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The success of their sleeper hit Ah Wilderness! (1935) prompted MGM to re-use many of the cast in A Family Affair (1937), the first in its Andy Hardy series (1937-1946), including Lionel Barrymore, Spring Byington, Mickey Rooney, Eric […]
Jean Harlow eclipses the rest of the cast (even though she was ailing and made only one more movie, Saratoga) in director W S Van Dyke II’s mild if amiable 1937 romantic comedy Personal Property, […]
Director Charles Frend’s 1950 British film is an unpretentious, amusing and well-observed Ealing Studios comedy about a naughty 11-year-old boy called Johnny Brent (William Fox, now James Fox), who lands in a lot of bother […]
Ken Annaklin’s spirited 1949 British comedy The Huggetts Abroad is the third in the film trilogy spun off from the popular characters in 1947’s Holiday Camp. Director Ken Annaklin’s 1949 British comedy The Huggetts Abroad […]
Director Gerald Thomas’s 1972 British TV spin-off movie from the Thames Television series Bless This House provides a showcase for a treasure trove of British comedy greats, and is valuable and enjoyable for that. Bless […]
The title The Stupids gives cause for great fear, but this 1996 movie turns out to be a surprisingly tolerable comic-book comedy, with a genial and funny star turn by Tom Arnold as Stanley Stupid, […]
The 20th Century Fox studio radically changes the Kate Douglas Wiggin story as a musical-comedy-drama vehicle for its child star Shirley Temple as Rebecca Winstead, whose uncle, Henry Kipper (William Demarest), dumps her on her strict […]