Classic Cinema: All This and Heaven Too

All this and Heaven Too is a movie from 1940 starring Bette Davis, Charles Boyer, Barbara O’Neil, and Jeffrey Lynn. It takes place in the years leading up to the second French Revolution of 1848. This situation and characters were real. The book of the same name was written by Rachel Field the grand-niece ofContinue reading “Classic Cinema: All This and Heaven Too”

Gaslight, Classic Cinema’s Final Mental and Emotional Health Episode

If ever we needed a visual example of the methods used to manipulate how people think, this movie, Gaslight (1944) is the perfect example. That’s why Celeste and I chose it to end our series about mental and emotional health. In the movie, a young woman, played by Ingrid Bergman, finds her beloved and famousContinue reading “Gaslight, Classic Cinema’s Final Mental and Emotional Health Episode”