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All That Heaven Allows **** (1955, Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead) – Classic Movie Review 3434

Admired cult director Douglas Sirk’s gloriously plush 1955 romantic melodrama All That Heaven Allows stars Jane Wyman as the lovely New England upper-class widow Cary Scott who falls for the down-to-earth, hunky, romantic, much younger […]

Mar, 01

Night and Day *** (1946, Cary Grant, Alexis Smith, Monty Woolley, Mary Martin, Jane Wyman, Dorothy Malone, Eve Arden, Ginny Simms) – Classic Movie Review 3088

Cary Grant was not happy while making the intriguing though flawed 1946 Cole Porter musical biopic Night and Day, clashing often with director Michael Curtiz, mostly over a ‘weak script with lousy characterisations’. With rumours […]

Nov, 24

Johnny Belinda **** (1948, Jane Wyman, Lew Ayres, Stephen McNally, Charles Bickford, Agnes Moorehead) – Classic Movie Review 1353

Based on the 1940 Broadway stage hit play by Elmer Blaney Harris, director Jean Negulesco’s 1948 tearjerker was controversial in its day and now is still touching, sensitive and extremely enjoyable. Jane Wyman won the Best […]

Jun, 24

Stage Fright **** (1950, Marlene Dietrich, Jane Wyman, Richard Todd, Michael Wilding, Alastair Sim, Sybil Thorndike, Kay Walsh, Patricia Hitchcock) – Classic Movie Review 326

Alfred Hitchcock recalls his 1950 British thriller film Stage Fright: ‘Several of the reviewers mentioned Selwyn Jepson’s novel Man Running might make a good Hitchcock picture and I, like an idiot, believed them.’ ‘Love held […]

Oct, 26

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