Jeanne Crain

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People Will Talk review by from London

A Neglected Classic 3 November 2005
... status. Unusually for a romantic comedy the first few minutes concern an unwed Jeanne Crain attempting suicide when she learns from doctor Cary Grant that she is pregnant.... Read customer review

Man without a Star on DVD (1955)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Jeanne Crain, Claire Trevor
Director: King Vidor
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Dempsey Rae, a cowboy with no clear aim in life, winds up working on a spread with a hard lady owner just arrived from the East. She needs a tough new top hand and uses all her means of persuasion to get Rae to take the job. But he doesn't like the way the other settlers are getting treated and ..read more »

54% from 22 members

Belles On Their Toes on DVD (1952)
Starring: Jeffrey Hunter, Myrna Loy, Jeanne Crain
Director: Henry Levin
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The Gilbreth family is back in this sequel to 1950's CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN, picking up where the original left off. Myrna Loy reprises her role as the sturdy Lillian Gilbreth, mother of twelve children; faced with supporting her brood by herself, she puts her engineering qualifications to use, ..read more »

66% from 57 members

People Will Talk on DVD (1951)
Starring: Cary Grant, Jeanne Crain, Finlay Currie
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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A lovely movie featuring Cary Grant in one of his more inscrutable roles as an angel of mercy to the sick, recalling his work in THE BISHOP'S WIFE. PEOPLE WILL TALK focuses on Dr. Praetorius, a non-traditional doctor whose patients and medical students love him, while his success spurs the jealousy ..read more »

64% from 448 members

Cheaper By The Dozen on DVD (1950)
Starring: Myrna Loy, Jeanne Crain, Clifton Webb
Director: Walter Lang
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Clifton Webb stars in this lighthearted comedy as a patriarch who has more children than he can count on both hands. Along with his loving wife, played with dry humour by Myrna Loy, Frank Gilbreth must contend with the problems of five fathers. This includes a mass tonsillectomy and the eldest ..read more »

65% from 151 members

The Fan on DVD (1949)
Starring: Richard Greene, Madeleine Carroll, Jeanne Crain
Director: Otto Preminger
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Otto Preminger directed 1949 adaptation of the classic Oscar Wilde 4 act comedy 'Lady Windermere's Fan' starring Jeanne Craine, Madeleine Carroll and George Sanders. The witty dialogue flows as misunderstanding follows misunderstanding in the tangled lives of an aristocratic couple leading finally ..read more »

62% from 61 members

A Letter To Three Wives on DVD (1949)
Starring: Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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A woman called Addie Ross has left town, and as her three former best friends board a boat for a day trip, they read her letter which drops the bombshell that she has eloped with one of their husbands. But doesn't say which one...

70% from 297 members

The Ghost And Mrs Muir - Gene Tierney Co... on DVD (1947)
Starring: Preston Foster, Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison
Director: William A. Wellman, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, John Ford
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz's bittersweet, sparkling romance between a young widow and a sea captain's ghost weaves a magical tale of immortal love. Determined to live her life the way she wants, newly widowed Lucy Muir (Gene Tierney) declines her straitlaced in-laws' demand that she live with them and ..read more »

72% from 1,107 member

Leave Her to Heaven - Gene Tierney Colle... on DVD (1946)
Starring: Gene Tierney, Preston Foster, Cornel Wilde
Director: John M. Stahl, William A. Wellman, John Ford
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Gene Tierney stars as a father-fixated girl who picks a husband because of his resemblance to Daddy, and is then consumed with possessive, destructive jealousy.

67% from 469 members

State Fair on DVD (1945)
Starring: Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews, Dick Haymes
Director: Walter Lang
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In this rousing celebration of love and laughter in America's heartland, each member of the Frake family is out for a different prize when they attend their state fair. Father wants a blue ribbon for his favourite pet pig. First prize, and only first prize, will do for Mom's entry in the pie-baking ..read more »

61% from 388 members

Laura - Gene Tierney Collection (1944)
Starring: Preston Foster, Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews
Director: William A. Wellman, Otto Preminger, John Ford
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Nominated for five Academy Awards, this stylish mystery thriller twists and turns with new suspects, new evidence and unexpected revelations. A wealthy, acid-tongued journalist (Clifford Webb) becomes entranced with a beautiful young career woman named Laura (Gene Tierney). But entrancement leads ..read more »

72% from 805 members
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Thunder Birds - Gene Tierney Collection on DVD (1942)
Starring: Gene Tierney, Preston Foster, Clifton Webb
Director: William A. Wellman, John Ford, Otto Preminger
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This drama from 1942 was directed by Oscar-winner William A. Wellman, and features stunning aerial photography, that was highly advanced for the time. John Sutton stars as Peter Stackhouse, a British aviophobe who is nonetheless determined to become a pilot. Stackhouse's resolution comes from his ..read more »

52% from 58 members

Tobacco Road - Gene Tierney Collection on DVD (1941)
Starring: Charley Grapewin, Preston Foster, Clifton Webb
Director: William A. Wellman, John Ford, Otto Preminger
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Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of hillbilly stereotypes live in a rural backwater where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank's plans to take over the land for more profitable farming; subplots involve the affairs and marriages of son ..read more »

59% from 87 members

Gene Tierney Collection (5 discs) on DVD
Starring: Gene Tierney, Preston Foster, Clifton Webb
Director: William A. Wellman, John Ford, William A. Well
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Features the Gene Tierney films THUNDER BIRDS, TOBACCO ROAD, LAURA, LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN, and THE GHOST AND MRS MUIR.

70% from 416 members

Man without a Star - 2.5 stars
Belles On Their Toes - 3.5 stars
People Will Talk - 3.0 stars
Cheaper By The Dozen - 3.5 stars
The Fan - 3.0 stars

Clifton Webb - 8 times - show films
George Sanders - 8 times - show films
Rex Harrison - 7 times - show films
Preston Foster - 7 times - show films
Gene Tierney - 7 times - show films

Otto Preminger - 8 times - show films
John Ford - 7 times - show films
William A. Wellman - 7 times - show films
Joseph L. Mankiewicz - 3 times - show films
John M. Stahl - 2 times - show films