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Universal Pictures’ 1948 American romantic fantasy comedy film Mr Peabody and the Mermaid stars William Powell and Ann Blyth in the title roles. Mr Peabody goes fishing and catches an alluring mermaid. Director Irving Pichel’s […]
Director Michael Ritchie’s 1980 music documentary Divine Madness is a terrific record of the divine Miss Midler’s one-woman show, filmed over four days at the Pasedena Civic Auditorium, California. Bette Midler is a total knockout […]
Director Mervyn LeRoy’s 1952 MGM Technicolor musical Million Dollar Mermaid [The One Piece Bathing Suit] is a wet and washed-out biography of Annette Kellermann [Kellerman] (6 July 1887 – 6 November 1975), the turn-of-the-last-century champion […]
Director Ralph Thomas’s amiable 1954 Technicolor fantasy comedy Mad about Men again stars Glynis Johns, who revisits her mermaid tale for this sequel to 1948’s hit Miranda, in which flirty mermaid Miranda and stuffy gymnastics teacher […]
Director Ken Annakin’s 1947 British black and white light comedy fantasy film Miranda stars Glynis Johns, who makes a very fetching mermaid called Miranda Trewella, who talks young married physician Dr Paul Martin (Griffith Jones), […]
Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe are both tremendous under very difficult circumstances in perfectly judged performances as lighthouse keepers Thomas Howard and Thomas Wake going crazy while living and working on a remote New England […]
Colin Farrell is exceptionally good – warm, appealing and surprisingly convincing as stout-hearted Irish fisherman Syracuse – in writer-director Neil Jordan’s 2009 Splash!-style movie. It has more than a touch of the old Irish blarney to […]