Alison Skipworth Articles

THE SONG OF SONGS (1933) Direction: Rouben Mamoulian Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Brian Aherne, Lionel Atwill, Alison Skipworth, Hardie Albright, Helen Freeman Screenplay: Samuel Hoffenstein, Leo Birinsky; from Hermann Sudermann's novel and Edward Sheldon's play Recommended In her first American film without the guidance of Josef von Sternberg, Marlene Dietrich was definitely up to the acting challenge of Rouben Mamoulian's The Song of Songs. Not only [...]

Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Clark Gable in China Seas FILM Alice Adams d: George Stevens; scr: Dorothy Yost, Mortimer Offner China Seas d: Tay Garnett; scr: Jules Furthman, James K. McGuinness The Gay Deception d: William Wyler; scr: Stephen Avery, Don Hartman A Tale of Two Cities d: Jack Conway; scr: W. P. Lipscomb, S. N. Behrman The Whole Town's Talking d: John Ford; scr: [...]

Made at the dawn of the sound era, All Quiet on the Western Front remains the best war film ever made. Despite some brave (and not so brave) attempts by other filmmakers ever since, no other motion picture I've seen has captured the horrors of war with the honesty and the poignancy of Lewis Milestone's rendition of Erich Maria Remarque's pacifist novel. Lew Ayres plays [...]