Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)- Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston - An energy–filled and well–loved musical biography of Show–Biz King George Cohan, played by James Cagney.
You Were Never Lovelier (1942)- Dir. William A Seiter
Feat. Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth - Gently funny musical with Fred Astaire pursuing Rita Hayworth.
49th Parallel (1941)- Dir. Michael Powell
Feat. Laurence Olivier - A taut, effective actioner in which five German U–boat men become stranded off the Canadian coast and try to make it overland to the neutral…
Ball of Fire (1941)- Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper, Dana Andrews…
- Screwball comedy with Gary Cooper playing a professor working hard on a new encyclopedia with his colleagues, who meets a nightclub performer…
Big Store, The (1941)- Dir. Charles Riesner
Feat. Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx - Marx Bros. let loose in a department store.
Black Cat, The (1941)- Dir. Albert S. Rogell
Feat. Basil Rathbone, F. Hugh Herbert, Broderick Crawford… - A curious genre hybrid for the time, both haunted house movie and comedy (with the help of comedy actor Bob Hope), adapting the Edgar Allan Poe story…
Blood and Sand (1941)- Dir. Rouben Mamoulian
Feat. Tyrone Power, Rita Hayworth - Steamy romantic tragedy with Tyrone Power as an accomplished but naive matador whose bull–ring heroics take a back–seat for brazen Rita…
Blossoms in the Dust (1941)- Dir. Mervyn LeRoy
Feat. Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Marsha Hunt - Campaigner for orphans–rights Greer Garson frets and furrows her brow to perfection in this slick, high–minded weepie.
Bride Came C.O.D., The (1941)- Dir. William Keighley
Feat. James Cagney, Bette Davis, Stuart Erwin… - Slapstick rom–com with Cagney as cash–strapped charter pilot who is hired to kidnap a tycoon's daughter to prevent her marrying a vapid…
Captain Marvel (1941)- Dir. Bill Witney
Feat. Tom Tyler - Tom Tyler transforms himself into superhero Captain Marvel simply by saying the word...Shazam! Considered by some to be the finest pre–show…
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