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Director Gregory Ratoff’s 1943 musical comedy film The Heat’s On [Tropicana] stars Mae West in her last film from her prime is a weak backstage musical without the usual quota of naughty West wisecracks. A […]
Director Sidney Lumet’s 1958 American drama film Stage Struck is a dated Fifties reworking of the old 1933 Katharine Hepburn backstage story film Morning Glory, held back with a shaky performance by Susan Strasberg as […]
Director Stanley Donen’s 1953 MGM ‘Breezy, Teasy Color by TECHNICOLOR Musical’ film Give a Girl a Break stars doughty dames Debbie Reynolds, Marge Champion and Helen Wood, each with their own champion, who vie for […]
Director Eugene Forde’s 1937 mystery crime thriller Charlie Chan on Broadway stars Warner Oland as Chan, Keye Luke as Lee Chan, Joan Marsh as Joan Wendall, J Edward Bromberg as Murdock, Donald Woods as Speed […]
Director/co-writer Sylvester Stallone’s 1983 romantic musical drama Staying Alive comes up with a sequel to Saturday Night Fever for John Travolta, best described as Rocky meets A Chorus Line. It was a Golden Globe nominee […]
Director Tim Whelan’s 1944 RKO movie showcase for Frank Sinatra is a pleasingly enjoyable follow-up to Higher and Higher (1943), reuniting star and director. It an engaging musical remake of the Marx Brothers’ 1938 film […]
Director Norman Taurog’s 1940 musical brings the series of four Broadway Melody movies to an end in great style with Fred Astaire and George Murphy kicking up a storm as Johnny Brett and King Shaw, […]