Derek Winnert

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Follow a Star ** (1959, Norman Wisdom, June Laverick, Jerry Desmonde, Hattie Jacques, John le Mesurier, Richard Wattis, Fenella Fielding, Ron Moody) – Classic Movie Review 11,218

Director Robert Asher’s 1959 British black and white comedy Follow a Star stars Norman Wisdom as Norman Truscott, a meek and mild tailor/ wannabee singer, employed by croaky crooner Vernon Carew (Jerry Desmonde) to sing […]

May, 18

The Kid from Brooklyn ** (1946, Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen, Steve Cochran, Eve Arden, Walter Abel, Lionel Stander, Fay Bainter) – Classic Movie Review 11,160

Director Norman Z McLeod’s 1946 Technicolor musical The Kid from Brooklyn stars Danny Kaye as a mild milkman called Burleigh Sullivan who transforms into a punchy prize-fighter to impress pretty nightclub singer Polly Pringle (Virginia […]

May, 03

Montana Moon ** (1930, Joan Crawford, Johnny Mack Brown, Dorothy Sebastian, Ricardo Cortez) – Classic Movie Review 11,159

The 26-year-old Joan Crawford, expensively gowned by Adrian, stars as wayward and sophisticated rancher’s daughter Joan ‘Montana’ Prescott, who is tamed by Texas course cowboy Larry Kerrigan (Johnny Mack Brown), in director Malcolm St Clair’s […]

May, 02

The Firefly *** (1937, Jeanette MacDonald, Allan Jones, Warren William) – Classic Movie Review 11,153

Now you don’t get many singing spies: ‘Jeanette MacDonald Is The Luminous Singing Spy!’…  Director Robert Z Leonard’s 1937 black and white MGM musical The Firefly stars Jeanette MacDonald, who takes a rest from her […]

Apr, 30

Face the Music [The Black Glove] ** (1954, Alex Nicol, Eleanor Summerfield, John Salew) – Classic Movie Review 10,897

For the 1954 black and white crime thriller Face the Music [The Black Glove], Hammer Films brought US action star Alex Nicol over to Britain to play a trumpeter who has to show he wasn’t […]

Feb, 09

King of Burlesque *** (1936, Warner Baxter, Alice Faye, Jack Oakie, Mona Barrie) – Classic Movie Review 10,736

Six decent songs ‘Lovely Lady’, ‘Shooting High’, ‘Whose Big Baby are You?’, ‘Spreading Rhythm Around’, ‘Too Good to Be True’, and ‘I Love to Ride the Horses on a Merry-Go-Round’, a strong cast and a […]

Jan, 01

Thanks for the Memory *** (1938, Bob Hope, Shirley Ross, Charles Butterworth) – Classic Movie Review 10,689

‘A GAY STORY OF LOVE AND LAUGHS ‘ Director George Archainbaud’s 1938 black and white comedy Thanks for the Memory stars Bob Hope as writer Steve Merrick, whose marriage to bohemian Anne Merrick (Ross) is […]

Dec, 20

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