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Rose of Washington Square **** (1939, Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Al Jolson, William Frawley, Joyce Compton) – Classic Movie Review 9726

Director Gregory Ratoff’s 1939 black and white musical Rose of Washington Square stars Alice Faye, who grabs one of her best chances as Rose Sargent, a 1920s New York singer trying to perform a difficult […]

May, 07

Million Dollar Mermaid ** (1952, Esther Williams, Victor Mature, Walter Pidgeon, David Brian) – Classic Movie Review 9373

Director Mervyn LeRoy’s 1952 MGM Technicolor musical Million Dollar Mermaid [The One Piece Bathing Suit] is a wet and washed-out biography of Annette Kellermann [Kellerman] (6 July 1887 – 6 November 1975), the turn-of-the-last-century champion […]

Feb, 12

S.O.B. **** (1981, Julie Andrews, William Holden, Marisa Berenson) – Classic Movie Review 8293

Writer-director Blake Edwards takes his revenge on Hollywood in his 1981 black farce S.O.B. about a film producer’s ploy to turn a flop into a hit: get Julie Andrews to bare her breasts! S.O.B. is […]

Mar, 24

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

My Favorite Year **** (1982, Peter O’Toole, Mark Linn-Baker, Jessica Harper, Joseph Bologna) – Classic Movie Review 5039

The favorite year is 1954, and, in America’s golden age of television, a hard-drinking, dissolute Hollywood matinée idol star, Alan Swann (Peter O’Toole), is slated to appear on a Sid Caesar-style live TV variety show. […]

Feb, 21

The Jazz Singer ** (1980, Laurence Olivier, Neil Diamond, Lucie Arnaz) – Classic Movie Review 4992

The Jazz Singer’s sentimental story exploring the clash of the lure of showbiz versus the pull of family duty is impossibly dated. But director Richard Fleischer’s 1980 third film version of Sampson Raphaelson’s antique play […]

Feb, 14

Love and Death on Long Island **** (1997, John Hurt, Jason Priestley, Sheila Hancock, Maury Chaykin, Fiona Loewi, Harvey Atkin, Gawn Grainger) – Classic Movie Review 4958

John Hurt revealed that his personal favourites of his own films were Love and Death on Long Island (1997), in which he plays an ageing author obsessed with a young actor, and The Field (1990), […]

Jan, 28

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