On Monday, prolific film scholar David Bordwell of the University of Wisconsin-Madison delivered a lecture about experimentation in storytelling techniques in 1940s Hollywood films. The talk, titled ...

While some movie fans today don't watch older films, there are some classics from the 1940s that still feel absolutely modern ...

A daily chronicle of creativity in film, TV, music, arts, and entertainment, produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from November 2014 – March 2020. Host John Horn leads the ...

Ryan Murphy has a clear-eyed fascination with the 20th-century Hollywood dream machine, so adroit at making stars and breaking the hearts of those who didn't fit the mold. Among the casualties: Anna ...

“Five Came Back” is a powerful documentary about five Hollywood filmmakers who, despite being at the top of their game in the early 1940s, risked their lives in order to go overseas and create ...

The new Netflix miniseries “Hollywood” is set in the 1940s. It tells the story of Hollywood’s Golden Age through the eyes of aspiring actors, a director, and screenwriter. It exposes the dark side of ...

The Art Deco Hollywood Palladium opened on Halloween night, 1940. Built by film-producer Maurice Cohen, the building occupied the site of the original Paramount lot. The dance hall was designed by ...

Did an exotic actress from Vienna, considered one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood in the 1940s, really invent wireless? Not exactly, but the non-sensationalized facts of the matter are no ...

Although Hollywood is almost as fond of culture as of aquatics, it has seldom worked up any real enthusiasm for the legitimate drama. Few shows have ever played profitably in the town, and the ...

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