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EASTER PARADE (1948)

Easter Parade (1948)

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Easter Parade (1948) Fred Astaire is in love with the dancing partner he believes he “created” Ann Miller. When she makes plans to go it alone he sets out to prove he can replace her and picks a nobody (Judy Garland) as his new partner. Gee ya think they’ll succeed? Peter Lawford plays a wealthy friend whose character gets into a quasi love triangle with the ladies; Jules Munshin plays a humorously frustrated French waiter. [...]
PHANTOM LADY (1944)

Phantom Lady (1944)

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Phantom Lady (1944) Don’t know if you’ll be as entranced as I was watching Ella Raines for the first time in this one but regardless this is a pretty good murder mystery which also stars Franchot Tone and Thomas Gomez. A man (Alan Curtis) is framed for killing his wife. His secretary (Raines) who also happens to be infatuated with him doesn’t believe it and works to clear him by finding “the title character”. She is [...]
GIGI (1958)

Gigi (1958)

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Gigi (1958) Of all the films which won the Best Picture Oscar one has to wonder how this ho hum musical earned all nine Oscars for which it was nominated. Was it just a weak year or did The Defiant Ones (1958) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) cancel each other out as well? It’s a mystery. Director Vincente Minnelli the Original Song “Gigi” its Musical Score and Adapted Screenplay were among the other Oscar winners. Leslie Caron [...]
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Alice Adams (1935)

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Alice Adams (1935) George Stevens directed this adaptation of the Booth Tarkington novel about a social climbing mother (Ann Shoemaker) & daughter (Katharine Hepburn in the title role). Hepburn and the film were Oscar nominated. Alice is a small town girl whose brother (Frank Albertson) is "forced" to take her to a society party hosted by Mildred Palmer (Evelyn Venable who’s parents are played by Hedda Hopper & Jonathan [...]
Captain Newman M.D. (1963)

Captain Newman M.D. (1963)

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Captain Newman M.D. (1963) Gregory Peck plays an Army doctor (the title character) that heads up Ward 7 the psychiatric unit at a U. S. Military base in Arizona in 1944. Not unlike Operation Petticoat (1959) before it nor MASH (1970) after this story uses war as a backdrop for a comedy with dramatic elements. Though this one is set far from enemy lines it incorporates many of the same elements & themes by telling the stories of the patients [...]
HANGMEN ALSO DIE! (1943) – FULL REVIEW!

Hangmen Also Die! (1943) – full review!

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Hangmen Also Die! (1943) – full review! This World War II propaganda thriller featuring a better than average plot and tolerable jingoism was co-produced and directed by Fritz Lang who also co-wrote its story (with Bertolt Brecht) that was adapted by John Wexley. Set in occupied Czechoslovakia the drama begins with the (unseen) assassination of the ruling Nazi official German officer Reinhard Heydrich (Hans Heinrich von Twardowski) known [...]
TROUBLE IN PARADISE (1932)

Trouble in Paradise (1932)

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Trouble in Paradise (1932) Produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch (The Love Parade (1929)) with an adaptation by Grover Jones (Lady and Gent (1932)) and a screenplay by Samson Raphaelson that were based on a play by Aladar Laszlo this essential romantic comedy was added to the National Film Registry in 1991. It stars Miriam Hopkins and Herbert Marshall as thieves who are ‘two peas in a pod’ and romantic soul mates who meet while trying to [...]
Born to Dance (1936) – full review!

Born to Dance (1936) – full review!

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Born to Dance (1936) – full review! Directed by Roy Del Ruth with a story co-written by Sid Silvers who plays the unluckily married sailor ‘Gunny’ Sacks this average Cole Porter musical features a singing James Stewart in only his tenth film! Porter received the first of four Best Music Oscar nominations (without a win) for his Song “I’ve Got You Under My Skin” (sung by Virginia Bruce); the previous year’s Oscar [...]
TEA AND SYMPATHY (1956)

Tea and Sympathy (1956)

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Tea and Sympathy (1956) Deborah Kerr John Kerr (no relation) and Leif Erickson recreated their stage performances in this censored version of Robert Anderson’s play that was directed by Vincente Minnelli. John Kerr plays Tom Robinson Lee a sensitive young college man whose interests are gardening & reading in lieu of more manly pursuits. His father Herb (Edward Andrews) is rather of ashamed of his son’s behavior which has earned [...]
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You Can’t Take It With You (1938)

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You Can’t Take It With You (1938) This story about class distinctions highlighted by a family of eccentrics was Capra’s third (and last) Best Director Oscar in five years though he did receive two more nominations for Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) (which like this film teams Jean Arthur with James Stewart) and It’s A Wonderful Life (1946). It won the Best Picture Oscar and received five other nominations including for [...]
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