Biography: Peggy Wood |
Born in Brooklyn, NY, Peggy Wood was the daughter of a popular Manhattan columnist. Gifted with a lilting soprano voice, she began her stage career in musicals and operettas. Her chief Broadway fame rested in multilayered dramatic roles, though she... more
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Cast: Julie Andrews Christopher Plummer Robert Wise
Tags: Musical Romance Family Musical Drama Musical
Length: 174min
One of the most popular movie musicals of all time, The Sound of Music is based on the true story of the Trapp Family Singers. Julie Andrews stars as Maria, a young nun in an Austrian convent who regularly misses her morning prayers because she enjoys...
Cast: Viveca Lindfors Tom Tryon John Banner
Tags: Religious Epic Drama Hagiography
Length: 132min
This Biblical epic stars Elana Eden as Ruth, who serves in the temple where the High Priestess (Viveca Lindfors) leads the worship of the Pagan idols of the people of Moab. When Ruth falls in love with Mahlon (Tom Tryon), a Hebrew, she must come to...
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck Robert Cummings Robert Benchley Natalie Wood
Length: 85min
Charmless films like The Bride Wore Boots helped to kill the postwar revival of the "screwball comedy" genre almost before it began. Here's the deal: Breeding-farm owner Sally (Barbara Stanwyck) loves horses. Novelist Jeff (Robert Cummings) hates...
Cast: Ginger Rogers David Niven Burgess Meredith Boyd Irwin Horace McNally
Tags: Biopic Drama Historical Film
Length: 95min
Director Frank Borzage and star Ginger Rogers both came acropper in the lavish but dull historical biopic Magnificent Doll. The usually ebullient Rogers seems encased in wax as Dolly Madison, first lady of the United States in the early 19th century....
Cast: Colin Clive
Length: 75min
The Right to Live was the second film version of Somerset Maugham's The Sacred Flame (the first, produced in 1929, starred Conrad Nagel), which in its original form posed the question "Can there truly be such a thing as a mercy killing?" Put simply,...
Cast: Will Rogers Robert Taylor
Tags: Comedy
Length: 81min
In this domestic comedy, a small town druggist is married to a woman with social aspirations. To achieve her goal, she cons him into selling his store to a chain. She then puts on all sorts of phony airs and proceeds to make a pompous fool of herself....
Cast: Clarence Brown Peggy Wood
Tags: Marriage Drama Drama
Length: 95min
Stage favorite Peggy Wood (later the star of the popular TV series Mama) made her screen debut in the MGM part-talkie Wonder of Women. Adapted from a novel by Herman Suderman, the film stars Wood as Brigitte, the wife of brilliant concert pianist...
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