Mrs. Miniver: Idyll Interrupted
Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. Photo: MGM When Joseph Goebbels, minister of propaganda, saw this movie, he was probably both disturbed and impressed. He thought it was an ingenious piece…
Best Years of Our Lives: Coming Home
Myrna Loy and Fredric March. Photo: RKO The premiere of The Best Years of Our Lives seemed to hit America like a ton of bricks. Coming the year after the…
Wuthering Heights: Love in the Moors
Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon. Photo: United Artists During the making of this classic, there was tension on set. Two of the stars, Merle Oberon and David Niven, had been…
Ben-Hur: The Gospel of Judah
Charlton Heston. Photo: MGM The kind of film that starts with a five-minute overture, Ben-Hur is about as classic a 1950s Hollywood blockbuster as they come. Burt Lancaster was reportedly…