Showing posts with label Hollywood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hollywood. Show all posts
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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Sunday, January 15, 2023

When Tinsel Town Turns the Camera on Itself

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Rod Steiger, 'The Big Knife' (1955). Face it, scandals make good news copy and the Los Angeles entertainment industry produces a bu...
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Tuesday, October 11, 2022

Hazy Memories of Hollywood

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Brad Pitt and Mike Moh, 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.' Ever since it hit the screen in 2019 there’s been a lot of talk about Quen...