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Portrait Of Jennie [1948]

starring: Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore, Lillian Gish, Cecil Kellaway
directed by: William Dieterle

Release Date August 06, 2001

To call this a 'Ghost Story' would be inappropriate because it isn't 'spooky' but rather sad - yet very beautiful too.

Probably one of the most beautiful and enchanting stories attributed to a dead person coming back to haunt the living in a very benign way. Jennifer Jones plays a child who 'stumbles' into the life of 'Eben Adams' (Joseph Cotton) and makes a wish that he will wait for her to 'grow up'. This story could not be done today for all its disgusting connotations of the modern societies obsession, but works beautifully for the period in which the movie is made. 'Eben' is visited by 'Jennie' periodically as she grows and matures in years, but is only a matter of days or weeks for 'Adams'. The shocking news ... Read More:

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That Midnight Kiss/The Toast of New Orleans (REGION 1) (NTSC)

starring: Kathryn Grayson, José Iturbi, Ethel Barrymore, Mario Lanza, Keenan Wynn
directed by: Norman Taurog

Release Date July 24, 2007
My mum has been a big Lanza fan since the 50's and has amassed all his recordings on vinyl and then CD and his films on VHS over the years. However, I was able to buy this DVD for her from amazon.com last year when it was first released in the US. She was absolutely delighted! The quality is excellent - both picture and sound. Unfortunately this DVD is the only GENUINE studio released DVD of any of Lanza's films available at the time I write this (26 June 2008). Apparantly the Great Caruso is being planned for a proper studio DVD release in the US some time soon but there are still no firm dates. BEWARE...all the other Lanza DVD's (of Caruso, Student Prince etc) which you see currently advertised on the internet, eBay etc are NOT official studio ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 3
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Screen Legends - Starring Frank Sinatra

starring: Doris Day, Ethel Barrymore, Michael Morgan, Jack Haley Jr., Burt Lancaster
directed by: George Sidney, Fred Zinnemann, Gordon Douglas, Tim Whelan

Release Date October 09, 2006
My mum has been a big Lanza fan since the 50's and has amassed all his recordings on vinyl and then CD and his films on VHS over the years. However, I was able to buy this DVD for her from amazon.com last year when it was first released in the US. She was absolutely delighted! The quality is excellent - both picture and sound. Unfortunately this DVD is the only GENUINE studio released DVD of any of Lanza's films available at the time I write this (26 June 2008). Apparantly the Great Caruso is being planned for a proper studio DVD release in the US some time soon but there are still no firm dates. BEWARE...all the other Lanza DVD's (of Caruso, Student Prince etc) which you see currently advertised on the internet, eBay etc are NOT official studio ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 4
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Young At Heart/Lover Come Back

starring: Frank Sinatra Jr., Doris Day, Gig Young, Ethel Barrymore, Rock Hudson
directed by: Gordon Douglas, Delbert Mann

Release Date December 26, 2006
My mum has been a big Lanza fan since the 50's and has amassed all his recordings on vinyl and then CD and his films on VHS over the years. However, I was able to buy this DVD for her from amazon.com last year when it was first released in the US. She was absolutely delighted! The quality is excellent - both picture and sound. Unfortunately this DVD is the only GENUINE studio released DVD of any of Lanza's films available at the time I write this (26 June 2008). Apparantly the Great Caruso is being planned for a proper studio DVD release in the US some time soon but there are still no firm dates. BEWARE...all the other Lanza DVD's (of Caruso, Student Prince etc) which you see currently advertised on the internet, eBay etc are NOT official studio ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 5
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Young At Heart [1954]

starring: Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, Gig Young, Ethel Barrymore, Dorothy Malone
directed by: Gordon Douglas

Release Date March 08, 2004
Just wait for the scene when Frank Sinatra arrives at the front door. Doris Day answers. She sees the back of a man's head. He slowly turns around. We saw gaunt, cutaway cheekbones. Then a pair of blue eyes. It's love, but not without its twists and turns and near tragedies.

Yes, I'm in love with this film. It seems fluffy and light-hearted on the surface but there's some serious melancholy going on.

CD-Charts Position 6
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Young At Heart [1954]

starring: Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, Gig Young, Ethel Barrymore, Dorothy Malone
directed by: Gordon Douglas

Release Date January 13, 1997
Just wait for the scene when Frank Sinatra arrives at the front door. Doris Day answers. She sees the back of a man's head. He slowly turns around. We saw gaunt, cutaway cheekbones. Then a pair of blue eyes. It's love, but not without its twists and turns and near tragedies.

Yes, I'm in love with this film. It seems fluffy and light-hearted on the surface but there's some serious melancholy going on.

CD-Charts Position 7
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The Spiral Staircase [1946]

starring: Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore, Kent Smith, Rhonda Fleming
directed by: Robert Siodmak

Release Date April 08, 2002

The original and best.

A claustrophobic picture with rather wooden performances from most of its cast - especially that of George Brent, who wasn't really such a great actor, but popular in his day. This also stars Elsa Lanchester - a great actress, who when not the leading lady, was able to do wonders with 'bit' parts. Here she plays the rather drab looking housekeeper. However, Elsa, contrary to popular opinion, was in fact a very attractive lady! (she should be seen in her more glamorous roles of the thirties) Her very pretty features can be seen here in one subtle shot when she is seen by candlelight in profile, as she knocks a candle to the floor when down in the cellar with George Brent.

Ethel Barrymore gives an award ... Read More:

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The Spiral Staircase [1946] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

starring: Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore, Kent Smith, Rhonda Fleming
directed by: Robert Siodmak

Release Date October 04, 2005

The original and best.

A claustrophobic picture with rather wooden performances from most of its cast - especially that of George Brent, who wasn't really such a great actor, but popular in his day. This also stars Elsa Lanchester - a great actress, who when not the leading lady, was able to do wonders with 'bit' parts. Here she plays the rather drab looking housekeeper. However, Elsa, contrary to popular opinion, was in fact a very attractive lady! (she should be seen in her more glamorous roles of the thirties) Her very pretty features can be seen here in one subtle shot when she is seen by candlelight in profile, as she knocks a candle to the floor when down in the cellar with George Brent.

Ethel Barrymore gives an award-winning ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 9
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Young at Heart [1954] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

starring: Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, Gig Young, Ethel Barrymore, Dorothy Malone
directed by: Gordon Douglas

Release Date January 15, 2002
Just wait for the scene when Frank Sinatra arrives at the front door. Doris Day answers. She sees the back of a man's head. He slowly turns around. We saw gaunt, cutaway cheekbones. Then a pair of blue eyes. It's love, but not without its twists and turns and near tragedies.

Yes, I'm in love with this film. It seems fluffy and light-hearted on the surface but there's some serious melancholy going on.

CD-Charts Position 10
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Pinky [1949] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

starring: Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters, William Lundigan, Basil Ruysdael
directed by: Elia Kazan, John Ford

Release Date January 10, 2006
When you first look at the cover and the name of the main character you can already tell she is miscast for this role. Then again black people "passing for white" was not a new topic for Hollywood in 1949. It was part of the plot of "Imitation of Life" in 1934, but in that film, an actual black actress, Fredi Washington, played the role of the young woman who "passes" in the white world. In 1949, there were two films dealing with this issue: "Pinky" and "Lost Boundaries," and in both cases, the black person was played by a white actor.

"Pinky" stars Jeanne Crain as Pinky Johnson, a black woman who looks white, so much so that she when she studies nursing in New York, she easily enters the white world and becomes involved with a white doctor who wants to marry her. Needing time ... Read More: