Bess Flowers

Movies5 years ago
Private Worlds (Paramount 1935, Charles Boyer, Claudette Colbert)
Charles Boyer stars as the new superintendent of a progressive mental hospital. His apparent coldness first arouses resentment among the doctors on the staff, but his...
Movies5 years ago
Who’s Minding the Store? (Paramount 1963, Jerry Lewis, Jill St John)
In Who’s Minding the Store?, a department store provides the location for Jerry Lewis’s buffoonery, in this case working as a handyman hired away from his...
Movies5 years ago
Show Boat (MGM 1951, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel)
John Lee Mahin made an excellent adaptation of the popular Kern and Hammerstein musical for MGM’s expert producer of musicals Arthur Freed and the resulting film,...
Movies5 years ago
Tom, Dick and Harry (RKO 1941, Ginger Rogers, George Murphy)
In sparkling comedy Tom, Dick and Harry, directed by Garson Kanin, Ginger Rogers is a telephone operator who must choose from three attractive suitors. Will it...
Movies5 years ago
Sudden Fear (RKO 1952, Joan Crawford, Jack Palance)
In Sudden Fear a wealthy playwright (Joan Crawford) suspects her actor husband (Jack Palance) of having murderous designs on her fortune in this classic noir drama....