Misfortunes of Imaginary Beings

It has always struck me as odd that Grand Hotel (Edmund Goulding, 1932) won the 1931-32 best picture Oscar, when Dinner at Eight , a simi...

Remembered today chiefly because it was the film that won Marie Dressler the best actress Oscar (for what was by no means her best screen ...

Tillie's Punctured Romance was Mack Sennett's first venture into feature-length production, and perhaps the first feature-length c...

King Vidor is not generally known as a comedy director, and The Patsy shows why: Vidor seems to have no sense of how to set up a gag, mer...

Frank Lloyd is a director nobody remembers today except for the fact that he won two best director Oscars. Unfortunately, they were for mo...