One of the best—loved classic movies of all time To Have and Have Not is famous for the offscreen romance that sparked on-screen electricity between Humphrey...
Top Hat has Astaire, Rogers, Irving Berlin, choreography by Hermes Pan and Astaire: all the elements that define the classic Astaire-Rogers picture and, therefore, the height...
Topper was one of the greatest delights of ’30s cinema. Happy-go-lucky married couple Cary Grant and Constance Bennett fritter away their time and considerable wealth with...
In backstage potboiler Torch Song, a typically hard-as-nails Joan Crawford portrays a Broadway musical star who chews up people when she’s not chewing scenery. After all...
Based on the stage musical of the same name, director and co-writer Billy Wilder’s screen adaptation of Irma La Douce scuttles the music in favor of...
In Tortilla Flat Spencer Tracy and John Garfield play two friends just trying to get by in Steinbeck’s world of Monterey, California’s canneries and fishermen. Tracy...
John Huston’s suspenseful thriller We Were Strangers follows John Garfield, a Cuban-born American citizen, who is returning to his native country to join his people’s revolution...
In Blue Skies the owner of a nightclub (Bing Crosby) and a dancing star (Fred Astaire) are friends turned romantic rivals in this musical featuring the...
In Notorious, one of the most stylish works by the master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock, American agent Cary Grant gets the assignment to watch international playgirl...
Ingrid Bergman made her Hollywood debut in Intermezzo in a role she had played three years earlier in Sweden. She is absolutely luminous as the concert...
Wartime musical comedy Seven Days’ Leave features plenty of big names from radio days. Victure Mature plays an army private who has a week to earn...
Clark Gable and Myrna Loy star in Too Hot To Handle, a fast-paced insider’s look at the rough-and-tumble world of newsreel producers (the story was written...
Water Brennan snagged his third Academy Award for his role as tempestuous Judge Roy Bean (‘The Only Law West Of The Pecos!’), in this lavish Sam...
Based on the real heroism of London’s Windmill Theatre, unique musical Tonight and Every Night depicts a theater that believes the show must go on despite...
Orson Welles and Claudette Colbert (how’s that for an odd couple?) star in wartime melodrama Tomorrow Is Forever. Shortly after Welles and Colbert marry, he’s wounded...