Ann Sheridan
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- “I Was a Male War Bride”
- In Howard Hawks: Films of the 1940s
…the Women’s Army Corps (Ann Sheridan). The only that way he can accompany her to the States is to masquerade as a woman.
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- In Howard Hawks: Films of the 1940s
- “Juke Girl”
- In Curtis Bernhardt: Early years in Hollywood
…Juke Girl (1942), playing, with Ann Sheridan, exploited fruit pickers charged unjustly with murder. On loan to Paramount, Bernhardt made Happy Go Lucky (1943), a pleasant though not very memorable musical featuring Dick Powell, Mary Martin, and Betty Hutton. Of more interest was the suspenseful Conflict (1945), which starred
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- In Curtis Bernhardt: Early years in Hollywood
association with
- Farrow
- In John Farrow: Early life and work
…She Loved a Fireman, with Ann Sheridan; and Men in Exile. In 1938 he helmed The Invisible Menace (again starring Karloff) and two Sheridan vehicles—Little Miss Thoroughbred and Broadway Musketeers—along with the Kay Francis tearjerker My Bill.
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- In John Farrow: Early life and work
- Litvak
- In Anatole Litvak: The Hollywood years
…thief sentenced to prison and Ann Sheridan as his girlfriend. Litvak was next given a more prestigious production, the lavish All This, and Heaven Too (1940), which was based on a popular novel by Rachel Field about a governess (Davis) who falls in love with her employer (Boyer) and is…
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- In Anatole Litvak: The Hollywood years
- Wood
- In Sam Wood: Wood’s heyday
The cast included Ann Sheridan, Ronald Reagan, Claude Rains, Betty Field, and Coburn. Some of the book’s more controversial aspects, including incest and homosexuality, had to be toned down to meet the Production Code standards. The drama received an Academy Award nomination for best picture, and Wood earned…
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- In Sam Wood: Wood’s heyday