Роль неряшливой, вульгарной Марты принесла Элизабет Тейлор ее вторую Награду Американской Киноакадемии, а также — Награду Нью-Йоркских кинокритиков и Награду Британской киноакадемии как лучшей актрисе. Ричард Бартон играет ее мужа, раздираемого на части эмоциями профессора истории. Джордж Сигал и Санди Деннис играют молодую пару новичков на факультете, которые попадают в паутину Джорджа и Марты, и понимают, что их собственный брак находится под угрозой…
My Country 'Tis of Thee is a 1950 short documentary supervised by Gordon Hollingshead. It is a panoramic view of American history from the coming of the pilgrims all the way through to 1950. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Short Subject, Two-Reel.
In this light-hearted musical, an early color film, a successful actress tires of the bustle and hustle of her tawdry life and settles down to what she thinks is the blissful mundaneness of married life. Unfortunately, the actual drudgery of wifedom takes her by surprise and domestic turmoil ensues.
Mammy features Al Jolson as the star of a travelling minstrel show, appearing in a small Southern town. Jolson falls in love with an actress in the troupe (Lois Moran), but she loves another. One of Jolson's fellow minstrels (Lowell Sherman) is shot backstage, and it is assumed thanks to several plot convolutions that Jolson is guilty of the deed.
Vitaphone production reels #2471-2478; third Warner Bros. feature film - the first being The Jazz Singer and the second Tenderloin - to include talking sequences, along with the by now usual Vitaphone musical score and sound effects. A copy of this film survives at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., but the sound disks are lost.
