Archive for Movies

If You Could Only Cook (1935)

Jim (Hebert Marshall) is a rich and sucessful automobile designer, preparing for his marriage of convenience and status. He has only minor doubts, fueled by romantic notions and ideals, which he tries to push aside. When he goes for a walk in the park to blow off some steam, he meets Joan (Jean Arthur), a

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Walk Don’t Run (1966)

Christine Easton (Samantha Eggar) is a single English girl living in Tokyo during the 1964 Olympics and feels it’s her patriotic duty to offer her spare room to rent so she puts an ad on the Embassy bulletin board. She neglects, however, to specify the desired gender the tennant should be. So, when Sir William

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Where the Boys Are (1960)

The story of four girls escaping the cold mid-west winter to spend an adventurous spring break in sunny Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Merritt (Dolores Hart) is at risk of being kicked out of school for being especially outspoken on the subject of sexuality, but she’s cautious not to fall too easily for the charms of ivy-leager

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The Women (1939)

The story of very different women, friends living in New York City, as gossip and infidelity shake up their lives – with the help of what are now called “frenemies”. Mary Haines (Norma Shearer) seems to have the most perfectly happy life and marriage until her best friend Sylvia (Rosalnd Russell) hears the gossip that

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Funny Face (1957)

When fashion photographer Dick Avery (Fred Astaire) sees shop girl Jo Stockton (Audrey Hepburn) during a photo shoot in Greenwich Village, he’s convinced he’s found the jackpot of models. But she is only interested in intellectual and philisophical exchange and has no interest in the commercial world of modeling – until she discovers that she

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Pillow Talk (1959)

Jan Morrow (Doris Day) is a successful interior decorator and independent woman who has the misfortune to share a party line with Brad Allen (Rock Hudson), a musician/womanizer who ties up the phone line at all hours serenading his ladies. When Mr. Allen discovers the other end of the party line is not the homely

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Sex and the Single Girl (1964)

Bob Weston (Tony Curtis) is at the top of his game. He is adored by women and can get any woman he wants. He loves his job at Stop Magazine, where they take pride in being a “filthy rag”. Meanwhile, Dr. Helen Gurley Brown (Natalie Wood) has just authored “Sex and the Single Girl”, a

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Movie Review: Let’s Make Love (1960)

The iconic Marilyn Monroe and the debonair French actor, Yves Montand, star in this romantic musical comedy. Jean-Marc Clement (Yves Montand) is a billionaire with a reputation as a womanizer. When his publicity manager Alex (Tony Randall) alerts him that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he goes to check it out.

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Movie Review: Pin Up Girl (1944)

Betty Grable, the “girl with the million dollar legs”, stars as Lorry Jones in the musical comedy. Lorry is every soldier’s girl – a sweetheart of the USO. But she has a terrible tendency to fib. When she’s leaving with her best friend, Kay, for Washington D.C. to get boring, ordinary jobs in the steno

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