Movie Biographies: The Barretts of Wimpole Street

1957 Biography

From MGM

Directed by Sidney Franklin

Starring

Jennifer Jones

John Gielgud

Bill Travers

Virginia McKenna

Jean Anderson

Susan Stephen 

Vernon Gray

Maxine Audley

From the 1970s: Islands in the Stream

1977 Drama 

From Paramount Pictures

Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner

Starring

George C. Scott

David Hemmings

Gilbert Roland

Julius Harris

Susan Tyrell

Hart Bochner

Michael-James Wixted

Brad Savage

Richard Evans

Claire Bloom

From the 1950s: Picnic

1955 Romance Drama

From Columbia Pictures

Directed by Joshua Logan

Starring

William Holden

Kim Novak

Rosalind Russell

Betty Field

Susan Strasberg

Cliff Robertson

Arthur O'Connell

Verna Felton

Nick Adams

Reta Shaw

Elizabeth Wilson

The Directors: Henry Koster

I have seen most of Henry Koster's movies.  He made no westerns or film noirs but he did a number of lesser musicals and more importantly he worked with many people whose films usually found me sitting in the audience... Jimmy Stewart, Betty Grable, Jean Simmons, Richard Burton, among them.  Most of his career was spent at 20th Century Fox as a second-tier director.

Visiting Film Noir: While the City Sleeps

1956 Film Noir

From RKO

Directed by Fritz Lang

Starring

Dana Andrews

Rhonda Fleming

Ida Lupino

George Sanders

Howard Duff

Thomas Mitchell

Vincent Price

Sally Forrest

James Craig

John Barrymore Jr.

From the 1940s: My Darling Clementine

1946 Western

From 20th Century Fox

Directed by John Ford

Starring

Henry Fonda

Linda Darnell

Victor Mature

Cathy Downs

Walter Brennan

Tim Holt

Ward Bond

Alan Mowbray

John Ireland

Grant Withers

Jane Darwell

Roy Roberts