Director Fred Zinnemann’s wafer-thin, scarcely winsome 1946 MGM black and white film Little Mister Jim tells the tale of life on an army post, with Jackie ‘Butch’ Jenkins as the mildly diverting little star playing […]
MGM’s 1946 junior-league Damon Runyon-style fantasy comedy My Brother Talks to Horses about a psychic boy called Lewie Penrose (buck-toothed Jackie ‘Butch’ Jenkins, aged nine), who provides dead certs for racehorse gamblers, would have been […]
‘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 Charles Martin’s 1948 black and white film My Dear Secretary is a romantic comedy in the marital vein with a bestselling romance novel author (Kirk Douglas) whose secretary-turned-wife (Laraine Day) writes a bestseller, much […]
Director Louis Malle’s 1981 scripted documentary My Dinner with Andre is a tour de force by writer/stars Wallace Shawn (the actor/ playwright) and Andre Gregory (the theatre director) as the two old friends having a […]
Betty Grable had been the reigning box office queen since the beginning of the 1940s, and scored her biggest triumph with director Walter Lang’s Technicolor musical Mother Wore Tights in 1947. This amiable story dissecting […]
Director Franklin J Schaffner’s 1977 drama Islands in the Stream is based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway, which was posthumously released in 1970, and stars George C Scott, David Hemmings and Gilbert Roland. George C […]