79% (2) The Seven Year Itch 105 min, Not Rated, [Comedy, Romance] [Billy Wilder] [29 Jul 1955]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 72%, Rotten Tomatoes: 87%, External Reviews
Awards: Won 1 Golden Globe. Another 3 nominations.
Actors: Evelyn Keyes, Marilyn Monroe, Sonny Tufts, Tom Ewell
Writer: Billy Wilder (screenplay), George Axelrod (screenplay), George Axelrod (based upon an original play: "The Seven Year Itch")
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Plot: With his family away for their annual summer holiday, New Yorker Richard Sherman decides he has the opportunity to live a bachelor's life - to eat and drink what he wants and basically to enjoy life without wife and son. The beautiful but ditsy blond from the apartment above his catches his eye and they soon start spending time together. It's all innocent though there is little doubt that Sherman is attracted to her. Any lust he may be feeling is played out in his own imagination however.
Rotten Tomatoes: Like thousands of other Manhattanites, Tom Ewell annually packs his wife (Evelyn Keyes) and children off to summer vacation, staying behind to work at the office. This particular summer, the lonely Ewell begins fantasizing about the many women he'd foresworn upon getting married (in one of the fantasies, Ewell and Marguerite Chapman parody the beach rendezvous in From Here to Eternity). He is jolted back to reality when he meets his new neighbor--luscious model Marilyn Monroe. Inviting Monroe to dinner, Ewell intends to sweep her off her feet and into the boudoir. Things don't quite work out that way, thanks to Ewell's clumsiness (and essential decency) and Monroe's naivete. Still, Ewell becomes convinced that his impure thoughts will somehow be transmitted to his vacationing wife and to the rest of the world, leaving him wide open for scandal and ruination. In the original play, the husband and the next-door neighbor did have an affair, but both play and film arrived at the same happy ending, with Ewell and his missus contentedly reunited at summer's end. Featured in the cast of The Seven Year Itch are Robert Strauss as a lascivious handyman, Sonny Tufts as Evelyn Keye's former beau, Donald MacBride as Ewell's glad-handing boss, and veteran Broadway funny man Victor Moore in a cameo as a nervous plumber. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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72% (1) Miss Susie Slagle's 88 min, APPROVED, [Drama] [John Berry] [08 Mar 1946]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 72%, External Reviews
Actors: Joan Caulfield, Ray Collins, Sonny Tufts, Veronica Lake
Writer: Hugo Butler (screenplay), Anne Froelich (adaptation), Anne Froelich (screenplay), Adrian Scott (adaptation), Theodore Strauss (additional dialogue), Augusta Tucker (novel)
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Plot: Miss Susie Slagle's has opened her large home as a boarding house for medical students in Baltimore. The young men are encouraged by the compassionate Miss Susie as each struggles with the pressures of becoming doctors. One of her student boarders contracts diphtheria and dies, his loving fiancée, a student nurse bravely puts her grief aside to fulfill their dream of helping the poor in China. Finally the school year ends and Miss Susie wishes each of her boarders good success as she prepares once more to welcome a new group of eager young students.
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72% (1) Cross My Heart 85 min, PASSED, [Comedy, Music, Mystery] [John Berry] [10 Jan 1947]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 72%, External Reviews
Actors: Betty Hutton, Rhys Williams, Ruth Donnelly, Sonny Tufts
Writer: Claude Binyon (screenplay), Harry Tugend (screenplay), Charles Schnee (additional dialogue), Louis Verneuil (play), Georges Berr (play)
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Plot: A compulsive liar admits to a killing she didn't commit so her husband, a lawyer, can clear her and build a reputation for himself.
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67% (1) The Crooked Way 90 min, PASSED, [Crime, Drama, Film-Noir] [Robert Florey] [22 Apr 1949]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 67%, External Reviews
Actors: Ellen Drew, John Payne, Rhys Williams, Sonny Tufts
Writer: Robert Monroe (radio play "No Blade Too Sharp"), Richard H. Landau (screenplay)
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Plot: A World War II veteran, suffering from amnesia but otherwise healthy, is released from a veteran's hospital, decides to return to Los Angeles to see if he can regain his identity. Trying to retrace his former steps he soon learns that he was a double-crossing gangster, and many people have reasons to wish he wasn't around...and some try to see to it that he isn't around very long...alive, at least.
Rotten Tomatoes: Postwar films were festooned with amnesiac ex-GIs who found themselves mixed up with crime. In The Crooked Way, John Payne plays memory-deficient veteran Eddie Rice, who runs afoul of mobster Vince Alexander (Sonny Tufts) and police inspector Lt. Williams (Rhys Williams). Both the crooks and the cops seem to have good reason to despise Rice, and he'd like to find out why. He won't get any help from his wife Nina (Ellen Drew), however, since she is as hostile towards Rice as everyone else. Gradually, Rice puts the pieces together and discovers that he's far better off not remembering his former self. Film noir habitues Percy Helton, John Doucette and Greta Grandstedt are eminently suited to their minor roles. The Crooked Way was based on "No Blade Too Sharp", a radio drama by Robert Monroe.
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65% (1) Easy Living 77 min, Not Rated, [Drama, Sport] [Jacques Tourneur] [11 Aug 1950]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 65%, External Reviews
Actors: Lizabeth Scott, Lucille Ball, Sonny Tufts, Victor Mature
Writer: Charles Schnee (screenplay), Irwin Shaw (story "Education of the Heart")
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Plot: Pete Wilson is on top. He is the highest paid professional football player in the league. He has seen other players come and go, but he was MVP last year and the future looks rosy. His wife, Liza, is there for the fame, the money, the good times and does not like those who are washed up. His friend Tim, just retired and accepted a job as head coach at State. But Pete discovers that he has a condition that may end his career and all that he knows is football.
Rotten Tomatoes: In the film based on a story by Irwin Shaw, a has-been football player (Victor Mature) tries to adjust to normal life but finds his progress impeded by his wife (Lizabeth Scott) and secretary (Lucille Ball).
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61% (1) The Well-Groomed Bride 75 min, APPROVED, [Comedy, Romance] [Sidney Lanfield] [17 May 1946]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 61%, External Reviews
Actors: James Gleason, Olivia de Havilland, Ray Milland, Sonny Tufts
Writer: Claude Binyon (screenplay), Robert Russell (screenplay), Robert Russell (story)
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Plot: A man and a woman fight over the last bottle of champagne left in San Francisco--she wants it for a wedding, and he wants to use it to christen a ship.
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