Here’s a sample pulled from my collection of movie stills, a lovely picture of Marsha Hunt and Margaret O’Brien in Lost Angel (1943). Lost Angel was one of O’Brien’s earliest major roles, in which she plays a little girl who’s been raised…
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Goodbye, My Fancy (1951): Movie Review
Goodbye, My Fancy is an interesting, if not completely satisfactory, film about a woman with a successful professional life but a habit of running out on challenging relationships and personal situations. It’s the story of Congresswoman Agatha Reed (Joan Crawford),…
Read more →Westbound (1959): Classic Movie Review
I enjoy college football — specifically, USC Trojan football — but I never watch pro football. Instead, I spent my Super Bowl Sunday enjoying another great American pastime, the Randolph Scott Western. Westbound is one of the seven late ’50s…
Read more →A Yank in the R.A.F (1941): Classic Movie Review
A Yank in the R.A.F. is an interesting but uneven example of the type of morale-boosting film produced by Hollywood before the entry of the United States into World War II. Along with films like Foreign Correspondent (1940) and Confirm…
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