88% (2)  The Petrified Forest  82 min,  [Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller]  [Archie Mayo]  [08 Feb 1936]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 76%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 100%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Bette Davis, Dick Foran, Genevieve Tobin, Humphrey Bogart, Leslie Howard
Writer:  Charles Kenyon (screen play), Delmer Daves (screen play), Robert E. Sherwood (play)
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Plot:  Gabby lives and works at her dads small diner out in the desert. She can't stand it and wants to go and live with her mother in France. Along comes Alan, a broke man with no will to live, who is traveling to see the pacific, and maybe to drown in it. Meanwhile Duke Mantee a notorious killer and his gang is heading towards the diner where Mantee plan on meeting up with his girl.
Rotten Tomatoes:   Burned-out British intellectual Alan Squier (Leslie Howard) wanders into the desert service station/restaurant owned by Jason Maple (Porter Hall). Alan finds himself an object of fascination for Jason's starry-eyed daughter, Gabrielle Bette Davis, who dreams of moving to France and establishing herself. Boze Hertzlinger (Dick Foran), Gabrielle's gas-jockey boyfriend, grows jealous of Alan, but the penniless, dissipated Briton has no intention of settling down; in fact, as soon as he mooches a ride from wealthy tourists Mr. and Mrs. Chisholm (Paul Harvey and Genevieve Tobin), he's on his way out of Gabrielle's life...or so everyone thinks. Later that same day, Alan, Gabrielle, Jason, Boze, and Mr. and Mrs. Chisholm are huddled together in the selfsame restaurant, held at gunpoint by Dillinger-like desperado Duke Mantee (Humphrey Bogart) and his gang. Alan seems indifferent to the danger, toasting Duke as "the last great apostle of rugged individualism." Sensing an opportunity to give his life meaning, Alan takes Duke aside, begging the outlaw to kill him so that Gabrielle can travel to Paris on the money provided by Alan's insurance policy. When the police converge on the restaurant, Duke announces that he intends to use Mr. and Mrs. Chisholm as a shield in order to make his escape. Alan tries to stop him, receiving a bullet in the belly for his troubles. "So long, pal," growls Duke fatalistically, moments before his own death, "I'll be seein' ya soon." Alan dies in Gabrielle's arms, secure in the knowledge that, alone among the film's principals, she will be able to escape the trap of her existence. When originally presented on Broadway, Robert E. Sherwood's The Petrified Forest starred Leslie Howard and Humphrey Bogart. Warner Bros. intended to cast Edward G. Robinson in Duke's role, only to be thwarted by Howard, who told the studio that he himself would drop out of the project if Bogart wasn't retained. The film proved to be just the break that Bogart needed; years later, he expressed his undying gratitude to Howard by naming his daughter Leslie Bogart. One year after The Petrified Forest, Humphrey Bogart and Leslie Howard co-starred in The Stand-In. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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86% (2)  One Hour with You  80 min,  Passed,  [Comedy, Musical, Romance]  [George Cukor, Ernst Lubitsch]  [25 Mar 1932]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 73%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 100%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Genevieve Tobin, Jeanette MacDonald, Lili Damita, Maurice Chevalier
Writer:  Lothar Schmidt (play), Samson Raphaelson, Léopold Marchand (French adaptation), Samson Raphaelson (adaptation), Lothar Schmidt (play)
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Plot:  Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatious best friend, Mitzi, he does his best to resist her advances. But she is persistent, and very cute, and he succumbs. Mitzi's husband wants to divorce her, and has been having her tailed. Andre gets caught, and must confess to his wife. But Colette has had problems resisting the attentions of another man herself, and they forgive each other.
Rotten Tomatoes:   In this film, Maurice Chevalier plays a Parisian doctor who is scrupulously faithful to his wife. But when MacDonald's best friend Genevieve Tobin insists upon being treated by Dr. Chevalier, it looks to many of those concerned that Tobin may succeed where the other willing ladies failed.
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64% (1)  Goodbye Again  66 min,  Unrated,  [Comedy, Romance]  [Michael Curtiz]  [09 Sep 1933]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 64%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Genevieve Tobin, Hugh Herbert, Joan Blondell, Warren William
Writer:  George Haight (play), Allan Scott (play), Ben Markson (screenplay)
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Plot:  Famed author Kenneth Bixby is on a tour of the US with his assistant Anne Rogers to promote his latest novel, Miriam. Their lives get more complicated while in Cleveland when Ken receives a visit from an old flame, the former Julie Clochessy now married Julie Wilson, the two who have not seen each other in years since their college days. Julie is still infatuated with Ken, especially as she is sure that she is the inspiration for the tragic heroine, Miriam. Julie feels she has to see Ken in light of that and the promise they made to each other in college that they would someday get married, which is more difficult now that she is Mrs. Harvey Wilson. Harvey too is aware of his wife's infatuation as she constantly criticizes him by saying "Kenneth Bixby wouldn't do that", and as such he wants to meet the competition. Also aware of Julie's infatuation are Julie's sister, Elizabeth Clochessy, and Elizabeth's lawyer, Arthur Westlake, who speak to Anne about a scheme to keep Ken totally preoccupied while in Cleveland so that Julie would have no chance to be alone with him, and as such avoid scandal. Ken may have his own opinions about how to handle the situation with Julie based on his feelings for her. Caught in the middle is Anne, who is faithful and loyal to Ken as his assistant, but who is also in love with him, that dichotomy which will factor into who she helps in the situation.
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63% (1)  Dark Hazard  73 min,  [Drama]  [Alfred E. Green]  [03 Feb 1934]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 63%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Edward G. Robinson, Genevieve Tobin, Glenda Farrell, Robert Barrat
Writer:  W.R. Burnett (novel), Ralph Block (screenplay), Brown Holmes (screenplay)
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Plot:  Jim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His gambling causes problems. When he runs into old flame Valerie, Marge leaves him. After a few years he returns, but she is now in love with old flame Pres. Jim buys racing dog Dark Hazard and makes a fortune which he loses on roulette.
Rotten Tomatoes:   A weak-willed gambler's compulsion destroys his life in this dramatic character study. He falls in love with his disapproving landlady's daughter, who ignores her mother's advice and marries him. On their wedding day, he vows to never gamble again, but soon he is back to his old tricks.
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60% (1)  Kiss and Make-Up  78 min,  APPROVED,  [Comedy, Musical, Romance]  [Harlan Thompson]  [13 Jul 1934]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 60%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Cary Grant, Edward Everett Horton, Genevieve Tobin, Helen Mack
Writer:  István Békeffy (story), Harlan Thompson (screenplay), George Marion Jr. (screenplay), Jane Hinton (adaptation)
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Plot:  Dr. Maurice Lamar is a noted plastic-surgeon who makes his rich clients beautiful, and also makes them. He makes Eve Caron, the wife of Marcel Caron, so satisfied with his skilled hands that she leaves Marcel and marries Maurice. They go on a Mediterranean honeymoon, where he soon finds the affects of his own beauty regulations are more than he can handle. He bids adieu to his new bride, wings it back to Paris with the intention of giving up his practice and becoming a scientific researcher...after winning back the love of his simple, unadorned secretary, Anne.
Rotten Tomatoes:   In this film, Cary Grant stars as high-priced beautician Dr. Maurice Lamar, who does so spectacular a job on his plain-jane client Eve Caron that Eve's jealous husband Marcel divorces her. Eve marries Maurice on the rebound, but she drives him crazy with her shallow vanity.
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