Tag Archives: 1940s

Starting with a small flock of carrier pigeons, nineteenth-century entrepreneur Julius Reuter Read More »

Odette Joyeux plays an eccentric young aristocrat called “Chiffon”, who is struggling to comply with the social conventions of the community. Read More »

Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. Read More »

Songwriter Steve Elliott is about to marry Caroline Brooks. A strange woman who’s been paid by Steve’s agent Read More »

Frank Yerby’s Foxes of Harrow was one of those long historical novels so popular in the 1940s. Read More »

During World War II, the management of a war industry of optical instruments for weapons requests Read More »

The upper-class Pringles and middle-class Fosters are two Santa Barbara families. Read More »

Cleopatra hasn’t been on the throne of the pharoahs of Egypt very long when Julius Caesar pays a visit. Read More »

A well-known and confident young woman from the Barbary Coast decides to give up her chance at love in order to succeed in card games. Read More »

A neurosurgeon is thrown out of the medical profession after he performs a daring but unsuccessful surgery. Read More »