Skip to content

She’s Working Her Way Through College

  • by

She’s Working Her Way Through College (1952) starring Virginia Mayo, Ronald Reagan

She’s Working Her Way Through College is an interesting musical. The basic plot has former burlesque dancer Hot-Garters Gertie (Virginia Mayo) having saved up enough money to attend college. So after talking to her former high school teacher (Ronald Reagan) who’s now a college professor. Who just happens to be in the audience for a  totally innocent reason … And getting hit on by a sleazy man who offers her an oversize fur coat (an important plot point later). She leaves to attend the college where Reagan is teaching, in hopes of writing a successful play.

Read More »She’s Working Her Way Through College

Avanti!

  • by

Avanti! (1972) starring Jack Lemmon, Juliet Mills, directed by Billy Wilder

In short, Avanti! is Hollywood excusing adultery. Seriously. The synopsis is as follows:

Read More »Avanti!

Bogie and Bacall – The Signature Collection

  • by

They met on the WB lot. The year was 1944. “œI just saw your screen test,” Bogart said to Bacall. “œI think we’re going to have a lot of fun together.” And so it began.  Listed as the Greatest Male Star of All Time and one the Greatest Female Legends by the American Film Institute, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall star in the all new Bogie & Bacall: The Signature Collection. This gift set includes all four films that starred one of classic Hollywood’s noted couples.

Read More »Bogie and Bacall – The Signature Collection

Sabrina

  • by

Bogie and Holden are the mega-rich Larrabee brothers of Long Island. Bogie’s all work, Holden’s all playboy. But then the daughter of the family’s chauffeur returns from Paris. Sabrina is all grown up, and Holden’s character falls in love. Now the stage is set for some family fireworks as the brothers fall under the spell of Hepburn’s delightful charms.

Read More »Sabrina

Sahara

  • by

Sahara (1943) starring Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Bennett,  J. Carrol Naish,  Lloyd Bridges

Sahara is, in short, an excellent movie — €” set in World War II, in the desert conflict, it involves a ragtag multi-national group of Allied soldiers (Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Bennett, Lloyd Bridges) as well as their Italian prisoner of war (played memorably by J. Carrol Naish) who come upon an oasis in the desert — €” a crumbling ruin.

The ruin has a cistern — €” not a well, but a storage place for water, that’s nearly dry. The GI’s no sooner find it than they’re surrounded by Nazi soldiers, who are dying of thirst — €” but are armed to the teeth.

Read More »Sahara
Exit mobile version