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1947's Dark Passage with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.

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1933's Dinner At Eight starring Jean Harlow.

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Clip description: "Horror emerges from the muck and the mire of the Amazon in Universal Studio's classic trilogy The Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954), Revenge Of the Creature (1955) and The Creature Walks Among Us. (1956)."

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1957's Sweet Smell Of Success starring Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis.

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Fred Astaire, Audrey Hepburn and Kay Thompson in 1957's Funny Face.

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1949's Flamingo Road starring Joan Crawford.

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1952's Singing In The Rain, starring Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, and Donald O'Connor.

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1953's From Here To Eternity.

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1953's Roman Holiday starring Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, and Eddie Albert

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1940's Rebecca, starring Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier.

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1936's San Francisco starring Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald and Spencer Tracy.

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A holiday double-feature from the TOQ:

ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (1955) &
FAR FROM HEAVEN (2002)

An interesting comparison exists between the two films chosen for the Christmas episode of STEVE HAYES: Tired Old Queen at the Movies . Douglas Sirks' ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (1955) follows the love affair between a well-to-do middle-aged widow with grown children, Jane Wyman, and her gardener, Rock Hudson, who is twenty years younger. Todd Haynes' FAR FROM HEAVEN takes the same scenario, but has the woman, Julianne Moore, losing her husband played by Dennis Quaid, to a gay lover. She too finds solace in the arms of her gardener, this time a handsome black man, played by Dennis Haysburt. Each film takes a pot shot at the conservatism of the 1950's with the latter adding a more realistic 90's edge. Both offer fascinating and moving holiday viewing by two iconic filmmakers. Happy Holidays!

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1946's The Razor's Edge starring Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne, Clifton Webb, and Anne Baxter.

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1959's Separate Tables starring Burt Lancaster, Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, David Niven and Wendy Hiller.

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1939's Midnight, starring Claudette Colbert, Dom Ameche, Mary Astor, and Rex O'Malley.

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1960's The Apartment, starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley McClaine.

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1954's The Naked Jungle, starring Charlton Heston and Eleanor Parker.

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1940's Pride And Prejudice, starring Greer Garson, Laurence Olivier, Maureen O'Sullivan, Melville Cooper, and Marsha Hunt.

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1946's Green For Danger starring Trevor Howard.

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1947's The Ghost And Mrs. Muir, starring Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, and Natalie Wood.