Movie Essays
- Actors
An appreciation of Maleficent and Eleanor Audley
Does Bette Davis Ever Get Her Man? with a brief review of Kid Galahad
In Memory of Lauren Bacall: 1924-2014
- Misc.
Bing, Fred, and Katharine – Doing What They Do Best
Dorothy Lamour and the History of the Sarong Around the World
Intermission, please! or are we done yet?
Movie Footage Taken in 1902 and About the Electric Trolley
On the use of handwritten notes in old movies, and my quest to decipher them in an age of print
Political Incorrectness, The Iliad, Gone With the Wind, Roger Ebert, and Propaganda
Propaganda in American Films During WWII: and a brief review of Five Came Back (2014) by Mark Harris
Scattered Thoughts on the Desolation of Smaug and Tauriel
Seeing Double Indemnity on the Big Screen
Singing, Acting and Les Miserables
The First Movie You Saw in Theaters and Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
The Lady Eve: The Jokes on Her
The Sound of Music: Not Just Escapism – A Defense
When You Don’t Like a Great Classic Film and Introducing Others to Classic Movies
Willis O’Brien and Stop Motion Animation
- Movie Adaptations of Books
Can A Movie Be Too Close to the Book?
Discussing My Fair Lady: The Ending
The Maltese Falcon (1929) – Dashiell Hammett, book review and comparison with the 1941 movie
The Many Manifestations of Pygmalion
The Nature of Disappointment – Even More Thoughts on Movie Adaptations of Books
Christina Wehner 