“It’ll get a terrific laugh…”

By Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. Beginning in the 1930s and continuing well into the mid-'50s on radio (and for a number of years on television af...

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“I’m going to show you what yum-yum is…”

By Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. One of the regrettable stigmas about Academy Awards is that they are more often than not handed out to serious perfo...

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Games With Human Beings as Objects

By Eddie Selover The opening of My Man Godfrey constitutes a little movie in itself — a perfectly balanced mixture of satire, wit, anger, an...

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"If You Want to See the Girl Next Door, Go Next Door"

By Eddie Selover More than anything else, it was a book that turned me into a movie buff: David Shipman’s The Great Movie Stars: The Golden ...

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It's easy to make fun of somebody if you don't care how much you hurt them

By Edward Copeland In the early years of the Academy Awards, repeat winners happened not only frequently but often soon after previous wins...

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Words Get in the Way

By VenetianBlond Alfred Hitchcock directed a screwball comedy. Yes, it takes a moment to sink in. Although Hitch infused all of his films wi...

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