The 1950 American musical film Wabash Avenue starring Betty Grable is a remake of her 1943 hit Coney Island. 20th Century Fox were in a jam and had to come up with something fast. Director Henry Koster’s 1950 American Technicolor […]
The 1951 20th Century Fox Technicolor film Meet Me after the Show is another Betty Grable hit musical with a showbiz background. Co-writer./ director Richard Sale’s 1951 20th Century Fox Technicolor musical film Meet Me after the Show is […]
Warner Bros’ 1929 American all-talking sound pre-Code musical revue film The Show of Shows is directed by John G Adolfi, shot almost entirely in Technicolor, and features most of the studio’s stars. Warner Bros’ fifth colour film, the 1929 all-talking Vitaphone production The Show […]
King Vidor’s 1944 epic Technicolor drama film An American Romance stars Brian Donlevy and Ann Richards. Louis B Mayer, whose studio spent a fortune on it, called it ‘the greatest picture MGM ever made’, then […]
Billy Milton stars in the 1936 British comedy thriller Someone at the Door as a dodgy journalist who plots to kick-start his career by inventing the fake murder of his sister Sally (Aileen Marson). Director […]
The 1974 American romance film Ginger in the Morning stars Sissy Spacek as a hippyish young hitchhiker picked up on the road by a newly divorced middle-aged executive (Monte Markham). Director Gordon Wiles’s 1974 American romance film […]
The serious-minded, pioneering late-70s gay documentary film Word Is Out was highly important and influential, and is still a vital, valuable document of the time. ‘It’s really scary standing in isolation from everybody else and […]