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Kitty *** (1945, Paulette Goddard, Ray Milland, Patric Knowles) – Classic Movie Review 9973

Director Mitchell Leisen’s 1945 historical comedy drama stars Ray Milland as English lord Sir Hugh Marcy, who turns saucy common girl Kitty (Paulette Goddard) into a lady, in this amusing 18th-century My Fair Lady-style story. […]

Jun, 28

A New Leaf **** (1970, Walter Matthau, Elaine May, Jack Weston) – Classic Movie Review 7219

The 1970 A New Leaf is Elaine May’s first film and still her best movie. She sparkles as writer, director and star of this quirky black comedy about penniless playboy Henry Graham (Walter Matthau) chasing […]

Jun, 25

Personal Property *** (1937, Jean Harlow, Robert Taylor, Reginald Owen, E E Clive) – Classic Movie Review 7197

Jean Harlow eclipses the rest of the cast (even though she was ailing and made only one more movie, Saratoga) in director W S Van Dyke II’s mild if amiable 1937 romantic comedy Personal Property, […]

Jun, 20

The Rake’s Progress [Notorious Gentleman] **** (1945, Rex Harrison, Jean Kent, Griffith Jones, Lilli Palmer, Margaret Johnson, Godfrey Tearle) – Classic Movie Review 4432

The writing-producer team of Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat’s biography of a modern-day cad, inspired by Hogarth’s famous eight prints, is clever, sharp-witted and good humoured. Director Sidney Gilliat’s polished 1945 British comedy drama gives […]

Sep, 28

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