In this gender-bending screwball comedy, well directed by Mitchell Leisen, and unevenly scripted by Claude Binyon, Rosalind Russell, the co-owner of ad agency, hires a male secretary (Fred MacMurray)

Winning the Best Cinematography Oscar, this lyrical feature of Polynesian life mixes effectively documentary and fictional elements. The plot concerns a young girl (Anna Chevalier, a non-professional) who has been consecrated to the gods by her tribe people.  Though it is a “tabu” for her to get married, she falls in love with a handsome […]

Made in the same year as “Woman of the Year,” George Stevens' “Talk of Town” is an overrated, verbose romantic comedy with dark overtones, reflective of the War years. The script, penned by Sidney Buchman and Irwin Shaw based on Sidney Harmon's story, revolves around a classic romantic triangle. The movie stars Cary Grant, as a man on the run from the police, Jean Arthur as the woman who hides him, and Ronlad Colman as a Justice.

This charming comedy, directed by Garson Kanin (better known as screenwriter with wife Ruth Gordon), is written by Paul Jarrico, who was nominated for the best Original Screenplay Oscar (he was later blacklisted as one of the Hollywood Ten). Ginger Rogers dominates the screwball comedy as a women who cannot decide which of her three […]