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Tag Archives: 1940s
My Name Is Julia Ross (1945) Joseph H. Lewis, Nina Foch, May Whitty, George Macready

Julia Ross secures employment, through a rather nosy employment agency Read More »
Cottage to Let (1941) Anthony Asquith, Leslie Banks, Alastair Sim, Jeanne De Casalis

A wartime cottage on a Scottish estate becomes a focus of attention Read More »
Irene (1940) Herbert Wilcox, Anna Neagle, Ray Milland, Roland Young

Sent by her employers on an errand to the home of the wealthy Mrs. Vincent, Irene O’Dare meets Don, a friend of Bob, Mrs. Vincent’s son. Read More »
Buck Privates (1941) Arthur Lubin, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lee Bowman

Bud and Lou enlist in the army in order to escape being hauled off to jail, and soon find themselves in basic training. Read More »
Chad Hanna (1940) Henry King, Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour, Linda Darnell

Country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with Albany the star equestrian rider. Read More »
Theirs Is the Glory (1946) Brian Desmond Hurst, Stanley Maxted, Thomas Scullion, Allan Wood

In 1944, British General Montgomery and his command were way north of the Allied line Read More »
Four Flights to Love AKA Paradis perdu (1940) Abel Gance, Fernand Gravey, Elvire Popesco, André Alerme

Before World War I in Paris, a budding artist, Pierre Leblanc, falls in love and marries Janine, a dressmaker’s assistant. Read More »
A Night in Casablanca (1946) Archie Mayo, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx

In post-war Casablanca, Ronald Kornblow is hired to run a hotel whose previous managers have all wound up being murdered. Read More »
Three Wise Fools (1946) Edward Buzzell, Margaret O’Brien, Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone

It had been forty years since Richard, James and Theodore insulted The O’Monahan and he put a vexing blessing on them. Read More »