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When I was growing up in the mid ‘50s, the first major film sale to TV in the UK was a big package of RKO films to the BBC. The films were frequently repeated and through those showings I became familiar with and fond of a host of ‘40s and ‘50s stars such as Cary Grant, James Stewart, Ingrid Bergman, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, John Wayne and Katherine Hepburn, and films such as Citizen Kane, Bringing up Baby, Angel Face, Suspicion, Notorious, The Bells of St Marys, The Best Years of our Lives, It’s a Wonderful Life, Murder, My Sweet, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, King Kong, Back to Bataan, Alice Adams and the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers musicals.
