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 Tomorrow Is Forever Orson Welles and Claudette Colbert star in this wartime melodrama. Shortly after Welles and Colbert marry, he's wounded and scarred in WWI. Rather than burden his new wife and child, he vanishes into a new life in Austria. Colbert marries again and carries on happily until fate brings Welles to her husband Brent's factory. Six-year-old Natalie Wood's debut. Since You Went Away This touching WWII picture focuses on the home front and the war's impact on the lives of average Americans. Colbert keeps her household and two daughters (Jones and Temple) together as they face day-to-day life without the man of the family The family deals with economic pressures (they take on boarder Woolley) and romances (Jones's relationship with soldier Walker, her real-life husband at the time). Imitation of Life The first adaptation of Hurst's famous melodrama of two hardworking women and their daughters, Widowed Colbert strives to provide for her daughter, translating a pancake recipe into a chain of restaurants. Her success in the business world, however, drives her away from her daughter. Beavers's daughter, meanwhile, discovers she can pass for white. It Happened One Night Capra built an enduring romantic comedy from the standard madcap runaway heiress routine with wit, crackling performances, and expert pacing. Heiress Colbert ignites a nationwide, tabloid-fueled chase when she abandons her wealthy lifestyle to seek simpler joys. She shares a seat on a bus and trades barbs with reporter Gable, who thinks he knows just where to find real life. Their road trip becomes a mutual education and a movie delight, with images that have passed into the American culture, such as sleeping in a haystack, the hitchhiking scene, and sharing a tourist bungalow separated only by Gable's jury-rigged walls of Jericho. This film was recognized as a masterpiece upon release (winning all five major Oscars, the first to do so) and remains so today. The Egg and I Green Acres '40s style! Colbert hits just the right note of exasperation in this lighthearted comedy about a society girl whose new husband (MacMurray) convinces her to move out to the canebrake and start a chicken farm. The finishing-school graduate struggles with the hardships of rural living - and keeps an eye out for the seductive neighbor down the road. Features the first film appearance of Ma and Pa Kettle.
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