Centennial Summer

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Centennial Summer

film by Preminger [1946]

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Laura and costume dramas
Centennial Summer (1946) was a bland if colourful musical set at the 1876 exposition in Philadelphia, with Crain, Darnell, and Cornel Wilde. In Forever Amber (1947) Darnell portrayed an ambitious 17th-century woman who overcomes her humble beginnings through a series of affairs. Because of the…
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Centennial Summer (1946) was a bland if colourful musical set at the 1876 exposition in Philadelphia, with Crain, Darnell, and Cornel Wilde. In Forever Amber (1947) Darnell portrayed an ambitious 17th-century woman who overcomes her humble beginnings through a series of affairs. Because of the…
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Cornel Wilde
…Bandit of Sherwood Forest (1946), Centennial Summer (1946), Forever Amber (1947), Road House (1948), and Shockproof (1949). In 1952 Wilde appeared in Cecil B. DeMille’s The Greatest Show on Earth, which won the Oscar for best picture. He also starred in and directed a series of action
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…Bandit of Sherwood Forest (1946), Centennial Summer (1946), Forever Amber (1947), Road House (1948), and Shockproof (1949). In 1952 Wilde appeared in Cecil B. DeMille’s The Greatest Show on Earth, which won the Oscar for best picture. He also starred in and directed a series of action
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