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Kitty Hollywood reviews: Hitchcock's Stage Fright - 1950
Released by Warner Bros
Produced and Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Starring:
Jane Wyman
Richard Todd
Marlene Dietrich
Michael Wilding
This controversial movie is well worth the watch. Never mind the nay-sayers angry about the controversial Filmic Device - check it out and make up your own mind as to its worth.
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Відео

Kitty Hollywood reviews Westworld - MGM 1973
Переглядів 2,2 тис.7 років тому
Released by MGM Studios Produced by Paul Lazarus III Written and Directed by Michael Crichton Starring: Richard Benjamin James Brolin Yul Brynner This film is the beginning of so many interesting thoughts and ideas, not the least of which is the current HBO reboot on theme. Well worth a watch!
Kitty Hollywood reviews Sunset Boulevard
Переглядів 3,3 тис.7 років тому
Released by Paramount Studios 1950 Directed by Billy Wilder Starring Gloria Swanson William Holden Erich Von Stroheim Nancy Olson This film is The Best. It is a marvel on every level. Its post modern crazinesses put pretty much Everything Else to Shame. There are SO many things to say about this film and I just didn't have time - so check this out as well: An interview WITH Nancy Olson about th...
Kitty Hollywood reviews The Spiral Staircase - 1946
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Released by RKO Studios Directed: Robert Siodmak Starring: Dorothy McGuire Kent Smith George Brent Sara Allgood Rhonda Fleming Gordon Oliver Elsa Lanchester AND Ethel Barrymore What better way to spend a rainy afternoon/night than watching a thunderous, murderous, trapped-in-an-houserous type film that you KNOW is not going to get all Torture Porn?
Kitty Hollywood reviews Midnight Lace
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Released by Universal International Directed by David Miller Produced by Ross Hunter and Martin Melcher Starring: Doris Day Rex Harrison John Gavin AND LOTS OF OTHER PEOPLE (including Hermione Baddeley) A London fog, the beautiful Doris Day, and then a creepy as all get-out voice from the gloom ... This excellent 1960 melodrama/thriller (melothriller?) is a Power House of good/bad 60's draped m...
Kitty Hollywood reviews: Kind Hearts and Coronets - 1949
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Kind Hearts and Coronets - released by Ealing Studios. Directed by Robert Hamer Starring: Dennis Price Valerie Hobson Joan Greenwood AND Alec Guinness This week we shall take our comedy dry, English and BLACK. This delicious little movie was the first in the famous run of Ealing Studio 1940s comedies, and is one of the best.
Kitty Hollywod Reviews: Gilda - 1946
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Columbia Pictures - Gilda - 1946 Directed by: Charles Vidor Produced by: Virginia Van Upp Starring: Rita Hayworth Glenn Ford George Macready This is one of the more fascinating movies I have ever seen - with its tortured sexual politics and Not Quite Casablanca feel. Rita Hayworth is the complete package. Yes, she's stunning, but that's honestly beside the point. She has a vulnerability and mag...
Kitty Hollywood reviews Kiss Me Kate
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Kiss Me Kate - MGM - 1953 Produced by Jack Cummings Directed by George Sidney Starring: Howard Keel Kathryn Grayson Ann Miller Tommy Rall I think that one of the more fascinating things that occur over and over again when watching a film made at least 50 years ago, is that you become vividly aware of the differences in culture. You could yell and scream at the screen, or appreciate that the wor...
Kitty Hollywood reviews: A Double Life
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Universal - A Double Life - 1947 Directed by: George Cukor Starring: Ronald Colman Signe Hasso Edmond O’Brien Shelley Winters I first came across this gem as a teenager, and, like many teenagers, was drawn to its darkness and obsession. Many years on - this unusual little version of Othello still enthralls me. All you fans of The Moor of Venice, watch on!
Kitty Hollywood reviews Singin' in the Rain
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MGM Presents: Singin' in the Rain Produced by Roger Edens Directed by Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly Starring: Gene Kelly Debbie Reynolds Donald O'Connor Jean Hagen Cyd Charisse The only thing that needs to be said about this film is that it is the most almighty picker-upper. Come home dispirited? Had a rotten day? Come home and watch this. It makes things better.
Kitty Hollywood reviews The Magnificent Seven
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United Artists Directed by John Sturges Produced by Walter Mirisch, Lou Morheim and John Sturges Starring: Yul Brynner Steve McQueen Charles Bronson Horst Buchholz James Coburn Brad Dexter Robert Vaughan Eli Wallach Aw, this is just the best movie. Yul Brynner decided that he looked so good in black (in Westerns) that he stuck to it for Westworld. There's a great Making Of short about this film...
Kitty Hollywood reviews: The Adventures of Robin Hood
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Get ready to ride through the woods, with your band of merry men, rob from the rich, give to the poor, swing from a vine, and fall head over heels in LOVE with Olivia de Havilland, Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone - take your pick. Something for everyone. Yikes - and away!
Kitty Hollywood reviews: The African Queen
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Kate and Bogie spend weeks on a tiny little steam-powered boat. On a river. In Africa! And they fall in love. This film has one of the more fascinating filming-of stories: Katherine Hepburn wrote a hysterical memoir about it, and you'll find a bunch of the pictures from it in the video.
Kitty Hollywood's 2016 Oscars review
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Haven't managed to see all 8 films nominated for Best Picture this year? Don't worry - here's the rundown you need! As usual, 30 seconds on each one, and with Kitty's personal picks for the top awards.
Kitty Hollywood reviews: Miracle on 34th Street
Переглядів 5 тис.8 років тому
Released by 20th Century Fox - 1947 Directed: George Seaton Starring: Maureen O'Hara John Payne Natalie Wood Edmund Gwenn The more I watch this film, the more heartened I am by it. It manages to be utterly comforting and reassuring, and NOT schmaltzy, all at once. I think that Edmund Gwenn has to go on my list of Delightful Voices (yes, I have a list) and I cannot think of anyone better suited ...
Kitty Hollywood reviews: The More the Merrier
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Kitty Hollywood reviews: The More the Merrier
Kitty Hollywood reviews: It Happened One Night
Переглядів 4,9 тис.8 років тому
Kitty Hollywood reviews: It Happened One Night
Kitty Hollywood reviews The Prisoner of Zenda
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Kitty Hollywood reviews The Prisoner of Zenda
Kitty Hollywood Reviews: The Uninvited
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Kitty Hollywood Reviews: The Uninvited
Kitty Hollywood reviews: Roman Holiday
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Kitty Hollywood reviews: Roman Holiday
Kitty Hollywood reviews: Now Voyager
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Kitty Hollywood reviews: Now Voyager
Kitty Hollywood Reviews Young Bess
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Kitty Hollywood Reviews Young Bess
Kitty Hollywood reviews: Something in the Wind
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Kitty Hollywood reviews: Something in the Wind
Kitty Holllywood reviews: Out of the Past
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Kitty Holllywood reviews: Out of the Past
Kitty Hollywood reviews: The Rains Came
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Kitty Hollywood reviews: The Rains Came
Kitty Hollywood reviews: Picnic
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Kitty Hollywood reviews: Picnic
Kitty Hollywood reviews: The Fountainhead (but more in a thumbs down than a thumbs up kind of way)
Переглядів 4,9 тис.9 років тому
Kitty Hollywood reviews: The Fountainhead (but more in a thumbs down than a thumbs up kind of way)
Kity Hollywood reviews: Foreign Correspondent
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Kity Hollywood reviews: Foreign Correspondent

