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Scroogeis a 1935 BritishChristmasfantasy filmdirected byHenry Edwardsand starringSeymour Hicks,Donald Calthropand Robert Cochran. Hicks appears asEbenezer Scrooge, the miser who hates Christmas. It was the first sound version of theCharles DickensclassicA Christmas Carol, not counting a 1928short subjectthat now appears to be lost. Hicks had previously played the role of Scrooge on the stage more than 2000 times beginning in 1901, and again in a 1913 Britishsilent film version.This was the first film to be released by theTwickenham Film Distributors, Ltd., founded byJulius Hagenand Arthur Clavering. Hagen acted as producer for the new company, with Clavering handling film distribution. Stylistically it leans heavily towardsGerman Expressionismand the films ofFritz Lang, involving dark shadows and darkened edges. The script sticks very closely to Dickens' words. There is a colorized version that omits the opening scene in which Scrooge is solicited for a charitable donation. Plot: It isChristmas Eveof 1843:Ebenezer Scrooge(Sir Seymour Hicks), a cold-hearted and greedy elderly money-lender, is working in his freezing counting house along with his suffering, underpaid clerkBob Cratchit(Donald Calthrop). Two businessmen (Charles CarsonandHubert Harben) arrive to collect a donation for the poor, but the old man responds that prisons and workhouses are sufficient resources to deal with poor people. Scrooge catches Bob trying to take some coal but warns him he will be out of a job if he does not go back to work. A visit from Fred (Robert Cochran), Scrooge's nephew and sole living relative, only incites further annoyance, with Scrooge refusing to dine with him and his wife, and claiming Christmas is 'Humbug!'. That night after work, Bob goes home to celebrate the holidays with his family while Scrooge dines alone at a seedy pub while the lords and ladies of London celebrate Christmas with the Lord Mayor of London. At home, Scrooge encounters the ghost of his seven-year dead partnerJacob Marley(Claude Rains– whose voice is only heard) who wears a chain he 'forged in life' from his own wicked career. He tells Scrooge he will be haunted by three spirits in order to escape his fate. That night, as Marley warned, Scrooge is haunted by theGhost of Christmas Past(Marie Ney), who shows Scrooge when he lost his fiancée due to his greedy nature towards others including a debt-ridden couple. Scrooge then sees that his ex-fiancée Belle (Mary Glynne) is now married and has many children. The next sprit, theGhost of Christmas Present(Oscar Asche), shows Scrooge just how poor Bob and his family are as they have a meagre Christmas dinner of goose and pudding. The spirit threatens that unless the future changes,Tiny Tim(Philip Frost), the youngest son, who is ill, will die. Scrooge then sees how others keep Christmas before seeing Fred celebrate with his wife and friends. TheGhost of Christmas Yet to Come(C.V. France) shows Scrooge what lies in store the following year. Scrooge discovers Tim is dead and that the man that was robbed and spoken of by some businessmen was himself after seeing his grave. Scrooge returns a changed and generous person. He orders a turkey for Bob and his family, gives a healthy donation to the two men from the day before and dines with Fred. Scrooge raises Bob's wages and gives him the day off, telling him that he will be a godfather to Tim before the two attend church together. The congregation singHark! The Herald Angels Singas they enter Source - Wikipedia #VintageLiteratureMovies #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ClassicDramaMovie Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

Our Townis a 1940 Americandramaromance filmadaptation of aplay of the same namebyThornton WilderstarringMartha Scottas Emily Webb, andWilliam Holdenas George Gibbs. The cast also includedFay Bainter,Beulah Bondi,Thomas Mitchell,Guy KibbeeandFrank Craven. It was adapted byHarry Chandlee, Craven and Wilder, and directed bySam Wood. The film was a faithful reproduction of the play except for two significant changes: the film used scenery, whereas the play had not; the events of the third act, which in the play revolve around the death of one of the main characters, were turned into a dream from which she awakens, allowing her to resume a normal life. ProducerSol Lesserworked with Wilder in creating these changes. Wilder wrote producer Sol Lesser that "Emily should live.... In a movie you see the people so close "to" that a different relation is established. In the theater, they are halfway abstractions in an allegory, in the movie they are very concrete.... It is disproportionately cruel that she die. Let her live...." A radio adaptation of the film onLux Radio Theateron May 6, 1940, used the altered film ending. The U.S. copyright of the film was not renewed after its first term expired in 1968. Plot: The residents of the small town of Grover’s Corners in New Hampshire live peacefully and in harmony. Dr. Gibbs, his wife Julie, and their two children George and Rebecca are the neighbors of the Webbs, who have a lovely daughter, Emily. George and Emily fall in love and after three years of courting they get married. Time goes by and Emily becomes very sick with the birth of her second child. While she is dying, she meets all the people who have left this world in the years before. Emily, who remains in a kind of in-between world, remembers her previous life, but in the end the young woman decides to live and she wakes up from her dream. Source - Wikipedia #VintageLiteratureMovies #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ClassicDramaMovie Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

Oliver Twistis a 1933 Americanpre-Codedrama filmdirected by William J. Cowen. The earliest sound adaptation ofCharles Dickens's 1838novel of the same name, it starsDickie Mooreas Oliver,Irving Pichelas Fagin,Doris Lloydas Nancy, andWilliam "Stage" Boydas Bill Sikes. Released byMonogram Pictures, the film was made on an extremely low budget. The film never really achieved much success and was out of circulation for many years, but resurfaced on television in the 1980s. Plot: Interspersed with segments of Dickens' novel comes the story of an orphan boy in 1830s London, who is abused in a workhouse, then falls into the clutches of a gang of thieves. Source - Wikipedia #VintageLiteratureMovies #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ClassicDramaMovie Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

