Warner’s pro director Michael Curtiz (Casablanca, Mildred Pearce) made this overbaked melodrama in 1950, revolving around a romantic triangle, with Gary Cooper at the center, torn between his attraction to two different women, played by Lauren Bacall and Patricia Neal, who steals every scene she is in.
Bright Leaf (1950): Curtiz’ Melodrama, Starring Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal and Lauren Bacall
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Designing Woman (1957): Minnelli’s Oscar-Winning Comedy, Starring Gregory Peck, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Gray (Gender, Masculinity)
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“Designing Woman” boasts high production values at the expense of an original or witty script, basically a reworking of the Trcay-Hepburn first comedy, “Woman of the Year.”
