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Daddy Long Legs (1955)
Daddy Long Legs is a 1955 Hollywood musical comedy film set in France, New York City, and the fictional college town of "Walston" in Massachsetts. It stars Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Fred Clark and Thelma Ritter, with music and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. The screenplay was written by Phoebe Ephron and Henry Ephron, loosely based on the novel Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster. The film was directed by Jean Negulesco.
It was one of Astaire's personal favourites, largely due to the script which, for once, directly addresses the complications inherent in a love affair between a young woman and a man thirty years her senior. However, the making of it was marred by his wife's death from lung cancer. Deeply traumatised, Astaire offered to pay the production expenses already incurred in order to quit the project, but then changed his mind.
Wealthy American Jervis Pendleton III (Fred Astaire) has a chance encounter at a French orphanage with a cheerful 18-year-old resident, Julie Andre (Leslie). He anonymously pays for her education at a New England college. She writes letters to her mysterious benefactor regularly, but he never writes back; all she really knows about him is that she once saw his elongated shadow, hence her nickname for him, "Daddy Long Legs".
Several years later, he visits her at school, still concealing his identity. Despite their large age difference, they soon fall in love.
Directed by Jean Negulesco
Produced by Samuel G. Engel
Written by Jean Webster (novel), Henry Ephron, Phoebe Ephron
FredAstaire as JervisPendletonIII/JohnSmith
LeslieCaron as JulieAndre
TerryMoore as LindaPendleton
ThelmaRitter as AliciaPritchard
FredClark as Griggs
CharlotteAustin as SallyMcBride
LarryKeating as AmbassadorAlexanderWilliamson
KathrynGivney as GertrudePendleton
KellyBrown as JimmyMcBride
RayAnthony as Himself(asRayAnthonyandHisOrchestra)
Music by Alex North (ballet music)
Cinematography Leon Shamroy
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release date 5 May 1955 (US release)
Running time 126 min.
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Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Bringing Up Baby is a 1938 screwball comedy directed by Howard Hawks and starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. It tells the story of a scientist winding up in various predicaments involving a woman with a unique sense of logic and a leopard named Baby. The supporting cast includes Charles Ruggles, Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Catlett, and May Robson.
Adapted by Dudley Nichols and Hagar Wilde from a story by Hagar Wilde, Bringing Up Baby was an infamous box office catastrophe, causing Hawks to be fired from his next RKO film (Gunga Din, also starring Cary Grant) and forcing Hepburn to buy out her contract. As time went on, however, the movie gained more and more attention and is now revered as a sophisticated classic decades ahead of its time, and it continues to generate revenue for Hepburn's estate.
David Huxley (Cary Grant) is a mild-mannered paleontologist beleaguered by problems. For the past four years, he has been trying to assemble the skeleton of a Brontosaurus but is missing one bone (an "intercostal clavicle"). To add to the stress, he is about to get married to a dour woman with a severe personality and must make a favorable impression upon a Mrs. Random, a wealthy woman who is considering donating one million dollars to his museum. The day before his planned wedding, David meets Susan Vance (Katharine Hepburn) by chance. She is a free-spirited young lady and, unknown to him at first, happens to be Mrs. Random's niece.
Susan's brother (Mark) has sent her a tame leopard from Brazil (despite the fact that leopards are Old World animals, and Brazil is jaguar territory), "Baby," which she is supposed to give to her aunt. Susan believes David is a zoologist rather than a paleontologist and she practically stalks him in order to get David to go to her country home in Connecticut to help her take care of Baby. Complications arise as Susan decides that she has fallen in love with David and she endeavors to keep him at her house for as long as possible to prevent him from marrying his colleague. At this point, the plot becomes further entangled as Susan's dog, George, steals and buries the last dinosaur bone that David needs to complete his Brontosaurus skeleton at the museum. Susan's aunt Elizabeth (Mrs. Random) arrives. She is unaware of who David really is because Susan has introduced him as a man named "Mr. Bone". Baby runs off, as do George and a decidedly untame leopard from a nearby circus that Susan and David had inadvertently let loose from its cage, thinking it was Baby. Now Susan and David must find Baby, George, and the dinosaur bone, while ensuring that Mrs. Random donates her million dollars to the museum. To accomplish this, they must first get out of the county jail, where they have been mistakenly locked up by a befuddled town constable.
Directed by Howard Hawks
Produced by Cliff Reid, Howard Hawks
Written by Dudley Nichols, Hagar Wilde
Music by Roy Webb, Jimmy McHugh
Cinematography Russell Metty
Editing by George Hively
Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures
Release date February 18, 1938 (USA)
Running time 102 min.
