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Angela Lansbury, James Earl Jones in Driving Miss Daisy!
Flash! Angela Lansbury - Tony-, Oscar-, and Golden Globe- winning actress - will appear onstage inDriving Miss Daisyin Australia! Opening night is February 3rd. The play runs until the end of May and...
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February Blogathons
Fabulous Films of the 1940s Blogathon Entry Deadline: Feb 8th [CMBA Members Only]Dates: Feb 17th- Feb 2, 2013Host :Classic Movie Blog AssociationWeblink:...
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Java's Fabulous '40s Marathon
The Classic Movie Blog Association is hosting its first blogathon of the year -The Fabulous 1940s, in which its members review movies from the 1940s from Feb 17th to Feb 22nd. Java's Journey is...
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Where There's Life (1947) - A Bob Hope Post-War Comedy
Not many heros play the damsel in distress in their own films, but Bob Hope often does. When it's not Bing Crosby getting Hope out of scrapes, the leading lady must save his bacon.In Where There's Life...
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Neptune's Daughter (1949) - Musical with Esther Williams and Ricardo Montalban
It's the U. S. after World War II. Rationing has lessened, there is an influx of returning veterans, private enterprise is pushed, the war has brought advancements in technology which are being used...
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Lydia (1941) - Costume Drama with Merle Oberon and Joseph Cotten
Each decade enjoys nostalgic costume movies - usually with ladies in corsets and bustles. The war-torn years of the 1940s seem especially keen on remembering yesteryear.EnterLydia (1941) in which a...
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The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)- A Betty Hutton Wartime Comedy
This is one of the best comedies ever made! In trying to under gird my argument, I ran up against that old saying about comedy attributed to E.B. White – Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few...
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Lured (1947) - Crime Thriller with Lucille Ball
This post was previously published on Java's Journey and is today resurrected for Java's Fabulous '40s marathon on Thriller Thursday.What a wonderful mystery! It does not succumb to the tried and true,...
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Love Crazy (1941) - Myrna Loy and William Powell Comedy
Innocent of the charge of infidelity, a husband tries everything to prevent divorce, including pleading insanity and pretending to be his own aunt. Love Crazy (1941) is a William Powell/ Myrna Loy...
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DuBarry Was a Lady (1943)- Musical with Lucille Ball, Gene Kelly and Red Skelton
Cole Porter's big hit DuBarry Was A Lady ranon Broadway from 1939 to 1940 in over 400 performances. It starred Bert Lahr as a washroom attendant who dreams that a nightclub singer that he loves (Ethel...
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Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) - Drama with Joan Fontaine and Louis Jourdan
This costume drama’s even tone and subtle aging is better than that ofLydia (1941).Last week we discovered that the Merle Oberon drama of a woman retelling stories from her youth in flashback has a...
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Miss London Limited (1943) - Wartime Comedy with Arthur Askey
Providing an escort service for military personnel, comedy star Arthur Askey is up to his usual antics in this wartime London romp.The last time Java's Journey saw Askey he was running away from a...
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15 Classic Movies for Valentine's Day
Amor with old movies... What more could you want? Here at Java's Journey, we've updated last year's list of films for Valentine's Day and organized it by category for you to put into your...
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Leave Her to Heaven (1945) - Thriller with Gene Tierney
What a movie to review on Valentine's Day! A woman becomes outrageously possessive of her husband to the point of murder. Yes, the wife (Gene Tierney) cannot stand guests or relatives taking up her...
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Tell It to the Judge (1949)- Comedy with Rosalind Russell
Movies are rife with spatting spouses. Here, both of them are lawyers. In Tell It to the Judge (1949), a woman (Rosalind Russell) accepts an appointment to a federal bench; her ex-husband (Bob...
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CMBA Blogathon- Fabulous 1940s - A Letter to Three Wives (1949) is Eve's Warm Up
While Gene Kelly leaped around New York,while Olivia DeHavilland melted into Monty Clift’s embrace, and while Katharine Hepburn jabbed Spencer Tracy in the rib, Joseph Mankiewicz geared up for the...
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On The Town (1949) and Musical Noir
On the Town (1949) follows three sailors on 24-hour leave. It's just a feel-good Gene Kelly-Comden and Green musical and nothing more. Or is it?Raymond De Felitta praises a different Comden and Green...
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Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942)
Drama TuesdaySon of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942) (or That Movie in Which Roddy McDowall Turns Into Tyrone Power and Becomes an Irredeemable Cad)Hear me out. This is a film about a man...
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Pin Up Girl (1944) with Betty Grable
Wartime WednesdayPin Up Girl (1944) is the movie where alluring movie star Betty Grable makes like Clark Kent and becomes unrecognizable in glasses.Missouri canteen "it" girl, Lorry (Grable) wants to...
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Cottage to Let (1941) - British Thriller with Humor
Thriller ThursdayCottage to Let (1941) follows an eccentric inventor and his wife who rent out property in the English countryside during the blitz. Many interested parties arrive. The movie...
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