The Little Princessis a 1939 Americandrama filmdirected byWalter Lang. The screenplay by Ethel Hill and Walter Ferris is loosely based on the 1905 novelA Little PrincessbyFrances Hodgson Burnett. The film was the firstShirley Templemovie to be filmed completely inTechnicolor.It was also her last major success as a child star. Although it maintained the novel's Victorian London setting, the film introduced several new characters and storylines and used theSecond Boer Warand thesiege of Mafekingas a backdrop to the action. Temple andArthur Treacherhad a musical number together, performing the song "Knocked 'Em in the Old Kent Road". Temple also appeared in an extended ballet sequence. The film's ending was drastically different from the book. In 1968, the film entered thepublic domain in the United Statesbecause the claimants did not renew itscopyright registrationin the 28th year after publication. Plot: Captain Crewe, called to fight in theSecond Boer War, has to leave his daughter Sara (Shirley Temple) with her pony at Miss Minchin's School for Girls. With all the money Captain Crewe can offer, Miss Minchin gives Sara a fancy, private room. Although worried about her father, Sara is distracted by riding lessons. It is during these riding lessons that Sara helps contrive meetings between Miss Rose, her teacher, and Mr. Geoffrey, the riding instructor, who is also the grandson of the mean-spirited next door neighbor, Lord Wickham. Sara hears news thatMafekingis free and expects her father will soon come home. Miss Minchin throws Sara a lavish birthday party. During the party, Captain Crewe's solicitor arrives with the sad news that Captain Crewe has died and his real estate, the basis for his wealth, has been confiscated. Miss Minchin ends Sara's party abruptly. Without her father's financial support, Sara becomes a servant, now working at the school she used to attend. Sara gains new solace in a friendship with Ram Dass, Lord Wickham's servant. She also receives support from Miss Minchin's brother Bertie, who does not agree with her treatment. Miss Rose and Mr. Geoffrey are found out and fired. Geoffrey joins the military. In her new role, Sara gets hungrier and more tired from her arduous duties and sneaks off to veterans' hospitals, convinced her father is not dead. After a string of episodes, including a performance of the film's most well-known song "Knocked 'em in the Old Kent Road", Sara is at her wits end. Things start to worsen, when Sara gets into an argument with Miss Minchin, who cannot tolerate her faith in believing her father is still alive and tries forcing her to face reality. She later receives taunting from Lavinia the next day, eventually causing her to lose her temper and dump ashes on her. Miss Minchin arrives in the attic to punish Sara for "hurting" Lavinia. She discovers blankets that Ram Dass left Sara, assumes they are stolen, and locks her in the attic, calling the police. Sara escapes and runs to the hospital with Minchin in hot pursuit. Meanwhile, the hospital is preparing to transfer a newly arrived unknown patient, who is unable to communicate except to repeatedly say, "Sara, Sara"; it is Captain Crewe. Sara bursts in upon a visit by Queen Victoria, who grants her permission to search for her father. During her search, she is reunited with a wounded Mr. Geoffrey and Miss Rose. Hiding from Miss Minchin and the police, she happens upon her father. A staff member announces Sara has found her father, and Miss Minchin exclaims: "Captain Crewe is alive?!" to which her brother retorts, "Of course he's alive! How could she find him if he wasn't alive?" The film ends with Sara helping her father stand as the Queen departs. Source - Wikipedia #VintageLiteratureMovies #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ClassicDramaMovie Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

Little Men(1940) is an American film based on the novelLittle Men(1871) byLouisa May Alcott.Norman Z. McLeoddirected the film. It is the second sequel toLittle Women (1933 film)afterLittle Men (1934 film) Plot: Jo March (Kay Francis), the lead character in Alcott's novelLittle Women, now runs a private school for young boys. Source - Wikipedia #VintageLiteratureMovies #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ClassicDramaMovie Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

Little Lord Fauntleroyis a 1936drama filmbased on the 1886novel of the same namebyFrances Hodgson Burnett. The film starsFreddie Bartholomew,Dolores Costello, andC.Aubrey Smith. The first film produced byDavid O. Selznick'sSelznick International Pictures, it was the studio's most profitable film untilGone with the Wind. The film is directed byJohn Cromwell. The film was critically well received and is now in thepublic domainIn 2012 it was released onBlu-ray DiscbyKino Lorber, following a restoration by theGeorge Eastman HouseMotion Picture Department. Plot: Young Cedric "Ceddie" Errol (Freddie Bartholomew) and his widowed mother, whom he calls "Dearest" (Dolores Costello), live frugally in 1880sBrooklynafter the death of his father. Cedric's prejudiced English grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt (C.Aubrey Smith), had long ago disowned his son for marrying an American. The earl sends his lawyer Havisham (Henry Stephenson) to bring Ceddie to England. As the earl's sons are all dead, Ceddie is the only remaining heir to the title. Mrs.Errol accompanies her son to England, but is not allowed to live at Dorincourt castle. For Cedric's happiness, she does not tell him it is because of his grandfather's bigotry. The earl's lawyer is impressed with the young widow's wisdom. However, the earl expresses skepticism when Mr.Havisham informs him that Cedric's mother will not accept an allowance from him. Cedric soon wins the hearts of his stern grandfather and everyone else. The earl hosts a grand party to proudly introduce his grandson to British society, notably his sister Lady Constantia Lorridaile (Constance Collier). After the party, Havisham informs the earl that Cedric is not the heir apparent after all. American Minna Tipton (Helen Flint) insists her son Tom (Jackie Searl) is the offspring of her late husband, the earl's eldest son. Heartbroken, the earl accepts her apparently valid claim, though Tom proves to be a rather obnoxious lad. Ceddie's friend Dick Tipton (Mickey Rooney) recognises Minna from her newspaper picture. He takes his brother Ben, Tom's real father, to England and disproves Minna's claim. The earl apologises to Ceddie's mother and invites her to live with the delighted Ceddie on his estate. Source - Wikipedia #VintageLiteratureMovies #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ClassicDramaMovie Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

Jane Eyreis a 1970 Britishtelevision filmdirected byDelbert Mann, starringGeorge C. ScottandSusannah York. It is based on the 1847 novelJane EyrebyCharlotte Brontë. The film had its theatrical debut in the United Kingdom in 1970 and was released on television in the United States in 1971. Plot: Jane Eyre is an orphan, who is raised by her abusive aunt and cousins until she is sent to the cruel school institution of Lowood School. Her best friend, who had a severe cough, was forced to stand outside in the rain and died the next day. On leaving, Jane takes a position as governess to a girl named Adele at Thornfield Hall. Fully aware of her low rank and plain countenance, she makes the best of her situation. But Thornfield holds many secrets and despite mysterious occurrences that Jane cannot comprehend, she and Edward Rochester, owner of Thornfield and Adele's guardian, fall in love. Suddenly, when Jane is about to win the happiness she deserves, a dark secret comes to light which needs all her courage, love and maturity. Source - Wikipedia #VintageLiteratureMovies #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ClassicDramaMovie Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

