A ventriloquist is murdered, leaving a show to be done. So, a midget goes undercover as the dummy. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Ladies Courageous (1944) John Rawlins, Loretta Young, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Diana Barrymore
The story of the Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron, a unit of female pilots during WW II who flew bombers from the factories to their final destinations. Read More »
Brewster’s Millions (1945) Allan Dwan, Dennis O’Keefe, Helen Walker, June Havoc
Monty Brewster is a penniless, former U.S. Army soldier back from World War II Europe who learns that he has inherited $8 million Read More »
Riff-Raff (1947) Ted Tetzlaff, Pat O’Brien, Walter Slezak, Anne Jeffreys
A plane takes off from Peru (in a long no-dialogue scene) in a storm with two passengers; it lands in Panama with one. Read More »
Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942) Henry Hathaway, George Montgomery, Maureen O’Hara, John Sutton
Among those who are fighting to have Congress re-establish the military academy at West Point Read More »
Cynthia (1947) Robert Z. Leonard, Elizabeth Taylor, George Murphy, S.Z. Sakall
Taylor plays the title character, a sickly, sheltered young lady who is never permitted the companionship of other teenagers. Read More »
I’ve Always Loved You (1946) Frank Borzage, Philip Dorn, Catherine McLeod, Bill Carter
A beautiful young concert pianist is torn between her attraction to her arrogant but brilliant maestro and her love for a farm boy she left back home. Read More »
A Dispatch from Reuters (1940) William Dieterle, Edward G. Robinson, Edna Best, Eddie Albert
Starting with a small flock of carrier pigeons, nineteenth-century entrepreneur Julius Reuter Read More »
The Marriage of Chiffon AKA Le mariage de Chiffon (1942) Claude Autant-Lara, Odette Joyeux, André Luguet, Jacques Dumesnil
Odette Joyeux plays an eccentric young aristocrat called “Chiffon”, who is struggling to comply with the social conventions of the community. Read More »
Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940) Norman Taurog, Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell, George Murphy
Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. Read More »
Bathing Beauty (1944) George Sidney, Red Skelton, Esther Williams, Basil Rathbone
Songwriter Steve Elliott is about to marry Caroline Brooks. A strange woman who’s been paid by Steve’s agent Read More »
The Foxes of Harrow (1947) John M. Stahl, Rex Harrison, Maureen O’Hara, Richard Haydn
Frank Yerby’s Foxes of Harrow was one of those long historical novels so popular in the 1940s. Read More »
The Most Beautiful AKA Ichiban utsukushiku (1944) Akira Kurosawa, Takashi Shimura, Sôji Kiyokawa, Ichirô Sugai
During World War II, the management of a war industry of optical instruments for weapons requests Read More »
A Date with Judy (1948) Richard Thorpe, Wallace Beery, Jane Powell, Elizabeth Taylor
The upper-class Pringles and middle-class Fosters are two Santa Barbara families. Read More »
Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) Gabriel Pascal, Claude Rains, Vivien Leigh, Stewart Granger
Cleopatra hasn’t been on the throne of the pharoahs of Egypt very long when Julius Caesar pays a visit. Read More »