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

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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

May 20th, 2012: Rear Window (1954)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Movie of the Day, Thriller Tagged "no one believes me", Alfred Hitchcock, Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Director Nominee, Best Sound Recording Nominee, broken leg, Edith Head, Franz Waxman, Gene Kelly, Gig Young, James Stewart, murder, Paramount Pictures, photographer, Raymond Burr, Thelma Ritter, voyeur, wheelchair

February 1st, 2012: Sunset Boulevard (1950)

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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

October 28th, 2011: Bride of Frankenstein

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Black and White, Black Comedy, Camp, Horror, Mad Scientist, Monster, Movie of the Day, Sequel Tagged before they were famous, Best Sound Nominee, Billy Barty, Carl Laemmle Jr., Colin Clive, Dwight Frye, Elsa Lanchester, Ernest Thesiger, Frankenstein, Frankenstein's Monster, Franz Waxman, grave robbing, graveyard, hermit, interrupted wedding, James Whale, John Carradine, John L. Balderston, Mary Shelley, Odious Comic Relief, scientists, Una O'Connor, Universal Pictures, Walter Brennan, wedding, wedding night

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