A Farewell to Armsis a 1932 Americanpre-Coderomance drama film directed byFrank Borzageand starringHelen Hayes,Gary Cooper, andAdolphe Menjou.Based on the 1929semi-autobiographical novelA Farewell to ArmsbyErnest Hemingway, with a screenplay byOliver H. P. GarrettandBenjamin Glazer, the film is about a tragic romantic love affair between an American ambulance driver and an English nurse in Italy during World War I. The film received Academy Awards for Best Cinematography and Best Sound, and was nominated for Best Picture and Best Art Direction. In 1960, the film entered thepublic domain in the United Statesbecause the last claimant,United Artists, did not renew itscopyright registrationin the 28th year after publication. The original Broadway play starredGlenn AndersandElissa Landi. Plot: This is the plot of the original 1932 film, as it recently aired on Turner Classic Movies. The film suffered from editing and censorship even at its initial release. (See below.) On theItalian frontduring World War I, Lieutenant Frederic Henry (Gary Cooper), an American architect serving as an officer on an ambulance in theItalian Army, delivers some wounded soldiers to a hospital. While out carousing with his friend, Italian Captain Rinaldi (Adolphe Menjou), they are interrupted by a bombing raid. Frederic and EnglishRed Crossnurse Catherine Barkley (Helen Hayes), who fled from the nurses’ dormitory in her nightclothes, take shelter in the same dark stairwell. The somewhat drunk Frederic makes a poor first impression. Rinaldi persuades Frederic to go on a double date with him and two nurses, who turn out to be Catherine and her friend Helen Ferguson (Mary Philips), or "Fergie". During a concert for officers and nurses, Frederic and Catherine walk into the garden, and Catherine reveals that she had been engaged for eight years to a soldier who was killed in battle. Away by themselves, he tries to kiss her and she slaps him, but after they talk more, she asks him to kiss her again. In the darkness, he romantically seduces her, over her resistance, and is taken aback and touched to discover she was a virgin. Frederic tells her he loves her. In the morning, three ambulances, including Frederic's, are leaving for what will be known as theSecond Battle of the Piave River. Frederic finds Catherine and tells her that he will be away and that he wants her to know that what happened between them was important to him, and that he will survive the battle unscathed. Catherine gives him the St. Anthony medal she wears around her neck. Rinaldi observes all of this, and then enters a major's office where it is revealed that Rinaldi had orchestrated the separation to prevent Frederic from being with Catherine. The head nurse then suggests sending Catherine back to base, but instead, the Major (Gilbert Emery) transfers Catherine toMilan. At the front, Frederic is badly wounded in the legs and head when an artillery shell blows up his bunker. Frederic is sent to the hospital in Milan where he receives a chilly reception from Fergie while Catherine rushes to his bed to embrace him. Later that night, an Italian Army chaplain (Jack La Rue) known as "Padre" visits Frederic and sees that he and Catherine are lovers. He asks if they would marry if they could, and they answer "yes". He then performs an unofficial wedding service for the couple. Months later, Catherine and Frederic ask Fergie for their wedding, who rejects the offer saying they won't marry due to the war. As she leaves, she warns Frederic that if he gets Catherine pregnant, she will kill him. Back at the hospital, Frederic is told his convalescent leave is canceled. While waiting for his train, Catherine confides to Frederic that she is scared of each of them dying. He promises he will always come back, and they kiss before he leaves. Catherine then meets with Fergie and reveals to her that she is pregnant and is going to Switzerland to have the child. Source - Wikipedia #VintageRomanceMovies #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ClassicDramaMovie Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

Cyrano de Bergeracis a 1950 Americanadventure comedy filmbased on the 1897FrenchAlexandrinverse dramaCyrano de BergeracbyEdmond Rostand. It uses poetBrian Hooker's 1923Englishblank versetranslation as the basis for its screenplay.The film was the first motion picture version in English of Rostand's play, though there were several earlier adaptations in different languages. The 1950 film was produced byStanley Kramerand directed byMichael Gordon.José Ferrerreceived theAcademy Award for Best Actorfor his starring performance asCyrano de Bergerac.Mala Powersplayed Roxane, andWilliam Princeportrayed Christian de Neuvillette. The film lapsed into thepublic domainin the mid-1980s. Plot: In seventeenth-centuryParis, poet and supreme swordsmanCyrano de Bergerac(José Ferrer) stops a play from being shown because he ostensibly cannot stand the bombastic style of the principal actor, Montfleury (Arthur Blake). An annoyed aristocratic fop, the Vicomte de Valvert (Albert Cavens), provokes him into aduelby tritely insulting Cyrano's enormous nose. Cyrano first mocks his lack of wit, improvising numerous inventive ways in which Valvert could have phrased it (much to the amusement of the audience). He then composes aballadefor the occasion on the spot and recites it during the sword fight. With the last line, he stabs his opponent. Cyrano's friend Le Bret (Morris Carnovsky), Captain of the Gascony guards, warns him he has made powerful enemies of his victim's friends, but he is unconcerned. When Le Bret presses him to reveal the real reason he hates Montfleury, Cyrano admits that he became jealous when he saw the actor smiling at his beautiful cousin Roxane (Mala Powers). He confesses that he is in love with her, but harbors no hope of it being returned because of his nose. When he receives a request from Roxane to see her in the morning, he is finally emboldened to act. Then pastry chef and fellow poet Ragueneau (Lloyd Corrigan) approaches him for help. Ragueneau has learned that a nobleman he had mocked with his verses, the Comte De Guiche (Ralph Clanton), has hired a hundred ruffians to teach him a lesson. Cyrano escorts him, kills eight of the horde, and drives off the rest. The next day, before he can tell Roxane of his feelings, she informs him that she has fallen in love with a handsome guardsman, Christian de Neuvillette (William Prince), though she has not even spoken to him. Cyrano hides his devastation and agrees to help her. Cyrano befriends the young man, who is in Cyrano's guardsmen unit, and discovers that he is infatuated with Roxane, but is too inept with words to woo her. To help him, Cyrano composes Christian's love letters to Roxane, which she finds irresistible. Later, Christian decides he wants no more help and tries to speak to Roxane face to face, but fails miserably and she re-enters her house in an angry huff. Cyrano, hiding in the bushes, comes to his rescue, but this time by imitating Christian's voice and speaking to Roxane from under her balcony. He is so eloquent that he (unintentionally) wins a kiss for Christian from Roxane. When the arrogant Comte De Guiche, who is also wooing Roxane, pressures her to marry him, Cyrano delays him long enough for her to wed Christian instead. Furious, De Guiche, Christian's commander, orders him to join his unit immediately for a war against the Spanish, preventing the couple from spending their wedding night together. Source - Wikipedia #VintageRomanceMovies #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ClassicDramaMovie Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

Becky Sharpis a 1935 American historical drama film directed byRouben Mamoulianand starringMiriam Hopkinswho was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar. Other supporting cast wereWilliam Faversham,Frances Dee,Cedric Hardwicke,Billie Burke,Alison Skipworth,Nigel Bruce, andAlan Mowbray. The film is based on the 1899 play of the same name byLangdon Mitchell, which in turn was based onWilliam Makepeace Thackeray's 1848 novelVanity Fair. The play was made famous in the late 1890s by actressMinnie Maddern Fiske. The screenplay was written byFrancis Edward Faragoh. The film was considered a landmark in cinema asthe firstfeature film to use the newly developed three-stripTechnicolorproduction throughout, opening the way for a growing number ofcolor filmsto be made in Britain and the United States in the years leading up to World War II. In 2019, the film was selected by theLibrary of Congressfor preservation in the United StatesNational Film Registryfor being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The film recounts the tale of a lower-class girl who insinuates herself into an upper-class family, only to see her life and the lives of those around her destroyed Plot: Becky Sharp(Miriam Hopkins), a socially ambitious young lady, manages to survive during the background years ofNapoleon's defeat atWaterloo. Becky gradually climbs the British social ladder, overcoming poverty and class distinctions, through her best friend Amelia Sedley (Frances Dee), praising any rich man who would listen. In her efforts to advance herself, she manages to connect with a number of gentlemen: the Marquis of Steyne (Cedric Hardwicke), Joseph Sedley (Nigel Bruce), Rawdon Crawley (Alan Mowbray), and George Osborne (G. P. Huntley Jr), the husband of Amelia. She rises to the top of British society but becomes the scourge of the social circle, offending influential ladies such as Lady Bareacres (Billie Burke). Sharp falls into the humiliation of singing for her meals in a beer hall, but she never stays down for long. At the end, she cons her last man and finally lands Amelia's brother, Joseph. Source - Wikipedia #VintageRomanceMovies #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ClassicDramaMovie Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

