Oscar Micheaux Articles
Katharine Hepburn, William S. Hart, Tom Mix, Gene Autry on 2010 US Postage Stamps
Multiple Oscar winner Katharine Hepburn (right), pioneering black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux, and cowboys Gene Autry, William S. Hart, Tom Mix and Roy Rogers will be featured on US postage stamps in 2010. Until early 2000, Katharine Hepburn held the actors' record for most Academy Award nominations: 12. That year, Meryl Streep tied with Hepburn, and in early 2003 surpassed her. Hepburn, however, still holds the [...]
Phil Hall Interview II
Mary Pickford, one of the first major independent producers, and screenwriter Frances Marion Phil Hall Interview: Part I The History of Independent Cinema. I'm assuming that refers to US-made films. Even so, that's a lot of ground to cover. What sort of parameters did you have to use in order to condense that very long and very diverse history into one volume? Clearly, I could [...]