William Faulkner and Hollywood
William Faulkner is known to most as a great American novelist, whose works high schoolers have to read and college students write dissertations on. Faulkner was also a screenwriter for […]
Monthly Archives: April 2012
Supporting Actors: Thomas Mitchell
The name Thomas Mitchell may not be instantly recognizable, but his list of credits should illicit a knowing “ohhh, that guy.” Mitchell was born in 1892 in New Jersey, to […]
AFI Top 100: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Katharine Hepburn utters the title line about halfway through the movie when breaking the news to her husband (Spencer Tracy, in his last film appearance) that their daughter’s African-American fiancé’s […]
Supporting Actors: Eric Blore
Eric Blore began his career, like many classic actors, on the stage. Appearing in a minor role in Fred Astaire’s The Gay Divorcee, led to his being cast in the […]
Happy 70th Anniversary, Casablanca!
Casablanca, Best Picture Winner and #2 on AFI’s Top 100 list, was a dark horse. No one working on the film had any idea the movie made for $850,000 would […]
