Roy Del Ruth Articles

  It's Thelma Todd day on Turner Classic Movies. As part of TCM's "Summer Under the Stars" series, about a dozen Thelma Todd shorts are being shown this afternoon, in addition to six features this evening. [Thelma Todd schedule.] I'm unfamiliar with Todd's film career. I've seen her in a few supporting roles (Roy Del Ruth's The Maltese Falcon, the Marx Brothers' Monkey Business) and [...]

Joan Bennett, Spring Buyington, Frances Dee, Jean Parker, Katharine Hepburn in Little Women (top); Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck in Remember the Night (bottom) The digitally remastered Remember the Night (1940), written by Preston Sturges, directed by Mitchell Leisen, and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray, is the highlight of Turner Classic Movies' Christmas movie series this month. But there are other goodies — or potential [...]

Boris Karloff, Gloria Stuart in The Old Dark House FILM Beauty and the Boss d: Roy del Ruth; scr: Joseph Jackson Blessed Event d: Roy del Ruth; scr: Howard J. Green Jewel Robbery d: William Dieterle; scr: Erwin S. Gelsey The Most Dangerous Game / The Hounds of Zaroff d: Ernest B. Schoedsack, Irving Pichel; scr: James Ashmore Creelman The Old Dark House d: James [...]

Willi Fritsch and Lilian Harvey in Congress Dances FILM À nous la liberté / Liberty for Us d, scr: René Clair City Streets d: Rouben Mamoulian; scr: Max Marcin, Oliver H. P. Garrett, Dashiell Hammett Daybreak d: Jacques Feyder; scr: Ruth Cummings, Cyril Hume, Zelda Sears Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde d: Rouben Mamoulian; scr: Samuel Hoffenstein, Percy Heath Five Star Final d: Mervyn LeRoy; [...]