Busby Berkeley’s first Technicolor musical film The Gang’s All Here (1943) is a deliriously extravagant concoction with sexy star Alice Faye and gloriously camp Carmen Miranda. It was banned in Brazil! And the huge bananas […]
Director Sonnie Hale’s 1937 Head Over Heels [Head Over Heels in Love] stars Jessie Matthews as Paris singer Jeanne, who is torn between solid, dependable wireless engineer Pierre (Robert Flemyng) and no-good man-about-town Marcel (Louis […]
Director Sonnie Hale’s 1937 film Gangway is a cheerful and cheering Thirties British black and white musical set on a ship bound for New York, where English reporter Pat Wayne (Jessie Matthews) is mistaken for […]
Director Sonnie Hale’s 1938 British romantic musical comedy Sailing Along is a sweet showcase for his wife Jessie Matthews. It is the third and last of their films together as director and star, following Head […]
20th Century Fox’s 1941 film Week-End in Havana is a highly engaging Forties wartime musical, with Alice Faye and Carmen Miranda on top singing form. It is 81 minutes of Technicolor escapist bliss. Director Walter […]
Director Frank Lloyd’s 1937 Paramount Pictures historical Western film Wells Fargo stars Joel McCrea, who scores in his first Western in an era that suffered with a dearth of big-budget Westerns. He plays Ramsay MacKay, […]
Director Philip Brandon’s 1943 morale-boosting musical We’ll Meet Again provides a rare film role for British wartime singing sensation Vera Lynn, using the title of her most famous song. It is her film debut in […]
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