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Manhattan Melodrama **** (1934, Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Jimmy Butler, Mickey Rooney, Leo Carrillo, Isabel Jewell) – Classic Movie Review 2,261

MGM’s famed 1934 crime film Manhattan Melodrama is the definitive version of an oft-told tale about two ghetto orphan kids (Jimmy Butler, Mickey Rooney) maturing into adult buddies (William Powell and Clark Gable) on opposite […]

Mar, 13

The Great Ziegfeld **** (1936, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer) – Classic Movie Review 2026

  Director Robert Z Leonard’s triple-Oscar-winning 1936 MGM musical biopic is an incredibly lavish, spectacular and profitable biography of the great Broadway impresario Florenz Ziegfeld, famous as the showman producer of the most extravagant stage revues of […]

Dec, 31

Cheaper by the Dozen **** (1950, Clifton Webb, Myrna Loy, Jeanne Crain) – Classic Movie Review 1895

Ideally, indeed perfectly cast Clifton Webb and Myrna Loy are just lovely as Frank Bunker Gilbreth and Mrs Lillian Gilbreth in director Walter Lang’s effective and entertaining vintage 1950 real-life heart-warming comedy about harassed turn-of-the-last-century […]

Nov, 28

Love Me Tonight ***** (1932, Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Charles Ruggles, Charles Butterworth, Myrna Loy, C Aubrey Smith, Robert Greig) – Classic Movie Review 1358

Producer-director Rouben Mamoulian’s rousing 1932 pre-Code vintage Hollywood musical comedy Love Me Tonight is one of the genre’s highspots. With much of the story told in sung dialogue, it has a reputation as the ultimate […]

Jun, 28

Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House ***** (1948, Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas) – Classic Film Review 1227

Ideally cast, screwball comedy legends Cary Grant and Myrna Loy prove a dream team here in 1948, giving among their most delicious ever screen performances as Jim and Muriel Blandings. They’re a couple of New York-dwelling […]

May, 17

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