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Movies of 1942 stand test of time
Calder Pickett recalls a wartime film year, praising 1942 as a standout alongside 1939. He highlights Mrs. Miniver Casablanca Yankee Doodle Dandy Pride of the Yankees In Which We Serve Random Harvest Now, Voyager Kings Row Talk of the Town Ball of Fire Sullivan's Travels Woman of the Year The Man Who Came to Dinner This Gun for Hire The Glass Key Bambi You Were Never Lovelier Holiday Inn White Christmas and other titles, noting strong performances by Reed Reagan Grant Cary Arthur and more.
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Wuthering Heights
Stagecoach
Mr. Smith
Washington
Academy People
Cagney
Broadway
Gary Cooper
Lou Gehrig
Noel Coward
Wake Island
Ronald N. Greer Garson
Voyager
Paul Henreid
Bette Davis
Utah
Kings Row
Ronald Reagan
Cary Grant
Jean Arthur
Colman
Barbara Stanwyck
Sullivan
Preston Sturges
Joel McCrea
Dorothy Thompson
Spencer Tracy
Katharine Hepburn
James Thurber
Henry Fonda
Monty Woolley
Alexander Woollcott
Robert Young
Putham
Esquire
Alfred Hitchcock
Hitchcock
Alan
Bambi
Gal
Judy Garland
Gene Kelly
Fred Astaire
Rita Hayworth
Jerome Kern
Crosby and Astaire
Calder Pickett
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