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Funny, playful 1941 comedy – “Nothing But the Truth” – with Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard

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This was made during Bob Hope’s best period, and this fun, playful comedy has Bob committing to tell the truth for 24 hours – or lose $10,000. Paulette Goddard is the romantic interest, and their chemistry again works in this, their third film together.

The Can’t-tell-a-lie premise is a reliable comedy hook – whether for Jim Carrey’s in “Liar, Liar” or Lucy Ricardo on “I Love Lucy.”

Paramount again supported Bob with a strong supporting cast, including Willie Best, Edward Arnold, and Leif Ericson.

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Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943) – Hattie McDaniel & Willie Best – Ice Cold Katie

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Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943) – Hattie McDaniel & Willie Best – Ice Cold Katie
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Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
Directed By David Butler ⋅ 1943 ⋅ 126 min

When would-be producers Dr. Schlenna (S.Z. Sakall) and Farnsworth (Edward Everett Horton) want to sign Dinah Shore (Herself) to perform in their war effort fundraiser extravaganza, they are forced to deal with Miss Shore’s problematic bandleader boss, Eddie Cantor (Himself). Enter a wannabe star who looks like a twin of Eddie Cantor (also Eddie Cantor), a band of Hollywood Indians and dozens of stars out to and entertain the GIs and fun is had by everyone, including the celebrities on stage.

Starring Humphrey Bogart, Eddie Cantor, Bette Davis, Hattie McDaniel, Errol Flynn

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The Trials of Oscar Wilde 1960 Peter Finch

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The Trials of Oscar Wilde also known as The Man with the Green Carnation and The Green Carnation, is a 1960 British film based on the libel and subsequent criminal cases involving Oscar Wilde and the Marquess of Queensberry. It was written by Allen and Ken Hughes, directed by Hughes, and co-produced by Irving Allen, Albert R. Broccoli and Harold Huth. The screenplay was by Ken Hughes and Montgomery Hyde, based on the play The Stringed Lute by John Furnell. The film was made by Warwick Films and released by United Artists.

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It stars Peter Finch as Wilde, Lionel Jeffries as Queensberry, and John Fraser as Bosie (Lord Alfred Douglas) with James Mason, Nigel Patrick, Yvonne Mitchell, Maxine Audley, Paul Rogers and James Booth.

The film won the Golden Globe Award for Best English-Language Foreign Film. Peter Finch won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and the film also received four other BAFTA nominations including Best British Film, Best Film from any source and for John Fraser as Best British Actor. Peter Finch (tied with Bambang Hermanto) also received the Best Actor Award at the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival

In his review of the film, Bosley Crowther wrote: “Mr. Wilde himself could not have expected his rare personality or his unfortunate encounters with British justice on a morals charge to have been more sympathetically or affectingly dramatized. In comparison to that other British picture about the same subject that opened [in New York City] last week, this one is more impressive in every respect, save one.”[4] Crowther concludes the review saying “The only thing is you wonder if this is a fairly true account, if Mr. Wilde was as noble and heroic as he is made to appear. And if he was, what was he doing with those cheap and shady young men? It looks to us as if they are trying to whitewash a most unpleasant case, which is one of the more notorious and less ennobling in literary history.”[4]

Variety magazine, commenting on the performances, said “Peter Finch gives a moving and subtle performance as the ill-starred playwright. Before his downfall he gives the man the charm that he undoubtedly had….John Fraser as handsome young Lord Alfred Douglas is suitably vain, selfish, vindictive and petulant and the relationship between the two is more understandable. Where Trials suffers in comparison with the B&W film is in the remarkable impact of the libel case court sequence. James Mason never provides the strength and bitter logic necessary for the dramatic cut-and-thrust when Wilde is in the witness box

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TILL THE CLOUDS ROLL BY(with Trivia) June Allyson Judy Garland Lena Horne Esther Williams 1946 Color

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