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Marion Davies called for her previous co-star Clark Gable to support her again on the 1936 musical comedy film Cain and Mabel, and money was no object – they literally raised the roof. Clark Gable […]
Director Alfred E Green’s 1936 The Golden Arrow finds Bette Davis cast once again opposite George Brent, this time in a would-be frothy screwball comedy as a restaurant cafeteria cashier hired by a cosmetics firm’s […]
Olivia de Havilland (21) has her first top billing in a movie in the frivolous 1937 comedy Call It a Day about a middle-class English family struggling with the romantic effects of spring fever during […]
Incomparable 1930s players Carole Lombard and May Robson delight in director David Burton’s bubbly 1934 vintage comedy Lady by Choice about a fame-hungry fan-dancer, Alabam Lee (Lombard), who takes in a mean, drunken, down-at-heel old […]
Director Wesley Ruggles’s attractive 1940 black and white screwball romantic comedy Too Many Husbands [My Two Husbands] stars Jean Arthur, Melvyn Douglas and Fred MacMurray. Columbia Pictures assembles a special cast to raise lots of […]
Director Harry d’Abbadie D’Arrast’s 1933 comedy remake Topaze stars John Barrymore and Myrna Loy, who head up a fine American version of the Marcel Pagnol story about a meek French teacher, Professor Auguste Topaze (Barrymore). […]
Horror expert Val Lewton unexpectedly produced a light-as-air romantic comedy as his last film in which Deborah Kerr plays Alison Kirbe of London, who is pursued aboard ship to the United States by three apparently […]