Derek Winnert

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Girls About Town **** (1931, Kay Francis, Lilyan Tashman, Joel McCrea, Eugene Palette) – Classic Movie Review 5918

Director George Cukor’s 1931 Paramount drama is excellent vintage sophisticated, pre-Production Code-censored Thirties entertainment about sexy gold-digging ‘party girls’ Wanda Howard and Marie Bailey (Kay Francis, Lilyan Tashman) providing diversion for simple, lonely businessmen staying […]

Aug, 15

Red-Headed Woman **** (1932, Jean Harlow, Chester Morris, Lewis Stone, Leila Hyams, Una Merkel) – Classic Movie Review 4944

MGM painted the town red when they dyed Jean Harlow’s platinum blonde hair red for director Jack Conway’s steamy 1932 American pre-Code romantic comedy movie Red-Headed Woman with its amoral tale about a very busy, man-eating gold […]

Jan, 26

The Women ***** (1939, Rosalind Russell, Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer, Paulette Goddard, Joan Fontaine, Ruth Hussey, Virginia Weidler, Mary Boland) – Classic Movie Review 2919

Director George Cukor’s delicious 1939 comedy is a vastly entertaining all-female film of Clare Boothe [Luce]’s risqué hit play about an interconnected group of prospective divorcées waiting at a ranch for their divorce decrees and their […]

Sep, 20

The Lady Eve ***** (1941, Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, William Demarest, Eric Blore, Melville Cooper) – Classic Movie Review 2603

‘You see, Hopsie, you don’t know very much about girls. The best ones aren’t as good as you probably think they are and the bad ones aren’t as bad.’ Writer-director Preston Sturges’s brilliant 1941 screwball […]

Jun, 14

The Postman Always Rings Twice ***** (1946, Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway, Hume Cronyn, Leon Ames, Audrey Totter) – Classic Movie Review 744

Based on the sizzling thriller novel by James M Cain, the 1946 movie The Postman Always Rings Twice is a beloved film noir classic. Cain thought Lana Turner was the perfect choice for lethal diner […]

Jan, 25

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