Misfortunes of Imaginary Beings

Poster with the British title for The Great McGinty The attitude of Hollywood in the studio era toward screenwriters is usually summed u...

What sort of nerve must it have taken to make a film that pokes fun at patriotism, mother love, small towns, political campaigns, and the ...

The sad finale of two great Hollywood careers: Harold Lloyd's and Preston Sturges's. One of the great silent comedians, Lloyd had ...

Let us now praise Joel McCrea, who never became an icon like Cooper or Gable or Grant or Stewart, but could always be relied on for a fine...