Directed by Mitchell Leisen • 1939 • United States
Starring Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore
Arriving at Paris’s Gare de l’Est train station with only her gold lamé gown on her back, penniless American ex-showgirl Eve Peabody (Claudette Colbert) must use her wiles in order to work her way up in high society. Assuming the identity of the “Baroness Czerny,” Eve crashes a swanky soiree and soon finds herself entangled in the marital complications of a scheming aristocrat (John Barrymore) while being pursued by a lovestruck cab driver (Don Ameche). As scripted by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder, this fizzy screwball is a sophisticated cocktail of romance, deception, and double, triple, and quadruple entendres galore.
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The Flame of New Orleans
Directed by René Clair • 1941 • United States
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The Major and the Minor
Directed by Billy Wilder • 1942 • United States
Starring Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Rita JohnsonThe great Billy Wilder made the leap from hitmaking Hollywood screenwriter to acclaimed writer-director with this fizzy, innuendo-laden (“Why don’t you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martin...
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Frenchman’s Creek
Directed by Mitchell Leisen • 1944 • United States
Starring Joan Fontaine, Basil Rathbone, Arturo de Córdova“Rebecca” author Daphne du Maurier’s swashbuckling novel gets a deluxe film adaptation, complete with lavish seventeenth-century period detail, gorgeous Technicolor cinematography, and a ...
