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: [...]

Simone Simon

Simone Simon, the star of Cat People and La Bête humaine, died of undisclosed causes in Paris on the night of February 22, according to an announcement made by her family. She was 94.
Yesterday, French Minister of Culture Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres issued a statement in which he extolled Simon’s “charm, her irresistible smile. … With Simone Simon’s passing, we have lost one of the most seductive and most brilliant stars of the French cinema of the first half of the 20th century.”
The film career of pretty, kittenish Simone Simon spanned more than four decades, from the early 1930s to the early 1970s, during which time she appeared in nearly 40 motion pictures in France, Italy, Germany, Britain, [...]