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1.Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) starring: Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan, Katharine Alexander directed by: Sidney Franklin September 01, 1998
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This beautiful production from the early 1930's of a dark shadow hanging over the promise of glorious love and happiness is perhaps Norma Shearer's lovliest performance. The romance between poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett was filmed with a class and meticulous care only MGM could muster. Under Sidney Franklin's direction, William Daniels' photography, and the period flourish provided by Cedric Gibbons, this became one of the greatest romantic dramas ever to be filmed. Shearer loses her modern slinky charm and projects a luminous class as Elizabeth Barrett, a shining soul living with illness in a house strangled of love by her cruel and repressed father, played to horrible perfection by Charles Laughton. Her lifeline is her continuing correspondence with fellow poet ... Read More

2.The Hound of the Baskervilles starring: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Richard Greene, Wendy Barrie, Lionel Atwill directed by: Sidney Lanfield March 10, 1993
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I remember watching this film when i was 9 or 10 back in the late 50's or early 60's after mt father went to work and my mom was asleep.There have been three or four spin offs to this great film that don't even come close.I don't no for sure but it seems that they left something out of this makeover.It doesn't matter this is a five star movie, that i rated four because i was stupid and hit the four star and it won't let me change me it.

3.Awful Truth starring: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy, Alexander D'Arcy, Cecil Cunningham directed by: Leo McCarey June 21, 1994
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I love most 30's screwball comedies and I adore Cary Grant, but this one didn't do anything for me. There are some genuinely funny moments, notably the performance of Dixie Lee, the nightclub singer and the dog, Mr. Smith is terrific...but mostly I found it much less sparkly and snappy than most of this genre. Grant is always wonderful...a true Movie Star of his time....incredibly handsome, very funny, warm and always interesting. His facial expressions when Dixie Lee performs are almost worth watching the whole film. I don't much get Irene Dunn, but I guess she was popular at the time. All of the supporting cast are predictable but entertaining. If these folks had had a better script the film would have been really good, and perhaps, for the time, it was great. For now, it's ... Read More

4.Smilin Through (1932) starring: Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Leslie Howard, O.P. Heggie, Ralph Forbes directed by: Sidney Franklin March 07, 1994
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this is one of my very favorite movies! The whole cast is wonderful! Since everyone has already raved about Norma and Frederick's performances, I'm going to rave about Leslie's. There is a scene, in the flashback, where we see the night before the fatal wedding. John and Moonyean sneak away and have a lighthearted, romantic conversation. The dialogue may sound corny coming out of someone else's mouths ( "wouldnt it be wonderful if every time I opened my eyes, you were there?" or "after tonight, there'll be no more partings, no more goodbyes, will there my sweet?") but coming from Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer's mouths, we dont cringe. In fact, we all sincerely go "AW!" he is so adorable in that scene, that when Moonyean is shot, and he is holding her and we see the depths of despair and anguish in his eyes, ... Read More

5.Romeo & Juliet starring: Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, John Barrymore, Edna May Oliver, Basil Rathbone directed by: George Cukor December 04, 1992
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Very few people are familiar with this lavish, Old Hollywood production of Shakespeare's ROMEO & JULIET, but it is a gem of a movie. It has, in my opinion, the finest cast ever assembled in the history of Shakespeare on film. Norma Shearer and Leslie Howard are both far over the usual age limit for Romeo and Juliet respectively, but they give such beautiful performances that one doesn't notice. In fact, if I hadn't known the ages of the stars (Howard was in his early 40s and Shearer in her mid 30s) I wouldn't have thought either of them to be out of their 20s, so young do their faces look and how vivacious and youthful their performances are. Norma Shearer is my favorite Juliet on film because her tears over Romeo are so genuine and so moving and she perfectly portrays youthful vigor and womanly grace. Leslie ... Read More

