Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Alice in Wonderland (1949) Dallas Bower, Stephen Murray, Ernest Milton, Pamela Brown
This exceptional theatrical version of Lewis Carroll’s 1865 classic features Read More »
Carnival in Costa Rica (1947) Gregory Ratoff, Dick Haymes, Vera-Ellen, Cesar Romero
Pepe Castro and Luisa Molina return to Costa Rica from U.S. schools to find that their parents Read More »
Fashion Model (1945) William Beaudine, Robert Lowery, Marjorie Weaver, Tim Ryan
Peggy Rooney, Yvonne Brewster, and Marie Lewis are models at Madame Celeste’s fashion house Read More »
This Time for Keeps (1942) Charles Reisner, Ann Rutherford, Robert Sterling, Guy Kibbee
Lee White, recently married to Katherine Bryant, eyes a vacation from marital Read More »
The Golden City AKA Die goldene Stadt (1942) Veit Harlan, Kristina Söderbaum, Eugen Klöpfer, Annie Rosar
Anna Jobst is the daughter of a rich, conservative farmer. Read More »
Three of a Kind (1944) D. Ross Lederman, Billy Gilbert, Shemp Howard, Maxie Rosenbloom
Two vaudeville acrobats adopt the son of an actor friend. Read More »
Red Roses AKA Rose scarlatte (1940) Giuseppe Amato, Vittorio De Sica, Renée Saint-Cyr, Umberto Melnati
A man poses as a mysterious admirer to find out whether his wife would cheat on him. Read More »
The Trump Card AKA Dernier Atout (1942) Jacques Becker, Mireille Balin, Raymond Rouleau, Pierre Renoir
A man is shot In the hotel of an imaginary South American country. Read More »
Lady Be Good (1941) Norman Z. McLeod, Busby Berkeley, Eleanor Powell, Ann Sothern, Robert Young
Songwriters Dixie Donegan and Eddie Crane are still in love after their divorce. Read More »
The Storm Within AKA Les parents terribles (1948) Jean Cocteau, Jean Marais, Josette Day, Yvonne de Bray
When Michel, who’s 22, tells his parents he is in love, his mother Yvonne is distraught Read More »
You’re My Everything (1949) Walter Lang, Dan Dailey, Anne Baxter, Anne Revere
In 1924, stage-struck Boston blueblood Hannah Adams picks up musical star Tim O’Connor Read More »
Return of the Ape Man (1944) Phil Rosen, Bela Lugosi, John Carradine, George Zucco
While on an Arctic expedition, two scientists find the frozen body of a prehistoric caveman. Read More »
Tin Pan Alley (1940) Walter Lang, Alice Faye, Betty Grable, Jack Oakie
Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Read More »
Live Wires (1946) Phil Karlson, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Mike Mazurki
Slip gets fired from his job at a construction company for decking his boss. Read More »