REMEMBER THE NIGHT – Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray
Remember the Night (1940)
Direction: Mitchell Leisen
Screenplay: Preston Sturges
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi, Elizabeth Patterson, Willard Robertson, Sterling Holloway
Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck in Remember the Night
A holiday delight that resonates from a Preston Sturges screenplay, Remember the Night assays familiar moral territory inconspicuously. As he did with the scripter’s classic Easy Living (1937), Mitchell Leisen directs. In the earlier collaboration, down-on-her-luck Jean Arthur chances upon luxury, an impetus for the screenwriter to lightly pit haves against have-nots. In Remember the Night, new to DVD from the Universal-TCM Vault Collection, star Barbara Stanwyck initially has less serendipitous designs upon good fortune.
Sturges is not as concerned with economic wealth this time [...]
by Doug Johnson | December 19, 2009
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Tags: Barbara Stanwyck, Beulah Bondi, Classic Movies, Elizabeth Patterson, Film Reviews, Fred MacMurray, Mitchell Leisen, Preston Sturges, Remember the Night
Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray in REMEMBER THE NIGHT on TCM
A digitally restored version of Remember the Night, the 1940 classic written by Preston Sturges, directed by Mitchell Leisen, and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray, is one of Turner Classic Movies‘ Christmas presentations this December. Remember the Night will air several times throughout the month, including on Christmas Eve at 5 p.m. (PT).
“It’s one of those quirky twists of fate that a film as exceptional as Remember the Night has been so overlooked when it comes to great Christmas movies,” TCM host Robert Osborne was quoted as saying. “It’s our hope at TCM that our special Christmas Eve showing of this holiday gem, now fully remastered, will help give it a much-deserved new life.” [...]
by Andre Soares | December 7, 2009
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Tags: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Mitchell Leisen, Preston Sturges, Remember the Night, Robert Osborne, Turner Classic Movies
TO EACH HIS OWN – Olivia de Havilland, John Lund
To Each His Own (1946)
Direction: Mitchell Leisen
Screenplay: Charles Brackett and Jacques Théry; from a story by Brackett
Cast: Olivia de Havilland, John Lund, Mary Anderson, Roland Culver, Phillip Terry, Bill Goodwin
Olivia de Havilland, John Lund in To Each His Own
Olivia de Havilland, who had starred in the 1941 melodrama Hold Back the Dawn, returns to the wartime milieu in To Each His Own (1946), once again under the direction of Mitchell Leisen, who guides the proceedings with his characteristic sincerity while cleverly skirting the Production Code’s restrictive guidelines.
In To Each His Own, de Havilland plays Jody Norris, a small-town woman who falls quickly in love — much like her character in Hold Back the Dawn, but this time [...]
by Doug Johnson | November 13, 2009
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Tags: Classic Movies, Film Reviews, John Lund, Mitchell Leisen, Olivia de Havilland, Oscar 1946, Oscar Movies, To Each His Own
HOLD BACK THE DAWN – Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard
Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
Direction: Mitchell Leisen
Screenplay: Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder; from Ketti Fring’s story
Cast: Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard, Victor Francen, Walter Abel, Curt Bois, Rosemary DeCamp
Olivia de Havilland, Charles Boyer, Paulette Goddard in Hold Back the Dawn
Olivia de Havilland shines in Mitchell Leisen’s melodrama Hold Back the Dawn, a sort of opening bracket for the director’s World War II-era films.
Adapted by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett from Ketti Frings‘ semi-autobiographical story, Hold Back the Dawn stars Charles Boyer as George Iscovescu, a Romanian dancer unable to enter the U.S. from Mexico due to immigration quotas imposed at the onset of the European conflict.
Paulette Goddard is his scheming former partner, Anita, who marries an American to [...]
by Doug Johnson | November 13, 2009
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Tags: Billy Wilder, Charles Boyer, Charles Brackett, Classic Movies, Film Reviews, Hold Back the Dawn, Mitchell Leisen, Olivia de Havilland, Oscar 1941, Oscar Movies, Paulette Goddard