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‘Designed for tired businessmen!’ THE PERFECT WOMAN (1949) is a robot! Director Bernard Knowles’s 1949 British comedy film The Perfect Woman stars Patricia Roc as Penelope Belman, the niece of scientist Professor Belman (Miles Malleson), […]
Director Eugene Forde’s 1937 comedy Step Lively, Jeeves! stars Arthur Treacher, Patricia Ellis, Robert Kent, Alan Dinehart, George Givot and Helen Flint. The film is based on P G Wodehouse’s characters but not on any […]
Jean Renoir’s 1946 Hollywood version of Octave Mirbeau’s bourgeois-knocking novel about a grasping chambermaid hovers uncertainly between burlesque and tragedy but gives the performers the eagerly grabbed chance for a field day of brio acting. […]
Director George Marshall’s 1950 comedy Fancy Pants is a funny musical re-interpretation of the 1935 Ruggles of Red Gap, with the delicious, ideally paired two stars Bob Hope and Lucille Ball having bags of fun […]
Director Leo McCarey’s 1935 Ruggles of Red Gap is a bona fide classic Thirties comedy showcasing Charles Laughton’s definitive comic turn as the quintessential English butler/ valet Marmarduke Ruggles, lost in a poker game by […]
There is plenty of zing and sparkle, and there are lots of laughs too to be found in director Alfred Santell’s engaging, fast-paced 1937 romantic comedy, with its two stars Barbara Stanwyck and Herbert Marshall […]
Director Tim Whelan’s 1943 RKO movie is a pleasantly entertaining romantic musical comedy, based on the show by Gladys Hurlbut and Joshua Logan. Nominated for two Oscars, it showcases Frank Sinatra’s first major role, though […]