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Edmund Gwenn Movies
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Genres:
Musical
Starring:
Ann Blyth,
Edmund Purdom,
John Ericson,
Louis Calhern,
Edmund Gwenn,
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Mario Lanza's beautiful tenor soars on the soundtrack of this fairytale,
loosely based on Sigmund Romberg's beautiful operetta.In an interview on a Lanza bio program, Music Director George Stoll shared
how Lanza came into the recording studio and rendered perfect one-takes on
the entire score, within a remarkable single session. The glorious timbre of his voice is a highlight of this f...
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Genres:
Sci-Fi
Horror
Starring:
James Whitmore,
Edmund Gwenn,
Joan Weldon,
James Arness,
Onslow Stevens,
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"Them" is simply one of the most influential films of all time. This was
the first film to deal with our fears of the atomic age and the what if
scenario of what our continued testing and use of nuclear arms and how they
would affect mother nature. Within the next few years we were bombarded
with giant locusts, lizards and mutated humans of all sorts. In fact, this
film was ...
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Genres:
Comedy
Drama
Romance
Starring:
Greer Garson,
Laurence Olivier,
Mary Boland,
Edna May Oliver,
Maureen O'Sullivan,
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Jane Austen's novel 'Pride and Prejudice' was probably ripe for MGM
adaptation during WWII, even with the inevitable changes and rewrites
from what she intended (for example, there are hints of romance for all
the Bennet daughters by the end, even Mary).What's good about it? Mainly the casting - Greer Garson is a feisty and
cheeky Elizabeth (and this was more than 50 years before J...
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Genres:
Mystery
Romance
Thriller
War
Starring:
Joel McCrea,
Laraine Day,
Herbert Marshall,
George Sanders,
Albert Bassermann,
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Alfred Hitchcock was always pushing the envelope, and 1940's "Foreign
Correspondent" is no different. With America still in the midst of trading
with both sides of the European war, Hitchcock made a spy thriller that
quite clearly cast the Germans as the bad guys (minus the word Nazi, which
only appears once at the beginning of the film) while being shamelessly
patriotic (the l...
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Genres:
Drama
Romance
Sport
Starring:
Robert Taylor,
Lionel Barrymore,
Maureen O'Sullivan,
Vivien Leigh,
Edmund Gwenn,
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A skilled, albeit highly egocentric young athlete becomes
A
YANK AT OXFORD when he accepts a scholarship to the English
university. Romance and various personal problems help
punch
a hole through his self-conceit.Robert Taylor gets to show-off his athletic prowess (running,
rowing) in this pleasant, lightweight film. Produced by
MGM's
British division, it is an enjo...
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Genres:
Adventure
Drama
Romance
Starring:
Fredric March,
Olivia de Havilland,
Donald Woods,
Anita Louise,
Edmund Gwenn,
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Fredric March, usually such a fine actor, was unable to give more than a
wooden performance in the title role of 'Anthony Adverse'. Warner Bros.
would have been better off using their up-and-coming new star, Errol Flynn,
for this one--giving us the chance to see him paired once again with Olivia
de Havilland. There are no sparks between March and de Havilland--he seems
too old ...
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Genres:
Comedy
Drama
Romance
Starring:
Katharine Hepburn,
Cary Grant,
Brian Aherne,
Edmund Gwenn,
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***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS***
SYLVIA SCARLETT was the last of the four Grant/Hepburn collaborations that
I
had left to watch, and I must say that I approached this film with some
trepidation. Being a huge fan of both Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, I
had frequently read that this film was an oddity, a deserved obscurity,
and
most certainly nothing like the other thr...
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Genres:
Comedy
Musical
Romance
Starring:
Jessie Matthews,
Edmund Gwenn,
John Gielgud,
Mary Glynne,
Percy Parsons,
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Jessie Matthews made a number of very charming British musicals during the
thirties. (One of the better ones, FIRST A GIRL, an early version of
VICTOR/VICTORIA, has just been released on video.) But THE GOOD COMPANIONS
is not a musical, although it has musical sequences, nor is it really a
Matthews vehicle, though she's prominently featured and outstanding.It's a marvellous adapt...
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