Warner Bros. 100 Years of Storytellingby Mark A. VieiraRunning Press/Turner Classic Movies, 360 pp., Hardcover, $40.00, also available as an e-bookPublished May 30, 2023 Initially, it was Warner Brothers, named after Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack, sons of Benjamin Wonsal … Continue reading WARNER BROS. 100 YEARS OF STORYTELLING
Eddie Muller is known as “the czar of noir,” and for good reason. He’s penned booked on the movies—Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir and Dark City Dames: The Wicked Women of Film Noir, among others—started the Film Noir Foundation … Continue reading EDDIE MULLER’S NOIR BAR
October marks the 75th anniversary of Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk, Ring Lardner Jr., John Howard Lawson, Albert Maltz, Samuel Ornitz, Adrian Scott, and Dalton Trumbo’s refusal to answer the House on Un-American Activities Committee’s question: “Have … Continue reading HIGH NOON ON THE WATERFRONT
Hollywood cinema has had a complicated relationship with race and ethnicity since its very beginning. So opens Luis I. Reyes latest cinematic study, Viva Hollywood: The Legacy of Latin and Hispanic Artists in American Film. Complicated? You bet. But as Reyes points … Continue reading Luis Reyes on VIVA HOLLYWOOD
On this week’s edition of After Image, I speak with scholar and author, Luis Reyes about his new book, Viva Hollywood: The Legacy of Latin and Hispanic Artists in Hollywood—available now from TCM and Running Press. Listen to After Image, … Continue reading
It didn’t take long for Judy Garland to get started. Born Frances Ethel Gumm in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, on June 10, 1922, Garland strode onto the vaudeville stage with her sisters in 1924, solidifying her future as an entertainer. In … Continue reading Judy Garland
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Judy Garland’s centenary, which is being celebrated all month long on TCM and The Criterion Channel. And speaking of The Criterion Channel, there is … Continue reading
20th Century-Fox: Darryl F. Zanuck and the Creation of the Modern Film Studioby Scott EymanRunning Press/TCM, 336 pp., Hardcover $28.00 ($35.00 in Canada), also available as an e-book and audiobookPublished Sept. 21, 2021 For 50 years, Scott Eyman’s been collecting … Continue reading Scott Eyman on 20TH CENTURY-FOX: DARRYL F. ZANUCK AND THE CREATION OF THE MODERN FILM STUDIO
It was 70 years ago this past October, on Oct. 15, 1951, that the I Love Lucy TV show hit the airwaves. Not a lot of people owned television sets back in those days, but by the time husband and wife team … Continue reading BEING THE RICARDOS
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