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The Great Victor Herbert *** (1939, Walter Connolly, Allan Jones, Mary Martin, Susanna Foster, Lee Bowman) – Classic Movie Review 12,858

Paramount’s huge-fun 1939 musical biopic film The Great Victor Herbert stars Allan Jones, Mary Martin and Walter Connolly as the big-hearted, amazingly successful Irish-American songwriter Victor Herbert.  ‘HE TAUGHT THE WORLD TO SING OF LOVE! […]

Apr, 25

Her Cardboard Lover ** (1942, Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor, George Sanders) – Classic Movie Review 9964

Director George Cukor’s 1942 MGM black and white romantic comedy Her Cardboard Lover stars Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor and George Sanders. It proved the final film of Norma Shearer, one-time ‘The First Lady of MGM’ or […]

Jun, 26

Lucky Me ** (1954, Doris Day, Robert Cummings, Phil Silvers, Eddie Foy Jr, Nancy Walker, Martha Hyer) – Classic Movie Review 7,690

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 […]

Oct, 21

Rhythm on the River *** (1940, Bing Crosby, Mary Martin, Basil Rathbone, Oscar Levant) – Classic Movie Review 7188

Director Victor Schertzinger’s bright and breezy 1940 romantic musical comedy melodrama Rhythm on the River is a welcome follow-up to Bing Crosby’s Rhythm on the Range (1936) and features good music and a pleasing plot, […]

Jun, 18

Lady Be Good *** (1941, Eleanor Powell, Ann Sothern, Robert Young, Lionel Barrymore, John Carroll, Red Skelton, Virginia O’Brien, Dan Dailey) – Classic Movie Review 6791

The 1941 MGM musical Lady Be Good stars Eleanor Powell, who dances dazzlingly in Busby Berkeley’s spectacular routine ‘Fascinating Rhythm’, and there is Ann Sothern comfort a-plenty too. Director Norman Z McLeod’s 1941 musical film […]

Mar, 12

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm *** (1938, Shirley Temple, Randolph Scott, Jack Haley, Gloria Stuart, Helen Westley, Bill Robinson) – Classic Movie Review 6604

The 20th Century Fox studio radically changes the Kate Douglas Wiggin story as a musical-comedy-drama vehicle for its child star Shirley Temple as Rebecca Winstead, whose uncle, Henry Kipper (William Demarest), dumps her on her strict […]

Jan, 26

Rules Don’t Apply **** (2016, Warren Beatty, Lily Collins, Alden Ehrenreich) – Movie Review

Warren Beatty’s polished and thoroughly entertaining Hollywood romantic biographical drama stars Lily Collins and Alden Ehrenreich as a strict Christian aspiring young actress and her earnest, ambitious young driver, both trying to work round the […]

Apr, 21

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