“Oh my God, that’s the saddest movie ever made! It would make a stone cry! And nobody went to it!” — Orson Welles on Make Way for Tomorrow...
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Showing posts with label 30s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 30s. Show all posts
The World is Yours
By Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. Around my home base at Thrilling Days of Yesteryear , the “Gangster Trilogy” is the nickname assigned to the three mo...
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“Here’s my hope that we all find our Shangri-La…”
By Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. With the publication of his novel Goodbye, Mr. Chips in 1934, a book penned by author James Hilton a year earlier, ...
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Men swarm around me like moths to a flame and if their wings get singed, I can't be blamed
By Edward Copeland It has been a long journey for me to be able to watch and write about Josef von Sternberg's 1930 classic The Blue Ang...
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It's Still Alive
By Damian Arlyn When the 18-year-old Mary Shelley decided to participate in a competition involving her husband and two other colleagues (in...
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“It’s all perfectly clear to me — that adorable young thing is an unholy terror on wheels…”
By Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. Beginning with Leathernecking , her feature film debut in 1930, actress Irene Dunne staked out a lengthy career in m...
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