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Director George Cukor’s 1960 movie is a lightweight, rather bumpy showbiz comedy-romance. But it does raise some sparks and laughs with a sparkling, appealing star team in Yves Montand and Marilyn Monroe plus welcome support performers […]
Writer-director Bruce Robinson turns his memories of being an out-of-work actor into an art form. Robinson profitably digs into his own memories as a young actor in Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet and Francois Truffaut’s The […]
Billy Crystal bites the hand that feeds him in his cracking (co-written) screenplay for director Joe Roth’s sparkling 2001 Hollywood comedy. And, Crystal included, called he’s got just the right cast to make it sizzle. […]
Director Charles Walters’s 1950 Technicolor musical Summer Stock is the third and last pairing of Judy Garland and Gene Kelly. Poignantly, and sadly, it is the troubled Garland’s final movie for her studio MGM. She […]
Director Alan Parker’s stupendous double-Oscar-winning 1980 musical-drama film Fame spawned the popular 1980s TV series and spin-off, a stage show that has played all over the world since 1988 when it premiered at the Coconut Playhouse […]
Writer-director Kenneth Branagh’s 1995 movie is a beautifully realised, funny, perceptive comedy drama look at the British thespian game. In Branagh’s story, a resting, out of work actor called Joe Harper (Michael Maloney) battles to stage a […]
Joan Crawford commands the screen forcefully as a woman who marries a murderous man, in the twisty and stylish 1952 cat-and-mouse film noir thriller Sudden Fear. Joan Crawford commands the screen forcefully in the twisty […]