The Mark of Zorro Articles

Mary Pickford in Maurice Tourneur's The Poor Little Rich Girl (top); Dustin Farnum in Cecil B. DeMille's The Squaw Man (bottom) The Birth of Hollywood, part II of the seven-part documentary Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood, will be shown again tonight on Turner Classic Movies. In addition to the documentary narrated by Christopher Plummer, TCM will present several early silent films, including [...]

Among the romantic leading men of the studio era, Tyrone Power, 20th Century Fox's top male star from the mid-'30s to the late '40s, is my favorite. He wasn't the best actor of the bunch — I'd say that honor belongs to Gregory Peck. He wasn't the sexiest, either — I'd say that honor belongs to Errol Flynn. Yet, in my view Power was the [...]

Turner Classic Movies' series "Race in Hollywood: Latino Images in Film" kicks off this evening. So what if "Latino" isn't a race? So what if it isn't even an ethnic or a cultural group, but merely a US-made sociopolitical construct? I'd say that what matters here are the films themselves — all Hollywood productions. And hopefully some of the introductions, provided by Robert Osborne and [...]

Henry Fonda in The Grapes of Wrath FILM The Blue Bird d: Walter Lang; scr: Ernest Pascal The Grapes of Wrath d: John Ford; scr: Nunnally Johnson Kitty Foyle d: Sam Wood; scr: Dalton Trumbo The Letter d: William Wyler; scr: Howard Koch The Mark of Zorro d: Rouben Mamoulian; scr: John Tainton Foote, Garrett Fort, Bess Meredyth Pinocchio d: Hamilton Luske, Ben Sharpsteen; scr: [...]