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A Family Affair **** (1937, Lionel Barrymore, Spring Byington, Mickey Rooney, Eric Linden, Cecilia Parker) – Classic Movie Review 7358

The success of their sleeper hit Ah Wilderness! (1935) prompted MGM to re-use many of the cast in A Family Affair (1937), the first in its Andy Hardy series (1937-1946), including Lionel Barrymore, Spring Byington, Mickey Rooney, Eric […]

Jul, 28 · in Uncategorized

Ah Wilderness! ***** (1935, Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore, Aline MacMahon, Eric Linden, Cecilia Parker, Spring Byington, Mickey Rooney, Bonita Granville) = Classic Movie Review 7357

‘Clarence Brown’s production of Eugene O’Neill’s great American drama’. Perhaps it is surprising that MGM should want to turn posh dramatist Eugene O’Neill’s one-off nostalgic comic play about a provincial small-town American family around 1900 […]

Jul, 27 · in Reviews

Pollyanna **** (1960, Hayley Mills, Jane Wyman, Richard Egan, Karl Malden, Nancy Olson, Adolphe Menjou, Donald Crisp, Agnes Moorehead) – Classic Movie Review 7356

Writer-director David Swift’s 1960 children’s movie Pollyanna is Hayley Mills’s first film for Walt Disney, playing the title’s ever-optimistic Pollyanna, a tween girl who goes to live with her intimidating aunt Polly (Jane Wyman) and […]

Jul, 27

Summer Holiday **** (1948, Mickey Rooney, Gloria DeHaven, Walter Huston, Frank Morgan, Agnes Moorehead) – Classic Movie Review 7355

MGM’s boy star Mickey Rooney finally comes of age at 27 in ace director Rouben Mamoulian’s delightfully handsome and extravagant 1948 Technicolor musical rejig of Eugene O’Neill’s famed play Ah Wilderness! about a Danville, Connecticut, […]

Jul, 27

Summer Interlude [Sommarlek] [Illicit Interlude] **** (1951, Maj-Britt Nilsson, Birger Malmsten, Alf Kjellin) – Classic Movie Review 7354

Co-writer/ director Ingmar Bergman’s early lyrical, delicate and sensuous 1951 black and white film Summer Interlude (Sommarlek) hauntingly recalls the bitter-sweet memories of a prima ballerina’s tender first love affair at the age of 15. Bergman […]

Jul, 27

Summer Magic *** (1963, Hayley Mills, Dorothy McGuire, Burl Ives, Deborah Walley, Peter Brown) – Classic Movie Review 7353

Director James Neilson’s 1963 teen movie Summer Magic stars Walt Disney’s number one star at the time, Hayley Mills, who in real life grows up to celebrate her 17th birthday (on 18 April 1963) but […]

Jul, 27

Thirty Day Princess [30-Day Princess] *** (1934, Sylvia Sidney, Cary Grant, Edward Arnold) – Classic Movie Review 7352

Director Marion Gering’s contrived but appealing and amusing 1934 Paramount Pictures black and white comedy Thirty Day Princess reunites the stars of 1932’s Madame Butterfly, Sylvia Sidney and Cary Grant. Thirty Day Princess is a gently […]

Jul, 27

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