Jean Negulesco

The Best of Everything

Admin — Fri, 09 Oct 1959 00:00:00 +0000

An expose of the lives and loves of Madison Avenue working girls and their higher ups.

Boy on a Dolphin

Admin — Thu, 18 Apr 1957 00:00:00 +0000

Phaedra is a poor sponge diver on the lovely Greek isle of Hydra. While diving, she discovers an ancient brass and gold stature of a boy riding a dolphin, which is said to have the magical power to grant wishes. Her shiftless boyfriend wants to sell it to an unscrupulous art collector, but Phaedra wants to give it to anthropologist Jim Calder, who would return it to the Greek government.

Daddy Long Legs

Admin — Thu, 05 May 1955 00:00:00 +0000

Wealthy American, Jervis Pendleton has a chance encounter at a French orphanage with a cheerful 18-year-old residen, and anonymously pays for her education at a New England college. She writes letters to her mysterious benefactor regularly, but he never writes back. Several years later, he visits her at school, while still concealing his identity, and—despite their large age difference—they soon fall in love.

Woman’s World

Admin — Thu, 30 Sep 1954 00:00:00 +0000

Needing to fill the position of general manager of his company, and believing that an executive’s wife is crucial to her husband’s success, auto industry mogul Gifford brings three couples to New York to size up: Jerry and Carol: he hard-driven and self-reliant, she willing to use her beauty to further her husband’s career; Sid and Elizabeth, he ulcer-ridden and torn between achieving success and restoring their troubled marriage, she positive that his job will kill him, but gamely agreeing to play the good wife for the duration; and down-to-earth Bill, whose good-natured Katie fears that his promotion would spell the end of their idyllic familiy existence.

Three Coins in the Fountain

Admin — Sat, 01 May 1954 00:00:00 +0000

American girls dream of finding romance in Rome, but there is none for secretaries, Anita tells her replacement at the USDA. But Maria soon meets Prince Dino de Cessi at a party at her boss’s home who invites her to fly to Venice in his private plane. Frances, who has been in Rome for 15 years as the secretary of a successful American writer who talks a lot like George Bernard Shaw and is just as elusive as Professor Henry Higgins in “My Fair Lady,” tells her at first to say “no” and then decides that together they can handle the man nicknamed the predatory prince. Coins tossed in the Trevi Fountain can indeed work magic.

How to Marry a Millionaire

Admin — Thu, 29 Oct 1953 00:00:00 +0000

Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process.

Titanic

Admin — Sat, 11 Apr 1953 00:00:00 +0000

Unhappily married, Julia Sturges decides to go to America with her two children on the unsinkable Titanic. Her husband, Richard also arranges passage on the luxury liner so as to have custody of their two children. All this fades to insignificance once the ship hits an iceberg.

O. Henry’s Full House

Admin — Thu, 07 Aug 1952 00:00:00 +0000

Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critic’s acclaim was “The Cop and the Anthem”. Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he is going to get arrested so he can spend the winter in a nice jail cell. He fails. He can’t even accost a woman; she turns out to be a streetwalker. The other stories are “The Clarion Call”, “The Last Leaf”, “The Ransom of Red Chief”, and “The Gift of the Magi”.

Road House

Admin — Wed, 22 Sep 1948 00:00:00 +0000

A night club owner becomes infatuated with a torch singer and frames his best friend/manager for embezzlement when the chanteuse falls in love with him.

Johnny Belinda

Admin — Tue, 14 Sep 1948 00:00:00 +0000

A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.