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Writer-director Irving S Brecher’s 1952 Paramount Pictures film Somebody Loves Me stars fizzy Betty Hutton as vaudeville singer Blossom Seeley, who married her entertainer partner Benny Fields (Ralph Meeker), in this fairly pleasant, if soft-hearted […]
Director Mark Rydell’s 1991 For the Boys is a lavish, old-fashioned musical drama vehicle for Bette Midler as Dixie Leonard, an American showgirl with a heart of gold and a will of iron, who teams […]
Director Irving Cummings’s exuberant 1940 Latin American Technicolor musical Down Argentine Way is as light as air and twice as bracing. Above all, it is fun. With the world at war and audiences looking for […]
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 […]
Producer-director Joseph Kane’s sluggish low-action 1945 Republic studios Western is based on a story by Prescott Chaplin and stars John Wayne, Ann Dvorak and Joseph Schildkraut. It was nominated for two Oscars: Best Music, Scoring of a […]
Director Edward Dmytryk’s intelligent, thought-provoking 1958 war movie brings to the screen Irwin Shaw’s popular novel about the World War Two fates of two American soldiers – playboy entertainer Michael Whiteacre (Dean Martin), Jewish-American Noah Ackerman […]
Director Luciano Ricci’s 1964 black and white Italian Gothic horror movie The Castle of the Living Dead [Il Castello dei Morti Vivi] is creaky but interesting and full of eerie atmosphere. And, thankfully, it stars […]