Wuthering Heights Articles

So, Robert Pattinson isn't fit to play Kurt Cobain. I agree. On the other hand, I believe that Pattinson would be perfect for the role of Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights. The anti-Pattinson, anti-Twilight crowd can laugh as much as they want. But nobody broods better than Robert Pattinson, and Emily Brontë's Heathcliff is the broodingest of all brooding literature heroes. (Okay, so Pattinson is brooding [...]

Merle Oberon, who'll have her "Summer Under the Stars" day on Tuesday, Aug. 25, is one of those actresses I'd say unjustly suffered (and continue to suffer) from the Marion Davies Syndrome. As I wrote in my Jennifer Jones on TCM post, I believe that many film critics and historians dismiss actresses such as Marion Davies (whose film career was a direct result of her [...]

Samuel Goldwyn Jr., son of producer Samuel Goldwyn, poses next to a poster of Wuthering Heights before the screening of that 1939 classic on Monday, June 9, at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Wuthering Heights will also be screened in New York City. Photo: Greg Harbaugh / ©A.M.P.A.S.

Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind (top); Bette Davis, Geraldine Fitzgerald in Dark Victory (middle); Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon in Wuthering Heights (bottom) Gone with the Wind, the 1939 Best Picture winner, will kick off the New York presentation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ latest screening series, "Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939," on Saturday, [...]