M.G.M.’s opulent costume drama Marie Antoinette stars Norma Shearer in the title role, as the Austrian princess who is married off to Louis Auguste (Robert Morley), the Dauphin of France. Marie, by becoming the Dauphine, finds herself plopped smack in the middle of French palace intrigue between Louis’s father King Louis XV (John Barrymore) and […]

A typical Joan Crawford vehicle, Mannequin tells the story of Jessie Cassidy, a girl of the tenements, hoping to escape her shabby surroundings. Jessie marries Eddie Miller (Alan Curtis), a childhood friend who has become rich after a series of dishonest business ventures. Spencer Tracy plays another refugee from Jessie’s neighborhood, John Hennessy, who has […]

This failed effort at recreating the style of fantasy-tinged romantic comedies of the golden era is directed and co-written without wit, humor, or panache by Michael Gottlieb. Andrew McCarthy stars as Jonathan Switcher, a department store window-dresser who discovers that one of his mannequins Emmy (Kim Cattrall) is actually a woman from ancient Egypt when […]

Italian Alberto Lattuada adapted to the big screen Machiavelli’s famous sixteenth centure comedy about a wealthy man (Jean Claude Brialy) who poses as a doctor in order to seduce the wife (Rosanna Schiaffino) of a man seeking cure for her infertility. Oscar Nominations: 1 Costume Design (b/w): Danilo Donati Oscar Awards: None Oscar Context: The […]

Arthur Hiller proves to be the wrong director to adapt to the big screen the successful stage musical. In this version, adapted by the the play’s writer, dale Wasserman, Don Quixote is framed by an incident from the life of its author, Miguel de Cervantes. Don Quixote (Peter O’Toole, overacting) is the mad, aging nobleman […]