Irene (1940) (MOD)

Irene (1940) (MOD)After a food spill ruins the haute couture fashion she's supposed to model at an elegant charity soiree, ex shopgirl Irene O'Dare (Anna Neagle) puts on a vintage blue gown that belonged to her late mother. The dress showcased in a rich Technicolor sequence becomes a sensation. So does lrene when the buzz goes round the party that she's a royal heiress. Her shop manager, eager to exploit the gossip and sell more dresses, adds to the illusion by putting

constantly moving and changing aliases to flee facing charges from an inadvertent crime they committed as war protestors 15 years earlier

Private Hargrove and What Next

the dangers of working the rigs

the man and the movie

Just as Mary finds her dreams coming true and her career on the upswing

and now Jack Clayton has done it superbly in Our Mother's House

March is Robert Browning

and pays heroic tribute

And she's got one - Chip Coburn

There's much more to love

but savvy fans will not scenes that are undeniably the new

a political martyr slain for the great cause he lived and breathed