Swing High, Swing Lowis a 1937 Americanromanticcomedy drama film directed byMitchell Leisenand starringCarole LombardandFred MacMurray. It is the second film adaptation of the popular 1927 Broadway playBurlesqueby George Manker Watters andArthur Hopkins(afterThe Dance of Life(1929) and beforeWhen My Baby Smiles at Me(1948)). Plot: Working her way as a hairdresser on board a liner traveling through thePanama Canal Zone, Maggie King (Carole Lombard) brushes off a brash young soldier, "Skid" Johnson (Fred MacMurray), on his last day in the Army. However, he is persistent, and the next day she and her friend Ella reluctantly go on a double date with him and his piano player friend Harry (Charles Butterworth) inBalboa. In a nightclub, she expresses her distaste of trumpet music, whereupon he impresses her with his amazing prowess with the instrument. When a man (Anthony Quinn, speaking only Spanish) tries to pick her up at the bar, he and Skid end up brawling, which lands Skid and Maggie in jail. As a result, Maggie misses her ship back to the States. With no money left after helping pay the fine, she is forced to move in with Skid and Harry. She talks a skeptical Murphy (a woman) into hiring the unambitious Skid and her as a trumpet player and showgirl, respectively, at "Murphy's Cafe y Bar" by telling Murphy that they are married. She clashes with fellow showgirl Anita Alvarez (Dorothy Lamour), Skid's former girlfriend, but Anita soon leaves for a better job. Maggie and Skid eventually fall in love and marry. Maggie prods the reluctant Skid into going to New York City to play in a major nightclub, leaving her behind. She finds out afterward that Anita works there. He is a big success, teamed with songstress Anita. Fame and fortune go to his head. He neglects to send Maggie the fare to join him and does not answer her letters. Finally Maggie borrows the money from Murphy. Anita intercepts her telegram to Skid, telling him where to meet her boat. After waiting at the pier for a long time, Maggie calls Anita's hotel room on a hunch, and a drunk Skid answers (Anita invited him in for a nightcap after a night on the town together). Maggie divorces him. Ella finds out and tells her old boyfriend, wealthy rancher Harvey Howell. Mary plans to sail to France to obtain a divorce and marry Harvey. Skid is so devastated, he starts drinking and missing performances, costing him his job and his career. Finally, he tries to reenlist, but fails the physical exam. Then, he runs into Harry, who has been searching for him. Harry has gotten a band together for a live radio performance to audition for an important sponsor and (to help his old friend out) wants Skid to play with them. Skid's old agent Georgie tries to get Maggie, just returned from France, to pull Skid into shape. She rushes over and does her best. During the broadcast, Skid is terrible at first, but after Maggie tells him that she is sticking to him "til death do us part", he recaptures his old brilliance. Source - Wikipedia #VintageRomanceMovies #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ClassicDramaMovie Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

A Star Is Bornis a 1937 AmericanTechnicolorromantic drama filmproduced byDavid O. Selznick, directed byWilliam A. Wellmanfrom a script by Wellman,Robert Carson,Dorothy Parker, andAlan Campbell, and starringJanet Gaynor(in her only Technicolor film) as an aspiringHollywoodactress, andFredric March(in his Technicolor debut) as a fadingmovie starwho helps launch her career. The supporting cast featuresAdolphe Menjou,May Robson,Andy Devine,Lionel Stander, andOwen Moore. The film has been remade three times: in1954(directed byGeorge Cukorand starringJudy GarlandandJames Mason), in1976(directed byFrank Piersonand starringBarbra StreisandandKris Kristofferson) and in2018(starringBradley Cooper, who also directed, andLady Gaga). Plot: North Dakotafarm girl Esther Victoria Blodgett yearns to become a Hollywood actress. Although her aunt and father discourage such thoughts, Esther's grandmother gives Esther her savings to follow her dream. Esther goes toHollywoodand tries to land a job as an extra, but so many others have had the same idea that the casting agency has stopped accepting applications. Esther is told that her chances of becoming a star are one in 100,000. She befriends a new resident at her boarding house, assistant director Danny McGuire, himself out of work. When Danny and Esther go to a concert to celebrate Danny's employment, Esther has her first encounter with Norman Maine, an actor she admires greatly. Norman has been a major star for years, but his alcoholism has sent his career into a downward spiral. Danny gets Esther a one-time waitressing job at a fancy Hollywood party. While serving hors d’œuvres, she catches Norman's eye. He gets his longtime producer and good friend, Oliver Niles, to give her a screen test. Impressed, Oliver gives her a new name ("Vicki Lester") and a contract. She practices her few lines for her first tiny role. When the studio has trouble finding a female lead for Norman's current film, entitledThe Enchanted Hour,Norman persuades Oliver to cast Esther. The film makes her an overnight success, even as viewers continue to lose interest in Norman. Norman proposes to Esther; she accepts when he promises to give up drinking. They elope without publicity, much to press agent Matt Libby's disgust, and enjoy a trailer-camping honeymoon in the mountains. When they return, Esther's popularity continues to skyrocket, while Norman realizes that his own career is over, despite Oliver's attempts to help him. Norman stays sober for a while, but his frustration over his situation finally pushes him over the edge, and he starts drinking again. When Esther wins the industry's top award (theAcademy Award for Best Actress), he interrupts her acceptance speech by drunkenly demanding three awards for theworstacting of the year and accidentally slapping her when he dramatically swings his arms back. A stay at a sanatorium seems to cure Norman's increasingly disruptive alcoholism, but a chance encounter with Libby allows the press agent to vent his long-concealed contempt. Norman goes on a four-day drinking binge and winds up arrested for drunk driving. In court, the judge sentences him to 90 days of incarceration, but Esther pleads with the judge to put Norman under her care. The judge, who is impressed with Esther's acting success, suspends Norman's sentence and puts Norman's custody into Esther's hands. Esther decides to give up her career to devote herself to his rehabilitation. After Norman overhears her discussing her plan with Oliver, he drowns himself in the Pacific Ocean. Shattered, Esther decides to quit and go home. Showing up soon afterward is her grandmother, who has heard that Esther is quitting. Her grandmother tells her of a letter Norman sent her when they got married. The letter stated how proud he was of Esther and how much he loved her. Because of her grandmother's words and the reminder of Norman's deep love, Esther is convinced to stay in show business. At the premiere of her next film atGrauman's Chinese Theatre, when Esther is asked to say a few words into the microphone to her many fans listening across the world, she announces, "Hello, everybody. This is Mrs. Norman Maine." Source - Wikipedia #VintageRomanceMovies #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ClassicDramaMovie Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

