Much celebrated in her day, Norma Shearer's name is now met by many with derision — including, once upon a time, by the sock monkey w...

August 1, 1930-to-July 31, 1931, was one of those movie years where the list of the Academy's nominees and winners would give you a ...

She had a face like a bulldog, with a lantern jaw, bulbous nose, and heavy bags under deep-set eyes. Her pear-shaped body sagged, her voic...

This review is adapted from my (in)famous eight-part, 12,000 word essay on the Marx Brothers which you can start reading here ... if...

Six days after the April 3, 1930 Oscar ceremony in honor of the best movies of 1928-29 — a public-relations debacle where a five-member ...