Directed by Sam Wood Screenplay by Douglas Morrow & Guy Trosper. (Story also by Morrow.) Frank Morgan & James Stewart make a good pairing. (Edit: Two weeks after posting this, it suddenly dawned on me why I liked this so much – it’s a re-pairing! Stewart & Morgan were teamed in one of my all-time favorites, […]
Directed by Raoul Walsh. Screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart, story by (an uncredited) Frances Marion. Marion Davies is a French teacher, but she doesn’t really want to be & gets easily distracted by life & wanting to live it to the fullest. For instance – she’s supposed to be grading her students’ final exams. Instead, she […]
Directed by Edmund Goulding. Screenplay by Lenore Coffee, from a novel by Polan Banks. Music by Max Steiner. (Everyone, all together now: Of course it is!!!) This movie opens on the aftermath of a week-long honeymoon party thrown by newlyweds Peter Van Allen (the ever stuffy George Brent) and famous pianist Sandra Kovak (the ever […]
TCM says in its intro to this film that it is “truly a laugh-out-loud comedy.” I don’t, even once in my life, recall laughing out loud at a Woody Allen movie, so…we’ll see how this goes. The movie starts with the president of San Marcos (a fictional country) being assassinated. News reporters are light-heartedly commentating […]
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