Borrowing the ”Lubitsch touch” and an altogether Continental air, Garson Kanin’s charming, lovely, droll Bachelor Mother delights as it unwinds a tricky plot. Polly Parrish is mistaken for an unwed mother abandoning her infant when she is caught holding the precious bundle on the steps of the foundling home where it has been left. Polly […]
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Garson Kanin, who directed her twice, considered Ginger Rogers the quintessential movie star; Rogers was Marcello Mastroianni’s favorite actress; critic Andrew Sarris named Rogers cinema’s best comedienne. What follows is a list of Ginger’s ten best performances in descending order of preference—and not all the films are comedies: Storm Warning (Stuart Heisler, 1950) Roxie […]
Shot in eight days on a threadbare budget, in the same video-to-film process, “electronovision,” that had been used for Richard Burton’s dress-rehearsal Hamlet (Bill Colleran, John Gielgud, 1964), Alex Segal’s Harlow, from a script by Karl Tunberg (William Wyler’s Ben-Hur, 1959, don’t-you-know), succeeded in beating to exhibition by one month Joseph E. Levine’s much more […]
Greenwich Village bookseller Jean Newton on an impulse convinces a stranger, quixotic neighbor David Grant, to share with her for good luck a sweepstakes ticket; he extracts her promise, as a condition, that she go on a Platonic “honeymoon” with him, should they win anything, before she settles down by marrying insurance salesman Freddy Harper. […]
Myrna Loy’s 1935 suspension by M-G-M found William Powell, Loy’s co-star in the hugely popular The Thin Man (1934), playing opposite Luise Rainer in Escapade, Rosalind Russell in Rendezvous and Ginger Rogers, as Donna Mantin, in Star of Midnight, a sparkling mystery-comedy. Reviewers originally remarked that Rogers had nothing like Loy’s polish and sophistication; indeed, […]
Dennis Grunes 