Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're waiting for Part Two of my scintillating essay about Scarface . Well, you're not getting that right now. ...

Of the seemingly endless series of movies Hollywood produced during Prohibition to cash in on the public's obsession with gangsters, thr...

Richard Barthelmess was born in 1895 to a theatrical family and was working on the stage when a friend of his mother, film star Alla Nazimov...

Helen Chandler of Dracula and The Last Flight , that is. (with Frances Dade in Dracula .)

I know not all of my readers get Turner Classic Movies on their cable systems (particularly if you're not living in the United States!),...

I've got a number of essays in the works—the best screenplay of 1931-32, a special Katie award for cinematography, another for short sub...

"You separate a man from what he loves the most, what you do is purge what's unique in him, and when you purge what's unique in...

As the Depression, now its third year, ground on with no end in sight, movie goers and Oscar voters alike flocked to a big budget spectacle ...

"But Mr. Monkey," I hear so often on the street, "while it's true our lives rise and fall on the rhythms of your wonderfu...

Picture: City Lights (prod. Charles Chaplin) Actor: Charles Chaplin ( City Lights ) Actress: Marlene Dietrich ( Morocco ) Director: Fri...