‘SHE’S THE GIRL WHO PUTS THE HONEY IN HONEYMOON!’ Director Frank Tuttle’s 1930 American comedy film Her Wedding Night is based on the play Little Miss Bluebeard by Avery Hopwood, written by Henry Myers, and […]
‘SHE KNEW MEN LIKE A BOOK-SHE THOUGHT SHE DID… UNTIL A ROMANTIC YOUNGSTER OPENED HER EYES TO A PAGE OF GENUINE ROMANCE!’ Director Frank Lloyd’s 1933 American pre-Code romantic drama film Hoopla [Hoop-La] stars Clara […]
The beautiful, complex and thoughtful 2020 Canadian documentary No Ordinary Man takes an in-depth look at the life of American jazz musician, bandleader and now trans culture icon Billy Tipton (December 29, 1914 – January 21, […]
‘They’re Beautiful…They’re Glamorous…They’re Scandalous…’ Director Irving Cummings’s 1945 American Technicolor biographical film The Dolly Sisters stars Betty Grable (as Jenny) who teams up with June Haver (as Rosie) in the fictionalised real-life story of the 1900s famed […]
Writer-director George Seaton’s 1945 Technicolor treat film Diamond Horseshoe [Billy Rose’s Diamond Horseshoe] is based on the 1928 play The Barker by John Kenyon Nicholson, which has fun with Freudian psychoanalysis, and stars Betty Grable, […]
The creaky, old-style 1962 drama film Diamond Head is a case of well-meaning, but badly dated and overheated melodramatics in Hawaii, with Charlton Heston over-egging the pudding as a bigoted, bullying Hawaiian landowner. ‘The Giant […]
Director Robert Stevenson’s 1938 British black and white thriller The Ware Case is a creaky but gripping third film version (after 1917 and 1928 silents) of George Pleydell Bancroft’s courtroom play about a womanising financier […]
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