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1.Gold Diggers of 1933 starring: Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell directed by: Mervyn LeRoy July 21, 1993
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It's easy to overlook the genius of the composer of all this wonderful music, Harry Warren. We are so hypnotized by all the wonderful choreography of the genius of Busby Berkeley, that we forget that if it weren't for the music in this film, there would be nothing to choreograph! Harry Warren went on from "42nd Street" to "Footlight Parade" and other films in the early 1930s to compose the music for an impressive array of films into the 1960s. His list of hits are staggering--42 top ten hits (21 made it to #1, and 14 reached the #2 spot), the most hits for any composer of his generation--and he was writing music at the time when the likes of Cole Porter, Richard Rogers, Irving Berlin, and Jerome Kern (among many, many others) were at their creative heights! "Golddiggers of 1933" is a wonderful ... Read More

2.Eddie Cantor Story starring: Keefe Brasselle, Marilyn Erskine, Aline MacMahon, Arthur Franz, Alex Gerry directed by: Alfred E. Green September 01, 1998
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Eddie Cantor was a popular entertainer from the beginning of the 20th century. He grew up in the slums of New York, finding himself in trouble with the local gangs, though at heart he was always a good boy (Richard Monda). Fearful that her son might grow up the wrong way, his grandmother (Aline MacMahon) lets him go on the stage with Gus Edwards (Hal March). He (Keefe Brasselle) grows up to be quite the attention hog, but always a good hearted man. Slowly, his fame rises, but with each new set of hands to applaude, Cantor becomes even more restless in the pursuit of fame, even at the expense of his wife (Marilyn Erskine), children, and health. There are many other famous names peppered throughout the film including Florenz Ziegfeld, Will Rogers and Jimmy Durante. There are also several ... Read More

3.I Live My Life starring: Joan Crawford, Brian Aherne, Frank Morgan, Aline MacMahon, Eric Blore directed by: W.S. Van Dyke August 20, 1996
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"I Live My Life" is one of Joan's very best love stories from the 1930's. Joan plays Kay Bently, a socialite who tries to make a relationship with an archaeologist. I really like this movie because although it is similar to those typical love-story/love-triangles that MGM/Joan did, it also seems unique and very original. The performances by all are second to none. This movie came out 4 months after Joan's other picture from 1935, the hard-to-find, "No More Ladies."

4.The Flame and the Arrow starring: Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo, Robert Douglas, Aline MacMahon, Frank Allenby directed by: Jacques Tourneur July 07, 1994
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They don't make them like this anymore. Intelligent dialogue. An uplifting score. Absolutely astonishing acrobatics. This film is without nothing. If you have not seen this then you must. Of course, you have to be a lover of fair ladies; be bitter towards evil; fond of sport; intrigued by wit; amazed by athletes and moved by music. If you're not and hold the disgusting, degenerated views of the viewer who gave the film one star then this film is definitely not for you. It's Burt at his best and worth every penny- in fact it's a steal at fifteen dollars when it should be priced at two hundred while movies with ill morals and teenage imagination like Harry Potter should be free with cereal box UPC mail-ins.

5.Diamond Head starring: Charlton Heston, Yvette Mimieux, George Chakiris, France Nuyen, James Darren directed by: Guy Green May 16, 2000
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This story is set in 1959 Hawaii. Charlton Heston plays 'King' Howland, a plantation owner who is running for senate. Yvette Mimeux plays Sloane, his much younger sister, recently returned from San Francisco after finishing college. With her, she has childhood chum, Paul Kahanna, (Bobby Darren) whom she has decided she wants to marry. Paul is 100% pure Hawaiian! Paul's mother, who regrets the loss of her ethnic group through intermarriage with Caucasians, never-the-less offers an engagement party at her house. King objects to the idea of marriage, and so does Sloane's sister-in-law, Laura. Laura arrived on the island many years ago to help raise Sloane after King's wife and son died in a tidal wave. Laura wants to marry King, but King's heart is small - he only wants no-strings sex with his girlfried, Mai Chen. But Mai ... Read More

