Tag Archives: Since You Went Away

Dark Victory (1939)

Posted on March 27, 2026 by Mark DuPré

Melodramas have a bad reputation, as if this were a lesser genre than say, the musical, action/adventure, the biopic, the suspenseful thriller, and horror. But Gone with the Wind was a melodrama, as was Titanic. More recently, Manchester by the … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Older Films | Tagged Academy Awards, All This and Heaven Too, awards, Bette Davis, Beyond the Forest, Casablanca, Dangerous, Dark Victory, Edmund Goulding, Emilia Perez, film, George Brent, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Gone with the Wind, Grand Hotel, High Sierra, Humphrey Bogart, In This Our Life, Jezebel, Johnny Belinda, King's Row, Knute Rockne All American, Life with Father, Manchester by the Sea, Max Steiner, MGM, Mildred Pierce, movies, Now Voyager, Of Human Bondage, Oscars, Petrified Forest, Ronald Reagan, Scarlett O'Hara, Since You Went Away, The Caine Mutiny, The Garden of Allah, The Great Lie, The Informer, The Iron Claw, The Maltese Falcon, The Old Maid, The Rich are Always With Us, The Roaring Twenties, The Whale, Vivien Leigh, Warner Brothers, Wuthering Heights | Leave a comment

Since You Went Away (1944)

Posted on October 21, 2023 by Mark DuPré

I thought for years that I had been missing a “must see” film, one produced by Gone with the Wind producer David O. Selznick, nominated for nine Oscars, and featuring, as the trailer tells us, “The Most Distinguished Cast of … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Older Films | Tagged Claudette Colbert, David O. Selznick, deep focus, Duel in the Son, Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel, It Happened One Night, It's a Wonderful Life, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotton, Lee Garmes, Lionel Barrymore, Monty Woolley, Mr. Potter, Mrs. Miniver, Portrait of Jennie, Rebecca, Robert Walker, Scarface, Shanghai Express, Shirley Temple, Since You Went Away, Stanley Cortez, Strangers on a Train, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Paradine Case, The Song of Bernadette | Leave a comment

Tough Films, Great Performances: The Informer (1935) and The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)

Posted on August 20, 2020 by Mark DuPré

I’m not sure exactly what I imagined The Informer to be, but it wasn’t what I expected. This is the film that gave John Ford his first of four Best Director Oscars (still unmatched) and gave an Oscar to lead … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Older Films | Tagged Battle Cry, Birdman or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance, Caged, Casablanca, Charles Laughton, Clark Cable, Dark Victory, Detective Story, Eleanor Powell, Elmer Bernstein, Ernest Borgnine, Franchot Tone, Frank Sinatra, From Here to Eternity, Gone with the Wind, Interrupted Melody, Jezebel, John Ford, Johnny Belinda, Kim Novak, Life with Father, Marlon Brando, Marty, Max Steiner, Mutiny on the County, Now Voyager, Otto Preminger, Sergeant York, Since You Went Away, The Caine Mutiny, The Garden of Allah, The Gay Divorcee, The Informer, The Letter, The Man with the Golden Arm, The Moon is Blue, The Sound of Music, Victor McLaughlin | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Since You Went Away

Dark Victory (1939)

Since You Went Away (1944)

Tough Films, Great Performances: The Informer (1935) and The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)

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