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Stage Door Canteen **** (1943, William Terry, Cheryl Walker, Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead) – Classic Movie Review 3,894

Franz Borzage’s glittering 1943 movie Stage Door Canteen is essential viewing for a nostalgic star-spotting look at Broadway’s and Hollywood’s Forties élite. It features 48 stars and six bands.  The 1943 American World War Two […]

Jun, 20

Call Me Madam **** (1953, Ethel Merman, George Sanders, Donald O’Connor, Vera-Ellen, Billy De Wolfe, Walter Slezak) – Classic Movie Review 2614

The boisterous Ethel Merman is on top form as the hostess with the mostest  – and so are the whole cast – for Walter Lang’s very bright, lively and nimble 1953 film version of the ultimate […]

Jun, 18

Flamingo Road ***** (1949, Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet, David Brian, Gladys George) – Classic Movie Review 2011

Director Michael Curtiz’s steamy and over-heated but memorable 1949 romantic noir melodrama finds the ideal star in the one and only Joan Crawford in her follow-up to the acclaimed Mildred Pierce, where she won the […]

Dec, 29

Austenland ** (2013, Keri Russell, J J Feild, Jennifer Coolidge) – Movie Review

That good and appealing actress Keri Russell draws the short straw and plays an idiot American woman called Jane Hayes, who’s obsessed with Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Mr Darcy and Colin Firth in the BBC […]

Sep, 28

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