Best Films – 1941
Orson Welles in Citizen Kane
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Cheers for Miss Bishop
d: Tay Garnett; scr: Sheridan Gibney, Adelaide Heilbron
Citizen Kane
d: Orson Welles; scr: Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles
The Devil and Miss Jones
d: Sam Wood; scr: Norman Krasna
Dumbo
d: Ben Sharpsteen; scr: Joe Grant, Dick Huemer and others
The Great Lie
d: Edmund Goulding; scr: Lenore J. Coffee
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
d: Alexander Hall; scr: Seton I. Miller, Sidney Buchman
The Lady Eve
d, scr: Preston Sturges
The Little Foxes
d: William Wyler; scr: Lillian Hellman
Manpower
d: Raoul Walsh; scr: Richard Macauley, Jerry Wald
The Sea Wolf
d: Michael Curtiz; scr: Robert Rossen
Sara Allgood, Roddy McDowall in How Green Was My Valley
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La Fille du puisatier / The Well-Digger’s Daughter
d, scr: Marcel Pagnol
How Green Was My Valley
d: John Ford; scr: Philip Dunne
Meet John Doe
d: [...]
by Andre Soares | April 4, 2009
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Osa Massen
Danish-born actress Osa Massen, a femme fatale in Hollywood films of the 1940s, died Jan. 2 at a convalescent home in Santa Monica, Calif., while recovering from surgery. According to the Los Angeles Times obit, Massen was 91. (She was born in Copenhagen on Jan. 13, 1914.)
Reports claim that Massen was trained as a newspaper photographer (this info, found in the Los Angeles Times obit, may have come from the often unreliable IMDb), but she decided to become a film editor after acting (as Aase Madsen) in the 1935 Danish movie Kidnapped for directors Alice O’Fredericks and Lau Lauritzen.
Following a second Danish film that same year, Arne Weel’s comedy Bag Københavns kulisser, Massen accepted an offer to go [...]
by Andre Soares | February 17, 2006
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Tags: A Woman's Face, Allan Hersholt, Classic Movies, Honeymoon in Bali, Iceland, Million Dollar Weekend, Osa Massen
