old classic to teach girls how to be a wife. Cooking, cleaning, having a "beautiful hide," and "lots o' book learnin'" - those apparently are the skills and attributes I need to acquire.

Seriously, this movie has lots of contrived singing and dancing and is quite amusing. It starts out when Adam goes to town looking for a wife - and he finds one. Milly marries him and moves with him up to his cabin in the woods, only to discover that he lives there with his six brothers (Benjamin, Caleb, Daniel, Ephraim, Frank, and Gideon). Milly whips the boys into shape, and takes them to town for a barn raising when they are sufficiently dignified. They fall in love with six girls from town; in a misguided effort to win them over, the brothers go to town and kidnap the girls for the winter. Epic fail. Milly is angry, the boys have to live in the barn, and the townspeople are spittin' mad. But as it always does in old musicals, everything works out in the end.

Bottom line: an awesomely funny and melodic reminder of what we girls no longer have to deal with.