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Director Stuart Heisler’s effective 1947 melodrama stars Susan Hayward as fast-rising nightclub singer Angie Evans, who becomes a smashed-up woman and hits the bottle when her singing career goes flat, while her songwriter husband Ken […]
I’ll Cry Tomorrow (1955) is Susan Hayward’s fourth Oscar nomination, playing Lillian Roth, the real-life Thirties musical star who turns to the bottle and attempts suicide. Director Daniel Mann’s 1955 movie I’ll Cry Tomorrow provides […]
James Garner creates the role he was born for – the cynical ex-convict turned private eye Jim Rockford who investigates cases the cops can’t solve – in this extremely engaging pilot for his hit TV […]
A marvellous cast brings Eugene O’Neill’s classic play about a dysfunctional family in 1912 Connecticut to vibrant life. Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Dean Stockwell and Jason Robards Jr are magnificent, making the drama explosive on […]
Director Mimi Leder’s 2000 fine, good-spirited drama stars Haley Joel Osment as 11 and a half year-old Trevor McKinney, the young son of a working, single mom (Helen Hunt), who begins seventh grade at school […]
Judy Garland and James Mason are at their wonderful best as the doomed star Hollywood couple in George Cukor’s triumphant 1954 classic musical film A Star Is Born. Director George Cukor’s triumphant 1954 classic musical […]
Co-writer/director Billy Wilder’s coruscating, much-admired four-Oscar-winning 1945 drama proved Ray Milland’s greatest triumph in the movies and one of director Wilder’s. It won the Oscar for Best Picture and the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. Milland […]