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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! […]
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 […]
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 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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]