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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 […]
‘They say there are great, pitch black spaces between the stars. I think they are between people too.’ – Lisa Della Robbia. Director Elliott Nugent’s 1935 Paramount black and white romantic comedy Enter Madame stars […]
Gloria Swanson plays passionless Hungarian prima donna opera singer Nella Vargo singing Tosca in Venice, where she falls for an Italian playboy who is really Jim Fletcher (Melvyn Douglas) an opera producer for the prestigious Metropolitan Opera in New York, in a […]
Young Parisian writer-director Jean-Jacques Beineix’s 1981 French thriller Diva is his witty, trendy and stylish film debut. Pushing a lot harder than most movies and turning its back on the realist mood of Seventies, Diva […]
The MGM studio welcomes back its Thirties great contract star Joan Crawford after a decade away with director Charles Walters’s sometimes feeble, frequently daft 1953 soap opera. Nevertheless, it is quite enjoyable and can boast some […]
Director Vincente Minnelli’s literate and intelligent 1962 follow-up to MGM’s The Bad and the Beautiful has the same movie-making background and the same star (Kirk Douglas), writer (Charles Schnee), producer (John Houseman) and director, as […]
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