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1940s Movies

Homecoming (1948)

October 25, 2020January 5, 2023 - by greatmovies

Homecoming movie storyline. Ulysses Johnson (Clark Gable) is an American surgeon coming back from World War II. As he is sitting on the transport boat taking him back to America, he is asked by a reporter about his experiences during the war. Johnson begins to tell his story, beginning in 1941. Johnson is the chief surgeon at a hospital, a man free of emotional attachment to his patients.

1940s Movies

Green Dolphin Street (1947)

August 30, 2020January 11, 2023 - by greatmovies

Green Dolphin Street movie storyline. Two beautiful daughters of a wealthy merchant fall in love with the same handsome young man (Richard Hart), but because he favors the gentle modesty of Marguerite (Donna Reed), her “not quite nice” sister Marianne (LanaTurner) persuades him to seek his fortune abroad.

1940s Movies

The Song of Bernadette (1943)

July 26, 2020January 22, 2023 - by greatmovies

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.

1950s Movies

Separate Tables (1958)

June 19, 2020February 17, 2023 - by greatmovies

Separate Tables movie synopsis. In Bournemouth, England, the Beauregard Hotel is located three minutes from the sea and managed by Pat Cooper. It is off-season and only the resident guests are lodged in the hotel. The timid Sibyl is a spinster and hysterical woman totally controlled by her arrogant and snobbish mother Mrs. Maud Railton-Bell that does not want that she works.

1940s Movies

Now, Voyager (1942)

July 28, 2019July 20, 2023 - by greatmovies

Now, Voyager movie storyline. Repressed, middle-aged, frumpy, ‘ugly duckling’ spinster Charlotte Vale, from a wealthy Boston family, is controlled by her domineering, unloving mother.

1960s Movies

My Fair Lady (1964)

July 27, 2019July 23, 2023 - by greatmovies

My Fair Lady movie storyline. One of the best and most popular musicals of all-time, from Lerner and Loewe – based on George Bernard Shaw’s 1913 play Pygmalion.

1940s Movies / Alfred Hitchcock Movies

Rebecca (1940)

July 27, 2019July 24, 2023 - by greatmovies

Rebecca storyline. On holiday in Monte Carlo, the wealthy widower Maxim de Winter meets a young woman who is working as a lady’s companion to Mrs. Van Hopper.