by Lesley Gaspar | Oct 14, 2014 | 1930s, Classic movies, Pre-Code films, Running Wild II: Genres in Pre-Code Cinema
?If you were to see?Love Me Tonight,? Mamoulian said in an interview in 1970, ?although it is a very light, gay musical, you?d see in it most clearly what motivates me, what I like. The whole of?Love Me Tonight?is a poem, from beginning to end. Everything is rhythm,...
by Lesley Gaspar | Dec 26, 2013 | 1940s, Classic movies
An unassuming postwar holiday romance set in New York City, the first clue that?Holiday Affair?broke the Jell-O mold of its genre comes via its leads, wholesome but definitely sexy?Janet Leigh?and sexy but definitely unwholesome?Robert Mitchum. Maureen O?Hara is of...
by Lesley Gaspar | Dec 21, 2013 | 1950s, Barbara Stanwyck, Classic movies, Women's Films
There?s Always Tomorrow?starring Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, and Joan Bennett. Generally I?m down with Jeanine Basinger?s definition of a woman?s picture as one that centers on a woman and her experience, and this excellent film asks the question, Is it still a...
by Lesley Gaspar | Dec 21, 2013 | Classic movies
The dependably great Jack Carson in a fine performance as a sweet, not-very-talented vaudevillian with a pure heart and the misfortune to fall in love with Joan Leslie, who for the purposes of the story is supposed to have an abundance of ?it? or ?oomph? (a Pepsodent...
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