Bette Davis is in the thick of the dramatics in "Old Acquaintance." The story follows the ups and downs of the friendship of two women (Davis and Miriam Hopkins) from 1924 to 1932 to 1941. The well written screenplay by John Van Druten and Lenore Coffee and tight [..]

"They Got Me Covered" is a comedy-thriller movie starring Bob Hope as a Moscow correspondent who fall out of favor with his editor when he fails to report that Germany has recently invaded Russia. Director David Butler ("Road to Morocco" 1942) crafted a good vehicle for Hope. [..]

Warner Bros. Pictures puts its best foot forward to help the war effort with "This is the Army." Producers Jack L. Warner and Hal B. Wallis hired Irving Berlin to write the music and lyrics for this tuneful World War II morale booster. Berlin even [..]

Lucille Ball and company put their "Best Foot Forward" in this bouncy musical comedy. The storyline has the "B-movie" star invited to a military academy dance by a cadet, incurring the wrath of his girl friend. Director Edward Buzzell ("Honolulu" 1939) did a fair job at the helm [..]

"Freud's Last Session" is the story of a fictional meeting between C. S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud. The pair are of the opposite opinion on nearly every issue, especially the topic of the existence of God. The avowed atheist Freud greatly resents Lewis' recent [..]

"Challengers" is a sports-romantic drama about a tennis player-turned-coach helping her champion husband get out of his recent slump by coaxing him to play in a lower-level challenger event. The situation becomes complicated when his opponent is her ex-boyfriend and his best friend from childhood. The [..]

Some of Ronald Reagan's service in World War II included starring in educational short films for the United States military. "Recognition of the Japanese Zero Fighter" was one such movie, produced by the First Motion Picture Unit of the U. S. Army Air Force. [..]

The Best Picture of 1943 is....."Casablanca." This romantic drama tells the story of the owner of a nightclub in 1941 French Morocco who discovers that an old girl friend is in town with her husband, a Czechoslovak resistance leader who is on the run from the [..]

"Pal Joey" is without a doubt the definitive Frank Sinatra vehicle. The Chairman of the Board put a lot of his own personality into the wise-cracking, hard-shelled, soft-hearted, smooth-singing Joey Evans. The fantastic music was written by Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart, with flawless arrangements [..]

"Peyton Place" is the quintessential soap opera, the story of the lives of people in a small town in New England. This glossy production by Jerry Wald and top-rate direction by Mark Robson made the film the second highest grossing film of the year. [..]