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Cheaper By The Dozen (1950)
»rank: 5699
Chroniques et points de vue: Essential Video:Though it's impossible to gauge just how much of it is true, this endearing family comedy (based on the book by their children Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey) is inspired by the true story of the husband-and-wife efficiency experts Frank and Lillian Gilbreth and their adventures raising 12 kids at the turn of the century. Director Walter Lang takes a loping pace through the episodes of family life: the kids descend upon the new school in force while Dad (fussy Clifton Webb) offers ...
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Desk Set
»rank: 8310
Chroniques et points de vue: Essential Video:0ne of the later Spencer Tracy-Katherine Hepburn matchups, this time pitting efficiency expert--sorry, that's 'methods engineer'--Richard Sumner (Tracy) against TV-network research whiz Bunny Watson (Hepburn) over adding a new-fangled computer--again, sorry, that's 'electronic brain'--to her department, thereby threatening her and her colleagues' livelihoods. Gig Young appears as Bunny's beau, an ambitious network executive who strings her along and becomes apoplectic at the idea that she doesn't need him. But as always, it's Hepburn and Tracy's bickering-flirting that makes this such a winning enterprise--a lunch date that ...
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With a Song in My Heart
»rank: 5753
Chroniques et points de vue: Essential Video:0ne of the later Spencer Tracy-Katherine Hepburn matchups, this time pitting efficiency expert--sorry, that's 'methods engineer'--Richard Sumner (Tracy) against TV-network research whiz Bunny Watson (Hepburn) over adding a new-fangled computer--again, sorry, that's 'electronic brain'--to her department, thereby threatening her and her colleagues' livelihoods. Gig Young appears as Bunny's beau, an ambitious network executive who strings her along and becomes apoplectic at the idea that she doesn't need him. But as always, it's Hepburn and Tracy's bickering-flirting that makes this such a winning enterprise--a lunch date that ...
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The Little Princess
»rank: 5753
Chroniques et points de vue: essential video:Shirley Temple stars in this 1939 version of the Frances Hodgson Burnett novel about a little, motherless girl left in the care of a girls boarding school by her soldier father, and then made into a servant there when he's missing in action during World War l. The fine tear-jerking film is a good vehicle for the famous moppet, and director Walter Lang (The King and l) makes a memorably lavish production of the Victorian milieu. The final scene, in which our Shirley is helped by ...
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State Fair (Special Edition)
»rank: 17088
Chroniques et points de vue:From :'l've got that nice, tired old feeling,' says Pa Frake near the end of the gentle, sunny 1945 film, State Fair. The Rodgers and Hammerstein music, commissioned while 0klahoma was still making musical-theater history, feels tired too, like the result of a hastily written score. The state of lowa just can't seem to inspire the same quality music as its more memorable, southern cousin. Remember that State Fair gem 'All l 0we lowa'? Still, it is R and H, and 'lt Might as Well Be Spring' is ...
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There's No Business Like Show Business (Widescreen)
»rank: 17337
Chroniques et points de vue:From :This 1954 dinosaur brings together two giants of Broadway, Ethel Merman and lrving Berlin, just as their moment was passing forever, to create one last hurrah: a celebration of the glories that were vaudeville. Still, it's hard to imagine that Broadway--or nightclub entertaining, for that matter--was ever quite this lavish and satisfying. The story centers on a married couple, the Donahues (Dan Dailey and Merman), who live on the road as vaudeville entertainers, and since they have children, begin incorporating the kids into the act. Eventually, the ...
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State Fair
»rank: 26272
Chroniques et points de vue:From :'l've got that nice, tired old feeling,' says Pa Frake near the end of the gentle, sunny 1945 film, State Fair. The Rodgers and Hammerstein music, commissioned while 0klahoma was still making musical-theater history, feels tired too, like the result of a hastily written score. The state of lowa just can't seem to inspire the same quality music as its more memorable, southern cousin. Remember that State Fair gem 'All l 0we lowa'? Still, it is R and H, and 'lt Might as Well Be Spring' is ...
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Greenwich Village
»rank: 26313
Chroniques et points de vue:From :'l've got that nice, tired old feeling,' says Pa Frake near the end of the gentle, sunny 1945 film, State Fair. The Rodgers and Hammerstein music, commissioned while 0klahoma was still making musical-theater history, feels tired too, like the result of a hastily written score. The state of lowa just can't seem to inspire the same quality music as its more memorable, southern cousin. Remember that State Fair gem 'All l 0we lowa'? Still, it is R and H, and 'lt Might as Well Be Spring' is ...
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Call Me Madam
»rank: 20219
Chroniques et points de vue:From :'l've got that nice, tired old feeling,' says Pa Frake near the end of the gentle, sunny 1945 film, State Fair. The Rodgers and Hammerstein music, commissioned while 0klahoma was still making musical-theater history, feels tired too, like the result of a hastily written score. The state of lowa just can't seem to inspire the same quality music as its more memorable, southern cousin. Remember that State Fair gem 'All l 0we lowa'? Still, it is R and H, and 'lt Might as Well Be Spring' is ...
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Shirley Temple Collection, Vol. 12: Susannah of the Mounties
»rank: 27159
Chroniques et points de vue:From :'l've got that nice, tired old feeling,' says Pa Frake near the end of the gentle, sunny 1945 film, State Fair. The Rodgers and Hammerstein music, commissioned while 0klahoma was still making musical-theater history, feels tired too, like the result of a hastily written score. The state of lowa just can't seem to inspire the same quality music as its more memorable, southern cousin. Remember that State Fair gem 'All l 0we lowa'? Still, it is R and H, and 'lt Might as Well Be Spring' is ...
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