Courtesy of Kino Lorber
by Chad Kennerk
Set in the 1920s, Has Anybody Seen My Gal? gets its name from the once-popular jazz song recorded by the California Ramblers in 1925. Loosely based upon the Eleanor Porter novel Oh Money! Money! (she was also the author behind Pollyanna), the 1952 jukebox musical comedy was given the full Technicolor treatment – a visual bee’s knees in Kino Lorber’s sterling release.
The Universal Pictures title makes good use of Twenties tunes such as ‘Tiger Rag,’ ‘When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin’ Along,’ ‘It Ain’t Gonna Rain No More,’ ‘Gimme a Little Kiss, Will Ya, Huh?’ - and of course, ‘Has Anybody Seen My Gal?’. It was directed by studio regular Douglas Sirk, who would go on to make his name with lush, slyly ironic melodramas such as Magnificent Obsession, All That Heaven Allows, Written on the Wind (all with Rock Hudson), There's Always Tomorrow,...
by Chad Kennerk
Set in the 1920s, Has Anybody Seen My Gal? gets its name from the once-popular jazz song recorded by the California Ramblers in 1925. Loosely based upon the Eleanor Porter novel Oh Money! Money! (she was also the author behind Pollyanna), the 1952 jukebox musical comedy was given the full Technicolor treatment – a visual bee’s knees in Kino Lorber’s sterling release.
The Universal Pictures title makes good use of Twenties tunes such as ‘Tiger Rag,’ ‘When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin’ Along,’ ‘It Ain’t Gonna Rain No More,’ ‘Gimme a Little Kiss, Will Ya, Huh?’ - and of course, ‘Has Anybody Seen My Gal?’. It was directed by studio regular Douglas Sirk, who would go on to make his name with lush, slyly ironic melodramas such as Magnificent Obsession, All That Heaven Allows, Written on the Wind (all with Rock Hudson), There's Always Tomorrow,...
- 1/15/2024
- by Chad Kennerk
- Film Review Daily
Leave it to Meghan Markle to catch a familiar face in a crowd of thousands! After a stunning ceremony, the newly married Meghan and Prince Harry, surrounded by many well-wishers, departed in a horse-drawn carriage, and it appears that Meghan spotted her old drama teacher among the masses.
"Oh my God!" Meghan seemed to exclaim as the couple rode past Gigi Perreau, who teaches at Immaculate Heart High School. Gigi stood among the crowd with ITV News, who captured the exchange on video. Take a look at the footage below and then relive all the special moments from today's incredible royal wedding.
"Oh my God" screams Meghan as her old drama teacher Gigi Perreau manages to catch her eye in the crowd! Two seconds before I said do you think she'd recognise you! She was right! @itv @itvnews pic.twitter.com/6QMqLV1lp3
- Alex Beresford (@alexberesfordTV) May 19, 2018...
"Oh my God!" Meghan seemed to exclaim as the couple rode past Gigi Perreau, who teaches at Immaculate Heart High School. Gigi stood among the crowd with ITV News, who captured the exchange on video. Take a look at the footage below and then relive all the special moments from today's incredible royal wedding.
"Oh my God" screams Meghan as her old drama teacher Gigi Perreau manages to catch her eye in the crowd! Two seconds before I said do you think she'd recognise you! She was right! @itv @itvnews pic.twitter.com/6QMqLV1lp3
- Alex Beresford (@alexberesfordTV) May 19, 2018...
- 5/21/2018
- by Karenna Meredith
- Popsugar.com
"Oh my god!" That's what Meghan Markle, the new Duchess of Sussex said when spotted a familiar face in the crowd: Her old drama teacher. Meghan and Prince Harry were making their way from their wedding ceremony to the luncheon reception with onlookers lined up on the streets to greet the newlyweds—and one of those well-wishers was Gigi Perreau. The American teacher from Immaculate Heart High School was also an ITV studio guest as part of the network's royal wedding coverage. Take a look at the video below. You can see the look of delight cross Meghan's face as she zooms by her former teacher. Gigi Perreau, 77, was a child star in the 1940s. She first appeared in...
- 5/19/2018
- E! Online
Robert Walker: Actor in MGM films of the '40s. Robert Walker: Actor who conveyed boy-next-door charms, psychoses At least on screen, I've always found the underrated actor Robert Walker to be everything his fellow – and more famous – MGM contract player James Stewart only pretended to be: shy, amiable, naive. The one thing that made Walker look less like an idealized “Average Joe” than Stewart was that the former did not have a vacuous look. Walker's intelligence shone clearly through his bright (in black and white) grey eyes. As part of its “Summer Under the Stars” programming, Turner Classic Movies is dedicating today, Aug. 9, '15, to Robert Walker, who was featured in 20 films between 1943 and his untimely death at age 32 in 1951. Time Warner (via Ted Turner) owns the pre-1986 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer library (and almost got to buy the studio outright in 2009), so most of Walker's movies have...
