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Sweet Home Alabama
Film Review September 27, 2002
by Kimberley Jones
Description: Sweet Home Alabama hooks itself on the idea of geographical ambivalence -- ironic then, that the film was mostly shot in stand-in (Sweet Home) Georgia. But not inappropriate, because that...  
by Kimberley Jones
"...The film's funny bone is much better served by its Southern regiment, with nice turns from sassy-as-ever Jean Smart (Designing Women), Heavenly Creatures' Melanie Lynskey, and goofy Ethan Embry (who last worked with Witherspoon on Disney's 1993 little gem, A Far Off Place). As the warring mister and missus, Lucas and Witherspoon are irresistible, their verbal sparring recalling no less than a less-civil Cary Grant and Irene Dunne (who had a similar case of domestic disturbance in The Awful Truth)..."
Brother Can You Spare a Ticket?
Screens Blog April 24, 2009
by Marc Savlov
Description: Paramount Theater's Summer Film Series 2009
"...That's just a smidgeon of The Paramount's perfectly-pitched programming for this ever-anxious summer, but you can bet your bottom dollar (or dime, as the case may be) we'll be slouched in the black back of the balcony, ogling Jean Arthur, Irene Dunne, and all our other favorite Hollywood dames as we try to come up with ever-more Runyan-esque turns of phrase and bask in the silvery stimulus that only Hollywood's Depression-era classics can ever fully provide...."
DVD Watch
Screens Review February 6, 2009
by Kimberley Jones
Description: This is the film that heralded Sirk's astonishing end-career run of gloriously over-the-top women's pictures
"...Douglas' New Testament-heavy novel and also included in the Criterion release). Stahl's black-and-white take, starring Irene Dunne and Robert Taylor, is positively screwball by comparison..."
New Year, Old Films
Screens Story December 30, 2005
by Louis Black
Description: Mid-20th-century must-sees: Part I
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NEAR-CLASSICS TO LESSER-KNOWN TITLESThe Awful Truth (1937; on DVD: Sony, $24.95): The Marx Brothers' Duck Soup director Leo McCarey helms. Cary Grant and Irene Dunne, divorced and planning to remarry others, each try to wreck the other's new relationship...."
Love Is a Battlefield
Screens Story January 11, 2002
by Kimberley Jones
Description: The Austin Film Society presents a new free series on screwball comedy.
"...Of course, every hero has his heroine, and she was just as snappy as he. Claudette Colbert, Katherine Hepburn, Carole Lombard, Irene Dunne (who co-starred in The Awful Truth): They were snap incarnate, smart cookies who slung epithets -- never vulgar: remember the Hays Code -- as sharply as their male counterparts..."
Video Reviews
Screens Review November 3, 2000
by Stephen MacMillan Moser
"...Wyman is beset with physical and emotional infirmities in most of her movies and often needs a caring friend and nurse. Magnificent Obsession, a remake of a 1934 Irene Dunne film directed by John Stahl, is a different animal than many of Sirk's productions..."
The Summer Revival Spirit
Screens Story June 12, 1998
"...D: Garson Kanin; with Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Randolph Scott, Gail Patrick...."
That Old Revival Spirit
Screens Story June 13, 1997
"...D: Leo McCarey; with Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Ralph Bellamy. (B&W, new print)..."
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June 9, 1995
"...HIS GIRL FRIDAYD: Howard Hawks; with Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy. THE AWFUL TRUTH
D: Leo McCary; with Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Ralph Bellamy.
The Paramount's summer series of film classics is well under way with a continuously changing schedule of double bills..."
His Girl Friday
Film Review June 9, 1995
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: His Girl Friday (as well as The Awful Truth) highlights Cary Grant and Ralph Bellamy in their eternal stereotypes of the cad who gets the girl and the nerd who...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
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