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Practically Yours *** (1944, Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray) – Classic Movie Review 12,012

A dog called Piggy gets mixed up with a woman named Peggy in the ludicrously plotted, scatterbrained comedy romancer Practically Yours (1944). Somehow, Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray make it work. Producer-director Mitchell Leisen’s 1944 […]

Mar, 15

Immortal Beloved * (1994, Gary Oldman, Jeroen Krabbé, Isabella Rossellini, Marco Hofschneider) – Classic Movie Review 10,354

Writer-director Bernard Rose’s fumbled 1994 film Immortal Beloved is a plush but pretty tedious historical biopic, with Gary Oldman bravely battling miscasting as musical ‘genius’ Ludwig van Beethoven, with the mystery of the composer’s Unsterbliche […]

Sep, 26

You Were Never Lovelier **** (1942, Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Adolphe Menjou) – Classic Movie Review 4712

Director William A Seiter’s lovely and delightful 1942 Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth musical is the follow-up to their previous year’s hit musical You’ll Never Get Rich (1941). Adolphe Menjou co-stars as Eduardo Acuña, a rich Argentine hotelier […]

Nov, 27

The Love Letter **** (1999, Kate Capshaw, Tom Everett Scott, Tom Selleck, Gloria Stuart, Ellen DeGeneres, Blythe Danner, Geraldine McEwan) – Classic Movie Review 4569

In the sleepy New England town of Loblolly by the Sea, well-preserved, middle-aged, local store-owner Helen MacFarquhar (Kate Capshaw) finds a mysterious love letter hidden in her sofa, and it makes her open to romance, […]

Oct, 31

The Lost Moment *** (1947, Robert Cummings, Susan Hayward, Agnes Moorehead) – Classic Movie Review 3892

The 1947 film noir-style romantic drama The Lost Moment is an attractively atmospheric oddity, based on Henry James’s 1888 novella The Aspern Papers. It greatly alters the characters and adds schizophrenia, a murder and a […]

Jun, 20

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