Archive for the 'Tawdry' Category
Peyton Place - 1957
Set Your Recorders, Drama, Tawdry| No Comments »I love this movie. I watched it constantly in the store. Actually this is one of my favorite movies with “Place” in the title. It is up there with Summer Place, Place in the Sun and In A Lonely Place. It is incredibly tawdry. In fact it falls into the catergorey “dictionary tawdry”.
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Imitation of Life - 1959
Set Your Recorders, Drama, Tawdry| No Comments »This is a remake of an earlier picture that starred Claudette Colbert but now it gets the Douglas Sirk treatment. Coney Island, 1947, war widow and actress Lora Meredith (Lana Turner) meets up with a homeless African American single mother Annie Johnson (Juanita Moore). Both woman have daughters close to the same age and both […]
Strangers When We Meet - 1960
Set Your Recorders, Romance, Drama, Tawdry| No Comments »Architect Larry Coe (Kirk Douglas) is missing something in life. He has a wife and family and a successful practice. It’s not until he becomes embroiled in an affair with beautiful Maggie Gault (Kim Novak), a neighbor with her own family, that he finds what he has been missing. She is in a […]
