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Director King Vidor’s incomparable 1937 version of the tear-jerker soap opera tale of a warm and gutsy but slatternly lower-class woman who sacrifices herself for her daughter was previously filmed in 1925, and remade as Stella in […]
‘I LOVE HIM because he doesn’t know how to kiss — THE JERK!’ Howard Hawks directs this hilarious 1941 comedy, a highspot for this kind of ‘screwball’ romantic comedy movie, working from a marvellous screenplay […]
The 1932 movie So Big has the distinction of starring two great movie queens – Barbara Stanwyck, very much the star here, and Bette Davis, who catches the eye in a smallish role. Director William […]
Fritz Lang’s heated 1952 film noir melodrama Clash by Night, based on the Clifford Odets play, is rivetingly played by a great vintage cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, Paul Douglas, Marilyn Monroe. Director Fritz Lang’s […]
‘Behind the lighted tower windows the conflict of love and power is reckless and daring!’ Director Robert Wise’s Oscar-nominated 1954 drama stars Barbara Stanwyck as Julia O Tredway, who oversees the candidates for new board […]
Director Mitchell Leisen’s 1950 movie is an engrossing, complex and powerfully acted mix of film noir thriller and romantic melodrama based on a splendidly far-fetched crime novel called I Married a Dead Man by Cornell […]
Director Peter Godfrey’s 1947 American mystery film The Two Mrs Carrolls is based on the 1935 play by Martin Vale and stars Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith and Nigel Bruce. Bogart honeymooned with Lauren […]