In this musical, Jane Withers (later better known as Josephine the Plumber in TV commercials) stars as a stagestruck adolescent, who runs away from home and gets into showbiz entertaining the troops as part of the Hollywood Victory Caravan. Other child stars in the cast include Baby Sandy, Bobby Breen, and Spanky McFarland. Oscar Nominations: […]

As early as the silent movies of pioneer Thomas Edison, The Passion was a theme addressed by the most ambitious and gifted filmmakers. In 1927, Cecil B. DeMille directed one of the first epics about Jesus’ life and death in the silent film, The King of Kings.

Warner decideded to take a major risk by investing in the Vitaphone sound system for “Don Juan,” a silent film with some music and sound effects. Then in 1927, the studio adapted Samson Raphaelson Broadway hit “The Jazz Singer,” with actual musical numbers but the rest was non-talking.

Warner decideded to take a major risk by investing in the Vitaphone sound system for “Don Juan,” a silent film with some music and sound effects. Then in 1927, the studio adapted Samson Raphaelson Broadway hit “The Jazz Singer,” with actual musical numbers but the rest was non-talking.

This trashy potboiler, based on the best-selling novel by Jacqueline Susann (who put her name in the picture’s title) is adapted to the screen by Julius Epstein (Casablanca) and directed by Guy Green (who comes from cinematography). Deborah Raffin plays January, a college student living with her father, Mike Wayne (Kirk Douglas), a vet, over […]