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Director Clarence Brown’s 1939 show Idiot’s Delight is a delight all right. This MGM version of the Robert E Sherwood hit play is an all-time great movie hit too thanks to Clark Gable’s nonchalant turn […]
Federico Fellini makes his directorial début as joint writer-producer-director with Alberto Lattuada in this bitter-sweet 1950 romantic drama about a company of third-rate music-hall theatrical performers on tour. The story spotlights the adventures of the actors, […]
The bells are certainly ringing for director Busby Berkeley’s rousing 1942 MGM patriotic and romantic musical that pairs Judy Garland with Gene Kelly for the first time and also stars George Murphy as fellow hoofer […]
Bob Hope is at his hilarious peak as a vaudeville performer who gets mixed up with British and German secret agents in the fast and funny 1942 comedy film My Favorite Blonde. Madeleine Carroll is […]
Made at the dawn of cinema sound in 1930, this star-studded revue movie, filmed at Elstree Studios, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England, showcases and records for posterity some of the best 30s British musical comedy light entertainment. […]
Joan Crawford: ‘You wouldn’t be able to do these awful things to me if I weren’t still in this [wheel]chair.’ Bette Davis: ‘Butcha ARE, Blanche, ya ARE !’ Finally together on screen, lifetime Hollywood arch-rivals […]