Lana Turner

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Gilda

In Caliente (1935) Dolores del Rio is an acclaimed dancer. Pat O’Brien is a critic who gave her a bad review. Dolores plans to get even. Glenda Farrell will not take no for an answer when it comes to Pat marrying her. Along for the fun are Edward Everett Horton and Leo Carrillo. There are some nice ...

laffite wrote: ↑April 22nd, 2023, 10:55 pm??

I was being entirely too vague here. I'm sorry. I was thinking about films like Slacker (1990), which looked at nonconformists in Austin, or Singles (1992), which had as its backdrop the Seattle music scene. So, lets restart this with a new next:

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Barbara Stanwyck

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Allhallowsday wrote: ↑April 21st, 2023, 7:28 am FULL METAL JACKET (1987) I haven't seen it in many years. Still powerful.

Definitely. It packs a wallop.

The Band Wagon (1953)

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Three Sailors and a Girl (1953) TCM favorite Jane Powell stars in a story similar to On The Town (1949): three sailors on leave in New York City, with plans to live it up.  But first, our three sailors in this film, must stop at a bank to invest $50,000 pooled from their ship mates’ savings.  Here ...

The 1930's because talkies came into their own, and it must have been exhilarating watching movies take off, as a tonic for Depression-era audiences. Those sophisticated comedies of manners like Private Lives, Dinner at Eight, to name a couple, are still fun, along with the great Astaire-Rogers movi...

Three Sailors and a Girl (1953) TCM favorite Jane Powell stars in a story similar to On The Town (1949): three sailors on leave in New York City, with plans to live it up.  But first, our three sailors in this film, must stop at a bank to invest $50,000 pooled from their ship mates’ savings.  Here ...

Rear Window (1954)

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42nd Street (1933)

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John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) Don't fret over why an army of professional assassins are such lousy shots. Just enjoy the soaring fight & action scenes, nourish setting, and the movie taking itself so darn seriously but without a trace of smugness. A successor to Keanu Reeves could be in the wings ...

Ginger Rogers

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The Sixth Sense