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Isn’t It Romantic ** (1948, Veronica Lake, Billy De Wolfe, Patric Knowles, Mona Freeman, Mary Hatcher, Roland Culver) – Classic Movie Review 11,101

Director Norman Z McLeod’s 1948 black and white Paramount film Isn’t It Romantic stars Veronica Lake as Candy Cameron, who has two sisters (Mona Freeman, Mary Hatcher) and prefers conman Rick Brannon (Patric Knowles), a […]

Apr, 16

The Dolly Sisters *** (1945, Betty Grable, John Payne, June Haver, S Z Sakall) – Classic Movie Review 11,045

‘They’re Beautiful…They’re Glamorous…They’re Scandalous…’ Director Irving Cummings’s 1945 American Technicolor biographical film The Dolly Sisters stars Betty Grable (as Jenny) who teams up with June Haver (as Rosie) in the fictionalised real-life story of the 1900s famed […]

Mar, 25

The Hard Way *** (1943, Ida Lupino, Joan Leslie, Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson) – Classic Movie Review 10,213

Director Vincent Sherman’s attractive 1943 backstage yarn The Hard Way stars Ida Lupino as ambitious steel-town gal Helen Chernen, who boosts her younger sister Katherine (Joan Leslie) into marriage with music man Albert Runkel (Jack […]

Aug, 22

Danger Signal *** (1945, Faye Emerson, Zachary Scott, Richard Erdman, Mona Freeman) – Classic Movie Review 8938

The 1945 film noir crime melodrama Danger Signal stars the splendidly shifty-looking Zachary Scott as a smooth-talking psychopathic career killer.  Director Robert Florey’s 1945 Warner Bros black and white film noir crime melodrama Danger Signal […]

Sep, 25

Slightly Scarlet **** (1956, John Payne, Rhonda Fleming, Arlene Dahl) – Classic Movie Review 8826

‘Out of the shadows of a vice-ridden city comes James M Cain’s most explosive drama!’ Director Allan Dwan’s sharp and stylish 1956 colour film noir crime thriller Slightly Scarlet is a neatly acted and smartly […]

Aug, 13

My Sister Eileen **** (1955, Janet Leigh, Jack Lemmon, Betty Garrett, Bob Fosse, Kurt Kasznar, Horace McMahon, Dick York, Tommy Rall) – Classic Movie Review 7260

Wacky Betty Garrett and alluring Janet Leigh star as Ohio country girls Ruth and Eileen Sherwood in co-writer/ director Richard Quine’s 1955 musical remake of Rosalind Russell’s 1942 comedy My Sister Eileen about the adventures […]

Jul, 06

Devotion *** (1946, Olivia de Havilland, Ida Lupino, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet, Arthur Kennedy, Montagu Love, Paul Henreid, Dame May Whitty, Ethel Griffies) – Classic Movie Review 6811

Director Curtis Bernhardt’s 1946 romantic biographical drama of the lives of the Brontës stars Ida Lupino Emily Brontë, Olivia de Havilland as Charlotte Brontë, Nancy Coleman as Anne Brontë, and Arthur Kennedy as Branwell Brontë. […]

Mar, 16

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