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1 September 2024

Except as a scientific achievement, I am not sympathetic to this "sound" business

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Following the release of  The Jazz Singer  in 1927, many people in Hollywood believed that talking pictures were just a passing fancy. MGM...
9 August 2024

Let me function or else come down and shoot it yourself

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David O. Selznick's final film was his production of  A Farewell to Arms  (1957), based on Ernest Hemingway's successful novel of th...
27 July 2024

Your little monster, Jim

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On 8 April 1954, a day after signing his contract with Warner Brothers, James Dean left New York and headed for California to prepare for hi...
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26 June 2024

I always feel stupid bringing up the matter of the Godfather

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As a follow-up to the previous post, I am sharing a letter from Francis Ford Coppola to Marlon Brando, in which the director tries to persua...
16 June 2024

I think you’re the only actor who can play the Godfather

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Published in 1969, Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather tells the story of the (fictional) Corleone mafia family, headed by patriarch Vito ...
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5 June 2024

All three occasions cling to my memory as fun experiences

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Barry Sullivan and  Barbara Stanwyck made three films together. Their first picture was John Sturges' film noir  Jeopardy (1953), follo...
27 May 2024

You brought eggsactly the right flavor to Batman

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Today, on what would have been Vincent Price's 113th birthday, I am sharing a letter sent to Price by Adam West in 1990, on the occasion...
22 May 2024

I told you long ago that Walt Disney has the best idea

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In a 1972 interview with Dick Cavett, Alfred Hitchcock was asked about the remark " Actors are like cattle " he had supposedly mad...
16 May 2024

Shearer does not seem to be associated with sex

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Norma Shearer was one of the first serious contenders for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in David O. Selznick's Gone with the Wind (19...