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @martinidry6300
    @martinidry6300 8 днів тому

    The perjorative word for the ethnological term for Negroes is a fact. You not liking it is as pointless as stating you like any other part of the film. The era that made this film is precisely the reason you have such a high opinion of it, except one part. This is called having perspective. It's also called being an adult. Grow up. It'll make you different from most in this society, but that's a step in the right direction.

  • @richardhazdra29
    @richardhazdra29 10 днів тому

    I’ve been watching since the 1960’s and still consider this the best “Ghost Story” put on film. The chemistry with the actors along with great screenplay and the use of shadows with black and white is totally spot on. The fact that it’s also a very good mystery with a twist and added humor make this classic a must see. The very haunting but beautiful “Stella by Starlight” is sad knowing that Gail Russell had requested it played on the local radio station the night she died from alcoholism. I’ve read the novel which doesn’t have the sordid romance between Holloway and Meredith. It did seem to work out well in the screenplay. I still can’t watch late at night by myself.

  • @lauracorbett4577
    @lauracorbett4577 Місяць тому

    I’m gonna start doing Film reviews on my UA-cam channel and this is gonna be one of the films I review because I have a love for this film too and I first saw it in 2006 when I was twelve years old

  • @donbrown1284
    @donbrown1284 Місяць тому

    I'm sure people must have pointed out that there is a lot of Joyce Grenfell in your delivery. "Lovely ducks...shoot lovely ducks"...eh?

