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Isadora **** (1966, Vivian Pickles, Peter Bowles, Alexei Jawdokimov, Murray Melvin) – Classic Movie Review 10,395

Isadora (1966) is the vivacious, deservedly much admired Ken Russell TV movie version of the life of the 1920s American dancer Isadora Duncan, with a most compelling, attractive and genial lead performance by Vivian Pickles […]

Oct, 09

We’ll Meet Again ** (1943, Vera Lynn, Geraldo, Patricia Roc) – Classic Movie Review 9931

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 […]

Jun, 19

Carmen **** (1983, Antonio Gades, Laura del Sol, Paco de Lucía, Marisol, Cristina Hoyos, Juan Antonio Jiménez) – Classic Movie Review 9834

Antonio Gades (as the choreographer Antonio and the film’s real choreographer) and sizzling Laura del Sol (as the main dancer Carmen) kick up a storm in director Carlos Saura’s 1983 Spanish dance film Carmen. In […]

May, 28

Dancing Co-Ed ** (1939, Lana Turner, Richard Carlson, Artie Shaw) – Classic Movie Review 9825

Precocious Lana Turner, then MGM’s new teenage sensation, aged 18 and making the most of her first starring role, dances and studies her way to success as Patty Marlow, the ambitious dancing co-ed of the […]

May, 26

Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne **** (1945, Paul Bernard, María Casares, Elina Labourdette) – Classic Movie Review 9815

Director Robert Bresson’s exquisitely delicate 1945 romantic drama Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne [Ladies of the Park] is a renowned vintage long-time French favourite and stars the splendid María Casares, Elina Labourdette and Paul […]

May, 24

For the Boys **** (1991, Bette Midler, James Caan, George Segal) – Classic Movie Review 9681

Director Mark Rydell’s 1991 For the Boys is a lavish, old-fashioned musical drama vehicle for Bette Midler as Dixie Leonard, an American showgirl with a heart of gold and a will of iron, who teams […]

Apr, 27

The Shining Hour *** (1938, Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Margaret Sullavan, Robert Young, Fay Bainter) – Classic Movie Review 9188

Director Frank Borzage’s polished 1938 The Shining Hour is a shining hour or so (76 minutes, actually) of well-acted melodrama as a rich, upper-class farmer Henry Linden (Melvyn Douglas) takes his new nightclub dancing hoofer […]

Dec, 24

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