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January 18th, 2013: The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Jan18 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Assumed Identity, Based on a Play, Comedy, Fish-Out-of-Water, Movie of the Day, Romance, Screwball Tagged alcoholic, Best Actor, Best Actress Nominee, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director Nominee, Best Picture Nominee, Best Supporting Actress Nominee, Cary Grant, class issues, comedic alcoholic, divorcee, ex-husband, ex-wife, Franz Waxman, George Cukor, interrupted wedding, James Stewart, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Katharine Hepburn, lady reporter, Loew's, MGM, National Film Registry, photographer, publisher, reporter, wedding, wedding night

December 24th, 2012: The Apartment (1960)

Dec24 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Comedy, Drama, Independent, Movie of the Day, Romance, Screwball, Workplace Tagged adultery, affair, attempted suicide, Best Actor Nominee, Best Actress Nominee, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Original Screenplay, Best Picture, Best Sound Nominee, Best Supporting Actor Nominee, Billy Wilder, Christmas, Christmas Eve, Fred MacMurray, I.A.L. Diamond, Jack Lemmon, New Year's Eve, Ray Walston, Shirley MacLaine, The Mirisch Corporation, United Artists

November 28th, 2012: Auntie Mame (1958)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Based on a Play, Camp, Comedy, Coming of Age, Holiday, Movie of the Day, Period Film, The Original Tagged Adolphe Green, Best Actress Nominee, Best Art Direction Set Decoration Nominee, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Film Editing Nominee, Best Picture Nominee, Best Supporting Actress Nominee, Betty Comden, Connecticut, Dub Taylor, Forrest Tucker, Gloria Holden, Henry Brandon, Morton DaCosta, New York City, Patrick Dennis, Patrick Knowles, Rosalind Russell

June 12th, 2012: The Help (2011)

Jun12 by David Cole

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Drama, Movie of the Day Tagged Allison Janney, BAFTA - Best Supporting Actress, Best Actress Nominee, Best Picture Nominee, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actress Nominee, Bryce Dallas Howard, Emma Stone, Golden Globe - Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture, Jessica Chastain, Kathryn Stockett, Octavia Spencer, Tate Taylor, Thomas Newman, Viola Davis

March 26th, 2012: Brief Encounter (1945)

Mar26 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Play, Black and White, Drama, Independent, Movie of the Day, Romance Tagged affair, Best Actress Nominee, Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, Best Director Nominee, Britain, comedic working class, David Lean, doctor, forbidden love, J. Rank Organization, Noel Coward, The, train, train station, Trevor Howard

February 1st, 2012: Sunset Boulevard (1950)

Feb1 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Black Comedy, Comedy, Drama, Film Noir, Gothic Horror, Movie of the Day, Satire, The Original, Thriller, Tragedy Tagged actress, Anna Q. Nilsson, Best Actor Nominee, Best Actress Nominee, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Director Nominee, Best Film Editing Nominee, Best Music, Best Picture Nominee, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor Nominee, Best Supporting Actress Nominee, Billy Wilder, Buster Keaton, California, cameos, Cecil B. DeMille, Charles Brackett, chimpanzees, Erich Von Stroheim, ex-husband, Franz Waxman, funeral, Gloria Swanson, H. B. Warner, has beens, Hedda Hopper, Hollywood, homage, insanity, Jack Webb, Los Angeles, Nancy Olsen, narration, National Film Registry, older woman, Paramount Pictures, Ray Evans, repo men, screenwriter, silent Hollywood, swimming pool, twist, washed up actress, William Holden

January 20th, 2012: Double Indemnity (1944)

Jan20 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Black and White, Crime, Film Noir, Movie of the Day, The Original, Thriller Tagged "make it look like an accident", adultery, Barbara Stanwyck, Best Actress Nominee, Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Director Nominee, Best Music Nominee, Best Picture Nominee, Best Score Nominee, Best Sound Nominee, Billy Wilder, bowling, California, double cross, drive-in restaurant, Edith Head, Edward G. Robinson, father-son relationship, femme fatale, flashback, Fred MacMurray, insurance agent, insurance investigator, James M. Cain, kill them for the insurance money, murder, murder on a train, narration, National Film Registry, Paramount Pictures, Porter Hall, Raymond Chandler, train

December 7th, 2011: From Here to Eternity (1953)

Dec7 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Black and White, Drama, Movie of the Day, Period Film, The Original, War Movies Tagged before they were famous, Best Actor Nominee, Best Actress Nominee, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design Nominee, Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Music Nominee, Best Sound Recording, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, boxing, bugle player, Burt Lancaster, class issues, Claude Akins, Columbia Pictures, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, Ernest Borgnine, Frank Sinatra, Fred Zinnerman, George Reeves, hard ass seargant, Jack Warden, James Jones, Montgomery Clift, Pearl Harbor, prostitutes, World War Two

October 22nd, 2011: Rebecca (1940)

Oct22 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Black and White, Drama, Independent, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Romance, The Original, Thriller Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Best Actor Nominee, Best Actress Nominee, Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, Best Art Direction Nominee, Best Cinematography, Best Director Nominee, Best Effects-Best Special Effects Nominee, Best Film Editing Nominee, Best Original Score Nominee, Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress Nominee, C. Aubrey Smith, Daphne Du Maruier, David O. Selznick, George Sanders, Gothic, Joan Fontaine, Judith Anderson, Laurence Olivier, Leo G. Carroll, Nigel Bruce, Reginald Denny, Selznick International Pictures, United Artists

July 29th, 2011: My Man Godfrey (1936)

Jul29 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Black and White, Comedy, Fish-Out-of-Water, Mistaken Identity, Movie of the Day, Satire, Screwball, Slapstick, Workplace Tagged Alice Brady, Best Actor Nominee, Best Actress Nominee, Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, Best Director Nominee, Best Supporting Actor Nominee, Best Supporting Actress Nominee, butler, Carole Lombard, Gregory La Cava, homeless, maid, Mischa Auer, scavenger hunt, sibling rivalry, spoiled rich kids, Universal Pictures, upstairs downstairs, William Powell, wise servant

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