Foreign correspondent Carey Jackson is offered a job on Home Life, a “women’s” magazine; he accepts when he finds the editor is his old flame Linda Gilman. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Man from Frisco (1944) Robert Florey, Michael O’Shea, Anne Shirley, Gene Lockhart
Matt Braddock is a civil engineer during World War II who has new ideas for shipbuilding. Read More »
Beat the Band (1947) John H. Auer, Frances Langford, Ralph Edwards, Phillip Terry
Based on a Broadway musical, the story has Damon Dillingham, newly-discharged from the Army following WW II Read More »
Caught (1949) Max Ophüls, James Mason, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Ryan
It was Leonora Eames’ childhood dream come true. She had married Smith Ohlrig, a man worth millions. Read More »
Return to Yesterday (1940) Robert Stevenson, Clive Brook, Anna Lee, Dame May Whitty
Wartime dilema: Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England. Read More »
Mr. and Mrs. North (1942) Robert B. Sinclair, Gracie Allen, William Post Jr., Paul Kelly
Jerry North (William Post Jr.) and his wife, Pam (Gracie Allen)return home after a night away in a holiday spirit. Read More »
Stormy Waters (1941) Jean Grémillon, Jean Gabin, Madeleine Renaud, Michèle Morgan
Andre Laurent, the captain of a tugboat, married Yvonne ten years ago. She has a heart disease but does not want to tell him. Read More »
The well-diggers daughter (1940) Marcel Pagnol, Raimu, Fernandel, Josette Day
Rural well-digger Pascal has a pretty 18-year-old daughter Patricia who grew up in Paris; he dreams of her marrying his middle-aged partner Felipe. Read More »
Keep Your Powder Dry (1945) Edward Buzzell, Lana Turner, Laraine Day, Susan Peters
A disparate group of women try to adjust to their new lives after enlisting in the Women’s Army Corps. Read More »
The Lucky Stiff (1949) Lewis R. Foster
Semi-successful lawyer John Malone is intrigued by local night club singer Anna Marie St. Clair. Read More »