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The Smiling Lieutenant (1931, Ernst Lubitsch)
Starring a broooadly overacting, hammy but kinda charismatic Maurice Chevalier as an Austrian lieutenant. Movie opens with a tailor knocking on Maurice’s door vainly attempting to collect on his bill...
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The Palm Beach Story (1942, Preston Sturges)
An update of one of my earliest entries. Practically all I wrote last time was “funniest movie ever, when drinking.” Stubborn failed inventor Joel McRea (fresh off Sullivan’s Travels) is in love with...
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Midnight (1939, Mitchell Leisen)
Claudette Colbert (pre-Palm Beach Story) is half broke, flees Monte Carlo for Paris then, stalked by her cab driver Don Ameche (who had the same mustache 50 years later in Coming To America), wins an...
View ArticleI Met Him In Paris (1937, Wesley Ruggles)
The 30′s were full of Ruggles: Charlie Ruggles, Wesley Ruggles, Ruggles of Red Gap… you don’t hear about Ruggles anymore. A shame, for the most part, but I’d be glad not to hear from this particular...
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Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife (1938, Ernst Lubitsch)
“The class of people who comes here seems to get worse every year… and this year we seem to have next year’s crowd already.” Lubitsch movies always have such great dialogue, but he didn’t write ‘em and...
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It Happened One Night (1934, Frank Capra)
Weirdly, for one of the best romantic comedies of all time, I had much trouble remembering this a couple weeks later and had to look up the TCM synopsis – unlike The Good Fairy and Roman Holiday and...
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The Egg and I (1947, Chester Erskine)
Claudette Colbert, medium-charming, is paired with Fred MacMurray at his most eagerly straightforward, in a fish-out-of-water movie of cityfolk going country, most famous for creating the oversized...
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