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Katharine Hepburn as Susan Vance, a ditzy but well-meaning socialite
Cary Grant as Dr. David Huxley (alias Mr. Bone), a mild-mannered paleontologist
Charles Ruggles (credited as Charlie Ruggles) as Maj. Horace Applegate,
Walter Catlett as Constable Slocum, who arrests most of the cast
Barry Fitzgerald as Aloysius Gogarty, a heavily stereotyped Irish-American gardener
May Robson as Aunt Elizabeth Random, Susan's snobbish aunt
Fritz Feld as Dr. Fritz Lehman
Leona Roberts as Mrs. Hannah Gogarty, wife of Aloysius
George Irving as Dr. Alexander Peabody, Mrs Random's lawyer
Tala Birell as Mrs. Lehman
Virginia Walker as Alice Swallow, David's shrewish fiancée
John Kelly as Elmer
Asta as George, a dog
Nissa as both of the leopards
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My Favorite Wife (1940)
My Favorite Wife is a 1940 screwball comedy starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant that tells the story of a woman returning home to her husband and children after being shipwrecked on a tropical island for seven years. It is a reworking of Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem "Enoch Arden"; in tribute, the main characters' last name is Arden. Garson Kanin directed.
Ellen Wagstaff Arden (Irene Dunne) returns to her beloved husband Nick (Cary Grant), just as he has had her declared legally dead (seven years being the minimum period required), so he can marry the high strung Bianca (Gail Patrick). Ellen reaches Nick just before he embarks on his honeymoon. Further complications ensue when Nick discovers that the virile Stephen Beckett (Randolph Scott) was alone with Ellen on the island all those years. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Story, Best Score and Best Art Direction by Van Nest Polglase and Mark-Lee Kirk.
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Irene Dunne as Ellen Wagstaff Arden
Cary Grant as Nick Arden
Randolph Scott as Stephen Burkett
Gail Patrick as Bianca Bates
Ann Shoemaker as Ma
Scotty Beckett as Tim
Mary Lou Harrington as Chinch
Donald MacBride as Hotel clerk
Hugh O'Connell as Johnson
Granville Bates as Judge
Pedro de Cordoba as Dr. Kohlmar
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The Thin Man (1934)
Young Dorothy Wynant approaches amateur sleuth Nick Charles when her inventor father appears to be a major suspect in a murder case. In fact, Dorothy is so worried about her father's guilt that she tries to convince Nick that she did it. Nick's wife Nora wants him on the case so that she can experience some of the excitement herself. However, Nick is reluctant to get involved until he sees that police Lt. Guild is coming to the wrong conclusions. Nick decides that the best way to clear up the case is to invite all the suspects to dinner with Lt. Guild and see what happens...
* William Powell:...........Nick
* Myrna Loy:.................Nora
* Maureen O'Sullivan:...Dorothy
* Nat Pendleton:..........Guild
* Minna Gombell:..........Mimi
* Porter Hall:................MacCaulay
* Henry Wadsworth:....Tommy
* William Henry:...........Gilbert
* Harold Huber:...........Nunheim
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Runtime : 93 min
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After The Thin Man (1936)
Selma asks Nick to find her missing husband. He had been seeing a bit on the side, and blackmailing a local criminal. David Graham claims he paid the missing husband to get rid of a former girlfriend. Will Nick locate him?
* William Powell:...........Nicholas 'Nick' Charles
* Myrna Loy:.................Nora Charles
* James Stewart:..........David Graham
* Elissa Landi:..............Selma Landis, Nora's Cousin
* Joseph Calleia:..........'Dancer', Lichee Club Owner
* Jessie Ralph:..............Aunt Katherine Forrest
* Alan Marshal:.............Robert Landis, Selma's Husband (as Alan Marshall)
* Teddy Hart:................Floyd Casper, Dancer's Lawyer
* Sam Levene:..............Lieutenant Abrams, San Francisco Homicide Squad
* Penny Singleton:........Polly Byrnes (as Dorothy McNulty)
* William Law:...............Lum Kee, Lichee Club Co-Owner
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Runtime: 112 mins
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Another Thin Man (1939)
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The Charles' are back in New York with Asta and a new arrival: Nicky Jr. They are invited by Colonel MacFey to spend the weekend at his house in Long Island as he desperately wants Charles to help him out. It seems he has been receiving threats from Phil Church, a very shady character. When McFey is killed Church seems to be the obvious suspect but Nick suspects there is something far more complicated going on. McFey's housekeeper, daughter and various hangers-on may all have had an interest in seeking the old man's demise.
