September Affair (1950)
Low-Grade Romantics For a movie starring Joseph Cotten , Joan Fontaine and Jessica Tandy , September Affair was a real stinker! Completely predictable within the first 15 minutes, acting was flat and the premise, so sad, the whole movie was gloomy. And not gloomy in the Se7en sense of the word... just flat out gloomy. As a matter of fact, this picture represents the only good part of the film:
The Constant Nymph (1943)
He tried to divide his heart and broke theirs Ya' know...I have no idea why I'm still surprised by some movies. The Constant Nymph really surprised me! Surprise the first - how good it was! Another surprise was the subject matter - an (unrealized) romance involving a fully grown married man (played by Charles Boyer) and a fourteen year old (Joan Fontaine). That in itself was quite surprising, especially in view of my romantically naive view of that era of American life. But none of that was as surprising as my reaction in th…
