Ghosts and the rapidly beating hearts of film geeks collided. I was in heaven. We descended on Hollywood like moths to flames looking forward to a weekend filled with movies, Hollywood, friends and magic. And we got it all. The “we” is the thousands of…
This is the second part of a two-part post. To read part 1, which covers the early years of Columbia Pictures, please go here or access it on this blog’s home page. Reading Part 1 first is highly recommended. The History of Columbia Pictures, Part…
Edward D. Wood, Jr. was born in 1924 to a blue-collar family in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. They say his mother, Lillian, dressed him up like a girl throughout his early childhood until people started making comments about it. Wood grew up during the Golden Age of film. …
While pursuing my master’s degree in Media and Professional Communications, I took a course in Corporate Culture. One of the assignments in the course required we choose a corporation and write about its culture based on the Arthur W. Page Society’s principles as discussed in “The…
Other than the significant role she played in Hollywood history, I know close to nothing of Mary Pickford’s work as an actress. This is why I wanted to take part in The Mary Pickford Blogathon hosted by Classic Movies. My attempt to venture wholeheartedly into…
I wrote this essay several years ago as part of a course I took on women directors. Since the essay was submitted, women have made some strides in the movie industry. The most significant being Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘Best Director’ Academy Award win for The Hurt…
… (1938) is the last film Alfred Hitchcock would make in England before his move to Los Angeles to start work in the Hollywood Studio system. Defying some genre conventions, The Lady Vanishes is a fun film, as far as Hitchcock films go, and outright…
