After Everything
As long as the focus is on Mia and Elliot, the film is involving and moving.
Joan Leslie
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Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
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Mary Cohan
Roger Ebert
* This filmography is not intended to be a comprehensive list of this artist’s work. Instead it reflects the films this person has been involved with that have been reviewed on this site.
The Woman Trapped: The Lens of Ida Lupino
The legendary actress fought to break the bonds the studio system placed upon her.
The helpful Robert Benchley
Once long ago, when theaters were not so obsessed with turning over their audiences, a feature film might be accompanied by a cartoon, a newsreel, and a Selected Short Subject.
The short might be a Robert Benchley lecture. At the time such shorts were enormously popular; a little murmur of anticipation might run through the audience. In Benchley's case they fit nicely with his writing career for The New Yorker.
Benchley became so popular that he sometimes made guest appearances in featur films, sich as "The Sky's the Limit" (1943) with Fred Astaire and Joan Leslie:
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