Best Films – 1934
Norma Shearer in The Barretts of Wimpole Street
FILM
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
d: Sidney Franklin; scr: Ernest Vajda, Claudine West, Donald Ogden Stewart
The Count of Monte Cristo
d: Rowland V. Lee; scr: Philip Dunne, Dan Totheroh, Rowland V. Lee
The Gay Divorcee
d: Mark Sandrich; scr: George Marion Jr., Dorothy Yost, Edward Kaufman
Hide-out
d: W. S. Van Dyke; scr: Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich
The Merry Widow
d: Ernst Lubitsch; scr: Samson Raphaelson, Ernest Vajda
Fredric March, Evelyn Venable in Death Takes a Holiday
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Broadway Bill
d: Frank Capra; scr: Robert Riskin
Death Takes a Holiday
d: Mitchell Leisen; scr: Maxwell Anderson, Gladys Lehman
Gold
d: Karl Hartl; scr: Rolf E. Vanloo
Here Comes the Navy
d: Lloyd Bacon; scr: Earl Baldwin, Ben Markson
Maskerade / Masquerade in Vienna
d: Willi Forst; scr: [...]
by Andre Soares | April 3, 2009
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Tags: Albert Hackett, Alice White, Anna May Wong, Anton Walbrook, Best Films, Broadway Bill, Buster Crabbe, Charles Laughton, Classic Movies, Claudette Colbert, Constance Bennett, Easy to Love, Ernest Vajda, Ernst Lubitsch, Etienne Girardot, Fay Wray, Four Frightened People, Frances Goodrich, Frank Capra, Franz Planer, Genevieve Tobin, Ginger Rogers, Gold, Heinz Ruhman, Helen Lowell, Here Comes the Navy, Hide-out, Imitation of Life, James Cagney, Jean Arthur, Jeanette MacDonald, Karl Hartl, Lloyd Bacon, Louise Beavers, Marian Nixon, Mark Sandrich, Mary Astor, Mary Boland, Norma Shearer, Peter Lorre, Philip Dunne, Ramon Novarro, Ray June, Robert Montgomery, Rowland V. Lee, Samson Raphaelson, Sidney Franklin, The Affairs of Cellini, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, The Cat and the Fiddle, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Gay Divorcee, The Merry Widow, The Most Precious Thing in Life, Viva Villa!, W. S. Van Dyke, Wallace Beery, We're Rich Again
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
Virginia Mayo
Virginia Mayo, the star of several Technicolor productions of the 1940s and 1950s, died today at a nursing home in the Los Angeles suburb of Thousand Oaks. Mayo, who was 84, had been in poor health since contracting pneumonia a year ago.
Beginning her career as a chorus girl, the honey-blonde Virginia Mayo (born Virginia Clara Jones on Nov. 30, 1920, in St. Louis, Missouri) soon became one of the leading exponents of Technicolored female beauty during the post-World War II era. Never a great actress, she was always interesting to look at. And if her performances lacked warmth, Mayo exuded more than enough sultriness to compensate for that deficiency.
Initially a Samuel Goldwyn contract player, Mayo went from bit parts [...]
by Andre Soares | January 17, 2005
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Tags: Classic Movies, Danny Kaye, James Cagney, Samuel Goldwyn, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Flame and the Arrow, The Kid from Brooklyn, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Virginia Mayo, White Heat
Best Films – 1949
Spencer Tracy, Judy Holliday, Katharine Hepburn in Adam’s Rib
FILM
Adam’s Rib
d: George Cukor; scr: Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin
The Heiress
d: William Wyler; scr: Ruth Goetz, Augustus Goetz
I Was a Male War Bride
d: Howard Hawks; scr: Charles Lederer, Hagar Wilde, Leonard Spiegelglass
On the Town
d: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly; scr: Betty Comden, Adolph Green
The Passionate Friends
d: David Lean; scr: Eric Ambler
Passport to Pimlico
d: Henry Cornelius; scr: T. E. B. Clarke
A Run for Your Money
d: Charles Frend; scr: Richard Hughes, Charles Frend, Leslie Norman
The Set-Up
d: Robert Wise; scr: Art Cohn
Whisky Galore
d: Alexander Mackendrick; scr: Compton Mackenzie, Angus Macphail
White Heat
d: Raoul Walsh; scr: Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts
Rudy Vallee, Olga San Juan, Betty Grable in The Beautiful [...]
by Andre Soares | August 31, 2004
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Tags: Adam's Rib, Ann Todd, Best Films, Classic Movies, Claude Rains, James Cagney, Judy Holliday, Katharine Hepburn, Margaret Rutherford, Passport to Pimlico, T. E. B. Clarke, The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend, The Passionate Friends, White Heat
