Born Sarah Jane Fulks in St. Joseph, Missouri. Chorus dancer in musical films. Most films for Warners. Living the Henry Thoreau dream, Rock inhabits his personal Walden in a rustic country cabin by a bubbling brook, a dream house lit by a giant picture window overlooking an idyllic countryside where deer pose just outside the window.
Fear Eats the Soul decades later.
Magnificent Obsession was a huge success and established a style Sirk would refine through the 1950s, reaching a baroque peak in Written on the Wind and culminating with what may be his most successful and most famous film, Imitation of Life . Compared to his later successes, this is arch and flat, lacking the ironic edge and luscious style of his best films, but it's an exceedingly handsome production in bold, bright colors where swooning romance and life-saving operations define life as an emotional roller coaster of mythic proportions. Crosby croons in this romantic comedy about a newspaper reporter who wants to adopt two war orphans. This is a favorite of most Bing fans. Here Comes the Groom is a light comedy with great musical numbers, from a great musical trio, Hoagy Carmichael, Jay Livingston, and Johnny Mercer.