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Tag Archives: 1940s
Zazà (1944) Renato Castellani, Isa Miranda, Antonio Centa, Aldo Silvani

A glamorous female singer Zazà (Isa Miranda) has an affair with a passerby engineer Dufresne (Antonio Centa). Read More »
Nazi Agent (1942) Jules Dassin, Conrad Veidt, Ann Ayars, Frank Reicher

A story of German-born identical twins (both played by Veidt), one a loyal American and the other, a Nazi official. Read More »
The Feminine Touch (1941) W.S. Van Dyke, Rosalind Russell, Don Ameche, Kay Francis

John Hathaway is a professor of psychology at Digby College. His students are bored as he is with the students. Read More »
The Great Man’s Lady (1942) William A. Wellman, Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Brian Donlevy

In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt Read More »
You Belong to Me (1941) Wesley Ruggles, Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Edgar Buchanan

On a ski trip, rich, idle Peter Kirk pursues and falls (literally) for Helen Hunt, M.D. After a courtship of hypochondria Read More »
The Hitler Gang (1944) John Farrow, Bobby Watson, Roman Bohnen, Martin Kosleck

This film shows us the growth of Adolf Hitler out of a tiny radical political adventurer Read More »
Cafe Hostess (1940) Sidney Salkow, Preston Foster, Ann Dvorak, Douglas Fowley

A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to leave. Read More »
Seven Keys to Baldpate (1947) Lew Landers, Phillip Terry, Jacqueline White, Eduardo Ciannelli

Writer Kenneth Magee has bet that he can finish a story at rural resort Baldpate Inn, now closed for the winter. Read More »
The Sullivans (1944) Lloyd Bacon, Anne Baxter, Thomas Mitchell, Selena Royle

The lives of a close-knit group of brothers growing up in Iowa during the days of the Great Depression and of World War II Read More »