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Thanks for the Memory *** (1938, Bob Hope, Shirley Ross, Charles Butterworth) – Classic Movie Review 10,689

‘A GAY STORY OF LOVE AND LAUGHS ‘ Director George Archainbaud’s 1938 black and white comedy Thanks for the Memory stars Bob Hope as writer Steve Merrick, whose marriage to bohemian Anne Merrick (Ross) is […]

Dec, 20

Up on the Roof *** (1997, Billy Carter, Clare Cathcart, Adrian Lester) – Classic Movie Review 10,442

Director Simon Moore’s appealing 1997 British comedy drama with songs Up on the Roof, based on the award-winning stage play by Simon Moore and Jane Prowse, who also write the screenplay, is a tuneful, funny, […]

Oct, 21

Laughing Anne ** (1953, Wendell Corey, Margaret Lockwood, Forrest Tucker, Ronald Shiner) – Classic Movie Review 10,361

Margaret Lockwood stars as the 1880s Parisian wicked lady nightclub singing star Laughing Anne. Joseph Conrad’s triangle tug-of-love short story tale of amour and death in Java, Between the Tides, gets an overblown, stilted dramatic […]

Sep, 29

Across the Universe **** (2007, Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson, T V Carpio) – Classic Movie Review 10,355

Director Julie Taymor’s glorious 2007 musical romantic drama film Across the Universe incorporates 33 compositions originally written by members of the Beatles, and stars Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson, T V Carpio Dana […]

Sep, 27

Le Silence Est d’Or [Man About Town] *** (1947, Maurice Chevalier, François Périer, Marcelle Derrien) – Classic Movie Review 10,236

Set around the turn of the last century (it is 1910), writer/ producer/ director René Clair’s mildly charming 1947 Le Silence Est d’Or [Silence Is Golden] [Man About Town] is his first movie back home […]

Aug, 28

She’s Working Her Way Through College ** (1952, Virginia Mayo, Ronald Reagan, Gene Nelson) – Classic Movie Review 10,229

Warner Bros filmed a musical remake of their 1942 screwball comedy The Male Animal in 1952: She’s Working her Way Through College, with Virginia Mayo and Ronald Reagan. Director H Bruce Humberstone’s 1952 Technicolor film […]

Aug, 26

Hard to Get ** (1938, Dick Powell, Olivia de Havilland, Charles Winninger) – Classic Movie Review 10,194

Director Ray Enright’s 1938 screwball romantic comedy Hard to Get stars Dick Powell, who gets one hit song (‘You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby’) to croon as Bill Davis, an architect working as a […]

Aug, 18

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