Directed by Tay Garnett. Screenplay by Gene Towne, C. Graham Baker, & Allan Scott, based on an original story by Dorothy & Herbert Fields. (Herbert & Dorothy Fields were not a married couple, but rather a brother & sister; Herbert independently wrote such things as LOVE BEFORE BREAKFAST (1938) – while also collaborating with Dorothy […]
Directed by Archie Mayo. Screenplay by Casey Robinson, from an original story by Maurice Hanline. Leslie Howard is Basil Underwood, a renowned theater actor; Bette Davis is Joyce Arden, Basil’s girlfriend & frequent costar. This is a clever setup for a film, as it immediately allows for a Howard/Davis performance of the death scene from […]
Oh man…this has so many good people in it. Screenplay by Charles Brackett & Edwin Knopf (based on a novel by P.G. Wodehouse). Robert Montgomery is James Crocket, Jr., a prospering cartoonist/caricaturist living in England. Frank Morgan is James, Sr., his non-prospering actor father who only acts in Shakespeare plays – otherwise, he acts in nothing…so, […]
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