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1.Bundle of Joy starring: Eddie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, Adolphe Menjou, Tommy Noonan, Nita Talbot directed by: Norman Taurog January 05, 1998
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I had never even heard of this movie until I saw it on TCM about a year ago. It is a cute story about a young salesgirl Polly (Debbie Reynolds) who ends up getting fired from her job. On the way back to her house she sees a young baby on the orphanage steps and saves it from a terrible fall. When she takes the baby into the orphanage they think it is her baby that she is giving them. The employees think that because she was fired she can't provide for "her" baby so they convince her boss to give her the job back. She ends up realizing later in the movie how much she loves the baby and wants to keep it. She meets the man of her dreams (ironically her real husband, Eddie Fisher) and adopts the baby. When are they going to put this movie on DVD?

2.Across the Wide Missouri starring: Clark Gable, Ricardo Montalban, John Hodiak, Adolphe Menjou, J. Carrol Naish directed by: William A. Wellman September 01, 1998
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It is impossible to watch this at time breathtakingly beautiful movie without sadness not least because what survives is a mere fraction of the movie made by the great William Wellman -the studio interfered in the picture excising great swathes of the footage Wellman shot and adding a ponderous voice over narration declaimed in sonourous mannner by Howard Keel which adds nothing to the picture whatsoever . It is a movie about the destruction of a way of life -that of the mountain men .The source material is a novel by Bernard de Soto which is based on the life of one such man , Flint Mitchell ,who controlled the trade with the Blackfoot Indians in the Rockies during the 1820,s .In many ways he was the very incarnation of the pioneer spirit , a trader and adventurer married to a Native American ... Read More

3.100 Men & A Girl starring: Deanna Durbin, Adolphe Menjou, Alice Brady, Leopold Stokowski, Eugene Pallette directed by: Henry Koster January 17, 1995
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I first saw this movie on TMC and didn't expect it to be such a good movie, but wow! this is a sleeper. I ams so glad I was able to find it again and at such a reasonable price.

4.Pollyanna starring: Mary Grace Canfield, Gage Clarke, Kevin Corcoran, Donald Crisp, Leora Dana February 28, 1995
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She made our town smile again! This is a little much for jaded 20,30-somethings but it has its place. Jane Wyman seemed a little too real in this movie, It became easy to see why she became Mrs Ex-Ronald Reagan.

5.Paths of Glory (B&W) starring: Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou, George Macready, Wayne Morris directed by: Stanley Kubrick April 04, 2000
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This is an oft-times overlooked film in the Kubrick canon, and that's something that is unfortunate. At the base, the story is a satire on injustice in the military / injustice in war. It takes on a number of themes all at once, and does so gracefully without ending up looking like a rudderless plot. Kirk Douglas plays a French colonel (Dax) in World War I. He is one of the few officers in the film who has genuine integrity. As such, he finds himself in conflict with the nefarious actions of his superior officers nearly as much as he is fighting with the Germans. Douglas delivers a fabulous performance as an officer who is torn between duty and honor (always a dubious thing when these two traits clash). Dax must cope with generals who who are perfectly content to send young men (by the thousands!) ... Read More

6.Hucksters starring: Clark Gable, Deborah Kerr, Sydney Greenstreet, Adolphe Menjou, Ava Gardner directed by: Jack Conway September 01, 1998
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Every veteran of the advertising industry is sure to find lots to enjoy and ponder in this Clark Gable-Debra Kerr classic. The Hucksters was an adaptation of Frederic Wakeman's devastating novel -- rumored to be a roman a clef -- about big-bucks corporate thuggery and Mad Ave skullduggery in the 1940s. Returning ad executive Clark Gable and impoverished war-widow socialite Debra Kerr try to hang onto their integrity and each other in the freewheeling, utterly unprincipled world of Madison Avenue in the years after World War 2. They negotiate a minefield of high-stakes ad campaigns, sexually exploitative art directors, abusive CEOs, lickspittle corporate toadies (literally!), and cutthroat ad-agency politics where senior executives are FBI informants who destroy their rivals by ratting them out to the feds. The ... Read More

7.One in a Million starring: Sonja Henie, Adolphe Menjou, Don Ameche, Ned Sparks, Jean Hersholt directed by: Sidney Lanfield January 01, 1998
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I'm not really that big a fan of Sonja Henie's skating. Rather, it's her fresh-faced screen presence which I find so engaging. Sonja Henie was a Norwegian skating darling who won the figure skating gold medal in the 1928, 1932, and 1936 Olympics. In 1936, she successfully transitioned from skating into film acting with the delightful ONE IN A MILLION. Off the top of my head, the only other woman athlete who managed to finagle her sports stardom into a lucrative film career is gorgeous swimmer Esther Williams (although I could do without her swimming gimmicks as well). ONE IN A MILLION was only one of the many musical comedies which bombarded Hollywood in this era, but it stood out not only because of Sonja Henie's fine debut, but because of the acting of the rest of the cast, the lighthearted storyline, the catchy songs, and the breezy, slightly wacky comedy. ... Read More

8.I'll Be Yours starring: Deanna Durbin, Tom Drake, William Bendix, Adolphe Menjou, Walter Catlett directed by: William A. Seiter January 19, 1999
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This sweet and old-fashioned offering from the lovely Deanna Durbin is very much a film of another time. A simple and liesurely paced film about a small town girl going to the big city shortly after her father's passing, there is a sweet innocence to both the humor and the love story that should not be confused as lightweight. Based on a screenplay by the great Preston Sturges, the story really gets going slowly and Deanna carries the first portion of this film on her considerable charm. By the end, you'll be smiling, glad you stuck around for a film that remains true to its intent. Deanna is Louise Dinglebusher (!), a girl from the small town of Cobleskil not sure what to expect from the city of New York. Eating on a budget after landing a job as an usherette through a fellow Cobleskil alum, she meets and haggles with waiter William Bendix about what ... Read More

9.Morocco starring: Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Adolphe Menjou, Ullrich Haupt, Eve Southern directed by: Josef von Sternberg January 01, 1998
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This was Marlene Dietrich's first American movie, which came hard on the heels of THE BLUE ANGEL. She plays a sultry nightclub singer who somehow has made her way to Morocco. There she meets two men: Adolphe Menjou - rich, devoted to her, but obviously dull; and Gary Cooper - a devil-may-care French Legionnaire, who loves her but won't show it. No doubt whom she falls for. Joseph von Sternberg directed and Dietrich was his raison d'etre - he lavished on her everything that would give her the best advantage: lighting, make-up, camera angles. She shines as a femme fatale who would cast off men like burnt matchsticks, until she meets Cooper. Coop plods along as he did in just about every picture he was in, handicapped even more here because of Sternberg's disdain for him. Like every early sound movie the acting is pretty wooden and stilted ... Read More

10.Pollyanna starring: Mary Grace Canfield, Gage Clarke, Kevin Corcoran, Donald Crisp, Leora Dana May 07, 2002
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She made our town smile again! This is a little much for jaded 20,30-somethings but it has its place. Jane Wyman seemed a little too real in this movie, It became easy to see why she became Mrs Ex-Ronald Reagan.

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