  • @lauracorbett4577
    @lauracorbett4577 2 місяці тому

    This was the first Deanna Durbin film I watched when I discovered Deanna in 2006 when I went to my local library here in Chesapeake Virginia where I live and had checked out The Sweetheart Pack for the first time and it was the first film I watched and it became my number one favorite film of hers I was twelve at the time when I first saw it

  • @dcdad556
    @dcdad556 3 місяці тому

    Too much gesticulation...Keep your day job.

  • @emmejayeh.5995
    @emmejayeh.5995 4 місяці тому

    Jean was also nervous that her advancing age (she turned 42 during production) might not work for the picture, but she wanted the part so she could finish out her contract with Columbia and retire. I'm glad that she got to do it! She only made two films after this: A Foreign Affair in 1948 for Billy Wilder, and the notable western Shane in 1953.

  • @janinesenatore3870
    @janinesenatore3870 4 місяці тому

    Fabulous review. I'm on board with everything you say. I just discovered this film and it just continues to haunt me. That is, I'm sure, a sign of greatness..when you just can't get something out of your head. The cinematography is magnificent, the acting is superb. Thanks.

  • @gracielalaplace9090
    @gracielalaplace9090 4 місяці тому

    No logro entender por qué la peli de Vincent Minelli: Té y simpatía no se da completa, a esta altura de la realidad, son los pacatos que todavía existen?.

  • @light279
    @light279 4 місяці тому

    I couldn't agree with you more; one of my favourite westerns; one of my favourite movies.

  • @JohnMinehan-lx9ts
    @JohnMinehan-lx9ts 4 місяці тому

    "Let's give him a sound he understands" . . . and ignores as only an elephant can . . . .

  • @scottgates6993
    @scottgates6993 5 місяців тому

    Watch it for the music and the acting, too! God I love this movie. I saw it on the big screen in 1978 and the last scene where you see the camera pan up to the stars, the whole audience gasp at the beauty of the scene.

  • @ginnylorenz5265
    @ginnylorenz5265 5 місяців тому

    One of my favorite films. These absolute GEMS of reviews by Kitty are just glorious. I'm mighty sorry that she stopped making them. Genius. And sometimes she' hilarious. Love her. I hope all is well with her. God bless her!!!!!

  • @lauracorbett4577
    @lauracorbett4577 5 місяців тому

    Now Voyager is one of my favorite Bette Davis movies. Bette Davis is amazing in this film I love it I watch it all the time. I love that she goes away from her domineering mother and gets her health together apart from how she looks in the beginning of the film

  • @c.johnson1691
    @c.johnson1691 6 місяців тому

    What’s with all the hand waving?

  • @rohanmarkjay
    @rohanmarkjay 6 місяців тому

    To Hollywood's credit, Elephant Walk is an anti-colonialist movie despite the very charismatic and attractive lead couple played by tea plantation owners in 1930s Ceylon (today called Sri Lanka), Elisebeth Taylor and Peter Finch. The Elephants Revenge of the Elephants rampage through the colonial estate at the end is representation of the pissed off natives. Old Hollywood movie making at its best.

  • @ginnylorenz5265
    @ginnylorenz5265 6 місяців тому

    Oh Kitty❣How we miss you❣We wish you were doing more of these WONDERFUL, intriguing, often hilarious, fascinating, brilliant videos. Each one a GEM❣Where ever you are......we wish you well, we thank you, we love you. God Bless You❣❣❣

  • @vickiemerton4049
    @vickiemerton4049 6 місяців тому

    Thank You Kitty Hollywood I really Enjoyed That 😃

  • @c.johnson1691
    @c.johnson1691 6 місяців тому

    It’s too bad this review doesn’t show Burl Ives’ greatest scene when he crashes the party given by Charles Bickford’s character.

  • @grahamboffey457
    @grahamboffey457 7 місяців тому

    The arrow scene’s dialogue always makes me laugh.

  • @debbywillan5165
    @debbywillan5165 7 місяців тому

    "most unusual" is my favorite phrase.

  • @bobmester3475
    @bobmester3475 7 місяців тому

    One of my top ten.. wonderful review. Thank you!

  • @713davidh42
    @713davidh42 8 місяців тому

    After five years I did watch The Big Country again. It did become apparent that Gregory Peck's character is more complex than just some fish-out-of-water dude in the rough and tumble West.