Penny Serenadeis a 1941 Americanmelodramafilm directed byGeorge StevensstarringIrene DunneandCary Grantas a loving couple who must overcome adversity to keep their marriage and raise a child. Grant was nominated for theAcademy Award for Best Actorfor his performance. Plot: The film charts the meeting, courtship and marriage of Julie Gardiner (Irene Dunne) and Roger Adams (Cary Grant) through the playing of popular songs relevant to each time period. After their spur-of-the-moment marriage on New Year's Eve and a night in Roger's train compartment en route toSan Francisco, a pregnant Julie rejoins Roger inTokyo, where he has a stint as a reporter. Julie loses their unborn child in the1923 Tokyo earthquakeand returns with Roger to California despondent, until their friend Applejack Carney (Edgar Buchanan) encourages them to adopt a child. While Roger struggles to keep a newspaper going in the fictional California town of Rosalia, Julie keeps house and fits out the nursery. They apply at an adoption agency for a two-year-old boy, and receive a call from Miss Oliver (Beulah Bondi) that a five-week-old baby girl is available. Though Roger would have preferred a boy, he falls in love with the baby, and he and Julie care for her during their one-year probation period. At the end of that time Roger has lost the newspaper, and the law will not allow him to adopt the baby without an income. Roger appears before the judge and delivers an impassioned plea to keep the girl, whom he considers his own. The judge awards custody, and Roger returns home to Julie with their daughter. Years later, Roger and Julie swell with pride as their daughter, Trina, not yet old enough to play an angel in the Christmas play, plays the "echo" instead. The following Christmas, Julie writes to Miss Oliver that Trina has died from a sudden illness. The child's death sends Roger into a deep depression, and Julie resolves to leave him, believing he no longer needs her. Just as she is about to leave for the train station, the couple receive a phone call from Miss Oliver, saying that a two-year-old boy has just become available for adoption. Roger and Julie embrace, ready to rebuild their marriage with a new child. Source - Wikipedia #VintageMeloDramaMovies #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ClassicDramaMovie Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

The Painted Hills, also known asLassie's Adventures in the Goldrush, is a 1951drama filmproduced byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer(MGM) and directed byHarold F. Kress. Adapted byTrue BoardmanfromAlexander Hull's novelShep of the Painted Hills, the film starsPaul Kelly,Bruce Cowling,Ann Doran, and dog actorPal(credited as "Lassie") in a story about a collie named Shep who seeks revenge after her master is murdered. Technical advisorNipo T. StrongheartforNative Americantopics worked with theMiwok peoplefor their role in the movie. The Painted Hillswas the seventh, and final, MGM Lassie film released. Plot: A prospector named Jonathan Harvey (Paul Kelly), whose faithful companion is arough collienamed Shep, looks after the family of his late partner, Martha Blake (Ann Doran) and her son Tommy (Gary Gray). After years of digging in the hills ofCalifornia(where the movie was shot), he finally strikes gold. However, before he can share it with the Blakes, his greedy partner Lin Taylor (Bruce Cowling) kills Jonathan and attempts to lay claim on the gold. He poisons Shep, who nearly dies, and nearly kills Tommy, but ultimately Shep recovers and leads Lin into the mountains, where he falls off a cliff to his death. Source - Wikipedia #VintageLassieMovies #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ClassicDramaMovie Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

Mr. Imperium(UK title:You Belong to My Heart) is a 1951 romantic musical dramaTechnicolorfilm made byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer, starringLana Turnerand singerEzio Pinza. It was directed byDon Hartmanwho co-wrote the screenplay withEdwin H. Knopf, based on an produced play by Edwin H. Knopf. The music score is byBronisław Kaper. Lana Turner's singing voice was dubbed by Trudy Erwin. In 1979, the film entered thepublic domain in the United StatesbecauseMetro-Goldwyn-Mayerneglected to renew thecopyright registrationin the 28th year after publication. Plot: In Italy in 1939, a European man calling himself Mr. Imperium (Ezio Pinza) uses a ruse to meet an attractive American woman, Frederica Brown (Lana Turner). He eventually is revealed to be Prince Alexis, an heir to the throne and a widower with a five-year-old son. He nicknames her "Fredda", so she calls him "Al". When his father becomes gravely ill, he must rush to be with him, but asks prime minister Bernand (Cedric Hardwicke) to deliver to Fredda a note of explanation. Bernand instead tells her the prince has left permanently, that this is his usual method of seducing and abandoning women. Twelve years go by. One day in Paris, a cinema's marquee makes it clear that "Fredda Barlo" is now a movie star. Fredda's former love travels to California, where film producer Paul Hunter (Barry Sullivan) is now in love with her and proposing marriage. Fredda decides to drive toPalm Springsto think about his proposal, as well as to decide which actor should co-star in her next film, about a girl who falls in love with a king. "Mr. Imperium" takes a room next to hers, and soon they meet and embrace. He explains the crisis that took place at home during the war and prevented him from looking for her. Now he wants a new life, and Fredda believes he could even portray a king in her film. Bernand turns up, however, to say that his son is preparing to ascend to the throne. Mr. Imperium realizes he is needed there, so he must say goodbye to the woman he loves once more. Source - Wikipedia #VintageMusicalDrama #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ClassicRomanceMovie Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

Made for Each Otheris a 1939 Americanromantic comedy filmdirected byJohn Cromwell, produced byDavid O. Selznick, and starringCarole Lombard,James Stewart, andCharles Coburn. Lombard and Stewart portray a couple who get married after only knowing each other for one day. The film is now in thepublic domainin the United States, with the original film negative owned by Disney. Plot: John Mason (James Stewart) is a young attorney inNew York Cityand a milquetoast. He has been doing his job well, and he has a chance of being made a partner in his law firm, especially if he marries Eunice (Ruth Weston), the daughter of his employer, Judge Doolittle. However, John meets Jane (Carole Lombard) during a business trip, and they fall in love and marry immediately. Eunice eventually marries another lawyer in the firm, Carter (Donald Briggs). John's mother (Lucile Watson), an impertinent old bag, is disappointed with his choice, and an important court trial forces him to cancel the honeymoon. He wins the case, but by that time Judge Doolittle has chosen John's kowtowing yes-man coworker Carter as the new partner. Jane encourages John to demand a raise and a promotion, but with finances tightened by theDepression, Doolittle requires that all employees accept pay cuts. After Jane has a baby, John becomes discouraged by his unpaid bills and his mother, who lives with them in their small apartment, is destroying their marriage. On New Year's Eve, 1938–39, the baby is rushed to the hospital with pneumonia. The baby will die within hours unless a serum is delivered by plane fromSalt Lake City. Doolittle agrees to provide funding to deliver the serum, but with a storm raging, and with a wife and children to consider, the pilot refuses to fly. John pleads over the telephone, and the pilot's unmarried friend takes the job. The new pilot almost crashes in the mountains, and the plane's engine catches fire a short distance from New York. The pilot is also injured and knocked unconscious after jumping from the plane and parachuting to safety, but he crawls to a nearby farm house after he comes to. The farmer sees the box containing the serum and telephones the hospital, and the baby is saved. A few months later, John is made partner at the law firm and his son speaks his first words. Source - Wikipedia #VintageRomComMovies #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ClassicRomanceMovie Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

