Top cast:Shirley MacLaine,Olympia Dukakis,Sally Field
Director:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Genre:Musical
Region:Canada
Year:2007
Storyline:They are abruptly brought out of their insulated and carefree world by their father""s unpopular but courageous defense of a black man named Tom Robinson (Brock Peters) falsely accused of raping a Southern white woman.Only one of the three survives physically intact, but all of them emerge irrevocably changed.This ambitious drama displays the reasons for the protagonists, all believers in the American dream, to leave home for the conflict overseas: to test and prove their manhood, to show their friendship-solidarity, and to demonstrate their patriotism, etc.He struggled to find the properly-stated, appropriate viewpoint about Manhattan, and the perfect beginning for his new novel, to the tune of George Gershwin""s gloriousRhapsody in Blue.A summary of heir films from 1935 to 1942 included:Naughty Marietta (1935)Rose-Marie (1936)Maytime (1937)Girl of The Golden West (1938)Sweethearts (1938)New Moon (1940)Bittersweet (1940)I Married an Angel (1942)The film was based upon the Broadway musical (of the same name) that premiered in 1924.Knowing that he has not seen her daughter Elaine""s (Katharine Ross) portrait done the previous Christmas, she lures him up the stairs to Elaine""s bedroom.