Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe joined forces on the problem-plagued The Misfits. See also: The playwright’s answer to On the Waterfront.
Playwright Arthur Miller vs. Red Scare Hysteria: The Crucible Demythologizes American Exceptionalism
Playwright Arthur Miller vs. Red Scare paranoia: The Crucible and the Salem witch hunts demythologize the concept of ‘American exceptionalism.’
Arthur Miller movies: Visions of the shattered American Dream in the ‘subversive’ family dramas All My Sons and Death of a Salesman.
Fourth of July movies: A few recommended titles that should help you temporarily escape current global madness Two thousand and seventeen has been a weirder-than-usual year on the already pretty…
Dorothy McGuire, Gregory Peck, Gentleman’s Agreement Elia Kazan: Actors Director Elia Kazan is best remembered today for two things: his association with Marlon Brando during the first half of the…
A hammy Andy Griffith + Budd Schulberg’s didactic screenplay hinder Elia Kazan’s 1957 sociopolitical drama A Face in the Crowd costarring Patricia Neal.
Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh in A Streetcar Named Desire. Marlon Brando movies on TCM Marlon Brando is the first star in the 2011 edition of Turner Classic Movies’ annual…
Lilli Palmer and Gary Cooper in Fritz Lang’s Cloak and Dagger (top); Carroll Baker in Elia Kazan’s Baby Doll (bottom). The Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s (website) 20th Anniversary…
Jean-Luc Godard. Jean-Luc Godard, Eli Wallach (right), Kevin Brownlow, and Francis Ford Coppola have been chosen as the recipients of the 2010 special Academy Awards. Godard, Brownlow, and Wallach will…
The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond with Bryce Dallas Howard as Fisher Willow, a troubled heiress who becomes involved with the handsome but impoverished – and equally unstable – Jimmy…
Walter Matthau in The Fortune Cookie, with Jack Lemmon. Saturday, June 14, highlights on Turner Classic Movies include The Third Man and several Walter Matthau movies: Many consider The Third…
Hollywood Rebels: James Dean ca. 1955. Hollywood Rebels’ movies on DVD: James Dean in ‘Rebel Without a Cause’ & Steve McQueen in ‘Bullitt’ James Dean’s cult status was surely not…
Patricia Neal ca. 1950. Patricia Neal movies: ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’ & ‘A Face in the Crowd’ Back in 1949, few would have predicted that Gary Cooper’s leading…
Pinky movie with a “black” Jeanne Crain and Ethel Waters. Although absurdly miscast as a light-skinned part-white/part-black young woman whose grandmother is Ethel Waters, Jeanne Crain received a Best Actress…
Karl Malden, Tyrone Power in Diplomatic Courier (1952) Karl Malden, who won a best supporting actor Oscar for A Streetcar Named Desire in 1951, died “of natural causes” at his…