Technicolored Mature, Hayworth, & Landis in My Gal Sal (1942)
My Gal Sal (1942) starring Rita Hayworth, Victor Mature, and Carole Landis debuts on Twilight Time Blu.
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BR: My Gal Sal (1942)
In this highly sanitized musical biography of musician-composer Paul Dresser, Victor Mature follows the young teen’s life as musician to itinerant performer with a medicine vending troupe, and later & greater success in New York City after enjoying a series of hit songs in popular musicals…
Rita Ignites a Mighty Firestorm Down Below in 3D!
Two entries in Rita Hayworth’s separate comebacks in the 1950s: the restored 3D version of Miss Sadie Thompson (1953) on Blu from Twilight Time + Fire Down Below (1957) on DVD from Sony, and a lengthy Editor’s Blog on being ‘consistently unreasonable.’
BR: Miss Sadie Thompson (1953)
In 1949, Rita Hayworth retired from Hollywood to marry Prince Aly Khan, but when the marriage began to fracture (due in part to Khan’s affairs with other women), Hayworth began to return to acting, and the pair formally divorced in 1953. Columbia’s goal was to bring back the Love Goddess in a series of vehicles tailored to her known, branded screen persona…
DVD: Fire Down Below (1957)
After the presumably middling success of her three-picture comeback between 1952-1953, Rita Hayworth After the presumably middling success of her three-picture comeback between 1952-1953, Rita Hayworth stepped away from films again, returning four years later with Fire Down Below, a peculiar choice given Hayworth’s character Irena – a mysterious, sultry dame with a shady past – disappears from the story for almost the entire last half hour…
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