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Subgenre Sampler
Eternel Retour, L' (1942)- Dir. Jean Delannoy
Feat. Jean Marais, Madeleine Sologney, Yvonne de Bray… - (Love Eternal) A contemporary take on the legend of Tristan and Isolde, lovers united after death. Jean Cocteau's script is realised with the…
Major and the Minor, The (1942)
- Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Rita Johnson… - Billy Wilder’s first film is a dexterous screwball gem: the delectable Ginger Rogers plays a spunky woman posing as a child so she can afford a…
Now, Voyager (1942)- Dir. Irving Rapper
Feat. Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Paul Henreid - Compelling story of unrequited passion with Bette Davis radiant as the repressed spinster turned elegant socialite who falls in love with a married…
Ball of Fire (1941)- Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper, Dana Andrews…
- Screwball comedy with Gary Cooper playing a professor working hard on a new encyclopedia with his colleagues, who meets a nightclub performer…
Blood and Sand (1941)- Dir. Rouben Mamoulian
Feat. Tyrone Power, Rita Hayworth - Steamy romantic tragedy with Tyrone Power as an accomplished but naive matador whose bull–ring heroics take a back–seat for brazen Rita…
Bride Came C.O.D., The (1941)- Dir. William Keighley
Feat. James Cagney, Bette Davis, Stuart Erwin… - Slapstick rom–com with Cagney as cash–strapped charter pilot who is hired to kidnap a tycoon's daughter to prevent her marrying a vapid…
- Devil and Miss Jones, The (1941)
- Dir. Sam Wood
Feat. Charles Coburn, Jean Arthur - Tycoon Charles Coburn goes undercover to investigate union activities, and instead falls for shopgirl Jean Arthur. Well–regarded social comedy.
Lady Eve, The (1941)
- Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn… - One of the greatest Hollywood screwball comedies ever, this begins with naïve zoologist Henry Fonda (“Snakes are my life”) falling in love with…
Lydia (Illusions) (1941)- Dir. Julien Duvivier
Feat. Merle Oberon, Joseph Cotton, Alan Marshall… - Dreamy, melancholic melodrama follows the life and numerous loves of a society gal (Oberron) in New England over thirty odd years. Dir. Duvivier…
- Moon Over Miami (1941)
- Dir. Walter Lang
Feat. Betty Grable, Don Ameche, Robert Cummings - One of Betty Grable's better musical outings, it's a bright and breezy story of two sisters who attempt to ensnare a pair of Miami millionaires when…
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