From the 1950s: This Could Be the Night

1957 Comedy

From MGM

Directed by Robert Wise

Starring

Jean Simmons

Paul Douglas

Anthony Franciosa

Julie Wilson

Joan Blondell

Neile Adams

Rafael Campos

William Joyce

J. Carrol Naish

Tom Helmore

Teresa Wright

To this day the lady is the only movie performer to receive  Oscar nominations for her first three films.  Additionally, she is only one of 12 to receive Oscar nominations in two categories in the same year.  Both records are astonishing especially for an actress who wasn't keen on making movies in the first place and practically had to be dragged into them from the Broadway stage.

Movie Biographies: The Great Caruso

1951 Musical Biography

From Metro Goldwyn Mayer

Directed by Richard Thorpe

Starring

Mario Lanza

Ann Blyth

Dorothy Kirsten

Jarmila Novotna

Richard Hageman

Carl Benton Reid

Eduard Franz

Ludwig Donath

James Cagney

He was perhaps more versatile than his peers, especially those he worked with at Warner Bros.  One cannot deny his versatility in observing he could handle drama, light comedy and he could sing and dance.  Imagine him doing one of his dazzling routines on the stage and then jumping off, picking up his machine gun, spraying the audience, grabbing his moll and they foxtrot out the door.  Now that's versatility.

Visiting Film Noir: Nightmare Alley

1947 Film Noir

From 20th Century Fox

Directed by Edmund Goulding

Starring

Tyrone Power

Joan Blondell

Coleen Gray

Helen Walker

Mike Mazurki

Ian Keith

Taylor Holmes

The Indestructable Terry Moore

The perennial starlet is how I saw her.  She made a couple of big, important films but was not the lead in them and she made a lot of inconsequential films.  She was the sexpot at 20th Century Fox who misused her.  I found her to be more talented than I suspect they did.  Her personal life garnered far more attention than her career and she seemed to spend far more time in newspaper columns and movie magazines than she did on the screen.

From the 1950s: The Quiet Man

1952 Romance Comedy Drama

From Republic Pictures

Directed by John Ford

Starring

John Wayne

Maureen O'Hara

Barry Fitzgerald

Victor McLaglen

Ward Bond

Mildred Natwick

Francis Ford

Arthur Shields

Sean McClory

From the 1950s: The Furies

1950 Western

From Paramount

Directed by Anthony Mann

Starring

Barbara Stanwyck

Walter Huston

Wendell Corey

Judith Anderson

Gilbert Roland

Thomas Gomez

Albert Dekker

John Bromfield

Beulah Bondi