Highest-Rated Movies about 'New Haven, Conn.', Sort by Popularity
Night and Day (1946), Huddle (1932), Return to Peyton Place (1961), The Band Wagon (1953) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best New Haven, Conn. movies.
#1. Night and Day (1946)
Storyline: The fictionalized biography of composer Cole Porter from his days at Yale in the 1910s through the height of his success to the 1940s. The film's attempted biography matches many public myths surrounding Cole at the time, despite its lack of relationship with truth. For instance, truth and movie are different in regards to: his sex life (he was a gay man in a marriage of convenience with a divorcee friend), his relationship with his wife, Monty Wooley was a contemporary (not Professor), and his French military experience was a hoax.—<cole@doitall.com>
Plot Keywords: composer, nurse, friend, singer, grandfather, mother, touching ...
Movie Details Click Here!#2. Huddle (1932)
Storyline: Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company scholarship which will enable him to attend Yale college. Over the four years of his college career he learns about football, love, and class prejudice.—Thomas McWilliams <tgm@netcom.com>
Plot Keywords: football player, football coach, rival, sister, roommate, doctor, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!#3. Return to Peyton Place (1961)
Storyline: Allison (Carol Lynley) leaves her hometown of Peyton Place, N.H., for New York City after she's contacted by Lewis Jackman (Jeff Chandler), a powerful publisher who's interested in her tell-all book about her hometown. In the big city, Allison promotes her book, which becomes a runaway success, and she also begins a flirtatious relationship with Lewis, who is married. Back in Peyton Place, the secrets Allison has revealed could very easily tear the town apart.
Plot Keywords: high-school principal, mother, writer, boyfriend, model, publisher, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!#4. The Band Wagon (1953)
Storyline: Two playwrights bring a movie dancer (Fred Astaire) to New York for a Broadway show with a ballerina (Cyd Charisse).
Plot Keywords: movie star, director, writer, choreographer, ballerina, spectacular, playful ...
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