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Laurence Olivier took the Oscars for both Best Picture and Best Actor for his intelligent, involving and marvellously cinematic 1948 film adaptation of William Shakespeare’s tragic play. And there were Oscars for Art Direction-Set Decoration […]
Dorothy Dwan is Dorothy in director Larry Semon’s quite sweet 1925 silent movie, the first film version of L Frank Baum’s beloved 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, most famous now of course as […]
An extremely lively, now classic score, including ‘Kiss’, ‘Mountains’ and ‘Girls and Boys’, partly rescues this somewhat tiresome Forties-style fantasy, released in black and white in 1986 and directed by the Eighties Prince of pop as a […]
Co-writer/director Albert Magnoli’s 1984 Oscar-winning musical movie stars Prince, then 24 and making his first film. Prince won an Oscar, a Brit award for Best Soundtrack and a Grammy for Best Album of Instrumental Score Written for a […]
In his last major film to date before he gave up acting, a grown-up Mark Lester (from Oliver!) plays both title roles, Henry VIII’s son Prince Edward and the lookalike urchin, Tom Canty, with whom […]
Director Martha Coolidge’s 2004 romcom stars Julia Stiles as US student Paige, who falls in love with her cute classmate Edvard (Luke Mably), little knowing that he’s really a Danish prince, enjoying a private life […]
Robin Hood is a fox who teams up with a bear version of Little John to oust Prince John (a lion) with Sir Hiss the snake as his pal in producer-director Wolfgang Reitherman’s 1973 American-British […]