* William Powell:...........Nicholas 'Nick' Charles
* Myrna Loy:.................Nora Charles
* Virginia Grey:.............Lois MacFay/Linda Mills
* Otto Kruger:..............Assistand District Attorney Van Slack
* C. Aubrey Smith:........Colonel Burr MacFay
* Ruth Hussey:.............Dorothy Walters, Charles' nanny
* Nat Pendleton:..........Lietenant Guild
* Patric Knowles:.........Dudley Horn, Lois' fiance
* Tom Neal...................Freddie Coleman, MacFay's secretary
* Phyllis Gordon:..........Mrs. Isabella Bellam, MacFay's housekeeper
* Sheldon Leonard:.....Phil Church
* Don Costello:..........."Diamond Back" Vogel
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Runtime: 103 min
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Shadow Of The Thin Man (1941)
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Nick and Nora's hopes for a pleasant afternoon at the local race track are dashed when a jockey is found shot dead in the locker room. Nick's friend Lt. Abrams wants him to help out but Nick is enjoying the good life too much to get involved. However, he is subsequently approached by Major Scully to look into corruption and the role of organized crime in gambling. Others are killed but in the end, Nick gathers all of the suspects into a room and identifies the killer.
* William Powell:.......Nick
* Myrna Loy:.............Nora
* Barry Nelson:.........Paul
* Donna Reed:..........Molly
* Sam Levene:..........Lieutenant Abrams
* Alan Baxter:...........'Whitey' Barrow
* Henry O'Neill:..........Major Jason I. Sculley
* Richard Hall:...........Nick, Jr. (as Dickie Hall)
* Stella Adler:...........Claire Porter aka Clara Peters
* Loring Smith:.........'Link' Stephens
* Joseph Anthony:....Fred Macy
* Lou Lubin:..............'Rainbow' Benny
* Louise Beavers:.....Stella
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Runtime: 97 mins
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The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
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Nick and Nora head to Nick's hometown of Sycamore Springs to spend some time with his parents. His father, a prominent local physician, was always a bit disappointed with Nick's choice of profession in particular and his lifestyle in general. With Nick's arrival however the towns folk, including several of the local criminal element, are convinced that he must be there on a case despite his protestations that he's just there for rest and relaxation. When someone is shot dead on his doorstep however, Nick finds himself working on a case whether he wants to or not.
* William Powell:............Nicholas 'Nick' Charles
* Myrna Loy:..................Nora Charles, Nick's wife
* Harry Davenport:........Dr. Charles, Nick's father
* Lucile Watson:............Mrs. Charles, Nick's mother
* Gloria DeHaven:..........Laurabelle 'Laura' Ronson
* Anne Revere:..............Crazy Mary
* Helen Vinson:..............Helena Draque
* Edward Brophy:...........Brogan; (in the first film he played a character named Joe Morelli)
Directed by: Richard Thorpe
Running time: 100 min.
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Song Of The Thin Man (1947)
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Nick and Nora Charles are attending a charity benefit aboard a gambling ship. The festive atmosphere conceals many tensions among those connected with the ship, with most of the friction centering around Tommy Drake, its unpopular, spiteful band-leader. When he is murdered later that night, suspicion falls on Phil Brant, who had argued with Drake earlier in the evening. When Phil and his wife seek help from Nick and Nora, Nick refuses to get involved. But when shots are fired outside his own apartment, Nick begins to investigate, and he soon finds himself in a confusing case with numerous suspects.
* William Powell:.......Nick Charles
* Myrna Loy:.............Nora Charles
* Keenan Wynn:.......Clarence 'Clinker' Krause
* Dean Stockwell:.....Nick Charles Jr.
* Phillip Reed:...........Tommy Edlon Drake
* Patricia Morison:....Phyllis Talbin
* Leon Ames:...........Mitchell Talbin
* Gloria Grahame:....Fran Ledue Page
* Jayne Meadows:...Janet Thayar
* Ralph Morgan:.......David I. Thayar
* Bess Flowers:........Jessica Thayar
* Don Taylor:........... Buddy Hollis
* Warner Anderson:.Dr. Monolaw
* Bruce Cowling:.......Phil Orval Brant
* Connie Gilchrist:.....Bertha
Director: Edward Buzzell
Runtime: 86 min
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My Man Godfrey (1936)
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My Man Godfrey is a screwball comedy film released in 1936 by Universal Pictures, directed by Gregory LaCava. It was adapted from Eric Hatch's novel 1101 Park Avenue by Hatch himself and Morrie Ryskind, with uncredited contributions by LaCava. The story concerns a socialite who hires a derelict to be her family's butler, only to fall in love with him, much to his dismay. The 1936 film starred William Powell and Carole Lombard, supported by Alice Brady, Gail Patrick, Eugene Pallette, Mischa Auer and Alan Mowbray.
In 1999, My Man Godfrey was deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. A 1957 remake starred June Allyson and David Niven.
