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 »
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 »
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 (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 »
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 (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 »
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 »
Neptune’s Daughter (1949) is a technicolor musical from MGM starring the inimitable Esther Williams. Neptune’s Daughter re-teamed MGM’s “Million Dollar Mermaid” with leading men Red Skelton and Ricardo Montalban along… Read more »
David O. Selznick’s production Since You Went Away (1944) is the essential wartime “weepie”. Selznick based the film on Since You Went Away: Letters to a Soldier from His Wife… Read more »
Samuel Goldwyn’s production The Bishop’s Wife (1947) is a lighthearted comedy about the spirit of Christmas. The film employs traditional Christian theology in a playful manner in order to advocate… Read more »
Today Mark Sandrich is best known for his film Holiday Inn (1942). However Sandrich produced and directed dozens of films from the mid-twenties through to the late forties, with musical… Read more »