The Uninvited , from Paramount Pictures in 1944, is an elegantly spooky Rebecca -esque romance with more than one haunting quality. Yes...

Bette Davis, The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex  (1939) When I received an email from Rick Armstrong the other day telling me th...

'The Lubitsch Touch' has been dissected and analyzed for decades. Billy Wilder, who had been prot égé to director Ernst Lubitsc...

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the premiere of The Dick Van Dyke Show and this post is my contribution to the tribute blogathon hos...

Light and shadow flicker across the screen. Sobs are heard as a pair of praying hands, clasping and unclasping, appear. The sobbing c...

A few weeks ago I took another look at Nicholas Ray’s noir classic In a Lonely Place (1950). As I watched, it began to rankle that th...

It’s Los Angeles in the 1950s and the GI Bill-fueled migration from city to suburb is in high gear. An opening shot of a vast (...

The Lady Eve's Reel Life is one year old today...and no one is more surprised by this anniversary than the lady herself. When I nervous...

Classic Film Boy and The Lady Eve Discuss the Fascinating Irene Mayer Selznick Welcome to Take 2, a conversation about Irene ...