Someone call the doctor!: Three Men in White (1944)

The medical profession is one of the most exciting to explore on screens big and small. Hollywood has a tendency to glamorize doctors and emergency rooms. This is not the case with Three Men in White, but it does take a somewhat lighthearted approach to the field of medicine and the lives of doctors. Dr. …

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The Brewster Family Curse

Frank's Capra's Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) is one of those movies that never gets old. I dissolve into uncontrollable laughter each time I watch it, and it actually gets funnier the more I see it. While I don't have the film memorized, I can quote much of it. And it has one of the …

Summer Under the Stars: Van Johnson in Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)

"What has Gable got for me? Or Mrs. Johnson's blonde boy Van?" Once upon a time, these lyrics from "Prehistoric Man" in On the Town applied to me. I thought Van Johnson was about the most boring boy next door MGM ever imagined. But Van, reaching out from the grave, didn't want me to merely change …