My Favorite Wife
After having been shipwrecked for seven years Ellen Arden’s (Irene Dunne) husband Nick Arden (Gary Grant) has had her declared legally dead so that he can marry Miss Bianca Bates… Read more »
Tag: 1940s
Sleep, My Love
Wealthy Manhattan socialite Alison Courtland (Claudette Colbert) wakes on a train with no recollection of how she got there. This isn’t the first such episode for Mrs. Courtland, or so… Read more »
Pursued
Released the same year as Robert Mitchum gave his career defining performance in Jacques Tourneur’s quintessential film noir masterpiece Out Of The Past (1947), Pursued (1947) sees Mitchum appearing in… Read more »
The Reckless Moment
The Reckless Moment (1949) opens with Lucia Harper (Joan Bennett) going to warn Ted Darby (Shepperd Strudwick) to stay away from her seventeen year old daughter Bea (Geraldine Brooks). Darby… Read more »
Leave Her To Heaven
Leave Her To Heaven (1945) is not unlike The Strange Woman (1946) and Desert Fury (1947); a “weepie” or woman’s picture told with traditionally film noir conventions. The enduring popularity… Read more »
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Cary Grant and Myrna Loy re-teamed for Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948), a family comedy-drama about the anxieties of the post-war economic boom. Directing is none other than… Read more »
Weird Woman
Weird Woman (1944) is the second and most highly regarded film in Universal Pictures’ Inner Sanctum Mystery series (based on a radio program of the same name). The films in… Read more »
The Blood Of Jesus
Spencer Williams made his second feature, The Blood Of Jesus (1941), for a measly five-thousand dollars. Williams, like many Black American filmmakers, had to make his film on the fringes… Read more »
The Private Life Of A Cat
The Private Life Of A Cat (1947) is a collaboration between Maya Deren and her husband Alexander Hammid. This twenty minute film is a document of their cats as they… Read more »
Cobra Woman
Robert Siodmak’s technicolor extravaganza Cobra Woman (1944) is a film more widely known than seen. Since its release in 1944, Cobra Woman and its star Maria Montez have been venerated… Read more »