Love Affairis a 1939 American romantic film, co-starringCharles BoyerandIrene Dunne, and featuringMaria Ouspenskaya. It was directed byLeo McCareyand written byDelmer DavesandDonald Ogden Stewart, based on a story by McCarey andMildred Cram. Controversial on concept, the official screenplay was re-tooled and rewritten to appease Hollywood censorship and relied on actor input and improvisation, causing long delays and budget extensions. The movie became a surprise hit of 1939, showing McCarey's versatility after a long career of comedic films, and launching the surprising team-up of Dunne and Boyer.Academy Awardnominations includeBest Actressfor Dunne,Best Supporting Actressfor Ouspenskaya,Best Original Song,Best Writing (Original), andBest Picture. Its popularity was later dwarfed by McCarey's 1957 remakeAn Affair to Remember, which spawned its own remakes with 1994'sLove Affairand a few Bollywood adaptations. Plot: One December, French painter (and famed womanizer) Michel Marnet (Charles Boyer) meets American singer Terry McKay (Irene Dunne) aboard alinercrossing theAtlantic Ocean. They are both already engaged, he to heiress Lois Clarke (Astrid Allwyn), she to Kenneth Bradley (Lee Bowman). They begin to flirt and to dine together on the ship, but his worldwide reputation makes them conscious that others are watching. Eventually, they decide that they should dine separately and not associate with each other. At a stop atMadeira, they visit Michel's grandmother Janou (Maria Ouspenskaya), who bonds with Terry and admits wanting Michel to settle down. As the ship is ready to disembark at New York City, the two make an appointment to meet in the new year, six months later on top of theEmpire State Building, giving Michel enough time to decide whether he can start making enough money to support a relationship with Terry. His paintings fail to sell so he finds work designing advertising billboards around the city, while Terry successfully negotiates a contract with aPhiladelphiannightclub to perform through to June. When the rendezvous date arrives, they both head to the Empire State Building. However, Terry is struck by a car on a nearby road, and is told by doctors she may be paralyzed for the rest of her life, though that will not be known for certain for six months. Not wanting to be a burden to Michel, she does not contact him, preferring to let him think the worst. Meanwhile, Michel, who waited until closing time, travels to Madeira to discover his grandmother has recently died, and continues working in New York City; Terry is overheard singing in the garden of herphysiotherapyby the owner of a children's orphanage, who hires her as a music teacher. Six months pass by, and during Terry's first outing since the accident, she and Michel meet by accident at a theater on Christmas Eve, though Terry manages to conceal her disability. The next morning on Christmas Day, after the children visit Terry at her apartment, Michel makes a surprise visit. Here, he finally learns the truth about Terry's condition. Terry, delighted Michel proved he had changed his ways despite circumstances, tells him it is her turn to prove she could change hers, but Michel assures her that they will be together no matter what the diagnosis may be. Source - Wikipedia #VintageDramamovies #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ClassicRomanceMovie Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

The Last Time I Saw Parisis a 1954Technicolorromantic dramamade byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer.It is loosely based onF. Scott Fitzgerald's short story "Babylon Revisited." It was directed byRichard Brooks, produced byJack Cummingsand filmed on locations in Paris and the MGM backlot. The screenplay was byJulius J. Epstein,Philip G. Epsteinand Richard Brooks. The film starredElizabeth TaylorandVan Johnsonin his last role for MGM, withWalter Pidgeon,Donna Reed,Eva Gabor,Kurt Kasznar,George Dolenz,Sandy Descher,Odette, and (a then-unknown)Roger Moorein his Hollywood debut. Thefilm's title song, by composerJerome Kernand lyricistOscar Hammerstein II, was already a classic when the movie was made and inspired the movie's title. Though the song had already won an Oscar after its film debut in 1941'sLady Be Good, it is featured much more prominently inThe Last Time I Saw Paris. It can be heard in many scenes, either being sung byOdetteor being played as an instrumental. Plot: As World War II ends in Europe,Stars and Stripesjournalist Charles Wills is on the streets of Paris, covering the celebrations. He suddenly is grabbed by a beautiful woman, who kisses him and disappears. Charles follows the crowd to Café Dhingo and meets another pretty woman named Marion Ellswirth. The mutual attraction is instant, and she invites him to join her father's celebration of the end of the war in Europe. Charles, Marion and her persistent French suitor Claude Matine arrive at the Ellswirth household, and we find that the woman who had kissed Charles is Marion's younger sister Helen. Their father, James Ellswirth, had survived World War I and promptly joined theLost Generation. Unlike most drifters, he never grew out of it, raising his two daughters to desire such a lifestyle. Helen takes after her father and uses her beauty to sustain a life of luxury even though they are flat broke. Marion goes the other way and looks for serious-minded and conventional young men such as Claude, an aspiring prosecutor, and Charles, the future novelist. Charles and Helen start dating and fall in love. After Helen recovers from a near-death case ofpneumonia, they get married and settle in Paris. James good-naturedly joins the happy family of Charles, with Helen eventually having a daughter, Vickie. Marion, having lost Charles to Helen, agrees to marry Claude. Charles struggles to make ends meet with his meager salary, unsuccessfully works on his novels and looks after Vickie. At about this time, the barren oil fields in Texas that James had bought years before finally begin to produce. Charles, to whom James had given the oil fields as adowry, quits his job, and Helen and James begin to host parties instead of going to them. Sudden wealth changes Helen, who becomes more responsible, and Charles parties his wealth away after quitting his newspaper job and having all his novels rejected by publishers. They also each start to pursue other interests: Helen flirts with handsome tennis player Paul Lane, and Charles competes in a localMonte Carlo-to-Paris race with professional divorcee Lorraine Quarl. After the race, Charles returns to Paris, only to find Helen sitting in Café Dhingo with Paul. A fight breaks out between Paul and Charles, and an angry Charles goes home first and puts the chain on the door, preventing it from being opened all the way. When Helen comes home and tries to enter she can't. She calls out to him, but Charles is in a drunken stupor on the staircase, and the bottle drops from his hands as Helen calls. Helen has to walk all the way to her sister's in the snow and rain. She catches pneumonia again and dies. Marion petitions for and gets full custody of Vickie, and Charles returns home to America. A few years later, having straightened himself out, published a book, and stopped boozing, Charles returns to Paris, hoping his reform will persuade Marion to give Vickie back to him. Charles tells Marion that he only has one drink a day now. Marion refuses, still feeling resentful towards Charles' having fallen for Helen instead of her and for his being responsible for Helen's death. Seeing that Charles and Vickie belong together, Claude steps in and tells Marion that she is punishing Charles for his not realizing that Marion loved him, but marrying Helen instead, and the penalty for it is taking away the only thing he had left: his own daughter. Claude asks Marion to accept him and wanting their own child out of love and not out of defeat (as a result of Charles allowing Helen to die). Marion goes into Café Dhingo (on whose main wall is a big picture of Helen) to look for Charles (who is gazing at the painting) and tells him that Helen would not have wanted him to be alone. Outside the cafe, Claude is with Vickie. The child runs to Charles, and Charles and the child walk away together. Source - Wikipedia #VintageDramamovies #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ClassicRomanceMovie Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

