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Susan and God **** (1940, Joan Crawford, Fredric March, Ruth Hussey, John Carroll, Rita Hayworth, Nigel Bruce, Bruce Cabot) – Classic Movie Review 5655
Joan Crawford takes over Gertrude Lawrence’s stage role of Susan, the gay Mrs Trexel (of the UK title), for director George Cukor’s 1940 comedy-drama movie based on Rachel Crothers’s celebrated 1937 stage play Susan and […]
The Bride Comes Home *** (1935, Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Robert Young) – Classic Movie Review 5474
Claudette Colbert stars as Jeannette Desmereau, a willful penniless socialite who cannot make up her mind whether to marry a smooth millionaire called Jack Bristow (Robert Young) or his tough bodyguard Cyrus Anderson (Fred MacMurray), in […]
The Mad Miss Manton **** (1938, Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Sam Levene) – Classic Movie Review 5203
Henry Fonda is battling miscasting in screwball comedy as newspaper editor Peter Ames, but Barbara Stanwyck is perfect, throwing herself delightfully into the part of The Mad Miss Manton (1938). Director Leigh Jason’s short (just […]
Auntie Mame ** (1958, Rosalind Russell, Forrest Tucker, Coral Browne, Fred Clark, Roger Smith, Patric Knowles, Peggy Cass, Lee Patrick) – Classic Movie Review 4088
Producer-director Morton DaCosta’s 1958 Warner Bros comedy drama Auntie Mame is the musical Mame without the music, in which an unconventional, free-thinking socialite aunt adopts an orphan in the inter-war years when her brother dies. Based on […]
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante ** (1940, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Lewis Stone, Fay Holden, Cecilia Parker) – Classic Movie Review 3620
Director George B Seitz’s entertaining 1940 ninth film in the MGM comedy series, Andy Hardy Meets Debutante, finds Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) is still chasing pretty MGM starlets. Hooray for Judy Garland in a charismatic […]
Petulia *** (1968, Julie Christie, George C Scott, Richard Chamberlain, Shirley Knight, Pippa Scott) – Classic Movie Review 3,537
Richard Lester takes us back to the San Francisco-style kookie Swinging Sixties era, in the interesting but shaky 1968 romantic drama film Petulia. Julie Christie stars as the Arch Kook Petulia, a zany young British […]
The Damned Don’t Cry **** (1950, Joan Crawford, Kent Smith, David Brian, Steve Cochran, Hugh Sanders, Richard Egan) – Classic Movie Review 3258
‘She’s the Private Lady of a Public Enemy!’ Director Vincent Sherman’s richly enjoyable 1950 flashback-told black and white film noir crime melodrama The Damned Don’t Cry provides a good role for Joan Crawford to do what […]