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WHEN LADIES MEET (1933)

When Ladies Meet (1933)

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When Ladies Meet (1933) Excellent dialogue and compelling interpersonal exploration mark this sophisticated pre-code comedy drama with terrific performances by all the principals in the cast including: Ann Harding Robert Montgomery Myrna Loy Alice Brady Frank Morgan even Sterling Holloway (though very briefly & uncredited as a caddy). Directed by Harry Beaumont (The Broadway Melody (1929)) with a screenplay co-written by John Meehan (The [...]
NOW VOYAGER (1942)

Now Voyager (1942)

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Now Voyager (1942) Great cast and an even better film. Bette Davis in an Academy Award nominated (for Best Actress) performance plays a woman who "blooms". Paul Henreid and Claude Rains play the men who help her "transform" from a young "old maid" into a beautiful woman. Gladys Cooper who plays Davis’s mother received her first (of three unrewarded) Best Supporting Actress nomination(s); Bonita Granville Lee [...]
Defiant Ones The (1958)

Defiant Ones The (1958)

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Defiant Ones The (1958) This Academy Award nominated film was an early race relations look at two prisoners one White – one Black who escape yet are chained to each other. Both Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier received Best Actor Oscar nominations. Theodore Bikel who plays the lawman leading the pursuit and Cara Williams who plays a woman they meet along the way that helps them picked up their only nominations (in the Supporting [...]
OLD MAID THE (1939)

Old Maid The (1939)

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Old Maid The (1939) Certainly worthy of some tear-jerking. Miriam Hopkins’s character spurns a soldier (George Brent) who her cousin (Bette Davis) has always liked. While comforting him before he goes off to fight in the Civil War Davis’s character becomes pregnant. When Brent is then killed Davis starts an orphanage to prevent scandal. Later out of financial need Davis seeks Hopkins now a rich widow who helps by adopting her child [...]
FILMS ABOUT FAITH

Films about Faith

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Films about Faith In the classic movie era a religious film could made without stirring up the kind of controversy that Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ (2004) did just a few years ago. While several movies exist which feature sham artists that use religion and/or people’s belief in God against them for financial gain there are also many that retell biblical stories celebrate Christianity or portray a person’s [...]
MORNING GLORY (1933)

Morning Glory (1933)

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Morning Glory (1933) Katharine Hepburn won the first of her record four Best Actress Academy Awards playing an actress; one from a small town with stars in her eyes that makes her way to New York to be a star. When first we see her she is wistfully admiring the paintings hung on the walls of a theater lobby of Ethel Barrymore Sarah Bernhardt etc.. She makes her way to the offices of a successful producer she’d heard of Louis Easton [...]
ANNA KARENINA (1935)

Anna Karenina (1935)

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Anna Karenina (1935) A great (Greta) Garbo vehicle an adaptation of Tolstoy’s classic tale; just the kind of film she excelled in. A remake for her given the earlier silent entitled Love (1927) that she did with John Gilbert. This time Fredric March plays her military lover Vronsky Basil Rathbone her wronged husband (Alexei) Karenin and Freddie Bartholomew her son. Maureen O’Sullivan May Robson and Reginald Owen are also featured. [...]
OUT OF THE PAST (1947)

Out of the Past (1947)

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Out of the Past (1947) One of those gems that you may have never heard about because it was ignored by the Academy. A terrific film noir starring Robert Mitchum Jane Greer Kirk Douglas and Rhonda Fleming; director Jacques Tourneur’s best film? Written by Geoffrey Homes aka Daniel Mainwaring it was added to the National Film Registry in 1991. Former private eye Jeff (Mitchum) has "retired" changed his name and is now living the [...]
STOLEN LIFE A (1946) – FULL REVIEW!

Stolen Life A (1946) – full review!

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Stolen Life A (1946) – full review! Directed by Curtis Bernhardt this implausible drama does feature some unique special effects earning it an Oscar nomination (one of several including awards for Nathan Levinson) which allow Bette Davis to appear as twin sister characters. Having become acquainted with some identical twins in my life I know that the premise put forth in this story – that one twin could pose as another remaining [...]
MARCH 2005 – CLAUDETTE COLBERT

March 2005 – Claudette Colbert

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March 2005 – Claudette Colbert Tuesday March 1 – Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award winners 8:00 AM Meet John Doe (1941) 8:00 PM Charade (1963) – an entertaining romp pairing Audrey Hepburn with Cary Grant in a comedy mystery that includes some other named actors in humorous roles: Walter Matthau James Coburn & George Kennedy. Directed by Stanley Donen. 10:00 PM Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) 2:30 AM The Pawnbroker (1965) [...]
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