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The Gay Divorcee (1934)
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December 30, 2016 by smumcounty

With the recent release of “La La Land” (2016) in theaters, the first big budget musical in many moons, it …
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Category: 1930s, Comedy, Musicals | Tags: Alice Brady, Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore, Erik Rhodes, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, RKO, The Gay Divorcee
Tovarich (1937)
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January 26, 2016 by smumcounty

At first glance, Turner Classic Movies may seem like a godsend for classic film fanatics, and, indeed, it is, with …
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Category: 1930s, Comedy | Tags: Anatole Litvak, Anita Louise, Basil Rathbone, Charles Boyer, Claudette Colbert, Fritz Feld, Isabel Jeans, Jaques Deval, Maurice Murphy, Melville Cooper, Robert E. Sherwood, Tovarich, Tovarich 1937
Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
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November 26, 2014 by smumcounty

Woodrow (Eddie Bracken) comes from a long line of war heroes. His father “Hinky Dinky” Truesmith was a hero who …
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Category: 1940s, Comedy | Tags: Eddie Bracken, Franklin Pangborn, Freddie Steele, Georgia Caine, Hail the Conquerying Hero, Harry Hayden, Jimmy Conlin, Preston Sturges, Raymond Walburn, William Demarest, World War II
Cluny Brown (1946)
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July 28, 2014 by smumcounty

It’s a beautiful Sunday afternoon in London in 1938. Hilary Ames (Reginald Gardiner) is preparing for a dinner party in …
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Category: 1940s, Comedy | Tags: Billy Bevan, Charles Boyer, Cluny Brown, Ernest Cossart, Ernst Lubitsch, Helen Walker, Jennifer Jones, Peter Lawford, Reginald Gardiner, Richard Haydn, Sara Allgood, The Lubitsch Touch
The Penguin Pool Murder (1932)
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January 16, 2014 by smumcounty

Stockbroker Gerald Parker (Guy Usher) is on the phone with Bertrand Hemingway (Clarence Wilson), the director of the New York …
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Category: 1930s, Comedy, Mystery, Pre-Code | Tags: Clarence Wilson, Donald Cook, Edna May Oliver, Guy Usher, Hidegarde Withers, James Gleason, Lydia Pinkham, Mae Clark, Mystery, Oscar Piper, Penguin Pool Murder, RKO, Robert Armstrong, Rochelle Hudson, Stuart Palmer
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944)
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November 28, 2013 by smumcounty

Preston Sturges’ “The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek” (1944) begins with a harried newspaper editor making a frenzied call to the …
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Category: 1940s, Comedy | Tags: Akim Tamiroff, Al Bridge, Betty Hutton, Brian Donlevy, Diana Lynn, Eddie Bracken, Gertrude Kockenlocker, Homefront, McGinty, Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Norval Jones, Porter Hall, Preston Sturges, Sextuplets, Torben Meyer, William Demarest, World War II
Sherlock Jr. (1924)
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September 8, 2013 by smumcounty

For a while now, I’ve been thinking about compiling a list of classic films that it would be impossible not …
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Category: 1920s, Comedy, Silent | Tags: Buster Keaton, Sherlock Jr., Silent Film