- 8/9/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
'To Each His Own' movie with Olivia de Havilland and John Lund 'To Each His Own' movie review: Best Actress Oscar winner Olivia de Havilland stars in Mother Love tearjerker Olivia de Havilland, who had starred in the 1941 melodrama Hold Back the Dawn, returns to the wartime milieu in To Each His Own (1946), once again under the direction of Mitchell Leisen, who guides the proceedings with his characteristic sincerity while cleverly skirting the Production Code's restrictive guidelines. In To Each His Own, de Havilland plays Jody Norris, a small-town woman who falls quickly in love – much like her character in Hold Back the Dawn – but this time during World War I, when Jody's brief liaison with daredevil flying ace Captain Cosgrove (John Lund) results in an out-of-wedlock child. When Cosgrove is killed in battle, the young mother anonymously gives up her baby to a childless couple in her hometown, remaining...
- 5/7/2015
- by Doug Johnson
- Alt Film Guide
Teresa Wright-Samuel Goldwyn association comes to a nasty end (See preceding post: "Teresa Wright in 'Shadow of a Doubt': Alfred Hitchcock Heroine in His Favorite Film.") Whether or not because she was aware that Enchantment wasn't going to be the hit she needed – or perhaps some other disagreement with Samuel Goldwyn or personal issue with husband Niven Busch – Teresa Wright, claiming illness, refused to go to New York City to promote the film. (Top image: Teresa Wright in a publicity shot for The Men.) Goldwyn had previously announced that Wright, whose contract still had another four and half years to run, was to star in a film version of J.D. Salinger's 1948 short story "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut." Instead, he unceremoniously – and quite publicly – fired her.[1] The Goldwyn organization issued a statement, explaining that besides refusing the assignment to travel to New York to help generate pre-opening publicity for Enchantment,...
- 3/11/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Gregory Peck from ‘Duel in the Sun’ to ‘How the West Was Won’: TCM schedule (Pt) on August 15 (photo: Gregory Peck in ‘Duel in the Sun’) See previous post: “Gregory Peck Movies: Memorable Miscasting Tonight on Turner Classic Movies.” 3:00 Am Days Of Glory (1944). Director: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Gregory Peck, Lowell Gilmore, Maria Palmer. Bw-86 mins. 4:30 Am Pork Chop Hill (1959). Director: Lewis Milestone. Cast: Gregory Peck, Harry Guardino, Rip Torn. Bw-98 mins. Letterbox Format. 6:15 Am The Valley Of Decision (1945). Director: Tay Garnett. Cast: Greer Garson, Gregory Peck, Donald Crisp. Bw-119 mins. 8:15 Am Spellbound (1945). Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov, Leo G. Carroll, Rhonda Fleming, Bill Goodwin, Norman Lloyd, Steve Geray, John Emery, Donald Curtis, Art Baker, Wallace Ford, Regis Toomey, Paul Harvey, Jean Acker, Irving Bacon, Jacqueline deWit, Edward Fielding, Matt Moore, Addison Richards, Erskine Sanford, Constance Purdy. Bw-111 mins. 10:15 Am Designing Woman (1957). Director: Vincente Minnelli.
- 8/16/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Lana Turner movies: Scandal and more scandal Lana Turner is Turner Classic Movies’ "Summer Under the Stars" star today, Saturday, August 10, 2013. I’m a little — or rather, a lot — late in the game posting this article, but there are still three Lana Turner movies left. You can see Turner get herself embroiled in scandal right now, in Douglas Sirk’s Imitation of Life (1959), both the director and the star’s biggest box-office hit. More scandal follows in Mark Robson’s Peyton Place (1957), the movie that earned Lana Turner her one and only Academy Award nomination. And wrapping things up is George Sidney’s lively The Three Musketeers (1948), with Turner as the ruthless, heartless, remorseless — but quite elegant — Lady de Winter. Based on Fannie Hurst’s novel and a remake of John M. Stahl’s 1934 melodrama about mother love, class disparities, racism, and good cooking, Imitation of Life was shown on...
- 8/11/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Fred MacMurray movies: ‘Double Indemnity,’ ‘There’s Always Tomorrow’ Fred MacMurray is Turner Classic Movies’ "Summer Under the Stars" today, Thursday, August 7, 2013. Although perhaps best remembered as the insufferable All-American Dad on the long-running TV show My Three Sons and in several highly popular Disney movies from 1959 to 1967, e.g., The Absent-Minded Professor, Son of Flubber, Boy Voyage!, MacMurray was immeasurably more interesting as the All-American Jerk. (Photo: Fred MacMurray ca. 1940.) Someone once wrote that Fred MacMurray would have been an ideal choice to star in a biopic of disgraced Republican president Richard Nixon. Who knows, the (coincidentally Republican) MacMurray might have given Anthony Hopkins a run for his Best Actor Academy Award nomination. After all, MacMurray’s most admired movie performances are those in which he plays a scheming, conniving asshole: Billy Wilder’s classic film noir Double Indemnity (1944), in which he’s seduced by Barbara Stanwyck, and Wilder...
