One year after My Week with Marilyn, which covers the making of The Prince and the Showgirl (1957), we now have Hitchcock, supposedly all about the making of Psycho (1960).  (One can only wonder what might come next in this sub-genre of movies about the makings of famous movies.)  Whether or not any of the behind-the-scenes incidents [...]

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He’s probably best remembered for getting the screen’s most famous haircut, when Hedy Lamarr’s Delilah figured out how to sap his strength.  He, of course, is the Samson of tall, dark, and handsome Victor Mature, the movie star who died at 86 in 1999 and would have turned 100 this January 29th.  The film, Cecil B. [...]

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It can’t be a surprise to anyone that a blatantly derivative movie like 20th Century-Fox’s Belle Starr (subtitled “The Bandit Queen”) tried its damnedest to rip off David O. Selznick’s Gone With the Wind (1939).  The first time I saw Belle Starr I was expecting an all-out western, with its title-role star, Gene Tierney, decked out in stylish [...]

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She was a movie star in her teens, an A-list leading lady in her twenties, an Oscar winner in her thirties, and a queen of television in her forties.  Who else but Loretta Young?  With her extraordinary beauty, boundless charm, and well-honed acting skills, it’s no wonder that she was a star for so many decades and for so [...]

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