Derek Winnert

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Night and Day *** (1946, Cary Grant, Alexis Smith, Monty Woolley, Mary Martin, Jane Wyman, Dorothy Malone, Eve Arden, Ginny Simms) – Classic Movie Review 3088

Cary Grant was not happy while making the intriguing though flawed 1946 Cole Porter musical biopic Night and Day, clashing often with director Michael Curtiz, mostly over a ‘weak script with lousy characterisations’. With rumours […]

Nov, 24

At the Circus *** (1939, Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Kenny Baker, Margaret Dumont, Eve Arden, Florence Rice) – Classic Movie Review 3063

Director Edward Buzzell’s fairly enjoyable 1939 comedy was a turning point for the Marx Brothers, who, ten years after their first feature in 1929 (The Cocoanuts), seem to be starting to coast with this film. At the […]

Nov, 14

Stage Door ***** (1937, Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, Gail Patrick) – Classic Movie Review 2529

Director Gregory La Cava’s hugely entertaining 1937 classic comedy stars Katharine Hepburn as American rich society beauty Terry Randall and Ginger Rogers as sarcastic, smart-mouth broad Joan Maitland. The duo spar delightfully as young actresses sharing rooms […]

May, 27

Grease ***** (1978, John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway, Didi Conn, Eve Arden, Frankie Avalon, Joan Blondell, Edd Byrnes, Sid Caesar) – Classic Movie Review 1478

Re-released in cinemas for its 20th birthday in 1998 and again for its 40th birthday in 2018, director Randal Kleiser’s breathlessly exuberant, joyous 1978 movie of Grease, Broadway’s second longest running musical after A Chorus […]

Jul, 26

Mildred Pierce ***** (1945, Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Ann Blyth, Bruce Bennett)) – Classic Movie Review 375

Director Michael Curtiz’s 1945 classic Mildred Pierce is both a great ‘Woman’s Picture’ melodrama as well as a great film noir thriller. Triumphantly winning what turned out to be her only Best Actress Oscar, Joan Crawford […]

Nov, 06

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