* William Powell as Godfrey
* Carole Lombard as Irene Bullock
* Alice Brady as Angelica Bullock
* Gail Patrick as Cornelia Bullock
* Eugene Pallette as Alexander Bullock
* Jean Dixon as Molly
* Alan Mowbray as Tommy Gray
* Mischa Auer as Carlo
* Pat Flaherty as Mike Flaherty
* Robert Light as Faithful George
* Grady Sutton as Charlie Van Rumple (uncredited)
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The Philadelphia Story (1940)
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The Philadelphia Story is a 1940 romantic comedy film starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and James Stewart, and directed by George Cukor. Based on a Broadway play of the same name by Philip Barry, with screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart and an uncredited Waldo Salt, the film is about a socialite whose wedding plans are complicated by the simultaneous arrival of her ex-husband and an attractive journalist. It is considered one of the best examples of a comedy of remarriage, a genre popular in the 1930s and 1940s, in which a couple divorce, flirt with outsiders and then remarry – a useful story-telling ploy at a time when depicting extramarital affairs was banned in American film.
The play was Hepburn's first great triumph after several movie flops which had led to her being labeled "box office poison", and she purchased the film rights to the play in order to control it as a vehicle for her movie comeback. The film was a great success.
The Philadelphia Story was nominated for six Academy Awards, and won two: Stewart for Best Actor and Donald Ogden Stewart for Best Adapted Screenplay. It was adapted in 1956 as the musical High Society, starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong.
In 1995, The Philadelphia Story film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
* Cary Grant as C. K. Dexter Haven
* Katharine Hepburn as Tracy Lord
* James Stewart as Macaulay Connor
* Ruth Hussey as Elizabeth Imbrie
* John Howard as George Kittredge
* Roland Young as William Q. Tracy (Uncle Willie)
* John Halliday as Seth Lord
* Mary Nash as Margaret Lord
* Virginia Weidler as Dinah Lord
* Henry Daniell as Sidney Kidd
* Lionel Pape as Edward, a footman
* Rex Evans as Thomas, the butler
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His Girl Friday (1940)
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His Girl Friday is a 1940 screwball comedy, a remake of the 1931 film The Front Page, itself an adaptation by Charles Lederer, Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur of their play of the same name. The "twist" to His Girl Friday is that the one of the lead roles was converted from a man to a woman.
The film stars Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell and features Ralph Bellamy. It was directed by Howard Hawks and is noted for the rapid-fire pace of its dialogue.
The film was #19 on American Film Institute's "100 Years, 100 Laughs", and has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. Today the film is in the public domain, which hasn't prevented Columbia from issuing official video releases of the film.
* Cary Grant as Walter Burns
* Rosalind Russell as Hildegard "Hildy" Johnson
* Ralph Bellamy as Bruce Baldwin
* Alma Kruger as Mrs. Baldwin, Bruce's mother
* Gene Lockhart as Sheriff Peter B. Hartwell
* Clarence Kolb as Mayor Fred
* Abner Biberman as Louis "Diamond Louie" Palutso
* John Qualen as Earl Williams
* Helen Mack as Molly Malloy, Earl's girlfriend
* Porter Hall as Reporter Murphy
* Ernest Truex as Reporter Roy V. Bensinger
* Cliff Edwards as Reporter Endicott
* Roscoe Karns as Reporter McCue
* Frank Jenks as Reporter Wilson
* Regis Toomey as Reporter Sanders
* Frank Orth as Duffy, Walter's copy editor
* Billy Gilbert as Joe Pettibone
* Pat West as Warden Cooley
* Edwin Maxwell as Dr. Max J. Eggelhoffer
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It Happened One Night (1934)
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Rebellious socialite Ellie Andrews marries King Wesley but her wealthy father has it annulled. Tired of her father's control, she runs away by diving off the family yacht in Miami and heading for New York. On the bus she meets street-smart reporter Peter Warne.
They end up traveling together as Warne hopes to get a great story, and Ellie needs his worldly help. Nearing New York, with their many adventures coming to an end, they find that they are reluctantly in love and afraid to admit it to each other.
After she mistakenly thinks that Warne has run out on her Ellie returns to King Wesley, but for how long?
Clark Gable: Peter Warne
Claudette Colbert: Ellie Andrews
Walter Connolly: Alexander Andrews
Roscoe Karns: Oscar Shapeley
Jameson Thomas: King Westley
Alan Hale: Danker
Arthur Hoyt: Zeke
Blanche Friderici: Zeke's wife
Charles C. Wilson: Joe Gordon
Director: Frank Capra
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The Sting (1973)
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The Sting is a 1973 caper film set in September 1936 and revolving around a complicated plot by two professional grifters (Paul Newman and Robert Redford) to con a mob boss (Robert Shaw). The story, created by screenwriter David S. Ward, was inspired by some real-life con games perpetrated by the brothers Fred and Charley Gondorff and documented by David Maurer in his book The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man.
The movie is divided into distinct sections with old-fashioned title cards with lettering and illustrations rendered in a style reminiscent of the Saturday Evening Post. The film is noted for its musical score - particularly its main theme melody, "The Entertainer", a piano rag by Scott Joplin, which was lightly adapted for the movie by Marvin Hamlisch. The film in turn encouraged a surge of popularity and critical acclaim for Joplin's work.
