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Katharine Hepburn and Franchot Tone star as the 1805 England-set movie’s two lovers, and the quality acting expected of them lights up director George Stevens’s 1937 romance, the second film of J M Barrie’s antique play, following director […]
Director Bretaigne Windust’s 1948 movie is a ghastly romantic drama vehicle for Bette Davis. After so many brilliant movie and so many brilliant performances, this is the very kind of film that lost her her […]
‘Moderation is a vastly over-rated virtue.’ – Miss Lilly Moffat. Director Irving Rapper directs Bette Davis in the 1945 drama The Corn Is Green as Miss Lilly Moffat, a middle-aged English schoolteacher dismayed by the […]
Double Oscar-winner Bette Davis stars in one of her most famous roles as plain, over-weight Boston spinster Charlotte Vale, repressed and dominated by her wealthy mother Mrs Henry Vale (Gladys Cooper). Paying the proverbial ugly […]