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, […]
Anita Loos from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes helps to provide the sparkling, witty original screenplay (with John Emerson) for director Jack Conway’s entertaining Jean Harlow 1934 screwball comedy film vehicle The Girl from Missouri about Eadie Chapman, […]
Director Julie Taymor’s 2002 film Frida is a passionate, swirling and colourful biopic of doomed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, based on the book by Hayden Herrera. It won two Oscars: Best Original Score (Elliot Goldenthal) and Best […]
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 […]
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