6.Medea starring: Judith Anderson, Henry Brandon, Jacqueline Brookes, Jacqueline Brooks, Morris Carnovsky directed by: José Quintero, Wes Kenney August 28, 2001
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I hope the excellence of this production will mean it becomes more widely available. Yes, it's black and white. No matter: it never stops one from watching film noir; why should it matter when one has such a wonderful example of another genre! The cast is uniformly good - and sometimes very much better than good - though Jason is a bit pedestrian. Fortunately we see little of him. But Judith Anderson - what to say about Judith Anderson? Her characterization is superb. She inhabits such a mythic and archetypal plane that every gesture, stance and cadence re-defines reality - and everyone else seems small and shadowy by comparison, part of some other world sketchily realized. Others seem to say their lines compellingly - until she speaks; and then everyone else seems to be speaking somewhat by rote, reaching for ... Read More

7.I Could Go on Singing starring: Judy Garland, Dirk Bogarde, Jack Klugman, Aline MacMahon, Gregory Phillips directed by: Ronald Neame April 01, 1992
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The reviewers here run the gamut -- some praise ICGOS as some of Judy's finest work; others are dismissive of her efforts and the film as a whole. It's true that the parallels between Jenny Bowman and Judy Garland are legion. Both were performers who understood their audience and their fans, who were loved by many, but still couldn't always come through for them. I've read that the shoot was difficult...that Judy left town the moment shooting was done allowing no retakes and that they literally used every frame they had of her in the final film. Yes, the film is melodramatic at times and yes, Yip Harburg let her down with the lyrics in the title song, but this film does provide some beautiful imagery of Judy in concert and gives us the closest approximation to what that was like. (Yes, her TV show ... Read More

8.Man From Laramie starring: James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp, Cathy O'Donnell, Alex Nicol directed by: Anthony Mann June 28, 1994
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Great J. Stewart western, one of his best. Kind of "dark", but still great movie.

9.Dragon Seed starring: Katharine Hepburn, Walter Huston, Aline MacMahon, Akim Tamiroff, Turhan Bey directed by: Harold S. Bucquet, Jack Conway September 01, 1998
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June Allyson was pencilled in tentatively as the studio's choice for Jade, the young and rebellious daughter-in-law of a provincial Chinese family, until Joseph Pasternak was made aware of Katharine Hepburn's sudden interest in the property. As a newcomer to the studio, Allyson was foisted off into a lesser property, Two Girls and a Sailor, to allow Ms. Hepburn the chance to stretch her muscles once again. Pasternak would reward Allyson for her acquiescence by gradually building her and Van Johnson into a screen love team that eventually eclipsed (in terms of box office popularity) the older pairing of Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. Looking back on DRAGON SEED today, it is hard to imagine it with June Allyson's husky jocularity, but that is because we are used to Hepburn's New England angularity which makes her Asian makeup almost transparent. ... Read More

10.Heroes for Sale starring: Loretta Young, Richard Barthelmess, Aline MacMahon, Gordon Westcott, Robert Barrat directed by: William A. Wellman September 01, 1998
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After the dawn of sound, Warner Bros. wandered through the early-talkie wilderness trying their hand at Technicolor musicals and revues that largely did not work out. Around 1930 they changed their output to be what we think of when we think about the Warner Bros. of the 1930's - gritty Depression era films that pulled no punches in depicting the hardships of those days. Here Richard Barthelemess is Tom Holmes. Tom's life is a metaphor for just about every social injustice from 1917 through 1933 you can pack into a 70-plus minute film. Through his life we visit the post-war hardships of WWI doughboys including morphine addiction, the double-edged sword of automation, the Red scares and hysteria of the 1920's, and finally the armies of unemployed Depression-era men treated as lepers as they wandered from town to town in search of non-existent jobs. ... Read More

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