6.Twentieth Century starring: John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns, Ralph Forbes directed by: Howard Hawks June 02, 1998
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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: From the Secret Files of Harry Pennypacker Shadow Watcher Nobody Drowns in Mineral Lake TWENTIETH CENTURY (1934) is perhaps the greatest of all screwball comedies and is the film that established Carole Lombard as the "queen" of that genre. Howard Hawks directed the Charles MacArthur/Ben Hecht screenplay. John Barrymore, in what may be his "grandest ham" performance, is an egomaniacal Broadway director who discovers shopgirl Lombard and builds her into a major star, as well as making her his mistress. Their relationship is a volatile one, thus three years later she leaves him to go to Hollywood and, shortly thereafter, he goes broke producing plays without her. Sneaking out of Chicago on the Twentieth Century to New York, Barrymore discovers that ... Read More

7.Mary of Scotland starring: Katharine Hepburn, Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Douglas Walton, John Carradine directed by: John Ford, Leslie Goodwins April 10, 1991
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I love movies about this period & Katharine Hepburn. it is a old movie & you can tell but Ms.Hepburn is wonderful in it. She tries to take back her country but everyone is fighting her. They make her marry a man who she doesn't love & who is no good. Of course it doesn't work. They kill her best friend & go after her lover.

8.Last of Mrs Cheyney (1937) starring: Robert Montgomery, Joan Crawford, William Powell, Frank Morgan, Jessie Ralph directed by: Dorothy Arzner, George Fitzmaurice, Richard Boleslawski September 01, 1998
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Character superstar Jessie Ralph steals the show in this otherwise stilted film version of a theatrical hit. So many of the great early 20th Century plays, translated into films (mostly by MGM!) stand up even today but unfortunately this isn't one of them... Perhaps it's the iconic Joan Crawford's presence...she's at the height of her haute-phoniness in this one, although she LOOKS spectacular. William Powell must have been fulfilling contractual obligations for appearing in this one...he's completely wasted. This film belongs to the character actors who comprise its supporting cast...notably the aforementioned Ralph and Nigel Bruce & Frank Morgan. Worth seeing as a time capsule of legendary silver screen personalities...otherwise forgettable.

9.Romeo & Juliet starring: Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, John Barrymore, Edna May Oliver, Basil Rathbone directed by: George Cukor April 18, 2000
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Very few people are familiar with this lavish, Old Hollywood production of Shakespeare's ROMEO & JULIET, but it is a gem of a movie. It has, in my opinion, the finest cast ever assembled in the history of Shakespeare on film. Norma Shearer and Leslie Howard are both far over the usual age limit for Romeo and Juliet respectively, but they give such beautiful performances that one doesn't notice. In fact, if I hadn't known the ages of the stars (Howard was in his early 40s and Shearer in her mid 30s) I wouldn't have thought either of them to be out of their 20s, so young do their faces look and how vivacious and youthful their performances are. Norma Shearer is my favorite Juliet on film because her tears over Romeo are so genuine and so moving and she perfectly portrays youthful vigor and womanly grace. Leslie Howard, likewise, is probably ... Read More

10.The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex starring: Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Crisp, Alan Hale directed by: Michael Curtiz March 30, 1990
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By 1939, director Michael Curtiz had collaborated with Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland three times over the past three years. In THE PRIVATE LIVES OF ELIZABETH AND ESSEX, Curtiz paired Flynn and de Havilland with most of the top stars at Warners to create a period piece that celebrates a tumultuous decade in English history, a time when Queen Elizabeth (Bette Davis) was trying mightily to hold her throne against a variety of external threats (Spain, France, Ireland) and some internal threats, not the least of whom was Robert Deveraux, Lord Essex (Flynn), whose personal tragedy was that he coveted Elizabeth's throne more than he loved her for herself. Historically, it is not at all clear whether their love affair was anything near the torrid level generated by Flynn and Davis, but their constant wrangling over whether their love trumps power or the ... Read More

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