Golden Age

Without Sir Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca (1940), the world never would have experienced some of the greatest films ever made. Released the year after Victor Fleming’s Gone with the Wind (1939), this Selznick International Pictures-produced romantic psychological thriller had some big…

Actress Lauren Bacall, from the classics To Have and Have Not (1944) and The Big Sleep (1946), is the quintessential noir actress — and an embodiment of director Howard Hawks’ ideal woman. The type she…

One of the best things that a film can do is a provide the necessary content to elicit a genuine smile, to put someone at ease and indirectly tell them that everything is going to…

It seems like no matter how clean-cut an actor or actress is, they end up tarnishing their image somehow (except for my boy Tom Hanks). It’s inevitable that actors screw up sometimes. Maybe they’ll have…