Julie Garfield: “I was only six and a half when he died, but my father [John Garfield] was always my hero”

The lady pictured here is Julie Garfield. She was born in 1946 in Los Angeles; her father was […]

Stanley Rubin: “We designed the saloon girl in ‘River of No Return’ around the whole concept of Marilyn Monroe”

Stanley Rubin (1917-2014) was an American screenwriter and film producer who made numerous films in the 1940s and […]

Vincent Sherman: “Since our focus was always on entertainment, we never talked about art”

The term ‘quintessential studio director’ certainly applies to actor-turned-screenwriter and filmmaker Vincent Sherman (1906-2006), who worked at Warner […]

I'd like to see more women working as directors and producers. Today it's almost impossible to do it unless you are an actress or writer with power. Actress-director-producer-screenwriter Ida Lupino (1918-1995) who in the late 1940s was tired of waiting for the right roles to come along. She then formed her own independent production company Filmakers with her then husband, Collier Young, and between 1949 and 1954 she directed, produced and wrote eight feature films.