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The 1934 original black and white film version of the Fannie Hurst mother-love weepie Imitation of Life is a pleasure, starring Claudette Colbert, Warren William and Louise Beavers. Producer-director John M Stahl’s 1934 original black […]
Director Gottfried Reinhardt’s extravagant 1952 black and white romantic drama Invitation stars Dorothy McGuire, Van Johnson, Ruth Roman, and Louis Calhern. It is ‘The Story of a Borrowed Love!’ Invitation is a soppy but sleek […]
Director Jerry Hopper’s 1956 American Technicolor comedy-drama romance film Never Say Goodbye stars Rock Hudson as a surgeon called Dr Mike Parker, who operates on Lisa Gosting (Cornell Borchers), the Viennese wife he walked out […]
Director Sam Wood’s 1937 MGM drama is the fifth (of seven) cinema film versions of this classic fallen woman, road-to-ruin weepie tale about Jacqueline Fleuriot, a rich woman whose life is wrecked by a brief […]
Writer-director Isabel Coixet’s 2003 Canadian-Spanish co-production is a great tearjerker. Sarah Polley tugs expertly at the heartstrings as a 23-year-old wife and mother dying of ovarian cancer in this depressing, but exquisitely done and warmly affecting […]
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