MGM’s 1941 version of Charley’s Aunt shouldn’t be a neglected gem. It was very popular when it was released. It made the studio a lot of money. The play on which it is based has been one of the most popular farces in modern history. Wikipedia tells me that it has been performed continuously allContinue reading “Charley’s Aunt (1941)”
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His Butler’s Sister (1943)
For most film historians, the “continental style” of Hollywood comedies in the Interwar period was represented by Ernst Lubitsch and his circle at Paramount Studios, and later by the Jeanette Macdonald-Nelson Eddy operetta kitschfests at MGM. What this received knowledge ignores are the Deanna Durbin musicals at Universal Studios, produced and written by the circleContinue reading “His Butler’s Sister (1943)”