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Icons of Screwball Comedy, Vol. 1
Four Screwball comedies starring Jean Arthur and Rosalind Russell. If You Could Only Cook stars Jean Arthur as an unemployed girl during the depression who meets a millionaire, James Buchanan .
Two congenital jewel thieves of opposite sexes and a mouth-watering millionairess form a romantic and larcenous triangle in what's supposed to be Depression-era Europe.
Genre: Drama With Music Directed by: Josef von Sternberg Starring: Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Cary Grant, Dickie Moore, Rita La Roy, Robert Emmett O'Connor No, Blonde Venus isn't the best of the series of movies that Josef von Sternberg made with Marlene Dietrich between 1930 and 1935.
RIPTIDE is the fifth and final pre-Code teaming of Norma Shearer and Robert Montgomery.
Icons Of Screwball Comedy: Volume One
If You Could Only Cook 1935 // 71 Minutes // Not Rated Too Many Husbands 1940 // 81 Minutes // Not Rated My Sister Eileen 1942 // 96 Minutes // Not Rated She Wouldn't Say Yes 1945 // 86 Minutes // Not Rated Released by Sony Reviewed by Appellate Judge James A. Stewart // August 5th, 2009 View Appellate Judge Stewart's Dossier E-mail Appellate Judge ...
DVD/Video review: Revisiting the classics
This week we start with some comedy legends: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment continues to recognize and release some of the nuggets tucked away in its Columbia Pictures library.
The films are uneven, but the transfers are gorgeous in Sony's two volume "Icons of Screwball Comedy," which includes two films each from Columbia contract players Jean Arthur, Rosalind Russell, Irene Dunne and Loretta Young.
Tonight's Movie: When Ladies Meet
MGM's WHEN LADIES MEET features an all-star quartet of actors -- Joan Crawford, Robert Taylor, Greer Garson, and Herbert Marshall -- in an enjoyable romantic comedy-drama. Mary is an author who thinks she loves her married publisher Rogers .
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