A medical student with a club foot falls for a beautiful but ambitious waitress. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Wintertime (1943) John Brahm, Sonja Henie, Jack Oakie, Cesar Romero
Nora and her uncle get railroaded into spending the night at a broken-down hotel in Canada. Read More »
Black Bart (1948) George Sherman, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea, Jeffrey Lynn
Cheerful outlaw Charlie Boles leaves former partners Lance and Jersey and heads for California Read More »
My Friend Irma (1949) George Marshall, John Lund, Diana Lynn, Don DeFore
Based on the long-running radio show. Irma is a likeable airhead who meddles Read More »
Bride by Mistake (1944) Richard Wallace, Alan Marshal, Laraine Day, Marsha Hunt
Norah is very rich, owns her own shipyard and has Sylvia double for her at all outside functions. Read More »
Our Miss Doctor / Unser Fräulein Doktor (1940) Erich Engel, Jenny Jugo, Albert Matterstock, Heinz Salfner
At an all male school where it is assumed that women are inferior Read More »
May Fairytale / Pohádka máje (1940) Otakar Vávra, Filip Balek-Brodský, Svatopluk Benes, Marie Blazková
Otakar Vávra turned to Mrštík’s love novel, which had already served Read More »
Dangerous Moonlight (1941) Brian Desmond Hurst
Prologue: in 1940, a shell shocked man fights to recall his past. Read More »
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) Vincente Minnelli, Judy Garland, Margaret O’Brien, Mary Astor
St. Louis 1903. The well-off Smith family has four beautiful daughters, including Esther and little Tootie. Read More »
Anchors Aweigh (1945) George Sidney, Joseph Barbera, William Hanna, Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly
Two sailors, one naive, the other experienced in the ways of the world Read More »