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I WANT YOU (1951) – FULL REVIEW!

I Want You (1951) – full review!

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I Want You (1951) – full review! Producer Samuel Goldwyn’s greatest success was the Academy Award winning Best Picture The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) a mature drama about the post World War II climate and what happened when soldiers returned home to their families wives girlfriends and lives. The story is told through three main male characters; one of which was played by Dana Andrews. Four years later America was having to rearm [...]
Four Daughters (1938)

Four Daughters (1938)

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Four Daughters (1938) This terrific drama about a man with many daughters received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture Best Director (Michael Curtiz) Screenplay Writing (Lenore Coffee & Julius Epstein adapted the Fannie Hurst novel Sister Act) and Sound Recording. The standout performance was not given by the always great Claude Rains as the father Adam Lemp but by John Garfield as Mickey Borden which earned him a Supporting Actor [...]
GREAT WALTZ THE (1938)

Great Waltz The (1938)

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Great Waltz The (1938) Directed by Julien Duvivier with a screenplay by Samuel Hoffenstein (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)) and Walter Reisch that was based on a story by Gottfried Reinhardt this fictionalized biography-drama of Vienna’s Johann ‘Schani’ Strauss II features Fernand Gravet (aka Gravey) as the prolific composer who is perhaps best known for his waltz The Blue Danube aka “On the Beautiful Blue Danube”. [...]
GRAND HOTEL (1932)

Grand Hotel (1932)

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Grand Hotel (1932) One of the first big star extravaganzas (Garbo two Barrymores Crawford Beery Stone and Hersholt) which ironically failed to earn ANY other Academy Award nominations (the only Best Picture winner with this distinction). It’s a story about the lives of several people in a very plush hotel where “nothing ever happens”. It was directed by Edmund Goulding and based on William Drake’s version of Vicki [...]
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Story of Three Loves The (1953)

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Story of Three Loves The (1953) Co-directed by Vincente Minnelli (Gigi (1958)) the middle segment & Gottfried Reinhardt the first and third segments with some adaptation and writing credited to George Froeschel (Mrs. Miniver (1942)) this three part film tells different stories thinly connected by at least one person from each as a passenger on an ocean liner: three time Oscar nominee James Mason twice nominated Leslie Caron and three time [...]
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Guys and Dolls (1955)

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Guys and Dolls (1955) Though I wouldn’t rate it as one of my favorite musicals I think the first scene with Marlon Brando and Jean Simmons in the mission where they make “the deal” is worth the price of admission. What great dialogue! Any doubts I had about Brando in the role were erased after watching it even though his singing was pretty hard to bear. Frank Sinatra & Vivian Blaine also star in this Joseph L. Mankiewicz [...]
Doña Bárbara (1943)

Doña Bárbara (1943)

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Doña Bárbara (1943) Directed by Fernando de Fuentes and based on the novel by Rómulo Gallegos this Mexican film tells the story of the titled character a woman who was raped in her late teens which hardens and strengthens her such that she becomes a ruthless wealthy landowner who takes out her hostilities on the weaker male sex in her country. Barbara’s “rule” includes bribing the officials to make the laws favorable to her [...]
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1931-1932 1931-1932 Academy Awards (Oscar winners and nominees) (winners listed first in bold print) Best Picture Grand Hotel (1932)   Arrowsmith (1931) Bad Girl (1931) The Champ (1931) Five Star Final (1931) One Hour with You (1932) Shanghai Express (1932) The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) Best Actor in a Leading Role Wallace Beery The Champ (1931) and Fredric March Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) Alfred Lunt The Guardsman (1931) Best Actress [...]
Omaha Trail The (1942)

Omaha Trail The (1942)

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Omaha Trail The (1942) Directed by Edward Buzzell writing credits for Hugo Butler (Edison the Man (1940)) & Jesse Lasky Jr. story. This average Western features several familiar faces a couple of songs and a typical “circle the wagons” to fend off the Indians sequence during which the white men can’t miss whereas the natives (with the advantage of cover) can’t shoot fish in a barrel. In the days before railroads [...]
ERNST LUBITSCH

Ernst Lubitsch

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Ernst Lubitsch Ernst Lubitsch was born on January 28 1892 in Berlin Germany. Though he suffered a massive heart attack in 1943 he continued to work until his heart failed again; he died two months shy of his 56 th birthday in November 1947. His last project – That Lady Ermine (1948) – was completed by director Otto Preminger. Initially an actor in silent films in his native country Lubitsch came to Hollywood in 1922 after receiving [...]
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