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The Girl from Missouri **** (1934, Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore, Franchot Tone, Lewis Stone, Alan Mowbray, Patsy Kelly) – Classic Movie Review 7196
Anita Loos from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes helps to provide the sparkling, witty original screenplay (with John Emerson) for director Jack Conway’s entertaining Jean Harlow 1934 screwball comedy film vehicle The Girl from Missouri about Eadie Chapman, […]
Wedding Present *** (1936, Joan Bennett, Cary Grant, George Bancroft) – Classic Movie Review 7183
Director Richard Wallace’s 1936 amusing Paramount Pictures black and white media screwball comedy Wedding Present re-teams charismatic stars Cary Grant and Joan Bennett (fresh from Big Brown Eyes) as romancing reporters in a The Front Page-style […]
The Ex-Mrs Bradford **** (1936, William Powell, Jean Arthur, James Gleason, Eric Blore, Robert Armstrong, Lila Lee, Grant Mitchell, Ralph Morgan, Frank Reicher) – Classic Movie Review 6864
Director Stephen Roberts’s 1936 crime caper The Ex-Mrs Bradford is entertaining and often wittily written, with much of the urbane style and zesty handling of the best Thirties screwball comedy thrillers. It stars the strong team […]
Breakfast for Two *** (1937, Barbara Stanwyck, Herbert Marshall, Glenda Farrell, Eric Blore, Donald Meek) – Classic Movie Review 6772
There is plenty of zing and sparkle, and there are lots of laughs too to be found in director Alfred Santell’s engaging, fast-paced 1937 romantic comedy, with its two stars Barbara Stanwyck and Herbert Marshall […]
I Live My Life ** (1935, Joan Crawford, Brian Aherne, Frank Morgan, Aline MacMahon, Eric Blore, Jessie Ralph, Arthur Treacher, Hedda Hopper) – Classic Movie Review 6769
Director W S Van Dyke II’s 1935 screwball comedy romantic drama stars Joan Crawford, who is from the right side of the tracks this time as pampered, bored New York society girl, Kay Bentley. But she […]
Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife *** (1938, Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, David Niven, Edward Everett Horton) – Classic Movie Review 5472
The vintage Alfred Savior play is dusted off in 1938 for Claudette Colbert as Nicole De Loiselle, the daughter of a poor French marquis (Edward Everett Horton), who wants to show her much-married American multi-millionaire […]
Midnight ***** (1939, Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore, Francis Lederer, Mary Astor) – Classic Movie Review 5178
Director Mitchell Leisen’s delicious 1939 movie bon-bon is the very essence of sophisticated wit and polish. The first-rate cast sparkles as much as production designer Hans Dreier’s luminous sets of Paris. It may be the […]