The Aviatrix Part 1 - Tail Spin and Women in the Wind

The Aviatrix Part 1 - Tail Spin and Women in the Wind

November 30, 2017
Alice Faye, Constance Bennett, Eve Arden, Flight for Freedom, Kay Francs, Maxie Rosenbloom, Nancy Kelly, Paul Mantz, Tail Spin, Victor Jory, William Gargan, Wings and the Woman, Women in the Wind

The word aviatrix seems almost an anachronism; a word representing the adventure of pioneer women who embraced technology and danger and ac...

Manpower - 1941

Manpower - 1941

September 07, 2017
Alan Hale Sr, Edward G. Robinson, Egon Brecher, Eve Arden, Frank McHugh, George Raft, Manpower, Marlene Dietrich, Raoul Walsh, Ward Bond

Manpower (1941) is quirky; at times a evoking the iconic working man of the WPA art images, but somehow never glorifying it.   It is a hard-...

My Reputation - 1946

My Reputation - 1946

Desember 19, 2011
Ann Todd, Barbara Stanwyck, Billy Cooper, Esther Dale, Eve Arden, George Brent, Janis Wilson, Jean Arthur, Jerome Cowan, Lucile Watson, My Reputation, Scotty Becket, The More the Merrier

This week we have A Barbara Stanwyck Christmas with “My Reputation” (1946) and “Remember the Night” (1940). When you count in “Christmas in ...

Our Miss Brooks - 1956

Our Miss Brooks - 1956

Februari 10, 2011
Don Porter, Eve Arden, Gale Gordon, Gloria McMillan, Jane Morgan, Jeff Chandler, Leonard Smith, Nick Adams, Our Miss Brooks, radio shows, Richard Crenna, Robert Rockwell, television

Our Miss Brooks (1956) is probably one of the earliest, if not the earliest, movie spinoff of a successful television show. It pales in com...

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

Februari 03, 2011
Angela Lansbury, Delbert Mann, Dorothy McGuire, Eve Arden, Frank Overton, Lee Kinsolving, Robert Preston, Shirley Knight, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, The Music Man, William Inge

“The Dark at the Top of the Stairs” (1960) gives us a curious mix of cozy nostalgia skewed with a foreboding modern world of alienation. Tha...