Director Francis Coppola’s lovely 1986 romantic comedy Peggy Sue Got Married was nominated for three Oscars, including one for Kathleen Turner as unhappy middle-aged Peggy Sue, a 43-year-old mother and housewife, who faints when she […]
Director Richard Boleslawski’s amusing 1936 vintage comedy Theodora Goes Wild stars the Oscar-nominated Irene Dunne, who gets her laughs as Theodora Lynn, a small-town librarian who writes a titillating bestseller under the pseudonym Caroline Adams […]
Director George Stevens’s warm-hearted 1948 black-and-white classic household drama I Remember Mama stars Oscar nominated Irene Dunne as careful Norwegian-born Mama, who struggles to make ends meet in turn-of-the-last-century San Francisco (it is around 1910). Stevens’s […]
Director René Clair’s 1944 American fantasy film It Happened Tomorrow stars Dick Powell as Larry Stevens, the lucky 1890s newspaper obituary writer and reporter who meets a mysterious ghostly deceased newspaper man called Pop Benson (John Philliber) who has the […]
Robert Donat, Eugene Palette, Jean Parker and Elsa Lanchester all shine brightly in writer-director René Clair’s now creaky seeming but still deliciously enjoyable 1935 fanciful fantasy comedy The Ghost Goes West, with more charm and […]
Director René Clair sprinkles magic dust on this enchanting 1942 whimsical comedy about a 260-year-old witch (Veronica Lake) and her much, much older wizard dad (Cecil Kellaway) who materialise in the present to scare the […]
Director Victor Schertzinger’s bright and breezy 1940 romantic musical comedy melodrama Rhythm on the River is a welcome follow-up to Bing Crosby’s Rhythm on the Range (1936) and features good music and a pleasing plot, […]
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