‘Everybody’s goin’ Gay with – Doris Day and Gordon MacRae.’ No, really? Director David Butler’s diverting 1950 Technicolor musical Tea for Two, a distant cousin to the Twenties show No, No, Nanette from which it […]
Director David Butler’s 1951 Technicolor musical Lullaby of Broadway is one of the films that established Doris Day as the top US female star in 1952. It is a modest achievement – a formulaic, though […]
Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning documentary film-maker Matthew Heineman’s first feature film as director, A Private War (2018), is an honourable toast to old-style newspaper journalism, which is fast disappearing along with books, and its backbone, the old-style reporters who […]
The 1952 film April in Paris is a cheery musical comedy romance vehicle for Doris Day and Ray Bolger. Doris saves the day with her singing and acting, and Bolger’s dancing is a treat. Director […]
Director David Butler’s 1953 warm-hearted musical delight By the Light of the Silvery Moon brings back Doris Day and Gordon MacRae for further charming and enjoyable adventures in Warner Bros’ follow-up to the 1951 hit On […]
Director Roy Del Ruth’s 1951 On Moonlight Bay pairs cute, clean-cut couple Doris Day and Gordon MacRae to rousing, tuneful effect. Day stars as toothsome tomboy Marjorie Winfield and MacRae plays her handsome neighbour William […]
Director Roy Del Ruth’s 1951 musical film Starlift, based on the real-life sending of a bunch of jolly stars to San Francisco’s Travis Air Base to entertain injured veterans and worried troops bound for Korea, […]
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