The best Evelyn Varden’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Evelyn Varden’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Evelyn Varden.
The Night of the Hunter
8/10
In the Deep South, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
The Bad Seed
7.4/10
Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark and his wife, Christine, dote on their daughter, Rhoda -- as does their lonely landlady, Monica Breedlove. But self-centered Rhoda has a secret tendency for selfishness and loves to accumulate gifts, whether given or stolen, in her room. Christine keeps her knowledge of her daughter's darker side to herself, but when a schoolmate of Rhoda's dies mysteriously, her self-deception unravels.
Désirée
6.4/10
In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding Genaral Jean-Baptiste Berandotte, an aid to Napoleon who later joins the forces that bring about the Emperor's downfall. Josephine Beauharnais, a worldly courtesan marries Napoleon and becomes Empress of France, but is then cast aside by her spouse when she proves unable to produce an heir to the throne.
Pinky
7.2/10
Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white while at school in the North. In addition, Pinky has fallen in love with a young white doctor, Dr. Thomas Adams, who knows nothing about her black heritage.
Athena
5.9/10
A stuffy young lawyer's outlook on life drastically changes when he meets a perky health food enthusiast and her wacky family.
Ten Thousand Bedrooms
5.6/10
In this musical-comedy, Dean Martin plays an American hotel mogul who becomes smitten with a young Italian woman (Anna Maria Alberghetti) when buying a hotel in Rome. To marry this gal, he has to get her three older sisters married off.
Phone Call from a Stranger
7/10
Four strangers board a plane and become fast friends, but a catastrophic crash leaves only one survivor. He then sets off on a journey to discover who these people were, but ultimately discovers the devastating truth about himself.
Hilda Crane
6.3/10
After two failed marriages, a disillusioned woman returns to her hometown to start life anew.
When Willie Comes Marching Home
6.4/10
When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero, but he is only frustrated when his posting ends up to be in his home town, and he is recruited into training, keeping him from the action. However, when he finds himself accidently behind enemy lines he unexpectedly becomes a hero after all.
Stella
6.5/10
Screwball black comedy about a wacky family that forgets where they've buried a corpse.
The Student Prince
6.5/10
A prince has a romance with a barmaid before he must give up personal happiness for duty.
Elopement
6.4/10
Two sets of parents frantically race to stop their eloping children's wedding.
Finders Keepers
6/10
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