Neptune’s Daughter
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 »
Tag: 1940s
Since You Went Away
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 »
The Bishop’s Wife
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 »
So Proudly We Hail!
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 »
Holiday Affair
Connie Ennis (Janet Leigh) is a widow, raising her son Timmy (Gordon Gebert) alone. One day, while working as a comparative shopper for a department store, she meets Steve Mason… Read more »
Waterloo Bridge
Waterloo Bridge (1940) opens with aged general Roy Cronin (Robert Taylor) leaving London to go to war in 1939. On his way to Waterloo Station he stops at Waterloo Bridge… Read more »
I Married A Witch
I Married A Witch (1942) is Veronica Lake’s movie. It belongs to her more than anyone else. Her short stature, feisty attitude, unique voice, iconic blonde hair and her general… Read more »
Dance, Girl, Dance
Dorothy Arzner has this tendency to redirect the characters in her films away from the Romantic. The people who inhabit the worlds Arzner puts on film are just a little… Read more »
Du Barry Was A Lady
Arthur Freed’s production of Du Barry Was A Lady (1943) reimagines the Cole Porter musical of the same name as a vaudeville variety show meant to showcase the talents under… Read more »
I, Jane Doe
John H. Auer was a producer and director at Republic Pictures for many years, churning out quick low budget films that lived on the success of bigger, more famous pictures…. Read more »