The film was a major box office success in 1973, taking in more than US$160 million. The film won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director.
* Paul Newman: Henry "Shaw" Gondorff
* Robert Redford: Johnny "Kelly" Hooker
* Robert Shaw: Doyle Lonnegan
* Charles Durning: Lt. William Snyder
* Ray Walston: J.J. Singleton
* Eileen Brennan: Billie
* Harold Gould: Kid Twist
* John Heffernan: Eddie Niles
* Dana Elcar: FBI Agent Polk, aka "Hickey"
* James Sloyan: Mottola
* Larry D. Mann: Mr. Clemens
* Sally Kirkland: Crystal ("Hooker's hooker")
* Jack Kehoe: Joe Erie
* Robert Earl Jones: Luther Coleman (credited as Robertearl Jones)
* Dimitra Arliss: Loretta
* Joe Tornatore: Black-gloved gunman
* Charles Dierkop: Floyd, Lonnegan's Bodyguard
* Lee Paul: Lonnegan's bodyguard
* Leonard Barr: Leonard (burlesque comic)
* Jack Collins: Duke Boudreau
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Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
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Breakfast at Tiffany's is a 1961 American film starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard, and featuring Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam, and Mickey Rooney. It was directed by Blake Edwards and released by Paramount Pictures.
Audrey Hepburn's portrayal of Holly Golightly as the naive, eccentric socialite is generally considered to be the actress's most memorable and identifiable role. She herself regarded it as one of her most challenging roles to play, as she was an introvert who had to play an extrovert. Hepburn's singing of "Moon River" helped gain her an Oscar for Best Song for composer Henry Mancini and lyricist Johnny Mercer. The film also featured what was arguably George Peppard's greatest acting role and the high point of his career. The film is loosely based on the novella of the same name by Truman Capote.
* Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly
* George Peppard as Paul "Fred" Varjak
* Patricia Neal as Mrs. Failenson/Emily Eustace (2E)
* Buddy Ebsen as Doc Golightly
* Martin Balsam as O.J. Berman
* Orangey as Cat (trained by Frank Inn)
* Mickey Rooney as Mr. Yunioshi
* Alan Reed as Sally Tomato
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Charade (1963)
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Charade is a 1963 film written by Peter Stone and Marc Behm, directed by Stanley Donen, and starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. It also features Walter Matthau, James Coburn, George Kennedy, Dominique Minot, Ned Glass, and Jacques Marin. It spans three genres: suspense thriller, romance, and comedy.
The film is notable for its screenplay, especially the repartee between Grant and Hepburn, for having been filmed on location in Paris, for Henry Mancini's score and theme song, and for the animated titles by Maurice Binder. Charade has been referred to as "the best Hitchcock movie that Hitchcock never made."
* Cary Grant as Brian Cruikshank (Peter Joshua, Alexander Dyle, Adam Canfield)
* Audrey Hepburn as Regina "Reggie" Lampert
* Walter Matthau as Carson Dyle (Hamilton Bartholemew)
* James Coburn as Tex Panthollow
* George Kennedy as Herman Scobie
* Dominique Minot as Sylvie Gaudel
* Ned Glass as Leopold W. Gideon
* Jacques Marin as Insp. Edouard Grandpierre
* Paul Bonifas as Mr. Felix - Stamp Dealer
* Thomas Chelimsky as Jean-Louis Gaudel
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The Third Man (1949)
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The Third Man (1949) is a British film noir directed by Carol Reed and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard and Orson Welles. The screenplay was written by novelist Graham Greene. Greene's novella of the same name, written in preparation for writing the screenplay, was published in 1950.
The Third Man won the 1949 Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, the British Academy Award for Best Film, and an Academy Award for Best Black and White Cinematography in 1950.
In 1999, the British Film Institute selected The Third Man as the best British film of the 20th century; five years later, the magazine Total Film ranked it fourth. The film also placed 57th on the American Film Institute's list of top American films, "100 Years... 100 Movies" in 1998, though the film's only American connection was its executive co-producer, David O. Selznick; the other two, Sir Alexander Korda and Carol Reed, were British. In June 2008, the AFI revealed its "Ten top Ten"—the best ten films in ten "classic" American film genres—after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community. The Third Man was acknowledged as the fifth best film in the mystery genre.
* Joseph Cotten as Holly Martins
* Alida Valli as Anna Schmidt (credited simply as "Valli")
* Orson Welles as Harry Lime
* Trevor Howard as Major Calloway
* Wilfrid Hyde-White as Crabbin
* Bernard Lee as Sgt. Paine
* Erich Ponto as Dr. Winkel
* Ernst Deutsch as 'Baron' Kurtz
* Siegfried Breuer as Popescu
* Paul Hoerbiger as the porter
* Annie Rosar as the porter's wife
* Hedwig Bleibtreu as Anna's landlady
* Alexis Chesnakov as Brodsky
* Herbert Halbik as Hansl
* Paul Hardtmuth as the hall porter at Sacher's
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It's a Wonderful Life (1947)
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It's a Wonderful Life (1947) is an American film produced and directed by Frank Capra and loosely based on the short story "The Greatest Gift" written by Philip Van Doren Stern.
