LEADING COUPLES: THE MOST UNFORGETTABLE SCREEN ROMANCES OF THE STUDIO ERA
With text by Frank Miller, whose previous books include Leading Ladies and Leading Men, introduction by Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne, and loads of photographs covering about half a century of Hollywood history, Leading Couples: The Most Unforgettable Screen Romances of the Studio Era (Chronicle Books, 2008) takes a brief look at nearly forty successful movie pairings from the studio era (and a little later).
Among those featured are both the obvious — say, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, Doris Day and Rock Hudson, Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn — and several more esoteric couplings (at least as far as modern film lovers are concerned), e.g., [...]
by Andre Soares | December 20, 2008
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Tags: Alan Ladd, Books, Classic Movies, Frank Miller, Leading Couples, Robert Osborne, The Blue Dahlia, Veronica Lake
Joseph Pevney
Director Joseph Pevney died this past May 18. He was 96.
Pevney was best known — among the few who’d heard of him — for his 1950s B-movies made at Universal, though beginning in the late 1950s he went on to direct countless episodes of TV series ranging from Bewitched and The Big Valley to Star Trek and The Incredible Hulk.
Among Pevney’s 1950s efforts are the Frank Sinatra drama Meet Danny Wilson (1951), made when Sinatra’s career was in the doldrums; Desert Legion (1953), starring Alan Ladd; It Happens Every Thursday (1952), Loretta Young’s last feature film; and 3 Ring Circus (1954), with Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, and Joanne Dru.
Also, the over-the-top melodrama Female on the Beach (photo, 1954), which [...]
by Andre Soares | May 29, 2008
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Tags: Alan Ladd, Bewitched, Cash McCall, Classic Movies, Debbie Reynolds, Desert Legion, Errol Flynn, Female on the Beach, Istanbul, It Happens Every Thursday, James Cagney, James Garner, Jeff Chandler, Joan Crawford, Joseph Pevney, Loretta Young, Man with a Thousand Faces, Meet Danny Wilson, Natalie Wood, Star Trek, Tammy and the Bachelor, The Big Valley, Universal
Best Films – 1942
FILM
Bambi
d: David Hand; scr: Larry Morey and others
The Black Swan
d: Henry King; scr: Ben Hecht, Seton I. Miller
Casablanca
d: Michael Curtiz; scr: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch
Johnny Eager
d: Mervyn LeRoy; scr: John Lee Mahin, James Edward Grant
The Magnificent Ambersons
d, scr: Orson Welles
The Major and the Minor
d: Billy Wilder; scr: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder
Once Upon a Honeymoon
d: Leo McCarey; scr: Sheridan Gibney
Random Harvest
d: Mervyn LeRoy; scr: Claudine West, George Froeschel, Arthur Wimperis
Tales of Manhattan
d: Julien Duvivier; scr: Ben Hecht, Ferenc Molnar, Donald Ogden Stewart, Samuel Hoffenstein, Alan Campbell, Ladislas Fodor, Laslo Vadnay, Laszlo Gorog, Lamar Trotti, Henry Blankfort
The Talk of the Town
d: George Stevens; scr: Irwin Shaw, Sidney Buchman
Carole Lombard, [...]
by Andre Soares | August 31, 2004
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Tags: Alan Ladd, Best Films, Carole Lombard, Casablanca, Classic Movies, Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Leo McCarey, Once Upon a Honeymoon, This Gun for Hire, To Be or Not to Be