Terminal Station(Italian:Stazione Termini, released in the United States asIndiscretion of an American Wife)is a 1953romanticdramafilm directed and produced byVittorio De Sicaand starringJennifer Jones,Montgomery Clift, andRichard Beymer(credited as "Dick Beymer") in his debut role. It tells the story of the love affair between a married American woman and an Italian intellectual. The title refers to theRoma Termini railway stationinRome, where the film takes place. The film was entered into the1953 Cannes Film Festival. Terminal Stationwas the first Hollywood film of Italian director De Sica, as an international co-production with American mogulDavid O. Selznick. The collaboration was fraught with constant and severe creative differences between them that resulted in two different versions of the same film, an 89 minute Italian version and a 72 minute American recut under the alternate titleIndiscretion of an American Wife. The experience was such that De Sica never worked with a Hollywood producer again, though he would make future English-language films with American actors. Plot: While visiting her sister inRome, Mary Forbes, an American housewife, has a month-long affair with Giovanni Doria, an Italian academic. Source - Wikipedia #VintageDramamovies #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ClassicRomanceMovie Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

Woman to Womanis a 1929 Britishdrama filmdirected byVictor Savilleand starringBetty Compson,George BarraudandJuliette Compton.It is an adaptation of the 1921 playWoman to WomanbyMichael Mortonwhich had alreadybeen made in 1923into a now-lost film.The 1929 version survives and unrestored copies are available on unofficialDVDsandstreaming services. Plot: During theFirst World War, a British officer - David Compton (George Barraud) - on leave from the trenches in Paris falls in love with and has a liaison of three days with a French performing artist: Deloryse/Lola (Betty Compson). He proposes to her and tells her to get ready for the wedding in an hour. He rushes to search for the English church. On the way he meets his superior, who tells him that he has to report immediately, they have to leave Paris. He doesn't even have the time to see his fiancé again. After returning to fight on the front, he suffers fromshell shockand forgets everything that happened in the last four years. After recovering he goes back to his wealthy life of rich industrialist, marries a British Socialite, with whom he runs entirely separate lives. She is the one to invite Deloryse to London to dance on one of her charity events. While dancing and singing on the stage she sees him in a loge. During her second number, where she sings the same song of when he met her in Paris, he finally has a flash back of the song and the singer. After the performance he sends her a notice that he wants to see her. She's very excited, but when Doctor Gavron (Winter Hall) comes to see her, he measures her pulse and tells her, that she has to give up the stage, as the strain might kill her, even if she dances once more. Then David comes. He meets her and his son Davey (Georgie Billings). But he is now married to a British Socialite: Vesta Compton (Juliette Compton), who never wanted children, to the big regret of her husband.]He tells his wife, that he wants to adopt a boy. She doesn't want to know anything about it. His wife tells him that she will never give him a divorce. Lola wants then to give his son to David's wife, as she understands that there is no future for her and David, but Vesta refuses. Then David wants to stay with Lola and his son and take all the consequences. They plan to leave for Paris that evening, as Davey has his birthday the next day. But Vesta comes to see Lola "from woman to woman" and to tell her that she would ruin David socially, if she lives with him without having him divorced. She gives up little David to bring him to his home. Afterwards she has a breakdown. Soon afterwards she has to perform again for another of Vesta's charity events and visits her sleeping son a last time. When she dances and falls dead at the end, they find out she will never dance again, she dies. Source - Wikipedia #VintageBritishDrama #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ClassicRomanceMovie Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

Tulsais a 1949 AmericanWesternaction filmdirected byStuart Heislerand starringSusan HaywardandRobert Preston, and featuredLloyd Gough,Chill Wills(as the narrator), andEd Begleyin one of his earliest filmroles, billed as Edward Begley. The film's plot revolves around greed, conservation, and romance.It was nominated for anOscarfor itsspecial effectsat the22nd Academy Awardsin 1950. Plot: The film tells a story about theTulsa, Oklahomaoilboom of the 1920s and details how obsession with accumulatingwealthand power can tend to corrupt moral character.The tale begins with the death of rancher Nelse Lansing, who is killed by an oil well blowout while visiting Tanner Petroleum to report that pollution from Tanner's oil production has killed some of Lansing's cattle. Lansing's daughter, Cherokee, initially in an effort to punish Tanner for her father's death, acquires drilling rights on her land; she meets Brad Brady, a geologist who wants drilling to be limited in order to minimize oil field depletion and to preserve the area's grasslands. Jim Redbird is a native American who has long been drawn to Cherokee and upon being persuaded by Brady that cattle men can live and work alongside oil men, buys into her oil business and becomes wealthy. As Cherokee succumbs to power and greed and partners with the ruthless Tanner, Jim renounces his holdings. Overcome with anger after a humiliating meeting with Tanner, Cherokee and some of their legal and governmental associates, Jim accidentally starts a fire in a derrick trailing pool. The film received its Oscar nominationfor the resulting extravagant scenes of the rampaging flames. In its aftermath, in recognition of the destruction caused by improper oil drilling, and how money and power can corrupt even those who love the land, the oil drillers and the geologist vow to start over and to ensure conservation is their top priority. Source - Wikipedia #VintageWesterns #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ClassicActionFilms Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur Keywords:

They Made Me a Criminalis a 1939 Americancrimedrama filmdirected byBusby Berkeleyand starringJohn Garfield,Claude Rains, andThe Dead End Kids. It is aremakeof the filmThe Life of Jimmy Dolan(1933). The film was later featured in an episode ofCinema Insomnia. Portions of the film were shot in theCoachella Valley, California. Plot: Johnnie Bradfield is asouthpawworld champion boxer falsely accused of murder. He disappears and is presumed dead. The only witnesses who could have exonerated him were his manager and girlfriend, both of whom have died in an automobile accident. Detective Monty Phelan believes that Johnnie is still alive and hasn't given up on searching for him. Johnnie, meanwhile, is hiding out on Grandma Rafferty's farm in Arizona. There, he meets up with some juvenile delinquents, Tommy, Angel, Spit, Dippy, T.B., and Milty, who are under the guardianship of Tommy's sister Peggy. Johnnie, using the fake name of Jack Dorney, takes Tommy under his wing and encourages him to go in business for himself by buying a gas pump for the farm. He helps the kids raise money by returning to the boxing ring for a match against an up-and-coming boxer. Johnnie sees Phelan arriving at the fight and decides not to fight, disappointing the kids and Peggy. However his determination to help the kids overcomes him and he decides to fight. He tries to hide who he really is by not using his trademark stance in the ring, but not being a good right handed fighter, he is on the verge of losing. Because of this, Johnnie reveals who he really is, although he is still defeated in the fifth round. He surrenders to Phelan who is assumingly arrested, but the detective allows him to remain in Arizona instead of returning to New York. Source - Wikipedia #VintageCrimeMovies #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ClassicDramaFilms Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

