Double Indemnity, Laura, and Arsenic and Old Lace are all among the very best 1944 movies that we now consider classics.

Seventy years ago, decades before she brought to life the deceitful mother in “The Manchurian Candidate” on screen or the reprobate baker in “Sweeney Todd” on stage, Angela Lansbury was a Cockney ...

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