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Tag Archives: 1940s
Operette (1940) Willi Forst, Maria Holst, Dora Komar
The first film of Willi Forst’s legendary Viennese trilogy is essentially a condensed history of the golden age of Viennese operetta mirrored in the fictive love story Read More »
Enchantment (1948) Irving Reis, David Niven, Teresa Wright, Evelyn Keyes
Uncle Rollo finally retires to the house he was brought up in. Lost in thoughts of his lost love, Lark, he does not want to be disturbed in his last days. Read More »
June Bride (1948) Bretaigne Windust, Bette Davis, Robert Montgomery, Fay Bainter
Foreign correspondent Carey Jackson is offered a job on Home Life, a “women’s” magazine; he accepts when he finds the editor is his old flame Linda Gilman. Read More »
Man from Frisco (1944) Robert Florey, Michael O’Shea, Anne Shirley, Gene Lockhart
Matt Braddock is a civil engineer during World War II who has new ideas for shipbuilding. Read More »
Beat the Band (1947) John H. Auer, Frances Langford, Ralph Edwards, Phillip Terry
Based on a Broadway musical, the story has Damon Dillingham, newly-discharged from the Army following WW II Read More »
Caught (1949) Max Ophüls, James Mason, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Ryan
It was Leonora Eames’ childhood dream come true. She had married Smith Ohlrig, a man worth millions. Read More »
Return to Yesterday (1940) Robert Stevenson, Clive Brook, Anna Lee, Dame May Whitty
Wartime dilema: Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England. Read More »
Mr. and Mrs. North (1942) Robert B. Sinclair, Gracie Allen, William Post Jr., Paul Kelly
Jerry North (William Post Jr.) and his wife, Pam (Gracie Allen)return home after a night away in a holiday spirit. Read More »
Stormy Waters (1941) Jean Grémillon, Jean Gabin, Madeleine Renaud, Michèle Morgan
Andre Laurent, the captain of a tugboat, married Yvonne ten years ago. She has a heart disease but does not want to tell him. Read More »
The well-diggers daughter (1940) Marcel Pagnol, Raimu, Fernandel, Josette Day
Rural well-digger Pascal has a pretty 18-year-old daughter Patricia who grew up in Paris; he dreams of her marrying his middle-aged partner Felipe. Read More »
La fiancée des ténèbres (1945) Serge de Poligny, Pierre Richard-Willm, Jany Holt, Line Noro
Sylvie, a girl who believes she is cursed having seen her two lovers die in tragic circumstances, lives in the town of Carcassonne Read More »
Keep Your Powder Dry (1945) Edward Buzzell, Lana Turner, Laraine Day, Susan Peters
A disparate group of women try to adjust to their new lives after enlisting in the Women’s Army Corps. Read More »
The Lucky Stiff (1949) Lewis R. Foster, Dorothy Lamour, Brian Donlevy, Claire Trevor
Semi-successful lawyer John Malone is intrigued by local night club singer Anna Marie St. Clair. Read More »
Down to the Sea in Ships (1949) Henry Hathaway, Richard Widmark, Lionel Barrymore, Dean Stockwell
At the end of the 19th century, Massachusetts whaling ship captain Bering Joy takes his grandson Jed on a whaling expedition. Read More »