Garbo was shy, insecure. She felt that, as a person, she actually had nothing special or unusual for others to make a fuss over. Jean Negulesco
Screen, stage, and television actress Brenda Vaccaro (b. 1939), a Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winner, as well as […]
Film history: Focus on early Academy Award winners Wallace Beery and Marie Dressler
Wallace Beery (1885-1949) and Marie Dressler (1868-1934) were two of MGM’s top stars in the early days of […]
The breakthrough film of American filmmaker Tobe Hooper (b. 1943), “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” (1974), was an […]
Film history: Focus on “The Hollywood Ten”
In 1947, the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) held the first series of hearings into alleged communist propaganda […]
Nostalgia: It’s not what it used to be
By using vintage postcards, old black and white stills and archival photographs, these books recreate the past of […]
Film history: Focus on The Roaring Twenties
Richard Dyer MacCan (b. 1945) is a British academic and author of several film books and essays who […]
“I had the good fortune to have worked with and learned from some enormously talented people. Working on […]
I went to [producer-director] Thomas H. Ince and said, 'I would like some retakes.' Retakes are costly, and when he pointed that out, I said, 'Yes, I know that, Tom, but I still want the retakes.' Now, Tom liked to gamble. I did, too. So I said, 'I'll tell what I'll do, Tom. Heads or tails. If you win, okay, then I pay for the retakes. If I win, you pay.' He said, 'Fine,' and he tossed. I felt that Tom would take chances, but I didn't think he would cheat, and he didn't. He never did. It was my week's salary for or against the retakes. And I won. Actress Blanche Sweet about film pioneer Thomas H. Ince during the making of "Anna Christie" (1923)
Screenwriter-director Steven Knight’s latest film, out now in theaters worldwide, is Sergei Bodrov’s “Seventh Son,” an action-adventure epic […]
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