Design for Living – a Gilda Sandwich?
This is the story of three people who love one…
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Lift to the Scaffold – Fascinating French Film Noir
I will never forget when I first saw this film.…
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Life’s Torments in Billy Wilder’s The Lost Weekend
Life is addiction. Life as addiction. Cinema as reality. Billy…
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TeneT – saving the world on inverted time
If you’re one of those wonderful people out there in…
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Redefining Zaniness with Lombard and Barrymore
1934 was a great film for screwball comedy. It Happened…
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Norma Shearer and The Divorcee
Norma Shearer. For those in the know the name is…
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Three on a Match, Ann Dvorak’s crowning achievement
Three on a Match a 1932 Warner Bros film directed…
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Theda Bara – manufactured stardom
Let us go back in time, back to when we…
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Female Lust in Red Dust
It feels at times that Pre-Code Hollywood was a mythical…
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The mirror motif in Barbara Stanwyck’s Baby Face
I believe that if you don't appreciate Barbara Stanwyck, you've…
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