  • @lauracorbett4577
    @lauracorbett4577 8 місяців тому

    I wrote a letter to Universal suggesting to them that they make a movie about Deanna by having actresses to play her from age 14-21 and have other actors and actresses to play the roles of the actors who did films with her. I got this idea from a woman on Amazon who wrote a review about her Sweetheart Pack that despite her 5 star rating for the collection she said that someone needs to make a film documentary about her since a lot of people are not familiar with her I guess because she had quit Hollywood at an early age and also said her importance needs to be acknowledged. And it's strange because I was actually thinking about that too how I would love for them to make a film documentary about her and show what her life was like from signing her contract with Universal to the time she had made Three Smart Girls to the time she had made her 21 films til the time she left Hollywood and had married her third husbandtary

  • @lauracorbett4577
    @lauracorbett4577 8 місяців тому

    Why did your family hate the Turntable song

  • @lauracorbett4577
    @lauracorbett4577 8 місяців тому

    I rate Something In The Wind 5 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐because it's one of Deanna's best films

  • @christinecatt8039
    @christinecatt8039 8 місяців тому

    What a fake, phony woman narrating this video. She thoroughly ruined it for me...ugh. !!!.

  • @SusieQSydney
    @SusieQSydney 9 місяців тому

    Yep thing god for pirating - I would buy the record if I could find but never did!

  • @esmeephillips5888
    @esmeephillips5888 9 місяців тому

    The film contributed to the resurgence of interest in Gershwin as a 'serious' composer which led to the early-1950s restaging of 'Porgy and Bess' and began to cement his place as America's greatest composer. As George's buddy, Levant's participation playing the Piano Concerto helped the cause. Despite all the art and craft of the concluding ballet, for me the high spot is 'Stairway to Paradise' with Georges Guetary. Kelly coached this non-hoofer to a display of ridiculous, magnificent flamboyance, and Minnelli wrapped it in razzmatazz.

  • @esmeephillips5888
    @esmeephillips5888 9 місяців тому

    Keel and Grayson were Louis B Mayer's replacements for Eddy and Macdonald, but by the early 1950s audiences were getting tired of the operetta-ish tunefulness LB adored. Nor were new trends in jazz such as bebop amenable to song-and-dance movies. Rogers & Hammerstein's dramatically rich musicals were hot on Broadway, but not yet on screen. Grayson and Keel were adequate actors and could have fitted into that kind of story picture, but nobody was yet writing them for the big screen; Loesser and Loewe, Kander and Ebb and the Sherman brothers had not yet clicked. And neither Keel nor Grayson were hoofers. Clearly their short-term futures lay on the boards, not in front of cameras, even 3D ones.

  • @esmeephillips5888
    @esmeephillips5888 9 місяців тому

    One of Evelyn Waugh's favorite movies.

  • @esmeephillips5888
    @esmeephillips5888 9 місяців тому

    'Make 'Em Laugh' was not the only case of 'inspired by' in SITR. The title tune's solo dance by Kelly owes an awful lot to Eleanor Powell's 'I'm Feeling Like a Million' in 'Broadway Melody of 1938'. Both that and 'Be a Clown' were written by Cole Porter. To my mind Powell's rainy duet with George Murphy is better.

  • @jettqk1
    @jettqk1 9 місяців тому

    I've been thinking about this film a lot lately, with concerns about AI taking jobs--and AI defenders saying it'll free up workers' time by doing the research for them.

  • @truekaliban4674
    @truekaliban4674 9 місяців тому

    Having lived this experience with my parents, in the summer of 1961, I can attest that this great flick represents the BEST CASE SCENARIO of breaking ground for a new dwelling. Between May 30th and September 12 of that year, we somehow managed the feat, though our digs ended up being far less impressive. My most vivid memory of that season is of the 93 timber rattlers that we had to send to Glory, in the process; an average of 3 per day. And, yes, I can believe the 47 year old dishwasher. My fridge is currently 86 years old and still runs like a champ. She's a sweet little 1937 Hotpoint. 'Built like a Sherman tank!

