Showing posts with label Hollywood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hollywood. Show all posts
Friday, December 26, 2025

Burn, Hollywood, burn! Four noirs reveal the horrors of the screenwriting trade

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Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, ‘In a Lonely Place’ (1950). By Paul Parcellin Y ou’ve probably heard that screenwriters get little respect ...
Wednesday, October 22, 2025

‘They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?’: A Tinseltown Allegory that Ends Unhappily Ever After

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Michael Sarrazin , Jane Fonda , 'They Shoot Horses, Don't They?' ( 1969 ). Harrowing Tale of Dance Marathons and the Depression-...
Saturday, October 5, 2024

‘Moguls’: How the Schenck Brothers Helped Invent Hollywood While Building an Empire of Their Own

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Brothers Nicholas and Joseph Schenck. They went from owners of an amusement park to giants of the Hollywood film industry. Book Review: ...
Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Scrapped: The Original Opening Sequence of “Sunset Boulevard” was Even Stranger than the Final Cut, and Audiences had a Peculiar Reaction to It

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Erich von Stroheim, William Holden, Gloria Swanson, "Sunset Boulevard" (1950). Test Audiences Were Stunned, Amused and Confused Jo...
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Thursday, December 7, 2023

Poverty Row Noir II: Scheming Communists Walk Among Us ... and So Does a Future Sitcom Dad

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Hugh Beaumont, Frances Rafferty, “Money Madness” (1948). Ward Cleaver as a psychotic killer? Say it ain’t so! Like many up and coming Holly...
Tuesday, November 28, 2023

It Came from Poverty Row: Hollywood's B-Movie Factories Mined Noir Gold

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Ann Savage, Tom Neal, "Detour" (1945). Hitchhiking on the road to hell. So many westerns were filmed at the small, independently ...
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