It Happened in Brooklyn (1947) (MOD)

It Happened in Brooklyn (1947) (MOD)Jobs are scarce. Rooms to rent are scarcer. Times aren't easy for returning GIs in the years after World War II. But falling in love, that's easy. It Happened in Brooklyn. And it happens with Frank Sinatra (in a performance critically hailed as the best of his then young screen career) starring as an ex soldier and with a lot of humor and Jule Styne Sammy Cahn songs. The Song's Gotta Come from the Heart, one tune says and, with Sinatra mimicking Jimmy

Flags of Nazi occupation fly throughout the land

senator who views the State House as an inside track to the nation's presidency

Vitti is released from Sing Sing into the custody of his therapist

Shattered Innocence pulls no punches in its depiction of a troubled girl's hard choices

the panicked youth pulls the trigger

Broadway luminaries and of course

but now must return to London to free her fiancee from a prison sentence

Herman's Hermits

Set up as the fall gal for a snuffed-out romeo

this gripping "what if" suggests who wielded the surgically sharp blade of death - and why his identity has been concealed

These hilarious

Maisie Williams