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Twenty Million Sweethearts *** (1934, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers, Pat O’Brien, Allen Jenkins) – Classic Movie Review 7696

Director Ray Enright’s 1934 Warner Bros movie Twenty Million Sweethearts stars Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers and Pat O’Brien. O’Brien plays unscrupulous agent Russell ‘Russ’ Blake, who discovers singing waiter Buddy Clayton (Powell) and puts him […]

Oct, 22

My Dream Is Yours *** (1949, Jack Carson, Doris Day, Lee Bowman, Adolphe Menjou, Eve Arden, S Z Sakall) – Classic Movie Review 7688

Director Michael Curtiz’s 1949 musical comedy My Dream Is Yours finds Doris Day on vivacious form as single mother Martha Gibson, a band singer struggling to become a radio star, and Jack Carson bright and breezy as […]

Oct, 21

Lullaby of Broadway *** (1951, Doris Day, Gene Nelson, Billy De Wolfe, S Z Sakall, Florence Bates, Gladys George) – Classic Movie Review 7683

Director David Butler’s 1951 Technicolor musical Lullaby of Broadway is one of the films that established Doris Day as the top US female star in 1952. It is a modest achievement – a formulaic, though […]

Oct, 20

Levity ** (2003, Billy Bob Thornton, Morgan Freeman, Holly Hunter, Kirsten Dunst) – Classic Movie Review 7673

Director Ed Solomon’s intelligent, well-made 2003 crime drama Levity finds Billy Bob Thornton working hard and effectively as Manuel Jordan, an ex-con looking for redemption after killing a teen while carrying out a robbery 20 […]

Oct, 18

Club Paradise *** (1986, Robin Williams, Peter O’Toole, Rick Moranis) – Classic Movie Review 7662

Robin Williams, Peter O’Toole, Rick Moranis, Jimmy Cliff, Twiggy and Adolph Caesar are in the tasty star line-up for director Harold Ramis’s 1986 comedy Club Paradise about a Chicago firefighter called Jack Monike (Williams) who […]

Oct, 11

A Star Is Born ** (2018, Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper, Sam Elliott) – Movie Review

A Star Is Born (2018) is a capable piece of film-making and some of it is entertaining but a lot of it is pretty dull, drippy and dreary, surprisingly with Lady Gaga (aka Stefani Germanotta) marginally […]

Oct, 06

Belle Le Grand ** (1951, Vera Ralston, John Carroll, William Ching, Hope Emerson, John Qualen, Stephen Chase, Harry Morgan, Muriel Lawrence) – Classic Movie Review 7634

Director Allan Dwan’s 1951 Republic Pictures black and white Western movie Belle Le Grand stars Vera Ralston, who plays New Orleans woman Daisy Henshaw, aka the titular Belle Le Grand, now a rich San Francisco […]

Oct, 03

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