MovingPictureHistoryBlog

The disreputable doctor who cracks wise and drinks heavily, but sobers up when the chips are down. The golden-haired prostitute who brighten...

Despite what you’ve heard from four or five four generations of nightclub comics and impressionists, James Cagney always insisted that he...

It’s the kind of grand Old Hollywood story that, if not true, should be. Filmmaker Howard Hawks claimed on several occasions, to a variet...

In an age when radio talk shows, all-news cable networks and seemingly infinite arrays of internet websites offer round-the-clock reports ...

Here they are, ladies and gents: Lads and lassies, sassy and brassy, singing and swaying as Broadway sensations of 1933 while they tap-ta...

There may be folks who can remain dry-eyed and hard-hearted during the final moments of Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights , but take care: Anyo...

An internationally acclaimed auteur follows the biggest hit of his career with a budget-busting action-comedy epic. The production values a...