tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88103529983928649152024-08-30T06:38:49.170-07:00A choice flick for every chickLori Johnstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11916838797379853699noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810352998392864915.post-57405898906254579512012-01-25T16:58:00.000-08:002012-01-25T16:58:35.706-08:00

As a raving mad Joan Crawford fanatic, Mildred Pierce is beloved by me.  Not only because Joan won a much deserved Academy Award for her penultimate role but because the movie is a top notch film noir, slickly done.  Imagine my excitement and hysteria upon learning that HBO was filming a 5 hour miniseries of Mildred Pierce and starring the incredible Kate Winslet.  Barely

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May 14, 1903 Born Lillian Bohny in New York City, Billie Dove had a silent film popularity that rivaled that of Mary Pickford, Marion Davies and Clara Bow.  Despite not being able to dance or sing, this lovely lady appeared in Florenz Ziegfeld's Follies, racking up some impressive credits before being sent west to Hollywood by Ziegfeld's wife, actress Billie Burke, when Burke discovered

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Steel Magnolias Starring: Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis, Julia Roberts, Tom Skerritt, Sam Shepard and Dylan McDermott Director: Herbert Ross Writer: Robert Harling (play and screenplay) Release Date: November 15, 1989 Runtime: 117 minutes Flick in Five (Sentences or Less): A comedy-drama full of revelations, love, tears

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Strangers May Kiss Starring:  Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Neil Hamilton, Marjorie Rambeau, Hale Hamilton Director:  George Fitzmaurice Writers:  Ursula Parrott (novel), John Meehan (screenplay) Release Date:  April 4, 1931 Runtime:  81 minutes Flick in Five (Sentences or Less):  Lisbeth (Norma Shearer) is a modern woman who is having a passionate affair

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City Streets  Starring:  Gary Cooper, Sylvia Sidney, and Paul Lukas Director: Rouben Mamoulian Writers: Dashiell Hammett (story), Max Marcin (adaptation), and Oliver H.P. Garrett (screenplay) Release Date: April 18, 1931 Runtime:  83 minutes Synopsis: Nan is a racketeer's daughter and in love with the improbably named Kid, who also improbably makes his living as a shooting

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Letters to Juliet Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Christopher Egan, Gael Garcia Bernal, and Vanessa Redgrave Director: Gary Winick Writers: Jose Rivera and Tim Sullivan Release Date: May 14, 2010  Running Time: 105 minutes Synopsis: An American girl on vacation in Italy finds an unanswered "letter to Juliet" -- one of thousands of missives left at the fictional lover's Verona courtyard,

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What do you think is the most romantic movie of all time?  Do you agree with my assessment of Somewhere in Time or do you think I've lost it?  Check out my poll on the sidebar and vote for your favorite - - the one that makes your heart sing, the one that makes you cry, the one that you think captures the essence of what a romance film should be.  Don't agree with the choices?&

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Somewhere in Time  Starring: Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour and Christopher Plummer Director: Jeannot Szwarc Writer: Richard Matheson (novel and screenplay) Release Date: October 3, 1980  Running Time: 103 minutes Synopsis: A Chicago playwright uses self-hypnosis to find the actress whose vintage portrait hangs in a grand hotel and sacrifices his life in

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Sliding Doors Starring:  Gwyneth Paltrow, John Hannah, John Lynch, Jeanne Tripplehorn Director: Peter Howitt Writer: Peter Howitt Release Date: April 24, 1998  Running Time: 99 minutes Synopsis: Helen Quilley is a young Londoner who, after getting sacked at work one morning, dashes to catch the tube and just misses it as the sliding doors close on her.  We then see

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They All Kissed the Bride Starring:  Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Roland Young, Billie Burke Director: Alexander Hall Writers: Andrew Solt, Gina Kaus, P.J. Wolfson, and Henry Altimus Release Date: June 11, 1942 Running Time:  86 minutes Synopsis: Margaret J. ("M.J.") Drew is a tough as nails career woman, running the Drew Trucking Company with an iron fist and achieving a less

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The Divorcee Director:  Robert Z. Leonard Writers:  Nick Grinde, Zelda Sears and John Meehan; based on the novel "Ex Wife" by Ursula Parrott Release Date:   April 19, 1930 Synopsis:  Jerry and Ted, members of the New York social elite, fall in love and marry after a somewhat raunchy party.  Things appear to be going swimmingly for three years until on the

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Picture courtesy of moviewallpapers.net Sex and the City  Director: Michael Patrick King Writer: Michael Patrick King     (based on Candace Bushnell's book) Release Date: May 30, 2008 Synopsis: Sex and the City is coming to the big screen in a feature film adaptation of the hit HBO television series. The film will follow the continuing adventures of

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Pretty in Pink Director:  Howard Deutch Writer: John Hughes Release Date: February 28, 1986 Synopsis: Young Andie (Molly Ringwald) is one of the not-so-popular girls in high school. She usually hangs out with her friends Iona (Annie Potts) or Duckie (Jon Cryer). Duckie has always had a crush on her, but now she has met a new guy from school, Blane (Andrew McCarthy). He's one of the

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The Women Director:  Geoge Cukor Writer(s):  Clare Booth Luce (play)                  Anita Loos (screenplay) Release Date:  September 1, 1939 Synopsis:  Be careful what you say in private. It could become a movie. Some gossip overheard by Clare Boothe Luce in a nightclub powder room inspired her

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