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I enjoy watching movies that feature San Francisco, especially ones that show authentic scenes from a former era.  I recently watched “Thieves’ Highway,” a 1949 film directed by Jules Dassin and starring Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb and Valentina Cortez. … Continue reading →

Right after “Born Yesterday,” Judy Holiday made a film called “The Marrying Kind” in 1952.  George Cukor directed both films and although Holiday definitely plays a New Yorker in both movies, she’s more of a working class heroine in The … Continue reading →

Before MGM filmed “The Thin Man” in 1934, the studio made a similar film written by the same screenwriters (Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett) called “Penthouse” in 1933.  Instead of Dashiell Hammett’s Nick and Nora Charles, Penthouse gives us Warner … Continue reading →

When Twentieth Century Fox and Darrell Zanuck made “The Razor’s Edge” in 1946, they spared no expense and put together a wonderful cast that includes Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, Clifton Webb, John Payne, Anne Baxter and Herbert Marshall.  Tyrone plays … Continue reading →

The German-language version of “Anna Christie,” the Greta Garbo movie filmed in 1931, shows the contrasting styles of European and American sensibilities.  Garbo became a sensation as the title character in the English-language version from 1930, directed by Clarence Brown. … Continue reading →

Leo McCarey directed Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers in a war propaganda film made in 1942 called “Once Upon a Honeymoon.”  Rogers plays a stripper named Kathie O’Hara who sails off to Austria to marry Baron Franz Von Luber (Walter … Continue reading →

“The Mating Season,” directed by Mitchell Leisen in 1951, features Thelma Ritter as a woman who owns a hamburger joint in New Jersey. When the local bank forecloses her business, she heads off to live with her newly-married son (John … Continue reading →

Put “All Mine to Give,” a Technicolor film made by RKO Radio Pictures in 1957, in the family drama category.  It concerns an immigrant married couple from Scotland who have six children in 1850.  They go through various challenges trying to … Continue reading →