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Producer-director Ernst Lubitsch’s 1930 Paramount Pictures black and white film Monte Carlo is a witty, delightful early talkie musical starring Jeanette MacDonald as Countess Helene Mara, who, though about to wed silly Duke Otto von […]
Directors James W Horne and Charles [Charley] R Rogers’s 1936 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy comedy The Bohemian Girl is another of their operetta send-ups, following The Devil’s Brother [Fra Diavolo] (1933). Laurel and Hardy […]
Sadly, it is third time unlucky for MGM with this campy second remake of the Franz Lehár operetta The Merry Widow (following the 1925 silent The Merry Widow with Mae Murray and John Gilbert and The Merry […]
The Love Parade is celebrated as the film debut of Jeanette MacDonald, the first talkie directed by Ernst Lubitsch, and a huge box-office hit that helped save the fortunes of Paramount Pictures. Director Ernst Lubitsch’s […]
The young Alain Delon cuts a glorious dash – or a couple of dashes – in twin roles as French brothers Julien and Guillaume de Saint-Preux, in the entertaining 1964 French swashbuckler film The Black […]
In director Sydney Pollack’s odd but vital and intriguing 1969 World War Two wartime drama set in 1944, eight American soldiers led by a one-eyed Major Abraham Falconer (Burt Lancaster) and his Sergeant Orlando Rossi […]
Writer-producer-director Joseph L Mankiewicz’s 1954 Oscar-winning drama stars Humphrey Bogart as film-maker Harry Dawes, who moulds shoeless gypsy flamenco dancer Maria Vargas (Ava Gardner) into a movie legend, after seeing her in a Madrid club. […]