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Writer/ director Dave Payne’s 2002 comedy drama film Just Can’t Get Enough tells the amusing, saucy story of the Chippendales’ rise to fame, capturing the mood and atmosphere nicely. The well-oiled, muscular male strippers find […]
Director George Marshall’s 1949 Paramount Pictures black and white comedy My Friend Irma stars John Lund, Diana Lynn, Don DeFore, Marie Wilson, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. It marks the film dèbut of Martin and […]
‘There are some friends you know you will have for the rest of your life. You’re welded together by love, trust, respect or loss… or in our case, simple embarrassment.’ The 1992 British film Peter’s […]
Al Jolson stars as minstrel singer Al Fuller, in director Michael Curtiz’s sparky 1930 behind-the-scenes theatre musical Mammy, with a shooting, an Irving Berlin score and Louise Dresser all thrown in as Mammy. Jolson has […]
The one-time ‘Queen of the Screen’ Marion Davies stars as New York chorus girl Daisy Dell the Florodora Girl, in the Gay Nineties – the 1890s, that is. Daisy’s married friends encourage her to reject her life […]
It is lucky there are Doris Day’s vigour and her sparky way with a tune, plus reliable fun from Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker, in the 1954 Warner Bros musical film Lucky Me because it […]
Director Roy Del Ruth’s 1950 musical comedy The West Point Story stars James Cagney eight years after his last musical Yankee Doodle Dandy as gambler Bill Bixby, an on-the-skids Broadway theatre director who produces a […]