GREAT OLD MOVIES

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Harry Morgan, Elvis, Nancy Kovacks FRANKIE AND JOHNNY  (1966). Director: Frederick De Cordova.  Frankie (Donna Douglas) and Johnny (Elvis Pr...

Randolph Scott and Gypsy Rose Lee BELLE OF THE YUKON  (1944).    Director: William A. Seiter.  Former con man "Honest" John Calhou...

YUL BRYNNER: THE INSCRUTABLE KING . Jhan Robbins. Dodd, Mead; 1987. Yul Brynner was a man who liked to make up stories about his past life, ...

Camoine and Amica AMICA. Composed by Pietro Mascagni. Conductor: Manlio Benzi. Director: Alessio Pizzech. Singers: Anna Malavasi; David Sotg...

James Barton and Mitzi Gaynor GOLDEN GIRL  (1951). Director: Lloyd Bacon. Produced by George Jessel. When tippling and irresponsible John (J...

Bob Graham and Mitzi Gaynor THE I DON'T CARE GIRL  (1953). Director: Lloyd Bacon.  Produced by George Jessel. The real George Jessel is ...

Virginia Gilmore and James Ellison THAT OTHER WOMAN  (1942). Director: Ray McCarey.  Emily Borden (Virginia Gilmore of The Brotherhood of th...

LADIES MAN ( aka Lemmy pour Les Dames /1962). Director: Bernard Borderie.  Special FBI agent Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine) is on vacatio...

SAN FERNANDO VALLEY  (1944). Director: John English.  At his ranch in the San Fernando Valley, crusty old Cyclone (Andrew Tombes of Meet the...

Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN  (2022). Written and directed by Martin McDonagh.  In 1923 on the dreary if beau...

Ed Gardner DUFFY'S TAVERN  (1945). Director: Hal Walker. Archie (Ed Gardner), the manager of the old-fashioned saloon Duffy's tavern...

John Payne KANSAS CITY CONFIDENTIAL  (1952). Director: Phil Karlson.  Joe Rolfe (John Payne) is trying to rebuild his life after a brief sti...

Jerry Lewis VISIT TO A SMALL PLANET  (1960). Director: Norman Taurog.   Intergalactic visitor Kreton (Jerry Lewis of The Patsy ) has a fasci...

A FRONT ROW SEAT: An Intimate Look at Broadway, Hollywood, and the Age of Glamour. Nancy Olson Livingstone. University Press of Kentucky; 20...

Betty Grable WHEN MY BABY SMILES AT ME (1948). Director: Walter Lang.  Burlesque performers Bonny Kane (Betty Grable) and her husband Skid J...

Glenda Jackson and Sandy Dennis NASTY HABITS  (1977). Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg.  When the elderly abbess Hildegarde (Edith Evans) pass...

All the Wasted Time PARADE . Book by Alfred Uhry. Music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown. Parade , which first debuted on Broadway in 1999, ...

Martita Hunt and Jane Hylton IT STARTED IN PARADISE  (1952). Director: Compton Bennett.  In the years leading up to WW2, Martha Watkins (Jan...

EYES OF TEXAS  (1948). Director: William Witney.  Thad Cameron (Francis Ford of Charlie Chan at the Circus ), who has started a home for boy...

THE GREAT RUPERT (1950). Director: Irving Pichel.  Now here's a weird one. A down-on-his-luck entertainer, Joe Mahoney (Jimmy Conlin),...

John Phillip Law as Robin Stone, the "Love Machine" THE LOVE MACHINE  (1971). Director: Jack Haley Jr.   Newscaster Robin Stone (J...

DOCTORS' WIVES  (1971). Director: George Schaefer. " I don't appreciate your sleeping with your wife ."  Lorrie Dellman (D...