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Le Dernier Milliardaire [The Last Billionaire] *** (1934, Max Dearly, Sinoël, Paul Ollivier, Renée Saint-Cyr, Marthe Mellot) – Classic Movie Review 10,612

The 1934 French comedy film Le Dernier Milliardaire [The Last Billionaire] is writer-director René Clair’s political satire about a bankrupt principality’s ruler, La Reine de Casinario (Marthe Mellot), who gets the world’s richest banker, Banco (Max […]

Dec, 01

Thirty Day Princess [30-Day Princess] *** (1934, Sylvia Sidney, Cary Grant, Edward Arnold) – Classic Movie Review 7352

Director Marion Gering’s contrived but appealing and amusing 1934 Paramount Pictures black and white comedy Thirty Day Princess reunites the stars of 1932’s Madame Butterfly, Sylvia Sidney and Cary Grant. Thirty Day Princess is a gently […]

Jul, 27

The Merry Widow ***** (1934, Jeanette MacDonald, Maurice Chevalier, Edward Everett Horton, Una Merkel) – Classic Movie Review 5776

Director Ernst Lubitsch’s 1934 MGM version of Franz Lehar’s famous operetta remakes a famous 1925 silent original The Merry Widow directed by Erich von Stroheim. It is an extravagant and effervescent delight, with the charming team […]

Jul, 20

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