The Southerneris a 1945 Americandrama filmdirected byJean Renoirand based on the 1941 novelHold Autumn in Your HandbyGeorge Sessions Perry. The film receivedOscarnominations for Best Director (the only Oscar nomination Renoir received), Original Music Score, and Sound. Renoir was named Best Director by theNational Board of Review, which also named the film the third best of 1945.The film, now in thepublic domain,portrays the hardships of a poor family struggling to establish a cotton farm in Texas in the early 1940s. Plot: The film opens with a Texas sharecropper, Sam Tucker, picking cotton in a sunbaked field alongside his wife Nona and his elderly Uncle Pete. Pete suddenly collapses due to the extreme heat and to what he blames as "my darned old heart". Before he dies, he tells his nephew, "Work for yourself; grow your own crops." Sam heeds his uncle's advice, so Nona, their children Daisy and Jot, "Granny", and he leave the migrant camp and set out to work a vacant 68-acretenant farmwith little more than two mules, a second-hand plow, and some cotton seed and fertilizer. The land the family leases includes only a decaying shack and a dry well. In immediate need of drinking water, Sam visits a gruff neighboring farmer, Henry Devers, who reluctantly allows the Tuckers to share water from his well. Sam and his family nearly freeze and starve during their first winter on the farm, surviving largely on a limited diet ofopossums,raccoons, and other small game that he is able to shoot. As spring arrives, Jot falls ill with "spring sickness". The town doctor informs Nona that the boy needs more diverse, vitamin-enriched foods, including vegetables, fruits, and milk to survive. The Tuckers immediately plant a garden, but its produce will take time to mature. Daily servings of milk would provide the suffering Jot with some timely relief, but the family cannot afford to buy or even rent a cow. Sam's friend Tim offers to help get him a factory job that pays the attractive wage of seven dollars a day, but Sam remains determined to succeed as a farmer. Soon, the family's prayers are answered when Harmie, who owns the local general store, and Tim arrive in Harmie's flatbed truck with a milk cow, which young Daisy names "Uncle Walter". The family's cotton crop and the much-needed vegetable garden they planted finally begin to flourish. Meanwhile, the embittered Devers and his strange nephew Finley plot to ruin the Tuckers so Devers can buy the tenant farm for a cheaper price from its owner. After Finley destroys the Tuckers' garden, Sam confronts Devers at his farm. There, Devers, armed with a knife, declares he will no longer share his well water, whereupon the two men have a near-deadly fight. Sam leaves and Devers gets a rifle and follows him. Soon, he finds Sam at the nearby river pulling in a fishing line on which he has hooked "Lead Pencil," an enormouscatfishthat Devers has been trying to catch for years. In return for the fish and the bragging rights that he was the one who caught it, Devers agrees to give Sam his garden and allow him continued access to his well, a deal that effectively puts an end to the trouble between the two families. Source - Wikipedia #VintageFullMovies #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ClassicDramaFilms Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman, also calledA Woman Destroyed,is a 1947 Americandrama filmwith elements offilm noirwhich tells the story of a risingnightclub singerwho marries another singer, whose career takes off, then falls intoalcoholismafter giving up her career for him. The film starsSusan Hayward,Lee Bowman,Eddie AlbertandMarsha Hunt. The screenplay was written byJohn Howard Lawson, based on a story byDorothy Parker, Frank Cavett and Lionel Wiggam. Produced byWalter Wangerunder his personal contract with Hayward, the film was directed byStuart Heisler.Ethel Walesappears in an uncredited part. The film was nominated forAcademy AwardsforBest Actress in a Leading Role(Susan Hayward) andBest Writing, Original Story. With similar story elements toA Star Is Born, it was rumored to be a crypto-biography ofBing Crosbyand his stormy first marriage toDixie Lee. A highlight popular with critics and fans was the violent slapping and hair-pulling fight between rivals Hayward and Hunt in the ladies‘ powder room (a scene repeated by Hayward twenty years later inValley of the Dolls). This film is in thepublic domain. Plot: In a hospital, Angie Evans (Susan Hayward), her face bandaged, recounts the events that brought her here. A nightclub singer, Angie becomes involved with another singer, Ken Conway (Lee Bowman), whose career has yet to take off. Her agent Mike Dawson (Charles D. Brown) helps get Ken and piano accompanist Steve Anderson (Eddie Albert) a spot on a radio show singing cowboy songs. Ken sings a ballad on the day Angie, now his wife, gives birth to their daughter. The attention he gets leads to a new career opportunity. Ken soon is a big success, gaining popularity and wealth, while Angie stays home, her career at a standstill. She begins to drink. Ken counts on her to present a sophisticated image for his new high-society friends and contacts, but her alcoholism worsens, so secretary Martha Gray (Marsha Hunt) comes to Ken's aid. It isn't long before Angie is certain Martha and her husband are having an affair. Steve tries to intervene on Angie's behalf, but he can see Martha has fallen in love with Ken. Angie neglects the child, continues to drink, then creates a scene at a party. Ken asks for a divorce and custody. Mike helps Angie get work in a club. She is determined to stay sober so she can regain custody of her daughter. Instead, she ends up in a bar, and wakes the next morning in the apartment of strangers who found her passed out on their stairs. Angie kidnaps her daughter from the park while the nurse isn't watching. They go to a house in the country where Angie dutifully gives the child dinner and puts her to bed. After she sings her daughter to sleep, she forgets a lit cigarette in the room. Downstairs, she begins to drink and gets lost in memories. The child's shouts finally alert her and Angie rescues her from the flames, but herself suffers serious facial burns. Realizing that she has hit rock bottom, Angie is positive now she can move forward happily. Ken has talked things over with her doctor and feels that he would like to try to stand by her. Source - Wikipedia #VintageFilmNoirMovies #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ClassicDramaFilms Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur

Sin Takes a Holidayis a 1930 Americanpre-Coderomantic comedyfilm, directed byPaul L. Stein, from a screenplay byHorace Jackson, based on a story byRobert Miltonand Dorothy Cairns. It starredConstance Bennett,Kenneth MacKenna, andBasil Rathbone. Originally produced byPathé Exchangeand released in 1930, it was part of the takeover package when RKO Pictures acquiredPathéthat year; it was re-released by RKO in 1931. Plot: Sylvia Brenner (Constance Bennett) is a plain secretary sharing an apartment with two other girls, one of whom is her friend Annie (ZaSu Pitts). Her economic condition is meager, but she makes do with what she has. She works for a womanizing divorce attorney, Gaylord Stanton (Kenneth MacKenna), who only dates married women; he has no intention of ever getting married and sees wives as safe, since they already have husbands. But Sylvia is secretly in love with Gaylord. When the woman he is fooling around with, Grace Lawrence (Rita La Roy), decides to leave her husband in order to marry Gaylord, he panics. In order to avoid having to deal with the matrimonial pursuits of any of his potential dalliances, he offers a business proposal to Sylvia whereby he will provide her with financial remuneration if she will marry him in name only. She agrees. After the sham wedding, Sylvia is sent off toParisby Gaylord, to get her out of the way so he can continue his nightly debauchery. In Paris, she uses her money to do a serious makeover of herself. While there, she also meets her boss's old friend, Reggie Durant (Basil Rathbone), who falls in love with her. Reggie is a sophisticated European, who introduces Sylvia to the enticements of the European lifestyle, to which she is attracted. When Reggie asks Sylvia to divorce Gaylord so that she can marry him, she is tempted, but confused, and returns home. Returning to the States, everyone takes notice of the transformed Sylvia. Although there is a brief hiccup, as Grace puts forth a full-court offensive to win over Gaylord, Gaylord and Sylvia end up realizing that they are in love with each other. Source - Wikipedia #VintagePreCodeMovies #VintageconnoisseurPresents #ClassicComedyDrama Please Like and Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWs8bvBOk36ccEODelS Etsy Store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConnoisseur