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Parrish *** (1961, Troy Donahue, Claudette Colbert, Karl Malden, Dean Jagger, Connie Stevens) – Classic Movie Review 3383

Writer-producer-director Delmer Daves, star Troy Donahue, composer Max Steiner and cinematographer Harry Stradling Sr all reunite after their 1959 success with A Summer Place for this new overwrought 1961 romantic drama, Parrish. The likeable and […]

Feb, 19

The Palm Beach Story ***** (1942, Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee) – Classic Movie Review 2923

Writer-director Preston Sturges’s marvellous 1942 American classic stars Claudette Colbert as a wife called Gerry Jeffers, who runs away from penniless inventor husband Tom Jeffers (Joel McCrea) and takes off for Florida’s Palm Beach. There she soon […]

Sep, 23

Cleopatra **** (1934, Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Henry Wilcoxon) – Classic Movie Review 2413

Producer-director Cecil B DeMille’s incredibly lavish and kitsch 1934 epic version of the Cleopatra story is infectiously extravagant in every way, as befits the ultimate showman he was. He was determined to make a popular […]

Apr, 20

It Happened One Night ***** (1934, Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert) – Classic Film Review 86

Director Frank Capra’s deliciously playful romantic comedy took all the big prizes at the 1935 Academy Awards. It made history as the only film to scoop all five main Oscars (best picture, actor, actress, screenplay, […]

Jul, 24

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