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Bad Boys: Cagney & Robinson
Two gangster classics, released four months apart in 1931, didn’t just launch the careers of…
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How to Speak Film Noir
Growing up in a small town, local culture consisted of a drive-in theater (which featured…
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Broadway to Big-Screen Classics
Art imitates art pretty frequently on stage and screen. It’s as if one business is…
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Fred Zinnemann
I once got an email from an 88-year-old man named George, praising an essay I’d…
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Heroes, Scandals & All That “Jazz”
In 1927, the Roaring Twenties became the Soaring Twenties. The year was an inflection point…
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“Rain” Reigns Supreme
In real life, people rarely burst into song, which is why musicals are superior to…
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Shirley Temple
In the 1930s, two of the most powerful antidotes to the Great Depression were a…