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Percy Adlon’s fascinating 1981 German film Céleste tells the story of the final years of the French gay writer Marcel Proust (Jürgen Arndt) through the eyes of his housekeeper. Writer-director Percy Adlon’s fascinating 1981 German […]
Director Herbert Wilcox’s 1947 British drama film The Courtneys of Curzon Street [The Courtney Affair] stars the winning team of Anna Neagle and Michael Wilding, is one of the all-time most seen British films, with 15,900,000 cinema tickets […]
Director Richard Thorpe’s 1965 romantic comedy That Funny Feeling stars Sandra Dee, Bobby Darin and Donald O’Connor. Unfortunately, unfunny feelings arise from this re-pairing of Sandra Dee and Bobby Darin simply because the wit and […]
‘The Season’s Gayest Love Story!’ A young, attractive Nebraska newspaper heiress, Miss Martha Aldrich (Maureen O’Sullivan), repeatedly clashes with the stubborn managing editor (Walter Pidgeon) of the New York paper she has inherited. His attitude […]
Director Anatole Litvak’s 1937 Warner Bros period screwball comedy Tovarich is written by Casey Robinson, based on a play by Jacques Déval and Robert E Sherwood (English version). It stars Claudette Colbert as the Grand […]
Glenda Jackson and Susannah York enjoy an unusual opportunity chewing up Jean Genet’s strange dialogue in director Christopher Miles’s powerful 1975 film version of his flamboyant play The Maids. Black humour lightens up a dark […]
Jean Renoir’s 1946 Hollywood version of Octave Mirbeau’s bourgeois-knocking novel about a grasping chambermaid hovers uncertainly between burlesque and tragedy but gives the performers the eagerly grabbed chance for a field day of brio acting. […]