Beulah Bondi

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Make Way For Tomorrow review by FrankIV from

Forgotten Masterpiece 13 June 2011
...s shown with sympathy and understanding. The performances are outstanding - how Beulah Bondi, unrecognisable playing twenty years older than herself, was not in the Academy... Read customer review

So Dear To My Heart on DVD (1948)
Starring: Burl Ives, Beulah Bondi, Harry Carey
Director: Harold Schuster
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This delightful Disney film which combines live-action with animation, tells the story of a young boy who takes his ill-tempered black sheep to the county fair in the hope of winning a medal. This heart-warming and nostalgic film also includes several lively songs and animated sequences.

59% from 291 members

It's A Wonderful Life - Blu-ray (1946)
Starring: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore
Director: Frank Capra
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The legendary James Stewart (HARVEY, VERTIGO) stars as George Bailey. George is a noble man who has spent much of his life on a crusade to stop shady local businessman Henry Potter (Lionel Barrymore - TREASURE ISLAND, DUEL IN THE SUN) from taking over the picturesque town of Bedford Falls. However, ..read more »

86% from 232 members
Not available for rental

It's A Wonderful Life on DVD (1946)
Starring: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore
Director: Frank Capra
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The legendary James Stewart (HARVEY, VERTIGO) stars as George Bailey. George is a noble man who has spent much of his life on a crusade to stop shady local businessman Henry Potter (Lionel Barrymore - TREASURE ISLAND, DUEL IN THE SUN) from taking over the picturesque town of Bedford Falls. However, ..read more »

81% from 5,715 members

Back to Bataan on DVD (1945)
Starring: John Wayne, Anthony Quinn, Beulah Bondi
Director: Edward Dmytryk
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Guerrillas are trained to go in and fight the Japanese after the fall of Bataan during World War 2.

62% from 375 members

Penny Serenade on DVD (1941)
Starring: Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Beulah Bondi
Director: George Stevens
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When a newspaper man falls for a record store sales girl, their whirlwind courtship does not prepare him for a life of laughter, romance and tragedy. He must learn the value of true love, or face failure like he's never known. Academy Award Nominations: Best Actor--Cary Grant.

63% from 611 members

Our Town on DVD (1940)
Starring: William Holden, Martha Scott, Fay Bainter
Director: Sam Wood
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Touching film version of Thornton Wilders Pulitzer Prize winning play that explores the love, humour and pain in the lives of two families in the woodsy New Hampshire town, Grovers Corners. William Holden and Martha Scott succumb to adolescent affections before maturing, marrying and bearing a ..read more »

47% from 49 members

Three Faces West / Shepherd Of The Hills on DVD (1940)
Starring: John Wayne, Sigrid Gurie, Charles Coburn
Director: Bernard Vorhaus, Henry Hathaway, Bernard Vorha
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Two features. In 'Three Faces West' a refugee physician and his daughter find themselves part of a group of townspeople who are trying to relocate out of the dust bowl region of the South Central U.S. John Wayne stars as the group's tireless leader. Also includes 'Shepherd Of The Hills'.

62% from 84 members

Mr Smith Goes To Washington on DVD (1939)
Starring: Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Claude Rains
Director: Frank Capra
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Frank Capra's classic comedy-drama established James Stewart as a lead actor in one of his finest (and most archetypal) roles. The film opens as a succession of reporters shout into telephones announcing the death of Senator Samuel Foley. Senator Joseph Paine (Claude Rains), the state's senior ..read more »

74% from 6,036 members

Vivacious Lady on DVD (1938)
Starring: Ginger Rogers, James Stewart, James Ellison
Director: George Stevens
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James Stewart and Ginger Rogers were an item when Vivacious Lady was filmed, and their obvious real-life affection for one another pours over onto the screen. Stewart plays Peter Morgan, a young botany professor who while on a visit to New York impulsively marries free-spirited nightclub singer ..read more »

64% from 33 members

Make Way for Tomorrow - Blu-ray (1937)
Starring: Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Fay Bainter
Director: Leo McCarey
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Of Make Way for Tomorrow, Orson Welles told Peter Bogdanovich: "Oh my God that's the saddest movie ever made." Long unavailable for home viewing, Leo McCarey's personal favourite among all his films (which included The Awful Truth and An Affair to Remember) is sad, yes, but it also stands as ..read more »

77% from 123 members
Not available for rental

Make Way For Tomorrow (1937)
Starring: Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Fay Bainter
Director: Leo McCarey
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While not a box-office success, this drama, directed by Leo McCarey, developed a potent reputation among film critics and movie buffs for its sensitive and perceptive treatment of the problems of the elderly. When McCarey won the Oscar for Best Director the same year for The Awful Truth, he ..read more »

76% from 73 members
Not available for rental

The Trail Of Lonesome Pine on DVD (1936)
Starring: Spanky McFarland, Henry Fonda, Fuzzy Knight
Director: Henry Hathaway
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This adaptation of John Fox Jr.'s novel was the first feature to be shot outdoors in Technicolor. It tells the tale of a railroad engineer who inadvertently fans the flames of an ancient family feud when he arrives to build a line through the Blue Ridge Mountains. Academy Award Nominations: Best ..read more »

54% from 20 members

So Dear To My Heart - 3.0 stars
It's A Wonderful Life - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
It's A Wonderful Life - 4.0 stars
Back to Bataan - 3.0 stars
Penny Serenade - 3.0 stars

The Trail Of Lonesome Pine - 2.5 stars
Vivacious Lady - 3.0 stars
Our Town - 2.5 stars
So Dear To My Heart - 3.0 stars
Back to Bataan - 3.0 stars

Thomas Mitchell - 6 times - show films
Fay Bainter - 5 times - show films
James Stewart - 5 times - show films
Bob Scott - 3 times - show films
Donna Reed - 3 times - show films

Frank Capra - 4 times - show films
Sam Wood - 3 times - show films
George Stevens - 3 times - show films
Leo McCarey - 2 times - show films
Henry Hathaway - 2 times - show films