Derek Winnert

Stan & Ollie **** (2018, Steve Coogan, John C Reilly, Shirley Henderson, Nina Arianda, Danny Huston, Rufus Jones) – Movie Review

Stan & Ollie (2018) is a labour of love, a loving tribute to Laurel and Hardy, with brilliant impersonations of the duo by Steve Coogan and John C Reilly, and clever re-creations of their routines, songs […]

Oct, 21 · in Reviews

It Happened to Jane ** (1959, Doris Day, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs) – Classic Movie Review 7692

Doris Day plays Jane Osgood, the lobster lady from Maine who gets her lawyer George Denham (Jack Lemmon) to fight mean railway boss Harry Malone (Ernie Kovacs), who will not deliver her lobsters to her business […]

Oct, 21 · in Reviews

It’s a Great Feeling *** (1949, Dennis Morgan, Doris Day, Jack Carson) – Classic Movie Review 7691

Director David Butler’s offbeat 1949 Hollywood satire It’s a Great Feeling stars Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan as themselves trying to turn Warner Bros commissary waitress Judy Adams (Doris Day) into a star by getting […]

Oct, 21

Lucky Me ** (1954, Doris Day, Robert Cummings, Phil Silvers, Eddie Foy Jr, Nancy Walker, Martha Hyer) – Classic Movie Review 7,690

It is lucky there are Doris Day’s vigour and her sparky way with a tune, plus reliable fun from Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker, in the 1954 Warner Bros musical film Lucky Me because it […]

Oct, 21

I’ll See You in My Dreams *** (1951, Doris Day, Danny Thomas, Frank Lovejoy) – Classic Movie Review 7689

The life of song lyric writer Gus Kahn (1886–1941) is seen through Hollywood’s typically rose-coloured glasses in the 1951 Warner Bros black and white musical biopic I’ll See You in My Dreams. Director Curtiz Michael […]

Oct, 21

My Dream Is Yours *** (1949, Jack Carson, Doris Day, Lee Bowman, Adolphe Menjou, Eve Arden, S Z Sakall) – Classic Movie Review 7688

Director Michael Curtiz’s 1949 musical comedy My Dream Is Yours finds Doris Day on vivacious form as single mother Martha Gibson, a band singer struggling to become a radio star, and Jack Carson bright and breezy as […]

Oct, 21

Along Came Jones ** (1945, Gary Cooper, Loretta Young, William Demarest, Dan Duryea) – Classic Movie Review 7687

‘IT’S THE WEST AT ITS BEST! WITH ROOTIN’…TOOTIN’…SHOOTIN’ COOPER!’ Director Stuart Heisler’s 1945 romantic comedy Western Along Came Jones stars Gary Cooper, Loretta Young, William Demarest and Dan Duryea. Along came Cooper as upright but […]

Oct, 21

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