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Tag Archives: 1940s
They Were Expendable (1945) John Ford, Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed

In the wake of Pearl Harbor’s surprise attack, World War II hero, Lt. John Brickley’s experimental squadron Read More »
Getting Gertie’s Garter (1945) Allan Dwan, Dennis O’Keefe, Marie McDonald, Barry Sullivan

Getting Gertie’s Garter is an updated adaptation of the venerable stage farce by Wilson Collison and Avery Hopwood. Read More »
B.F.’s Daughter (1948) Robert Z. Leonard, Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Charles Coburn

Polly Fulton is the only daughter of rich industrialist B.F. Fulton. Read More »
Busman’s Honeymoon (1940) Arthur B. Woods, Richard Thorpe, Robert Montgomery, Constance Cummings, Leslie Banks

Lord Peter Wimsey is an amateur detective. He is to be married to Harriet Vane, who writes crime novels, at a big Society wedding. Read More »
The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946) Jean Renoir, Paulette Goddard, Burgess Meredith, Hurd Hatfield

Celestine, the chamber-maid, has a new job in the country, at the Lanlaires. Read More »
Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940) John Cromwell, Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, Ruth Gordon

Biopic of Abe Lincoln, 16th President of he United States, from his early days in backwoods Kentucky to his election as President. Read More »
Primrose Path (1940) Gregory La Cava, Ginger Rogers, Joel McCrea, Marjorie Rambeau

Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother Read More »
Scarlet Street (1945) Fritz Lang, Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea

Chris Cross, 25 years a cashier, has a gold watch and little else. Read More »
The Song of Bernadette (1943) Henry King, Charles Bickford, Jennifer Jones, William Eythe

In 1858 France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of “a beautiful lady” in the city dump. Read More »