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Commentary
Original articles on Hollywood, and the great Classic films
Bibliography
Sources for Moderntimes Classic Film Pages, and further reading
Selected Film Images…
Film Noir
Illustrating the great American style
Nineteen Twenties
Images from the Great Silent era
Nineteen Thirties
The Great Depression and, Hollywood's peak years
Nineteen Fifties
The decline and fall of the crumbling studio system
Additional Pages…
Moderntimes
Classic Film
Pages
Screwball Comedy
A definition of the Classic genre
Rico's End
A Ttribute to
Edward G. Robinson
Ball of Fire
For the great Barbara
Stanwyck
Midnight
Ramble
The American Negro in early Hollywood
Charles Chaplin
Images and commentary on some key Chaplin films
The Bees
The magic of the second feature
Recommended Links…
A Tribute to Humphrey
Bogart
The Best Bogart page on the Web
Carol Lombard
Another beautiful Mary Murphy site
A Pretty Grim Life,
Actually
Cool article on Frank Capra
Viv and Larry Dot
Com
Kendra's beautiful site, celebrating Vivien Leigh, and Laurence
Olivier
Preston Sturges
The
Official Site, extremely cool
Alec Guinness
Mary Murphy's tribute
Film Noir Studies
All you need to know about the classic American genre
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The Bank Dick
Universal International 1940
W.C. Fields. Billy J. Mitchell
The Grapes of Wrath
Twentieth Century-Fox 1940
Henry Fonda
His Girl Friday
Columbia 1940
Ralph Bellamy, Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell
The Letter
Warner Brothers 1940
Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall
The Mortal Storm
MGM 1940
Margaret Sullavan, Robert Young
Pride and Prejudice
MGM 1940
Greer Garson, Lawrence Olivier
Ball of Fire
Samuel Goldwyn 1941
Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper
Citizen Kane
RKO 1941
Harry Shannon, George Coulouris, Agnes Moorhead,
Buddy Swann
The Lady Eve
Paramount 1941
Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda
Meet John Doe
Liberty Films 1941
Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper
The Maltese Falcon
Warner Brothers 1941
Ward Bond, Humphrey Bogart
Suspicion
RKO 1941
Joan Fontaine
Across the Pacific
Warner Brothers 1942
Mary Astor, Humphrey Bogart
Casablanca
Warner Brothers 1942
Peter Lorre
Mrs. Miniver
MGM 1942
Teresa Wright, Walter Pidgeon, Greer Garson
A Guy Named Joe
MGM 1943
Irene Dunne, Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson
The Outlaw
Howard Huges 1943
Jane Russell
The Ox-Bow Incident
Twentieth Century-Fox 1943
Dana Andrews, Francis Ford
Hail the Conquering Hero
Paramount 1944
Franklin Pangborn, Eddie Brackin,
William Demarest
Lifeboat
Twentieth Century-Fox 1944
Henry Hull, John Hodiak, Hume Cronyn,
William Bendix, Mary Anderson, Tallulah, Bankhead
Meet Me in St. Louis
MGM 1944
Tom Drake, Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien
To Have and Have Not
Warner Brothers 1944
Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Becall
Brief Encounter
Cineguild (GB) 1945
Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Twentieth Century-Fox 1945
Peggy Ann Garner, James Dunn
Open City
Minerva (Italy) 1946
Aldo Fabrizzi, Anna Magnani
Duel in the Sun
David O Selznick 1946
Gregory Peck, Joseph Cotten
Miracle on 34th Street
Twentieth Century-Fox 1947
John Payne, Edmund Gwenn, Natalie Wood, Maureen O'Hara
Nightmare Alley
Twentieth Century-Fox 1947
Coleen Gray, Tyrone Power
Odd Man Out
GFD/Two Cities (GB) 1947
James Mason
The Two Mrs. Carrolls
Warner Brothers 1947
Adams Rib
MGM 1949
Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy
The Big Steal
RKO 1949
Robert Mitchum, William Bendix
Champion
Stanley Kramer 1949
Arthur Kennedy, Kirk Douglas
The Fountainhead
Warner Brothers 1949
Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal
The Third Man
London Films/Alexander Korda 1949
Orson Welles
I Married a Communist
RKO 1949
Robert Ryan, Laraine Day