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What to make ultimately of Danny Kaye, a very big name in Forties and Fifties Hollywood movies and an even bigger name in Sixties TV, who is probably completely unknown today by anyone under the age of 50. Are there any film festivals aching to mount a Danny Kaye retrospective? Are there a rash of […]
From working with Jeannette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy in I Married an Angel, to playing a femme fatale in a Pat O’Brien noir film, Riffraff, to portraying The Duchess of York in a 2008 Richard III, set in contemporary Hollywood, you can truly say Anne Jeffreys has done it all. And as the song says […]
If you watch TCM (and who doesn’t?) keep your eye out for a film you’ll probably see no where else — Grand Slam. It’s a real oldie from First National Pictures and stars Paul Lukas, Loretta Young, Helen Vinson, Frank McHugh and Glenda Farrell. And it’s the only film we know about which highlights the […]