- 8/8/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Douglas Sirk movies: ‘Imitation of Life,’ ‘Written on the Wind’ (photo: Lana Turner, Juanita Moore, Karin Dicker in ‘Imitation of Life’) Douglas Sirk is Turner Classic Movies’ Director of the Evening. The German-born (April 26, 1897, in Hamburg) filmmaker has developed a cult following in recent decades after his "women’s pictures" were reappraised by some critics as works of profound social criticism filled with auteuristic touches. Why it would take years (or decades) for people to realize the obvious is a little mind-boggling, until you remember that movies about women and their issues have been, for the most part, relegated to the sidelines. A stupid prejudice that continues to this very day. My statement, by the way, has nothing to do with yikesy political correctness; if you don’t believe me, just check out the Best Picture Academy Award winners or Palme d’Or winners or Golden Lion winners or Golden...
- 8/1/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Paul Henreid: Actor was ‘dependable’ leading man to Hollywood actresses Paul Henreid, best known as the man who wins Ingrid Bergman’s body but not her heart in Casablanca, is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month of July 2013. TCM will be showing a couple of dozen movies featuring Henreid, who, though never a top star, was a "dependable" — i.e., unexciting but available — leading man to a number of top Hollywood actresses of the ’40s, among them Bette Davis, Ida Lupino, Olivia de Havilland, Eleanor Parker, Joan Bennett, and Katharine Hepburn. Unfortunately, the overwhelming majority of Paul Henreid movies to be shown on Turner Classic Movies in July consists of Warner Bros. productions that are frequently broadcast all year long, no matter who is TCM’s Star of the Month. Just as unfortunately, TCM will not present any of Henreid’s little-seen supporting performances of the ’30s, e.
- 7/3/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Directed by: Ray Karwel
Written by: Ray Karwel, C.S. Hill and Debbie Glovin
Starring: Angela Rachelle, John T. Woods, Tara Smoker, Scott F. Evans
"That was now. This is then." The resistible tagline for the poorly titled time travel yarn Time Again pretty much sums up the creativity and entertainment value found on screen.
Marlo (Angela Rachelle) and her sister Sam (Tara Smoker) work at a busy diner. Today is Sam’s birthday and her more adventurous sister wants to drive to Vegas after work to celebrate. But such a celebration isn’t in the cards. Minutes after Marlo leaves the diner for the evening, a violent shootout occurs and Sam is presumed dead. Six months later, Marlo becomes the target of Mr. Way (Scott F. Evans), whose attempt to kidnap her is thwarted by Detective Lym (John T. Woods). Apparently, Mr. Way, a shady businessman, believes Marlo possesses some...
Written by: Ray Karwel, C.S. Hill and Debbie Glovin
Starring: Angela Rachelle, John T. Woods, Tara Smoker, Scott F. Evans
"That was now. This is then." The resistible tagline for the poorly titled time travel yarn Time Again pretty much sums up the creativity and entertainment value found on screen.
Marlo (Angela Rachelle) and her sister Sam (Tara Smoker) work at a busy diner. Today is Sam’s birthday and her more adventurous sister wants to drive to Vegas after work to celebrate. But such a celebration isn’t in the cards. Minutes after Marlo leaves the diner for the evening, a violent shootout occurs and Sam is presumed dead. Six months later, Marlo becomes the target of Mr. Way (Scott F. Evans), whose attempt to kidnap her is thwarted by Detective Lym (John T. Woods). Apparently, Mr. Way, a shady businessman, believes Marlo possesses some...
- 8/16/2012
- by Bradley Harding
- Planet Fury
Sci-fi action film Time Again has been acquired for worldwide distribution by Maxim Media International, it has been announced.
The project - with the tagline 'That was now, this is then' - is the directorial debut of Ray Karwel, who said: "Time Again is a tribute to the old school action movies; a cross between Die Hard and Time Cop with the feel of early action of John Woo and Jackie Chan."
A synopsis, casting details and trailer are included below.
The story sees a young waitress receiving strange coins for a tip and becoming inadvertently embroiled in an underworld battle with a notorious criminal that leads to her death. With the help of a mysterious old lady, the waitress's younger sister goes back in time in repeated attempts to save her from being murdered.
Time Again stars Hollywood veteran Gigi Perreau (Journey to the Center of Time, The Brady Bunch...
The project - with the tagline 'That was now, this is then' - is the directorial debut of Ray Karwel, who said: "Time Again is a tribute to the old school action movies; a cross between Die Hard and Time Cop with the feel of early action of John Woo and Jackie Chan."
A synopsis, casting details and trailer are included below.
The story sees a young waitress receiving strange coins for a tip and becoming inadvertently embroiled in an underworld battle with a notorious criminal that leads to her death. With the help of a mysterious old lady, the waitress's younger sister goes back in time in repeated attempts to save her from being murdered.
Time Again stars Hollywood veteran Gigi Perreau (Journey to the Center of Time, The Brady Bunch...
- 3/18/2012
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
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