Big, blustery George Bancroft was in his mid-40s when he became a film star, breaking out in 1927 with a linchpin performance as mob b...

I hadn’t seen Underworld before, but I knew enough about it to be intrigued. For starters, it was directed by...

This is my entry for the Classic Movie Blog Association's Fall 2017 blogathon, Banned and Blacklisted , for links to all contributio...

Summer Under the Stars, August 22: Marlene Dietrich It was 1929, and Marlene Dietrich was appearing on the Berlin stage when Austrian-...

Marlene Dietrich, photograph by Edward Steichen Marie Magdalene Dietrich was born 112 years ago today in Schöneberg, Germany. She died...

Clive Brook and Marlene Dietrich B etween 1930 and 1935, Josef von Sternberg filmed six wondrous and surreal flights of imagination for...

Josef von Sternberg, Merle Oberon and Charles Laughton In 1934, British scholar/writer Robert Graves published his best known and most s...

Prolific biographer Charlotte Chandler has written on the life of a different film legend every year for the past 6 years, beginning w...

 Marlene Dietrich is one of very few film stars whose career not only spanned 60+ years but who also enjoyed icon status for most ...

Scroll down for Parts I and II of Light, Shadow and Synergy ... In 1933, during a hiatus between studio contracts and filmmaking, J...

1931 began spectacularly for director Josef von Sternberg and actress Marlene Dietrich. Their first two films together, Morocco and the ...

Josef von Sternberg is recalled first and foremost as the filmmaker who, 80 years ago, introduced the cinematic persona adopted by Marle...