The film takes place in the fictional town of Bedford Falls shortly after World War II and stars James Stewart as George Bailey, a man whose imminent suicide on Christmas Eve gains the attention of his guardian angel, Clarence Odbody (Henry Travers) who is sent to help him in his hour of need. Much of the film is told through flashbacks spanning George's entire life and narrated by Franklin and Joseph, unseen Angels who are preparing Clarence for his mission to save George. Through these flashbacks we see all the people whose lives have been touched by George and the difference he has made to the community in which he lives.
The film is regarded as a classic and is a staple of Christmas television around the world, although, due to its high production costs and stiff competition at the box office, financially, it was considered a "flop."
It's a Wonderful Life was nominated for five Oscars without winning any, but the film has since been recognized by the American Film Institute as one of the 100 best American films ever made, and placed number one on their list of the most inspirational American films of all time.
James Stewart: George Bailey
Donna Reed: Mary Hatch Bailey
Lionel Barrymore: Henry F. Potter
Thomas Mitchell: Uncle Billy Bailey
Henry Travers: The angel - Clarence Odbody (angel 2nd class)
Beulah Bondi: Mrs. Bailey
Frank Faylen: Ernie Bishop
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Point Blank (1967)
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Point Blank is a 1967 crime film directed by John Boorman and starring Lee Marvin and Angie Dickinson, adapted from the classic pulp novel The Hunter by Donald E. Westlake, writing as Richard Stark. Boorman directed the film at Marvin's request and Marvin played a central role in the film's development and staging.
Point Blank was dismissed by some U.S. critics as an average action film when first released, and was heavily criticized for its level of violence in an era when action and crime genre films were being increasingly viewed as simplistic vehicles for audience exploitation.
In common with many crime films of the era, the film's Mafia-inspired crime syndicate became politically correct (The Organization), losing its ominous Italian appellation, and dropping all obvious Italian names and characters (except for lower-level thugs). In her 1967 New Yorker review of Bonnie and Clyde, Pauline Kael disparaged Boorman's movie with one sentence: "A brutal new melodrama is called Point Blank, and it is." Roger Ebert found the film somewhat interesting, writing in his review of the film, "as suspense thrillers go Point Blank is pretty good."
With the passage of time, the film is today considered a neo-noir classic. Its central focus on timeless themes of revenge, jealousy, and greed stand in contrast to trendier films of the era that focused almost entirely on the more trivial aspects of the decade's social and fashion trends, only to become quickly dated and irrelevant. David Thomson praises the film: "Point Blank is a masterpiece... iconographic... urban thriller... a crucial film in the development of cinema's portrait of... organized crime." And even Kael amended somewhat her earlier critique to later call Point Blank "intermittently dazzling".
Point Blank was loosely remade as the Hong Kong action film Full Contact (1992). It was remade again in Hollywood as Payback (1999).
* Lee Marvin as Walker
* Angie Dickinson as Chris
* Keenan Wynn as Yost
* Carroll O'Connor as Brewster
* Lloyd Bochner as Frederick Carter
* Michael Strong as Stegman
* John Vernon as Mal Reese
* Sharon Acker as Lynne
* James B. Sikking as Hired Gun
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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is a musical film released in 1954. It was directed by Stanley Donen, with music by Saul Chaplin and Gene de Paul, and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. The script (by Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, and Dorothy Kingsley) is based on the short story The Sobbin' Women, by Stephen Vincent Benét, which was based in turn on the Ancient Roman legend of The Rape of the Sabine Women. The film was a 1954 Oscar nominee for Best Picture.
The film is particularly known for the unusual choreography by Michael Kidd, which makes dance numbers out of such mundane frontier pursuits as chopping wood and (most famously) raising a barn.
Adam, the eldest of seven brothers, goes to town to get a wife. He convinces Milly to marry him that same day. They return to his backwoods home. Only then does she discover he has six brothers -- all living in his cabin. Milly sets out to reform the uncouth siblings, who are anxious to get wives of their own. Then, after reading about the Roman capture of the Sabine women, Adam develops an inspired solution to his brothers' loneliness . . . kidnap the women they want!
Donen had an uphill battle with the studio while making "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers". The studio had so little faith, they continually cut "Brides" budget to put more money into the lumbering "Brigadoon." Sets and even cast members were loaned out to other movies. Brothers Russ Tamblyn and Jeff Richards, as well as part of the set can be seen in "Many Rivers to Cross."
