Derek Winnert

The Divorcee *** (1930, Norma Shearer, Chester Morris, Conrad Nagel, Robert Montgomery, Florence Eldridge) – Classic Movie Review 6818

Norma Shearer won the 1930 Best Actress Oscar as Jerry, a married woman who discovers her newspaper-career husband Ted (Chester Morris) is unfaithful and leaves him to enjoy the same infidelity pleasures as he does. […]

Mar, 18 · in Reviews

Madame X ** (1965, Lana Turner, John Forsythe, Ricardo Montalban, Constance Bennett, Burgess Meredith, Keir Dullea) – Classic Movie Review 6817

Lana Turner stars in the seventh film version of the old theatrical chestnut based on the ancient Alexandre Bisson play about Holly Parker, a wealthy woman on trial for murder who is defended by an […]

Mar, 18 · in Reviews

Madame X ** (1937, Gladys George, John Beal, Warren William, Reginald Owen) – Classic Movie Review 6816

Director Sam Wood’s 1937 MGM drama is the fifth (of seven) cinema film versions of this classic fallen woman, road-to-ruin weepie tale about Jacqueline Fleuriot, a rich woman whose life is wrecked by a brief […]

Mar, 18

The Sin of Madelon Claudet [The Lullaby] ** (1931, Helen Hayes, Robert Young, Neil Hamilton, Lewis Stone) – Classic Movie Review 6815

Helen Hayes won the 1932 Best Actress Oscar for her wild overacting as the newly-wed French country woman Madelon Claudet, who is bullied by her new mother-in-law, after marrying US artist Larry (Neil Hamilton), who […]

Mar, 18

Candleshoe *** (1977, David Niven, Helen Hayes, Jodie Foster, Leo McKern) – Classic Movie Review 6814

Director Norman Tokar’s 1977 British film for children is an amusing Disney adventure comedy, with a jolly script and a superb cast of scene-stealers. Leo McKern plays small-time crook Harry Bundage, who dupes American urchin Casey Brown […]

Mar, 17

Skylark **** (1941, Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland, Brian Aherne, Binnie Barnes, Walter Abel) – Classic Movie Review 6813

Director Mark Sandrich’s bubbly 1941 romantic comedy stars on-form players Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland and Brian Aherne, and is a vintage delight. [Spoiler alert] Colbert plays Lydia Kenyon, a fed-up wife married to Tony Kenyon […]

Mar, 17

The Tuttles of Tahiti *** (1942, Charles Laughton, Jon Hall, Peggy Drake, Victor Francen, Florence Bates, Gene Reynolds, Curt Bois) – Classic Movie Review 6812

Director Charles Vidor’s pleasant, entertaining 1942 old-style South Seas island saga The Tuttles of Tahiti is based on a novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, the authors of Mutiny on the Bounty, with […]

Mar, 17

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