Classic, landmark films in cinematic history.
Based on the novel by Franz Werfel, The Song of Bernadette is a venerative and sympathetic account of the life of Saint Bernadette Soubirous, a once pale and sickly (asthmatic) French peasant girl who claimed to have seen 18 miraculous visions of a “beautiful lady” (whom others, not Bernadette, per se, insist must have been the Virgin Mary) near her home village of Lourdes in 1858.
The Song of Bernadette (1943) Read More
Random Harvest movie storyline. Charles Rainier is a World War I veteran, an amnesiac who remembers nothing of his past. He flees the asylum and meets the beautiful Paula who takes an immediate liking to him.
Random Harvest (1942) Read More
Mrs. Miniver movie storyline. This is the story of an English middle class family through the first years of World War II. Clem Miniver is a successful architect and his beautiful wife Kay is the anchor that keeps the family together.
Mrs. Miniver (1942) Read More
My Favorite Blonde movie storyline. Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train bound for Los Angeles. Is Hollywood waiting for him with open arms? Not really as the one he signed a contract for is Percy, his roller-skating penguin partner! But, as the proverb says, the shadow of glory is better than no glory at all! Anyway, doesn’t Larry meet a woman on the train?
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Sex and the Single Girl movie storyline. Bob Weston is the top reporter for a sleazy, but highly profitable, tabloid magazine that owes its success to stories highlighting sex. Helen Gurley Brown is a bright and beautiful 23 year old psychologist who has authored the best-selling book “Sex and the Single Girl.”
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Kitten with a Whip movie storyline. San Diego based David Stratton is seeking his party’s nomination as state senator. His political life has taken a toll on his marriage, his wife Ginny who has left him – somewhat temporarily – with their infant daughter Kathy.
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The Naked Kiss movie storyline. Kelly, a prostitute, traumatised by an experience, referred to as ‘The Naked Kiss,’ by psychiatrists, leaves her past, and finds solace in the town of Grantville. She meets Griff, the police captain of the town, with whom she spends a romantic afternoon.
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Marnie Edgar (Tippi Hedren) is a habitual liar and a thief who gets jobs as a secretary and after a few months robs the firms in question, usually of several thousand dollars. When she gets a job at Rutland’s, she also catches the eye of the handsome owner, Mark Rutland (Sean Connery). He prevents her from stealing and running off, as is her usual pattern, but also forces her to marry him.
Marnie (1964) Read More
Honeymoon Hotel movie storyline. When Jay Menlow (Robert Morse) breaks up with his fiancée, Cynthia, just before his wedding, he decides to use his honeymoon accomodations anyway. He takes along bachelor Ross Kingsley (Robert Goulet), who was to have been his best man, and who is supposed to be representing his boss, Sampson (Keenan Wynn), at a convention.
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Paris When It Sizzles movie storyline. Hollywood producer Alexander Meyerheimer has hired drunken writer Richard Benson to write his latest movie. Benson has been holed up in a Paris apartment supposedly working on the script for months, but instead has spent the time living it up.
Paris When It Sizzles (1964) Read More