On the 2004 DVD commentary, Stanley Donen states that the film was originally shot in two versions, one widescreen and another in normal ratio, because MGM was concerned that not all theatres had the capability to screen it. Despite the fact that it cost more than the widescreen version to make, he says, the other version was never used.
Brothers and their Brides:
Howard Keel as Adam and Jane Powell as Milly
Jeff Richards as Benjamin and Julie Newmar (Newmeyer) as Dorcas
Matt Mattox as Caleb and Ruta Lee as Ruth
Marc Platt as Daniel and Norma Doggett as Martha
Jacques d'Amboise as Ephraim and Virginia Gibson as Liza
Tommy Rall as Frank and Betty Carr as Sarah
Russ Tamblyn as Gideon and Nancy Kilgas as Alice
Director: Stanley Donen
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High Society (1956)
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High Society (1956) is musical film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in VistaVision and Technicolor with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. It was directed by Charles Walters and produced by Sol C. Siegel from a screenplay by John Patrick, based on the play The Philadelphia Story by Philip Barry. The cinematography was by Paul Vogel, the art direction by Cedric Gibbons and Hans Peters and the costume design by Helen Rose.
C.K. Dexter-Haven, a successful popular jazz musician, lives in a mansion near his ex-wife's Tracy Lord's family estate. She is on the verge of marrying a man blander and safer than Dex, who tries to win Tracy's heart again. Mike Connor, an undercover tabloid reporter, also falls for Tracy while covering the nuptials for Spy magazine. Tracy must choose between the three men as she discovers that "safe" can mean "deadly dull" when it comes to husbands and life.
The film stars Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Celeste Holm with Louis Armstrong, John Lund, Louis Calhern, Sidney Blackmer, and Margalo Gillmore.
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Victor/Victoria (1982)
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Victor/Victoria is a musical with a book by Blake Edwards, music by Henry Mancini, lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and additional musical material (music and lyrics) by Frank Wildhorn. It is based on the 1982 film of the same name.
Mancini died before he could complete the music, and Wildhorn was brought in to finish the score. The original Broadway production, in 1995, aroused controversy when the star, Julie Andrews, refused a Tony Award nomination.
A penniless soprano, named Victoria, colludes with a struggling gay impresario to disguise herself as a man named Victor who entertains as a female impersonator known as "Victoria" - and as a result becomes the toast of Paris. Complications arise when a Chicago mobster sees the act and finds himself attracted to the star.
Julie Andrews as Victoria Grant
James Garner as King Marchand
Robert Preston as 'Toddy' Todd
Lesley Ann Warren as Norma Cassady
Alex Karras as 'Squash' Bernstein
John Rhys-Davies as Andre Cassell
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Hello, Dolly! (1969)
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Hello, Dolly! is a 1969 American musical film, based on the Broadway production of the same name. The film follows the story of Dolly Levi (Barbra Streisand), a strong-willed matchmaker who travels to Yonkers, New York in an attempt to find a match for the miserly "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire", Horace Vandergelder. In doing so, she convinces his niece, her intended, and Horace's two clerks to travel to New York City.
Gene Kelly directed producer Ernest Lehman's screenplay. The cast included Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford, Danny Lockin, Tommy Tune, Fritz Feld, and Louis Armstrong, whose recording of the title tune was a #1 hit in the mid-1960s. It was photographed in 65 mm Todd-AO by Harry Stradling Sr.
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966)
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart.
Inspired by the farces of the ancient Roman playwright Plautus (251–183 BC), specifically Pseudolus, Miles Gloriosus and Mostellaria, it tells the bawdy story of a slave named Pseudolus and his attempts to win his freedom by helping his young master woo the girl next door. The plot displays many classic elements of farce, including puns, the slamming of doors, cases of mistaken identity (frequently involving characters disguising themselves as one another), and satirical comments on social class. The title derives from the line that vaudeville comedians often used to begin a story: "A funny thing happened on the way to the theater".
The musical's original 1962 Broadway run won several Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Book. A Funny Thing has enjoyed several Broadway and West End revivals and was made into a successful film. It is a popular choice for school and community theatre.
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Easter Parade (1948)
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Easter Parade is a 1948 musical film starring Fred Astaire and Judy Garland. It features music by Irving Berlin, including some of Astaire and Garland's best-known songs, such as "Steppin' Out With My Baby" and "We're a Couple of Swells."
The film won the 1948 Academy Award for Best Scoring of a Musical Picture. It also received the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Musical. It was the most successful picture of Astaire's career and it was the highest-grossing musical of the year.
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Funny Girl (1968)
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Funny Girl is a 1968 musical film based on the stage musical of the same name. The semi-biographical plot is based on the life and career of Broadway and film star and comedienne Fanny Brice and her stormy relationship with entrepreneur and gambler Nicky Arnstein. Its original title was My Man. The screen adaptation, directed by William Wyler, paired Barbra Streisand with Omar Sharif in the role of Nick Arnstein, while Kay Medford repeated her stage role, and Walter Pidgeon was cast as Flo Ziegfeld.
The film was a commercial and critical success, gaining Streisand an Academy Award for Best Actress. It became the top grossing film of 1968, and received seven Academy Award nominations.
The film paired Barbra Streisand as Fanny Brice with Omar Sharif in the role of Nick Arnstein. Kay Medford repeated her stage role as Rose Brice, and Walter Pidgeon was cast as Flo Ziegfeld, with Anne Francis in the added role of showgirl Georgia James, although most of her performance was left on the cutting room floor. The role of Mrs. Strakosh played by Jean Stapleton on stage went to Mae Questel. Gerald Mohr played Tom Branca, while Frank Faylen was Keeney.
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Gigi (1958)
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Gigi is a 1958 American musical film directed by Vincente Minnelli. The screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner is based on the 1944 novella of the same name by Colette. The film features songs with lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe.
In 1991, Gigi was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." The American Film Institute ranked it #35 in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions. The film is considered the last great MGM musical and the last great achievement of the Freed Unit, headed by producer Arthur Freed, although he would go on to produce several more films, including the musical Bells Are Ringing in 1960. The film was the basis for an unsuccessful stage musical produced on Broadway in 1973.
* Leslie Caron as Gigi
* Louis Jourdan as Gaston Lachaille
* Maurice Chevalier as Honoré Lachaille
* Hermione Gingold as. Madame Alvarez
* Eva Gabor as Liane d'Exelmans
* Jacques Bergerac as Sandomir
* Isabel Jeans as Aunt Alicia
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Chinatown (1974)
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Chinatown is a 1974 American neo-noir film, directed by Roman Polanski. The film features many elements of the film noir genre, particularly a multi-layered story that is part mystery and part psychological drama. It stars Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, and John Huston.
The story, set in Los Angeles in the 1930s, was inspired by the historical disputes over land and water rights that had raged in southern California during the 1910s and 20s, in which William Mulholland acted on behalf of Los Angeles interests to secure water rights in the Owens Valley.
The film was nominated for eleven Academy Awards, winning in the category of Best Original Screenplay for Robert Towne. In 1991, Chinatown was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
A sequel, called The Two Jakes, was released in 1990, starring Jack Nicholson, who also directed it, with a screenplay by Robert Towne.
* Jack Nicholson as J.J. "Jake" Gittes
* Faye Dunaway as Evelyn Cross Mulwray
* John Huston as Noah Cross
* Perry Lopez as Lieutenant Lou Escobar
* John Hillerman as Russ Yelburton
* Darrell Zwerling as Hollis I. Mulwray
* Diane Ladd as Ida Sessions
* Roy Jenson as Claude Mulvihill
* Roman Polanski as Man with Knife
* Richard Bakalyan as Detective Loach
* Joe Mantell as Lawrence Walsh
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Double Indemnity (1944)
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Double Indemnity (1944) is an Academy Award nominated film noir starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson. The movie was directed by Billy Wilder and adapted by Wilder and Raymond Chandler from the novella of the same title by James M. Cain which first appeared in 1935 as an abridged 8-part serial in Liberty magazine.
The story was based on a 1927 crime perpetrated by a married Queens woman and her lover. Ruth (Brown) Snyder persuaded her boyfriend, Judd Gray, to kill her husband Albert after having her spouse take out a big insurance policy—with a double-indemnity clause. The murderers were quickly identified and arrested.
The main characters include:
* Fred MacMurray as Walter Neff, a salesman for the Pacific All-Risk insurance company.
* Barbara Stanwyck as Phyllis Dietrichson, an unhappily married wife who seduces Neff.
* Edward G. Robinson as Barton Keyes, a claims adjuster at Pacific All-Risk and friend and colleague of Neff's.
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* Porter Hall as Mr. Jackson
* Jean Heather as Lola Dietrichson
* Tom Powers as Mr. Dietrichson
* Byron Barr as Nino Zachetti
* Richard Gaines as Edward S. Norton, Jr.
* Fortunio Bonanova as Sam Garlopis
* John Philliber as Joe Peters
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Holiday (1938)
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Holiday is a 1938 remake of the 1930 film of the same name — a romantic comedy which tells the story of a man who has risen from humble beginnings only to be torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée's family. The movie was adapted by Donald Ogden Stewart and Sidney Buchman from the play by Philip Barry and was directed by George Cukor.
The movie starred Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Doris Nolan, Lew Ayres, and Edward Everett Horton (playing the same role he had played in the 1930 version). The character of Linda Seton played by Hepburn was loosely based on a socialite named Gertrude Sanford Legendre. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction by Stephen Goosson and Lionel Banks.
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