  • @truekaliban4674
    @truekaliban4674 9 місяців тому

    I saw this flick at The Stanford, about 18 years ago. I almost got myself and the friend I was with 86ed, because I could not stop chuckling and at some points, guffawing at what was on the screen. I recognized literally every character, in it. Holden was exactly like my closest friend, who, sadly passed way too young. He was the same kind of rough and tumble, live by his wits good guy who was, simultaneously, rock solid and adrift. The friend he came to see was cut from the same cloth as the pal who brought me to see the film. At the time, I was struggling through a rocky and ill advised engagement at the time and the dynamic between Russell and her man was exactly the same as ours; right down to the guys' balking at the life changes that marriage would have imposed upon him. I later showed the movie to my then intended, thinking that she'd be as amused by it as I, which turned out to not be the case. So, my being exposed to this movie may well have saved me from making a terrible, life altering mistake. Who knows. Lastly, the Kansas setting took me back to the best days of my own rural youth, which, unfortunately, happened a decade or so after the films' release, when that wonderful era was already passing into history. To this day, I wish that I'd come along ten or fifteen years earlier than I did. America has lost so much, in the past half century or so. 'A damned shame.

  • @ColonelFredPuntridge
    @ColonelFredPuntridge 10 місяців тому

    A very nice review of perhaps the greatest comedy movie ever made. I was surprised that you didn’t mention two names: Miles Mallison, and Mozart (yes, _that_ Mozart). Mallison is the actor who plays the hangman, with the double chin and the bad poetry. He was a very famous, very busy character actor, who also played in The Importance of Being Earnest (the movie, which also includes Joan Greenwood) and several of the 1970s Hammer horror movies with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. Mozart composed the aria which Mazzini’s father sings; the tune occurs also at other moments in the movie. It’s also worth mentioning it in the original novel, ISRAEL RANK, the protagonist’s mother gets disinherited for running off with a Jew, not an Italian singer.

  • @lisabruce7381
    @lisabruce7381 10 місяців тому

    10out of 10. YES!!!

  • @lisabruce7381
    @lisabruce7381 10 місяців тому

    I'd score it an 8.5!! SO many funny scenes.

  • @markr.devereux3385
    @markr.devereux3385 10 місяців тому

    Good film saw it at the local theater in 1960. This is when movies were seen as cultural events

  • @lauracorbett4577
    @lauracorbett4577 10 місяців тому

    When I was a teenager I basically fell in love with the Sweetheart pack before Something In The Wind became my favorite film of hers plus my other favorites are Can't Help Singing It Started With Eve First Love Lady On A Train Mad About Music His Butler's Sister I'll Be Yours Because Of Him

  • @jameseaton9746
    @jameseaton9746 10 місяців тому

    Max tore up the screen with his music

  • @gracielalaplace9090
    @gracielalaplace9090 11 місяців тому

    Tampoco lo traducen al español, que lástima.

  • @spiritofanu3112
    @spiritofanu3112 11 місяців тому

    Does anyone know where I can stream this movie?

  • @kittykitty435
    @kittykitty435 11 місяців тому

    $12,500 for that house? In the midwest In 1972, a 3 bed, 1 bath home without a garage cost that!

  • @jeffreycone7504
    @jeffreycone7504 11 місяців тому

    I love this movie. Ritght up there with Fatal Attraction.

  • @francescaderimini4422
    @francescaderimini4422 11 місяців тому

    I was a tottler when I experienced this film with my parents and grandmother. I remember screaming out “The Lady the Lady” and crying my eyes out! Of course we had to leave a remember being held by my Grandmother leaving the theater with a woman stroking my arm because I was so upset! Turned out later on in life my friends family went through the same with their younger siblings!

  • @twc3546
    @twc3546 11 місяців тому

    My favorite movie house. Living there would by blissful

  • @shelleywantiez7964
    @shelleywantiez7964 11 місяців тому

    Deanna Durbin and Donald O'Connor we're paired excellently for this film. They were a perfect dynamic duo. Ironically, in real life each of them saved a movie studio from bankrupsy. Donald O'Connor, twice. This movie is absolutely fantastic. Deanna Durbin looks positively beautiful. She also has a set of pipes like none other.

    • @lauracorbett4577
      @lauracorbett4577 7 місяців тому

      @shelleywantiez7964 This is one of my favorite Deanna Durbin movies I love it so much I love the story line I love Deanna Durbin I love the songs Happy Go Lucky And Free Something In The Wind You Wanna Keep Your Baby Lookin Right and It’s Only Love

  • @Marcel_Audubon
    @Marcel_Audubon 11 місяців тому

    🎶 "each bassoon, having it's big fat say!" 🎶

  • @aresee8208
    @aresee8208 Рік тому

    I'd like to put in a good word for Barbara Cook, who played the original Marian on Broadway. You can hear her sing, of course, on the original Broadway cast album. She won a Tony for The Music Man.