1939 gets all the buzz as the most successful year in film history, and rightly so, but 1940 sported quite a few gems of its own. As World War Two was now a thing, movies naturally included references to it in some way, although, as we've discussed in the past, studios tended to shy away … Continue reading During World War Two: 1940 Movie Recs
Curing Box Office Poison
Miss Hepburn is back... Joan Crawford wasn't the only Golden Age actress to garner the dreaded Box Office Poison label; Katharine Hepburn also got stuck with it. What's interesting is how differently these two women handled the setback. Joan's response was to smolder in her posh mansion while waiting for good parts to come along, … Continue reading Curing Box Office Poison
Taking Up Room 