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Blue Denim [Blue Jeans] *** (1959, Carol Lynley, Brandon De Wilde, Macdonald Carey, Marsha Hunt, Vaughn Taylor, Warren Berlinger) – Classic Movie Review 7623

Director Philip Dunne’s 1959 drama Blue Denim [Blue Jeans in GB] is a still-fresh-seeming pioneering film on the theme of teenage pregnancy and abortion, and the actors and director Dunne keep it well ahead of […]

Sep, 29

We’re Not Married! *** (1952, Ginger Rogers, Fred Allen, Victor Moore, Paul Douglas, Eve Arden, Marilyn Monroe, David Wayne, Louis Calhern, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Mitzi Gaynor, Eddie Bracken) – Classic Movie Review 7605

Director Edmund Goulding’s 1952 We’re Not Married! is an entertaining and enjoyable film made up of separate stories about five wedded couples from Gina Kaus and Jay Dratler’s well assorted stories, varying from funny to touching, with […]

Sep, 20

The Leather Boys **** (1964, Rita Tushingham, Colin Campbell, Dudley Sutton) – Classic Movie Review 7,580

A South London mechanic (Colin Campbell) marries a teenager (Rita Tushingham), but they drift apart, so he takes to going biking with his leather-jacketed gay biker chum (Dudley Sutton), in the trail-blazing 1964 British film […]

Sep, 16

Tender Is the Night *** (1962, Jennifer Jones, Jason Robards, Joan Fontaine, Tom Ewell) – Classic Movie Review 7501

F Scott Fitzgerald’s great 1934 semi-autobiographical novel Tender Is the Night about rich, troubled Americans in Europe in the jazz age Twenties is difficult to film, as the BBC found in its 1985 six-part serial […]

Aug, 26

How to Make an American Quilt *** (1995, Winona Ryder, Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Nelligan, Alfre Woodard) – Classic Movie Review 7432

Director Jocelyn Moorhouse’s 1995 American drama How to Make an American Quilt is based on the 1991 novel by Whitney Otto, with a screenplay by Jane Anderson, and stars Winona Ryder, Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Nelligan and Alfre Woodard. It was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for […]

Aug, 11

Divorce American Style *** (1967, Dick Van Dyke, Debbie Reynolds, Jason Robards, Jean Simmons) – Classic Movie Review 7,431

The acerbically witty 1967 comedy film Divorce American Style finds Dick Van Dyke and Debbie Reynolds well paired as a warring married couple. Norman Lear was an Oscar nominee for his screenplay. Director Bud Yorkin’s […]

Aug, 11

The Happy Ending *** (1969, Jean Simmons, John Forsythe, Shirley Jones, Lloyd Bridges, Dick Shawn, Nanette Fabray, Bobby Darin, Tina Louise, Teresa Wright) – Classic Movie Review 7426

Writer-producer-director Richard Brooks’s 1969 drama The Happy Ending stars Jean Simmons as a middle-aged American woman who looks back on a long, unhappy marriage as she walks out on her husband and family in order […]

Aug, 11

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