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Posts Tagged "Oscar Wilde"
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Salomé **** (1922, Alla Nazimova, Nigel De Brulier, Mitchell Lewis) – Classic Movie Review 7126
Director Charles Bryant’s extravagant black and white 1922 art nouveau silent movie version of Oscar Wilde’s play cost more than $350,000 to make and is outrageously designed by Natacha Rambova, who was clearly influenced by […]
The Canterville Ghost **** (1944, Charles Laughton, Robert Young, Margaret O’Brien) – Classic Movie Review 6845
Sir Simon de Canterville: ‘Excuse me, I really must gibber at the oriole window.’ Director Jules Dassin’s 1943 fantasy comedy is freely based on the delightful Oscar Wilde story and is full of lighthearted whimsy […]
Lady Windermere’s Fan *** (1925, May McAvoy, Ronald Colman, Irene Rich, Bert Lytell) – Classic Movie Review 6059
May McAvoy stars as Lady Windermere and Ronald Colman stars as Lord Darlington in Ernst Lubitsch’s 1925 silent version of Oscar Wilde’s classic 1892 play Lady Windermere’s Fan, which is happily available now on DVD. A non-speaking Oscar Wilde film […]
A Good Woman *** (2004, Helen Hunt, Stephen Campbell Moore, Tom Wilkinson, Scarlett Johansson) – Classic Movie Review 6058
Director Mike Barker’s fourth screen version of the 1892 classic play Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde is excellent and underrated, propelled by a superb performance by an ideally cast Helen Hunt as the infamous femme fatale Mrs Erlynne. Of the British team, Stephen […]
The Fan *** (1949, Jeanne Crain, Madeleine Carroll, George Sanders, Richard Greene) – Classic Movie Review 4,686
Madeleine Carroll is excellent as the scandalous middle-aged Mrs Erlynne in a smooth, civilised, well-dressed film of Oscar Wilde’s 1892 play Lady Windermere’s Fan in 1949 with the cut-down title of The Fan. Producer-director Otto […]
Dorian Gray **** (2009, Ben Barnes, Colin Firth, Rebecca Hall, Ben Chaplin, Douglas Henshall, Emilia Fox, Max Irons) – Classic Movie Review 3,033
Ben Barnes is perfect as the hedonistic, corrupt young Dorian Gray in director Ol Parker’s smart, sensual and well-tuned 2009 film of Oscar Wilde’s only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. Looking and sounding just […]
The Picture of Dorian Gray **** (1945, George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed, Angela Lansbury) – Classic Movie Review 1887
Hurd Hatfield stars in the 1945 film The Picture of Dorian Gray as the beautiful young man who unwittingly makes a pact with the Devil to keep his youthful beauty while his portrait in the […]