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Director Walter Lang’s 1951 Technicolor musical comedy On the Riviera is a fine and dandy vehicle for Danny Kaye, who has fun in two parts as Jack Martin, an American song and dance man adept at […]
Director Jack Conway’s 1926 MGM silent drama Brown of Harvard stars William Haines, Jack Pickford and Mary Brian and is based on the hit 1906 Broadway play by Rida Johnson Young, who also co-wrote the popular music for the play with Melvin Ellis. Haines does well […]
Director Edward Sedgwick’s amusing 1927 silent comedy Spring Fever, based on Vincent Lawrence’s 1925 play, stars William Haines and Joan Crawford in their second film together and in their first romantic teaming on screen. Haines plays a shipping clerk named […]
‘It’s got some new ideas about multiple dwelling!’ Director Robert Ellis Miller’s 1966 comedy Any Wednesday turns a thin but affable Broadway farce by Muriel Resnik into a thin but affable movie – with the bright […]
The triple Oscar-winning 1955 film The Rose Tattoo stars a triumphant Anna Magnani, who acts her socks off as the Italian-extracted peasant widow Serafina Delle Rose, in this attractive screen version of Tennessee Williams’s 1951 […]
Director Henry King’s 1937 romantic drama Seventh Heaven is an intriguing but mostly unsatisfactory remake of the 1927 silent film classic 7th Heaven with Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell. This time James Stewart is improbably […]
Director Henry Hathaway’s 1936 comedy Go West Young Man stars Mae West, who takes over the star role from a 1934 Broadway hit play called Personal Appearance by Lawrence Riley (which featured Gladys George), as […]